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Re:China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments. on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:39AM (#2747743)
>They can not just stop building them, because there are literally tens of millions of people getting their income from constructing those buildings.

Don't you see why this is obviously disastrous? There are so many analogies that can be drawn -- that I'm not even going to try. If you don't see why this is obviously ridiculous then read some stuff about the invisible hand of the market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand). It is only a valid point from the narrow perspective of the workers involved and the employers of those workers selling their services.

Re:China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments. on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:31AM (#2747734)
Because you aren't actually in America.
Aha! I came here about to ask "Why is this better than polymaps?" -- thank you! Any other reasons you know of? (or anyone else?)
Re:China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments. on Saturday July 09, 2011 @05:24PM (#2746377)
How many apartments are vacant in the US, just as a comparison, does anyone know? That would make the number much more meaningful.

Also, are these apartments dirt cheap and do they speak english in these areas at all? Maybe they could be a haven for startups, which are somewhat less bound by geography, if they were extremely cheap. I might just be dreaming though.

>You can't just keep cutting out X% of the light and still have some there.

Yes you can.

I remember thinking of this one time as a teenager. Could we see a top down view of the rise of man? The huge caveat is that you have some capability of travelling faster than the light leaving earth, so that you can then look back and absorb the rays. It makes perfectly good sense that if you could travel faster than the speed of light you could use a massive telescope to peer back at the earth and see it's past geological events -- and I mean millions of years even, not just something trivial -- or given a strong enough telescope perhaps more detail could be seen. All of the information that left the earth as light is still out there, all over the universe.
Re:Node v0.5.0 just released on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:58AM (#2733327)
I don't think it would be too many lines of code, tbh http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.0/api/all.html#child_process.exe...
Re:Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08) on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @01:38PM (#2730743)
This kind of sucks, actually.
I think the implication is that the presence of women leads to higher performance among men, as well as any other traits that women contribute to the group. I think it's a give and take overall, and I bet women get better around men too. We are symbiotic after all. ;)
Re: on Sunday June 05, 2011 @10:30PM (#2623469)
I was thinking the same. People see me as a jack of all trades, sometimes, and I really connected with some of the points the original poster made. But it's usually because the other person doesn't know a lot about whatever "trade" I'm doing at the moment, that they would call me a jack of all trades. Backend developers respect my backend work, designers respect my design work, etc, and that doesn't make me a master of none, nor you.

I'm an entrepreneur and I work for myself.

Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @03:04AM (#2555584)
Can i run Node.js on this?

/evil grin

The article seems to be linkbait anyways, but if it were true I would be entirely against it -- I am just pointing out where the argument for home network monitoring falls short when both parties are aware of the monitor being there. I suppose the key to having one, for a parent, or for someone building one, would be to leave a kid completely unsuspecting.
I'm sure there are plenty of kids that can circumvent this and access facebook from friends' computers, from school, cafes, etc. This is especially true if the kid knows they are being watched or if they have a laptop. Kids are smart. You suggest that a parent out-tech their child. I don't imagine thats so easy to do for some parents that aren't great with computers when they are up against a tech-savvy teenager.
Re:We have seen this movie before on Sunday May 15, 2011 @10:06PM (#2551374)
>I will pay you $10 for everyday I don't come to the gym and get on that bike for at least 25 minutes.

Not to nitpick, but I think that "dont" shouldnt be in that sentence? The way it's worded incentivizes the trainer to make sure I don't show up. Without the "dont" it sort of encourages me to not show up because it costs an extra $10, but at the same time the other guy is going to be encouraged to get me to show up. Or maybe the analogy just doesn't work. I get your point entirely though.

I liked the article.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (May 2011) on Sunday May 01, 2011 @07:52PM (#2504430)
SEEKING WORK - remote please

UI Designer: HTML5, CSS3, Backbone.js, Node.js, jQuery, Jade Experienced with business concepts and startups.

My site is temporarily up at http://blobaum.com/

Re:Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:48AM (#2350218)
I already want to use this site.
>I'm planning to promote the site by posting on forums.

You should have started there. You still could of course

Find someone that wants something like a hosted sc2 clan website, perhaps, then make it into just what they want. And dont take 4 months to finish....

Re:Stupid EU cookie law will hand the advantage to the US on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:08AM (#2304458)
>It clearly makes UK companies less competitive because sites we build will need to be plastered with warnings – and our competitors will not.

An American startup doing business globally and with citizens of the UK would have to abide by this law too, though, right?

Re:Poll: What OS do you currently use? on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @11:55PM (#2303869)
XP, Win 7, Ubuntu
Re:Flowchart : Should you work for Free? on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:41PM (#2098756)
Actually, I think overall its better to teach some of the immoral ways even "legit businesses" partake in. Maybe some new freelancer won't second guess him/herself by knowing a few more of the opposition's tricks.

And humorous yeah :)

Re:Revenue per employee in the computer industry on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @08:57AM (#2096114)
bluenile.com does better
Re:Paying for College -- The Rich Are Different on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @03:20AM (#1629197)
Same here, sans the vacations.
Re:Facebook to overtake Google in the next 18 months on Monday August 23, 2010 @05:41AM (#1626279)
I believe the power of the goog will result in something that is more asymptotic.
Re:The Last Exorcism Marketing on ChatRoutlette on Sunday August 22, 2010 @11:12PM (#1625744)
This doesn't work...
Re:The Last Exorcism Marketing on ChatRoutlette on Sunday August 22, 2010 @04:06PM (#1625165)
That was pretty funny. They could have done a lot of other creepy things, rather than the same clip over and over.
Re:Gmail Improves "Undo Send" on Sunday August 22, 2010 @02:22AM (#1624315)
yeah... poor use of the word 'constantly'
Like eating the bones of your defeated opponents kind-of-a-thing?
Re:Zooko's Triangle on Sunday August 22, 2010 @12:01AM (#1624181)
I can read it to you over the phone? Or even more simply... I can just read it

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