tempaccount9473

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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> Meaning that over the long term no large pot of money goes unlooted. Actually, if you look at average fees charged by financial institution, and the divertion of returns on capital to hedge funds and high-frequency traders, 401k funds
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
I currently pay for two Netflix accounts, and I use neither of them. I have a collection of about 2,300 movies and TV episodes, some ripped from DVDs I own, others from less licit sources. I pay for two Netflix accounts to salve my moral pr
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
The ratings agencies were pricing in the risk that Apple lobbyists would not be able to bribe the US Congress to allow overseas profits to be returned tax-free.
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
He's cheating, he doesn't have a dealership network that subsidizes their sales operations with overpriced repair services.
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> Opening line of the elevator pitch - 'It's like Google, but for goo'. Uh, we just pivoted to a Facebook for homogeneous omniscient beings of pure energy.
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> PC users may have to justify themselves > Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? Yes, this is exactly what you should feel like if you compete for a limited pool of hipster developers in San Francisco. I know three different guy
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
If aliens aren't coming to this planet, clearly this is a market ripe for disruption! I'm now looking for a cofounder who will shake up the L2L (lifeform to lifeform) market with a new disruptive social media platform for unmotivated hypote
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> I'm pretty sure that the only reason you need to keep adding and adding ever more capacity is to prevent someone else coming along and doing the 51% attack, right?Other than that, adding capability doesn't benefit the network, it burn
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
Usually I'd say pirate it, put 10 hours into it, and buy it to support the authors if you like it. But right now, you can't play the new Simcity without shovelling dollars into EA's pocket, and reward them for producing a fundementally brok
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> I strongly believe that errors are a much more pervasive problem in science and related fields than malice is. The problem is that economics is not a field related to science. The vast majority of public policy economics starts with a
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> Can it mine BitCoin competitively? Prior to the popularity of mining using GPUs, it would have been the shizzle. Today's ASIC-based systems will hash circles around it.
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> The Corporate System is actually collapsing. [Citation needed] I agree that there exists a hypothetical future where corporations collapse and all creative work is done by brilliant unpaid individuals who have their work broadly pirat
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error > I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. So... first time you two have used a Microsoft product then? Well, in case
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
Selling your property involves paying a 5% cut to the agent, buying a property involves paying 5% in fees as points, closing costs, inspections, legal fees, etc. I would hate to do that every year or two as I moved between employers, but b
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
How unfortunate, another "app" that would be more useful implemented as a web page and text messaging service. I realize web pages have discovery problems, but so do apps at this point. But if the goal is an aquihire, I guess they can get b
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
Neat, I really like the idea of being able to sync local storage with a Couch backend. > Hoodie currently only runs on OS X Oh, a hipster framework.
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> Because online wallets are not less secure than an E-Banking account at a conventional bank. Nope. Look at everything you can do with your online bank account. Transfers to other accounts, wires, bill pay, stop payments, ACH (if you'
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by tempaccount9473 13y ago
> If the IRS helps you save $5000 [via a tax deduction] that you would have otherwise paid, then the IRS loses $5000 Many Americans have a (one-sided) adversarial relationship with the IRS, thinking it is some kind of evil entity that o
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
> How is this not gaming? It is "gaming", in the same sense that every decision you make to optimize toward a desirable outcome is "gaming". 40 years he had a choice; go work at the mill for $25/hr, and come home tired and dirty, or sta
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
So they have created an mechanism that allows replacing a small subset of what execptions can do (communicate errors to the callers of a function). The downside is they need to write all code in a non-standard idiom, need wrappers around st
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
People are more likely to carry a smartphone than a sharpie. Other than that, I really like your idea.
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
The best example of a working and fun open-source routing/pathfinding engine is http://www.openttd.org It's optimized for gameplay rather than perfect efficiency, but parts of it are quite hackable, including the ability to add custom AI
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
If you're the guy that builds agent-based models for fun, why not build an open-source citiy simulation engine? Grafting your simulator with an open-source tile-based graphics engine such as the one used in OpenTTD would make a lot of nerd
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
I can see your reasoning behing making people sign up, even if that will significantly retard your growth rate multiplier. But there's NO reason to make people create a new account. Everyone hates making new accounts, and there are a zilli
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
NYC has mandated that calories be printed on the menu in the same font size as the name of the product. So here's a better idea for software sales: For software licencing/sales, the terms and conditions of the purchase must be printed befor
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but if PG's business model is cherry-picking busniess ideas from a firehose of potential startups, telling random strangers on the internet, "yes, you're smart enough to apply with a business idea for me to ac
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
tl;dr: As a teacher, you can't expect me to teach students the facts on the tests AND how to write clear sentences.
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by tempaccount9473 14y ago
> Well, there seems to be a lot of assumptions baked into this theory, but one I think is most likely to sink it is this one: Attractive women are, on average, less intelligent and capable than their less attractive counterparts. Seems