jwgur

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by jwgur 12y ago
It's a false premise - the "Rich American" has a duty to help those who are less fortunate (poor Africans), and that duty extends further than just quid pro quo transactions.
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by jwgur 12y ago
I suspect a better measure of valuation would incorporate the investment amount. If a VC firm invests $X at a valuation of $Y, then it conveys a lot of information (on the beliefs of the VC firm) if X is close to Y, but decreasing informati
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by jwgur 12y ago
Reminds me of a clip [1] by Steven Levitt about how people have no clue how to set prices. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABM20X0iZg
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by jwgur 12y ago
Of course NSA's actions aren't "the same" as Russia's. The question you should ask is if the NSA was somehow transplanted in the place of the Russian intelligence services in the Russian political environment, would
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by jwgur 12y ago
> Is it to become the youtube of images? Yes.
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by jwgur 12y ago
You don't need to afford legal action to make a FLSA claim; the point about people being unaware of the legal mechanisms available to them (or even the illegality of it) is I think much stronger. If I was working hourly, I'd pray
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by jwgur 12y ago
> (same reason I have the percentage on for my devices's battery) Do you have the wireless signal strength as well?
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by jwgur 12y ago
A lot of success is due to luck, but I think there is something to be said for putting yourself in a position to get lucky. Sure, someone in a third world country might not have the choice to put themselves in such a position, but certainly
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by jwgur 12y ago
When the merchant submits the transaction to their credit card processor, depending on the processor, they can have the option of sending a list of items. I'm not sure why anyone does (maybe it'd be required for sales tax purposes
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by jwgur 12y ago
It depends on the merchant and the processor. Some, like PayPal Pro [1], support sending a list of items; Stripe and Braintree appear not to. It is always optional. [1]: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer&#x
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by jwgur 12y ago
The financial press often defines recession as a technical term, meaning any two sequential quarters of negative GDP growth. NBER has a slightly different definition [1]. [1]: http://www.nber.org/cycles/recessions_faq.h
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by jwgur 12y ago
Fantastic writing.
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by jwgur 12y ago
Small nit-pick: "Pro-gun" is not an ideology, it's a position that might flow from an ideology e.g. libertarianism, or might just be a stand-alone position.
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by jwgur 12y ago
More like they don't care about that category of threats.
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by jwgur 12y ago
"It makes sure the swipe data is actually yours" Can't you generate the swipe data from the other information you have, i.e. name, the card number, the expiration date, and the CVV2? ISO/IEC 7813 also specifies that ther