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> The Kennebec hadn’t run free here since 1837. Interestingly enough, it was Thoreau's inventory of species in these very streams and tributaries as documented in _The Maine Woods_…

Rascoff explained that Zillow really has “no skin in the commission game” when it comes to what real estate professionals get paid, comparing Zillow to information provider WebMD. …

> it’s so similar to programming on a higher level. Indeed it is. The logic of the `results` has to stand out relative to the result itself. A programmer can hide the logic without…

It doesn't, really. Since there are umpteen ways to do things in GNU/Linux, developers often end up with less-than-ideal implementations for what they are trying to do using a sing…

> They failed the test and without this key innovation performing to spec I no longer have faith that Mastadon is any more than a technically complicated open source Twitter. Maybe…

> The next crash will be student loans. Yes, and it will be ugly. It was already getting bad before the tax code overhaul, but now that the payment of interest on student loans is …

> little by way of tool chain integration Have a look at nGraph: http://ngraph.nervanasys.com/docs/latest/optimize/generic.ht... Co-design for hardware+software is tough, for sure.…

The best thing about Google News (the old Google news) was that it was like being able to search microfiche of all the old-school news publications (but digitally): articles writte…

Thanks for the reply. What I meant, is that one cannot start a discussion of such things without being willing to lose lots of points and karma. Observations that AirBnB might be d…

The obvious thing you are missing is that it is developers who want to build rent-producing "income HOAs" ... they are the driver creating the problem. Who else would be lobbying f…

Well HOA fees go to things like maintenance of roads, maintenance of community-owned spaces (landscaping, parks, etc). When HOA fees are high covering all these things the city's t…

> it seems clear that either a dense arrangement or the countryside (if working remotely) are preferable to the burbs, where you get high costs and poor access. HOAs are primarily …

> if you share the "correct" viewpoint, but unpopular views have to be exceptionally polite to avoid biased moderation Where HN has been falling short (lately, in my observation) i…

It's hard for me to agree with much of anything the author states here. This snippet is why: > I don’t teach network programming and haven’t tested these specific ideas. But, in my…

> I don't understand how cash-settled futures are meant to provide price stability to a market. Interestingly, thrash and volatility provide stability (and profit) to the entities …

> So, because you cannot trade apartments without spending significantly more money, there's a couple of hour-long commutes instead. Here is where the analysis should happen. All o…

The "lucrative" aspect of many of these businesses results because they register themselves as 501c3 orgs; yet they clearly operate for-profit enterprises, with active solicitation…

Paraphrasing, but it doesn't matter. I'd applied because I admired it as a company that could help you find answers for pretty much anything. I wanted to be a part of that. Yet cle…

they’re an algorithm company, not a product company. As a result, their core, algorithm based, functionality is successful, but they fail at new product design over and over, creat…

They opened up the archives (free) after announcing it would be ceasing publication: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pu... If you don't care to click on t…

"Pardon me" but rental income is deductible more than it is taxable; everything to do with owning a property and generating "investment income" from it is incentivized to be deduct…

> taxing wealth is probably the single most efficient way to do it. It's not taxing wealth so much as taxing the mechanisms that create undue inequality that would work: yes, I'm t…