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budu3on How Immigration Uncertainty Threatens America’s Tech Dominance

> in the past it was assumed that the USA would honor visa once they were issued Not true. Having a visa was never a guarantee of entry into the US. Entry was always at the discretion of the border agent at the port of entry [1]. [1] https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/frequently...

budu3on Adblock Plus now sells ads

Not only that but this business model sooner or later is sure to attract regulation from some government agency.

budu3on Physicist Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design

On the surface it looks like her departure is a huge loss to the academic world.

> I applauded her for her bravery for pursuing her own line, but that inevitably brings risks with it. She is a very fundamental thinker; she had original ideas. But at the end of the day you had to decide if those ideas are going to pan out

Why not let the broader community of scientist decide this?

budu3on Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation

> crippling effect of the harmonization of the EU

Could you please elaborate on this? I am genuinely curious to know more.

budu3on Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Stumbled After Secret Truce with Activist Investor

I hate paywalls as much as the next guy but I've been asking myself this question of late. With newspapers closing down left right and center, with people constantly complain about to dwindling number of news sources, with users increasing unwilling to entertain web ads, how can we fund quality journalism?

budu3on No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted

$350000 for a business plan? Isn't that a bit too expensive for a business plan?

budu3on Change GitBucket user interface to make difference with GitHub

To be fair to them they are not native English speakers. I would have an equally hard time (of not impossible) writing well written Japanese prose.

budu3on AB-1681: Any smartphone manufactured and sold in CA is to have a backdoor

Arstechnica gives some background on this bill. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/yet-another-bill-...

budu3on Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat

It's my understanding the Andy has always been a Robotics geek even dated as far back as his days a Danger. So I find it hard to believe the argument that Andy has to be coerced into perusing a Robotics vision that he had no passion for.

budu3on Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions

It's good to see that Steve is back publicly blogging.

budu3on How I became an artist

I presume that he's talking about the nude sketches.

budu3on A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory

How will you deal with inflation? Wouldn't the sudden influx of many cause the price for basic goods, rent etc to go up?

budu3on Ask HN: Do you work with dogmatic, stubborn developers/sysadmins? Are YOU one?

>Same when it comes to that trendy "Agile"/Scrum shitshow Honest question. What alternative would you suggest?

budu3on Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kodus to you guys for there work you're doing in the various African countries. We tend to get forgotten by the big tech companies.

budu3on Jewels from an Ethiopian grave reveal 2,000-year-old link to Rome

>The finds will go to a new German-funded museum, opening in October. Schofield hopes to organise a loan to the British Museum

Why isn't the find staying with the Ethiopian people?

budu3on Last Exit to Loyalty

What does derpy mean in this context? I tried googling it but all I saw were some My Little Pony references.

budu3on How Teens Really Use Apps

Care to share the link about the unarmed officers in New Zealand?

budu3on High Fidelity Music Streaming by Jay Z

Here's a Verge article on Tidal to give it some context. http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/30/8314833/tidal-jay-z-stream...

budu3on Isaac Newton and Alchemy

If his manuscripts were labeled "not fit to be published" then why are the Univ. of Sussex and Indiana Univ. going out of their way to publish Newton's work in Alchemy. Wouldn't this be against his wishes.

budu3on OS X 10.10 – Source Code

Does Apple upstream any of their changes?

budu3on OS X 10.10 – Source Code

I think it's genetic :) Some people are "code pack rats". They're afraid to delete anything.

budu3on I’m Terrified of My New TV

The Moto X has a "Google Now" functionality where the continuously listens for you commands. Whatever is ships your sound off the Google server is another question.

budu3on Motorola Mobility becomes part of the Lenovo family of companies

I think the MotoX is a good phone. I hope Lenovo doesn't kill it.

budu3on Before the Startup

What's an especially productive 22 year old to do?[...] If you're really productive, why not make employers pay market rate for you? Why go work as an ordinary employee for a big company, when you could start a startup and make them buy it to get you?[0]

And though starting a startup can be part of a good life for a lot of ambitious people, age 20 is not the optimal time to do it.[1]

PG seems to be giving contradictory advice or his stance seems to have changed on whether 20 year olds should start a startup

[0] http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html

[1] http://paulgraham.com/before.html

budu3on The Downtown Project Suicides

Sorry about the ninja edit :) I was still forming my thoughts and trying to figure out how to articulate it properly.

budu3on The Downtown Project Suicides

I have a strong suspicion that our modern society's obsession with pursuing happiness as an end goal is not healthy. Maybe what we need is an underlying sense of contentment.

budu3on Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

Probably RIM/Blackberry.

budu3on New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970)

The Vignelli Cannon is a good read http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf (pdf)

budu3on Standard Markdown

I agree with Gruber. Ambiguity is a feature. It allows every implementer (leanpub, github et al) to add their own idiocentricities while staying true to Gruber's "spirit" of Markdown.