dontmindifido

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by dontmindifido 12y ago
That is a really poor argument and can be debunked with some simple thought modeling. Imagine a system where returns on capital are higher than labor, and there are a relatively small number of people with large amounts of capital and no &#
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
It seems strange to me that someone who doesn't have the risk appetite to start a business would think they are well suited to running one still in its early stages.
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
It's actually in larger companies best interests to pay patent trolls. Like internet fast lanes it creates barriers to entry that effect smaller competitors much more.
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
I think this could work well for people who are 'time rich' where talking is by far the better way to convey more information. For the rest of us drones though we have less choice about when / how long / how loud we can
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
We run 45 server instances and handle ~20 requests per second on AppEngine. Like many others we run Jenkins to handle our build and deployment. Appengine is not perfect but we spend the majority of our time focused on delivering business lo
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
I think the culture of blaming the poor for being that way shows a tremendous lack of understanding about the complex social issues around it. It's more than statistically likely you would not break the generational cycle of poverty if
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
It is not practical to investigate every instance of someone doing something 'unusual' (even if you can define it well enough). Even if you could investigate every instance of it you still shouldn't because a police state whe
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
There is a disconnect between voting and policy that will need to be addressed before you are able to call it a democracy again.
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
You're kidding yourself if you don't think that is a private data leak.
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
I'd love to see them take an altruistic approach and shift the focus to countries like Africa where health projects would provide a lot more utility and have a lot less regulatory burden. Once a product is visibly working in one countr
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
This is interesting from the context of a whistleblower. What if the contractor intentionally emailed the file to an external address because they had found out some kind of management impropriety.
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by dontmindifido 12y ago
As someone not from the US, it's always interesting to see the focus on US rights with the rest of the world almost an afterthought. In my mind it seems a lot less altruistic viewed under that lens.