It looks like facebook likes without the rest of facebook, or did I miss something?
Readit Newsjpdoctor commented on Our new Rails app: pplrep pplrep.com/?=h... · Posted by u/grizzy
jpdoctor commented on Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing schneier.com/blog/archive... · Posted by u/aespinoza
> But it takes a special kind of arrogance for this young man to believe that his moral judgment on the dilemma suddenly trumps that of two (incredibly different) presidents, both houses of the U.S. Congress, both political parties, the U.S. court system and more than 30,000 of his co-workers.
Conversely, it takes a special kind of arrogance for two (incredibly different) presidents, both houses of the U.S. Congress, both political parties, the U.S. court system and more than 30,000 of his co-workers to ignore the fact that 54% of people surveyed think this is a good thing.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/13/new-time-poll-support-f...
jpdoctor commented on Startups Can Generally Solicit Starting September 23 rockthepost.com/blog/gene... · Posted by u/acremades
I'm trying to figure out the barrier-to-entry for scam artists, and they seem pretty low.
jpdoctor commented on Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs) wenshanren.org/?p=418... · Posted by u/Meatball_py
> Richard Stallman – the creator of GNU Emacs, the founder of GNU
Did anybody think he was secretly using vi in the closet?
jpdoctor commented on Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud 37signals.com/bootstrappe... · Posted by u/brainless
Are all of these bootstrapped, or are some of them self-funded? If I start a company, and invest $300k of my own cash, is this bootstrapped or self-funded?
> Are all of these bootstrapped, or are some of them self-funded?
HN doesn't seem to make the distinction, for self-funding of less than $100K.
The thing I find particularly fatuous: "We were bootstrapped until we took VC money", as if everyone who takes VC money isn't in the same camp. I guess the company I founded was bootstrapped until our A round valued at $40M. Hey I created a $40M company by bootstrapping!
jpdoctor commented on What if Google bought Detroit? brandonhtomlin.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/luckyisgood
The poster is confusing the amount of insolvency with the value of Detroit. The value of the city far exceeds the valuation of Google.
> Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed.
So they can't rule out the possibility that sensitive personal information, which cannot be accessed, has been accessed. Got it.
Apparently our intelligence, which cannot be insulted, has been insulted.
jpdoctor commented on In Major Ruling, Court Orders Times Reporter to Testify nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us... · Posted by u/hedonist
To save everyone from having to look it up:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
jpdoctor commented on Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering debts freep.com/article/2013071... · Posted by u/Irishsteve
When a company is forced to reorganize due to bankruptcy often a change of management is required. However, the "management" of Detroit is elected by the people, and they will likely choose to simply send the same folks or the same sorts of folks back into power after this happens.
How is this a reboot? To me it seems more like the typical infinite "just one more last chance" that enablers give to drug addicts.
I'm no Ch9 expert, but my understanding is that a receiver will be appointed. That person is not elected. So while the politicians retain executive power, the purse strings are taken away from them.
There will be much unhappiness and gnashing of teeth before it's all finished.
jpdoctor commented on Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering debts freep.com/article/2013071... · Posted by u/Irishsteve
I'm very liberal, but I don't see this as screwing the retirees. I think they got a better than they should have deal. The unions over-reached and they got rates of return that were unsustainable. We haven't even talked about the gaming of the system that happens (punching up salary for the last year, so their retirement benefit goes up).
The police chief in a town near mine retired on something like $300-400K and it was discovered that he had taken a job at another city, several hundred miles away.
There is so much corruption and abuse of the municipal retirement plans that I think a reboot is in order.
I particularly like the idea of promising firefighters a too-good pension, make them run into burning buildings to save people, and then reneging on the promise now that they won't be running into buildings any more. Serves them right for trusting a promise, the fools.
I wonder what effect that will have on future muni workers?