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Hey. I also hate being in the limelight. But if it's good for business I get over it and have. Just like I get over many things that I need to do in business to make it work. (I ha…

Well perhaps she learned a lesson that if you are going to "lead" with a tasty vignette like that the rest of your message will be lost. So it's a lesson learned, right? Next inter…

So you are saying that she figured that out after 1 bad interview and didn't know it about the press prior to hiring a PR firm?

For a business purposes, part of the benefit of "that family thing" is that it would tend to make employees less likely to jump ship because of a personal connection and bond. This…

"After that she told the PR firm to stop." Oh wow I disagree with this totally. One reporter gives a bad slant to a story and that is enough to make you give up on setting up and g…

To get past the paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

The issue is not liability. It's whether there is a leg to stand on to get sued for this. In this case there is a leg to stand on to get sued. And in that case it's time and money …

"then their professional liability insurance would protect them from the fall-out of sloppy workmanship" Assumes the homeowner checks that the insurance for the professional is val…

Back in the early to mid 90's the root DNS servers were also left in unlocked rooms of some Universities according to stories that I read around that time. Also for .info domains w…

"What is the actual risk here, how many people have been bitten by this sort of thing and what was the resulting damage?" Exactly. And what I essentially typically say is "the scop…

I posted this and wanted to put the word "flawed" before "poll". Mainly because this got front page mention on the WSJ website but if you read how the poll was done it's clearly su…

I actually don't like the sliders for that matter. I'd prefer side by side (especially because of the point that you are making).

In case you miss the thread here at HN that mentions you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526572

"just the ability needed to put together a shell pipeline to get a job done, or a twenty-line script to automate some tedious task. Imagine how much that would change everyday life…

"who believe it is in their best interests to cultivate a populace with unquestioning deference to authority" The populace doesn't ask questions. They simply parrot what a few outs…

I can't figure out if you are being downvoted because you made a joke or because you used the word "torture" in vain.

The quote I always seem to remember from that movie is: "New guy puking his guts out".

Noting he was flagged 36 days ago. At what threshold does someone gets banned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297957

Counter-point to your counter-point! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Vendor_Pre...

Free to me doesn't matter. By one definition a vendor is a company that supplies goods. Some definitions go further to say that they "sell" the goods. However there is nothing to i…

I wonder what controls they have to prevent someone who gets dinged with bad ratings (as a landlord) from reposting the same exact property. After all it would be trivial to post w…