patrocles

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by patrocles 13y ago
"New graduate Mette Schjelderup has just joined her young husband's business Douchebags, a sports equipment luggage company that was launched last year, and already sells its products in 300 stores across 20 countries." lol.
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by patrocles 13y ago
Kickstarter should claim safe-harbor as they are a conduit. This case means they open themselves up to being required to censor every project for every jurisdiction. Kickstarter apparently views the cost of that censorship as much less than
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by patrocles 13y ago
1] If you can visit a local telco wire office, go do so; especially with all these questions in mind. Telcos have dealt with this problem way before most of us were born. 2] Use DNS's hierarchical nature to your advantage, e.g. tld -&g
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by patrocles 13y ago
centre? lol You must not be American. We're busy complaining about the DoJ, IRS, and two administrations that don't have control of their bureaucracies. You know, the things that matter in American Democracy. ;)
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by patrocles 13y ago
lol. Imagine Chris Yeh as your dad. And what life with a bunch of filters would be like... I got the opposite lesson out of skating since we had to negotiate with cops all the time. It's 3 in the morning, you want to skate some plaza, and t
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by patrocles 13y ago
Reading between the lines... 1] Military has too big a delta over civilians; how can I help reduce that delta sanely? 2] Too much of our communications remains plaintext; how do I roll out crypto today? 3] Our economy has non-productive mem
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by patrocles 13y ago
Don't leave it for the mega-shops (goog, aapl, amzn) to create. After all, casinos use tokens instead of cash for a reason....
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by patrocles 14y ago
rough consensus, running code This is too much talk, not enough code. Whoever wants PKI needs to put together a POC and release it into the wild.
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by patrocles 14y ago
Actually, it's probably the age correlation. yay for hidden third variable. ;)
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Ask HN: What expenses should one consider as one's income increases?
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by patrocles 14y ago
Yay. We label Uriel a troll and not Pando Daily or any other daily controversy generators.
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by patrocles 14y ago
Cartel's business model still intact
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by patrocles 14y ago
The Author set me up big time; I was expecting his 'Orientalism' to presage some kind of reconciliation of his anti-war preconceptions with an understanding of war informed by his time spent teaching cadets. Anyone else frustrated that he d
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by patrocles 14y ago
lol. Saverin Sr leaves a country before it gets too dangerous => Applause Saverin Jr leaves a country before it gets too dangerous => Boo
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by patrocles 14y ago
The profit maximization puzzle usually involves tax minimization. Just because startups typically ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
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by patrocles 14y ago
~20M dollar exit; in the US, trusts have to pay out 5% per year; he has a ~1M income provided the trust invests well.
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by patrocles 14y ago
The US Tax Code incents US citizens to drop their citizenship before they have 2M USD in net worth. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/877
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by patrocles 14y ago
"The entire industry is predicated on a 2% success rate, and Google made its fortune by increasing that to 3%. It’s still a 97% failure rate." A 0.00small% success rate is spam. A 97% success rate is namshub. Clearly there's lots of room in
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by patrocles 14y ago
i figure everyone writes their own. i wrote http://planhack.com
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by patrocles 15y ago
and no IPv6. granted, getting rid of NAT probably means Skype dies
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by patrocles 15y ago
How many people googled Jamey Rodemeyer? It seems boyd's article revolves around our relationship with media. We look back a century and the political papers and non-stop sensationalism seems quite familiar. Humanity hasn't changed, online
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by patrocles 15y ago
unlol. Trolling with intent to kill... although to get back to the lulz, it's Trolling with Intent to Bikini Kill ;)
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by patrocles 15y ago
Reducing the usefulness of the Internet sucks as tactics go. SOPA advocates are taking the war to the legislative process since they're losing elsewhere. Let's answer by raising the political stakes: organize instant protests, flashmob thei
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by patrocles 15y ago
Modern Psychology Rocked by Motivation Discovery Chiba, Japan -- For decades, eminent psychologists had struggled with what exactly motivates people. Today all those theories have been conclusively shown to stem from one single fear: the
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by patrocles 15y ago
What do you like about their writing? A good (constant) exercise is to edit what people write, e.g. take an Altucher post and try rewriting it to make it better in some regard. Hunter S Thompson supposedly typed the works of Hemingway until
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by patrocles 15y ago
OP: What makes you think you suck at writing? Looking over your previous comments and about.me profile, you've already got the fundamentals down. The only thing left is to apply them like Mike Tyson does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXL
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by patrocles 15y ago
Perhaps; the medical industry follows our collective choices. Say we eat more and grow obese, industry then works hard on maintaining sclerotic, clogged arteries and other over-sizing-related sequelae. Or we choose to have unsafe sex, so we
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by patrocles 15y ago
Spot on. cdixon is trying to direct traffic to things he associates with 'gravitas'. These may or may not unleash much value. Relative cost structures are really complex; a mind-numbing TV show that people use (instead of alcohol) to cope w
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by patrocles 15y ago
Despite IBM Growth, Lou Gerstner Still Golfing
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by patrocles 15y ago
Blatant Generalizations Are Awesome Use absolutist terms when blogging about something. Uncritical readers will cheer you for your clarity. Everyone else will be able to find at least one thing wrong with your post. Is this the optimal m

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