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by modfodder 12y ago
Why does the fact she used this word matter if the rest of the article is relevant. And if the poster has a problem with the rest of the article, why focus on this word choice rather than make a counter argument? And I believe my post wasn
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by modfodder 12y ago
Another new poster whose sole comment is on the use of the word Sausagefest. Is this the start of a grassroots campaign to change the underlying negativity of the phrase to a positive? A group of sausage makers or butchers per chance?
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by modfodder 12y ago
And your credibility is tied to your first and only comment on HN complaining about the use of sausagefest in an otherwise salient article.
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by modfodder 12y ago
So it is your opinion that the people who buy iPads do so only out of ignorance and none out of preference for Apple's product? In my daily life I see quite a few iPads, but rarely a Nexus, and then only amongst those that have severe
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by modfodder 12y ago
In one sentence you ascribe Apple's success to their marketing. In the next you wish Apple's competition released products on par with Apple's quality. Could it not be that Apple's success has less to do with marketing
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by modfodder 12y ago
I'm not sure how you can consider Apple nickel and diming for everything when they give OS upgrades away for free. Aside from wanting free iCloud storage, please provide a list of other services/products Apple charges for that yo
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by modfodder 12y ago
But is the behavior really unsustainable when it's a company with the size and power of Wal-Mart?
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by modfodder 12y ago
Or Liberals believe that regulation tainted by economic forces is preferable to a free market in a society that already allows corporations to essentially ignore regulation by paying minuscule fines that pale in comparison to their daily pr
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by modfodder 12y ago
Are you sure that Uber offers the ride to the closest (geographically) car? I've noticed that most of the time when I see close cars, they are not the ones that snag my ride, which can be frustrating when there are multiple cars 2 min
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Deep Web documentary trailer(youtube.com)
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by modfodder 12y ago
that's probably far fewer people than you think.
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by modfodder 12y ago
But what percentage of income do those keywords add up to? Eating away at the bottom can still cause quite a bit of loss.
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by modfodder 12y ago
sports isn't much different than any extracurricular activity that parents get too involved in. Whether it's a musical instrument/talent, drama, artistic, debate; anything that a parent sees as a harbinger of their child&#x2
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by modfodder 12y ago
I feel this is unfortunately the case with a lot of businesses (not to give Apple a pass here). A lot of problems get fixed quickly when the customer has a large enough online following (or is lucky for their story to go viral) to cause a
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by modfodder 12y ago
The hospital room may be private, but it's the hospital that can waive the privacy, not the patient (I believe). Saying that, I've never worked with any producer that wouldn't see that as a huge red flag (although I haven&#x2
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by modfodder 12y ago
I've noticed less finder crashes in Yosemite than any previous version and FCP X has been incredibly stable even as I push it more than ever before. Running Yosemite and FCPX on both a new Mac Pro and a two year old Macbook Pro. I wil
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by modfodder 12y ago
If you have the right information and the right access (much like the men in the article), it is easy to rob a bank.
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A dozen things I've learned from Steve Jobs about business(25iq.com)
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by modfodder 12y ago
Add sabotaging a competitor, spying on customers, and threatening to muckrake reporters to that list.
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by modfodder 12y ago
While not a fan of The Hobbit's use of HFR (I thought it worked well in mostly CGI action scenes and not at all everywhere else), I too am waiting for someone to use it in the right context. I don't think Barry Lyndon would work,
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She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech for starters(washingtonpost.com)
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by modfodder 12y ago
Actually I didn't shut my brain down, which I believe you did because of your reverence for all that is PG. The rational thing to do as a reader would have been to question his argument, but you never did, you just assumed because PG
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by modfodder 12y ago
I think there are two questions that need to be answered before we can decide whether PG is correct or not. 1. What defines a mean person? How many negative actions does it take before we can decide someone is mean. And how large do the
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by modfodder 12y ago
Do you personally know Paul Graham or are you basing your belief in him on stories in the media and in his writing? If you haven't met him, how is that any different than me believing in these media reports? Do you refute any of the r
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by modfodder 12y ago
That may be, but his opinion of his wife's "ability" isn't exactly unbiased. And if she came to the startup world from investment banking, she was also meeting the founders as either a peer or as someone who is benefici
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by modfodder 12y ago
PG is also meeting these founders as a peer. Working in advertising, I've seen a lot of successful people who were perfectly nice to me, but terrors to underlings and people they felt were unimportant or incompetent (and much of of wh
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by modfodder 12y ago
If you won't point to the Facebook conversation/logs where she supposedly admitted to exchanging sexual favors for favorable coverage, at least point us toward all these stories by the journalists she slept with. That would help,
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by modfodder 12y ago
I went digging for them and found nothing that was even close to an admission of trading sex for positive coverage, so yeah, your lack of proof discredits your position.
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by modfodder 12y ago
How about pointing me (and the others reading this thread) towards the chat logs where she admits to sleeping with journalists in exchange for positive reviews. The hashtags original intent existed for only a short period of time. It'
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by modfodder 12y ago
It's not true that she slept with editors to receive positive coverage. The ONE writer she became involved with did not write any reviews of her game and the only article he did write was written before they became an item. The fact t

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