HN user
"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. I mean, what else would you call sports bags?
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 the community cost.
Seems unlikely to be the case.
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 -> domain -> telco location code -> box N = box38.lsanca.example.com
3] Your network design perspective will impact how you approach naming, so be careful you don't cement with names something where the design will change, and then your names no longer make sense.
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. ;)
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 the only thing stopping you is the cop on his beat. As soon as I found the cop, I'd go ask him if skating here was fine, or if somewhere else was better.
The cop that gets stuck with a city beat at zero dark thirty is either the n00b or did something stupid and isn't super happy with Authority. On top of that, the only people awake at this hour are drunks, bums, and skaters. Given a reasonable skater, which one would you prefer to talk with?
I knew that if I was the least irritating of the options, I had good chances at being cut some slack. So, there's no way I would front some attitude or do anything that would deviate from the "nice kid who happens to be on a skateboard" image.
Filters are the opposite of useful since they drop so many people who could make a positive impact if you structured the encounter properly.
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 members; how can I help those who want help?
4] People still don't like most other people; how can I detect/counter any biases I might have?
5] People still sexually abuse and torture other humans; how can I help victims, and help deter future violence?
6] Children don't have rights; how can I help children who want to accept adult responsibilities?
7] The US military costs a lot and seems to only make enemies. What can I do to make it act more like Switzerland's army, but without compulsory service? Or to at least be adequately compensated as World Police.
Don't leave it for the mega-shops (goog, aapl, amzn) to create. After all, casinos use tokens instead of cash for a reason....
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.
Actually, it's probably the age correlation. yay for hidden third variable. ;)
Yay. We label Uriel a troll and not Pando Daily or any other daily controversy generators.
Cartel's business model still intact
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 didn't use Che Guevara as an object lesson?
1. We don't want people to kill us. But some do.
2. We want to disarm those people.
3. One way is to kill them, another is to kill their will to fight.
4. Read Che Guevara, why does he fight?
5. Read between the lines, find his weaknesses. What can you use against him?
Warning to cadets: you all have similarities to Che, but you are all similar to him in different ways. Be careful discussing this work with others because the vulnerabilities you see in Che probably also exist in you, and so can also be used to destroy your will to fight.
lol. Saverin Sr leaves a country before it gets too dangerous => Applause
Saverin Jr leaves a country before it gets too dangerous => Boo
The profit maximization puzzle usually involves tax minimization. Just because startups typically ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
~20M dollar exit; in the US, trusts have to pay out 5% per year; he has a ~1M income provided the trust invests well.
The US Tax Code incents US citizens to drop their citizenship before they have 2M USD in net worth.
"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 between....
i figure everyone writes their own. i wrote http://planhack.com
and no IPv6.
granted, getting rid of NAT probably means Skype dies
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 or offline, we still rubberneck.
So boyd wants refuges built to replace the ones that once existed. I'm wish her well. However over time, we see safe havens come and go. Why is that?
Maybe it's the same reason. Those safe havens either collapse or are destroyed because our society is as shitty as ever was.
unlol. Trolling with intent to kill...
although to get back to the lulz, it's Trolling with Intent to Bikini Kill ;)
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 their buildings, name and vocally shame the supporters.
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 loss of group identity.
Sebastian Marshall, a self-declared business analyst operating out of Japan, discovered this principle while seated on a bench, sipping an iced coffee, much like Isaac Newton when he discovered gravity.
"Who would have thought that Competency, Relatedness, and Autonomy were all derived from group identity?" wondered an astounded Dr. Edward Deci, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester. "Maybe Relatedness, but all three? This is going to revolutionize Psychology, bringing it closer to Sociology."
President Barack Obama stated, "It is advances like this which show that our humanity is grounded in our sociability. Our ability to come together to overcome all challenges. We should take the single "man" out of "humanity" and replace it with "peoples". Hu-peoples-ity. Or maybe replace it with "meeples", you know, the little guys from Carcassonne. God, I love that game."
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 he finally could copy the pacing and rhythm. Maybe scan the headlines and find something that Altucher hasn't written about yet and write about it in his style.
Like a football game told as Altucher would. lol.
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=qXL5dRYpM7E
Take a page out of Tyson's book and check your head to make sure you're having fun. On any given day, you have a slew of things you can write about; you'll never get them out though when your fingers are bleeding and your brain has been beaten stupid by your own thoughts.
Good luck. Post your writing-for-fun-dammit blog URL so we can shoot it down^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hyou our comments. ;)
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 get better at treating STDs.
Ultimately, medical industry expands to support an ever-increasing number of human configurations. Financing this expansion aside, we are witnessing an evolution of the human form.
Nature doesn't provide an unchanging measure by which we can gauge our overall fitness. Luckily, the OP wishes to provide one for us.
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 with their jobs may save more lives than an exceptional charity.
If we think something is retarded and yet millions of people do it, we either have different values than them or have failed to see the value. Neither puts us in good stead to judge those people.
Unless we actually prefer a world of Moral One-upmanship ....
Despite IBM Growth, Lou Gerstner Still Golfing
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 model to generate participatory comments / game voting based news sites?
yeah, the article title should have been:
Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Look More Impressive in Your Hand