Slansitartop

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by Slansitartop 8y ago
This new American Samoan bank is explicitly modeled after the Bank of North Dakota, and the OP goes quite a bit into its benefits.
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams ( https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-... ) It talks about what makes a good team, how powerful they can be, and also gives some insight on team dysfunction.
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Forcing your enemy to invest heavily in such key sectors is pretty stupid. Eventually, one way or another, Chinese will master the state-of-the-art. A few good examples here - LCD industry, weapons. Not if your enemy has a habit of rev
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it. From what I gather, this is unfortunately true. > The Chinese Communist Party functions the same way Chinese government has functioned
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
>> Maybe communism vs freedom? > That’s a false dichotomy. China is ostensibly commmunist but free market is alive and well (with heavy doses of state directed influence, but so as in other western countries, witness the military
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> China isn't some totalitarian dictatorship that some of the west seem to think they are. You do realize that they're closer to being a dictatorship now than they've been for decades ? Xi has purged most of his rivals a
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> I'm still wondering why there should be an economic, political or commercial conflict between China and the rest of the world esp. US. Such conflicts are wasteful with when we all should work together on common goals - space explo
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Still, if Oxford disagrees with me about the dictionary then it is probably me who is abusing language. ;) I'd say so. Esoteric personal definitions for established terms, even if they make a lot of sense to you, don't typic
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Theology is not present in universities, religious studies is. Theology is taught in special schools, because it fundamentally does not work the same way as other studies Your comment demonstrates a profound ignorance of what you claim
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Her position was that eyes on the street was the key to safety in urban areas. I'm sure that's true. However, the unbelievable part was the influence you ascribe to yourself. I do not believe that you, personally, set in mo
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> In the years I have lived without a car, my example of walking everywhere has tended to popularize walking wherever I lived. (Yes, even when I was homeless.) After seeing an uptick in walking, you could see visible evidence of improved
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> private military companies...are very effective, for profit, and much less costly than the regular army. [citation needed] My understanding is that they are more expensive than uniformed soldiers.
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> R&D doesn't happen in non-profit government corporations either (atleast not largely). Most R&D comes from the manufacturers where the state (or relevant institution) buys the drugs from. IIRC, the research typically com
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> The difference is that shareholders lose something (the value of their shares) when they drain a company of its assets. Not if they sell before the shit hits the fan.
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> In general, I don't think I want the government to be in the business of stamping out the best deal that individuals have available. That's interesting framing. What if the "best deal that individuals have available&quo
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
That's not a bad thing IMHO. I think the world could do with fewer underpaid jobs with no advancement opportunities. Edit: Looks like some founders looking to create underpaid jobs with no advancement opportunities found my comment &#
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
Except this CEO has an engineering/development background, and I'd expect him to be deeply familiar with the criticisms on his company.
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
Or maybe just spend more time with aides trying to grasp the technical issues? I'm going to send some letters to my Senators and Representative asking them to work closely with the EFF, EPIC, etc. to formulate any regulation on this, r
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Frankly I think the community will hate it but because it’s really hard to move millions of individual communities, Reddit likely won’t lose too many users. Is that really true? Didn't Reddit get big because Digg made some ill-ad
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> But I'm finding it more and more the case where mods feel the need to heavily regulate conversations/posting preemptively based on arbitrary personal worldview on what is 'good' content for the subreddit, instead of
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
I agree. The momentum seems to be focused on Facebook mainly because they played it too fast and loose for too long. But many of the issues that apply to Facebook apply to Google as well, but it just hasn't provided as much reason
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> I'm trying to think of what it is, exactly, that Facebook has a monopoly on. The nearest I can come up with is: Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook users. Perhaps Facebook could be thought of as a monopoly because 1) it has no cle
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
Looks like this post was buried... currently top on http://hckrnews.com/ but completely missing from the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/ ).
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) asked whether Facebook had any major competitors. Zuckerberg tried to explain that the company competes across different categories related to Facebook's several main functions—as a tech giant, against
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> so their foreign workforce would not reflect the political views of SV nor the US. However, at a minimum, the Facebook employees setting the polices those foreign workers follow will be in both the US and SV, so you can't assume t
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
Isn't this a two day hearing? Maybe they can consult with their aides who actually understand this and pick at the bad answers tomorrow.
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
>> Mark Zuckerberg does not believe he has a monopoly. > I tend to agree with him. Facebook just happens to be the most popular Internet social network, right now And it will remain the most popular one as long as it's allow
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> Are there are job offers on Facebook? (That's a genuine question; I don't have an account.) IIRC, they're trying to become the blue collar linkedin. https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/facebo
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by Slansitartop 8y ago
> It's an important discussion but his response would just make FB seem way worse on that specific issue than highlighting how the entire ad network ecosystem works. Any legislation that comes out of this hearing wouldn't apply

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