Aetius

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by Aetius 16y ago
Not for my market. 90% of them have facebook accounts.
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by Aetius 16y ago
I am. What you're probably not aware of is who my market is (hint: 90% of them have facebook accounts).
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by Aetius 16y ago
It is my goal. But not right now.
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by Aetius 16y ago
I'm sorry, but its just not worth expending the extra effort to get you signed up to my service. I can get millions of people before it even starts becoming an issue.
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by Aetius 16y ago
But...shouldn't you take your chances?? I mean, stay, hope they are afraid of the engine, and if they're not get obliterated: or run and risk them catching you? I think I'd take the second option.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Yeah, it would be easier innovate on hard problems, Mr. Myhrvold, if you you weren't trying to strangle startups and small tech firms every chance you get with your Intellectual Ventures .
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by Aetius 16y ago
Upvoted, but curious...why is this good advice? Can the car not outrun the elephant. Is the elephant afraid of the engine? Does the elephant outmatch the car's velocity? Because you can be sure I would get the hell out of there as fast as p
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by Aetius 16y ago
And this matters because?? I've heard Larry Ellison is the most illiquid billionaire, as he finances everything with loans against his massive equity in Oracle. He's still in the top 5 richest people. Zuckerberg is no different.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Just like we can say for certain that lots of people think they're witty, when really they're just regurgitating HN red-meat in exchange for karma.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Smashing Magazine.
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by Aetius 16y ago
I would try to verify any of the above statements, but i'm not 100% sure where to begin.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Try 3 months of weekends.
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by Aetius 16y ago
SOs login has always been a fucking pain. No surprise there.
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by Aetius 16y ago
When's the last time you flew coast to coast? There's quite a lot of farmland in the U.S.
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by Aetius 16y ago
What software is good for time lapse recording on Windows?
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by Aetius 16y ago
Indeed. No doubt the massive Coca Cola marketing team is salivating at the thought of spinning this.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Not sure I agree. Property rights are maintained through the use of force. I don't think that will ever change.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Haha, yes! When that guy with the black hair said "I can't wait to stand over your shoulder and watch you write us a check.", I thought for a second they had cast Ed Sedgwick (Chuck on Gossip Girl) for the role.
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by Aetius 16y ago
35. Too funny. 59 is also hilarious. And would you look at all those Facebook queries. That alone should have Google shaking in their boots!
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by Aetius 16y ago
With P2P the image recognition would have to be done on the client anyways. So those who don't enjoy watching phalli would be able to change their preferences covertly. He could even provide a simple form like [ ] block nudity [x] cen
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by Aetius 16y ago
Susan Wu
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by Aetius 16y ago
Firstly, because we had a valid pretext for war (Taliban et al). But very important too is the fact that wars are profitable . And not from a resource standpoint; war production itself (e.g. weapons manufacturers, engineering firms to rebu
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by Aetius 16y ago
No, it won't go to the Afghan people. It will go to a select few warlords and politicians that are savvy enough to realize that by making deals with the right people, they can become oligarchs overnight.
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by Aetius 16y ago
Only in an extremely naive world would you get downvoted for this. Is HN becoming a less enlightened place? Do we truly believe that we went to Afghanistan solely for the terrorists??
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by Aetius 16y ago
Now that these wars are paying off, what's the timeframe for invading Iran? Let's face it, we all know some secret CIA operation has been drawing up detailed plans, running simulations, and playing war games with Iran for years. Now that we
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by Aetius 16y ago
I had been writing a little code in php (after dropping out of a backwater community college) when the big 2005-6 ajax web 2.0 wave struck. Digg was huge then and from there I found a site called Valleywag. They had some stuff about Paul Gr
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by Aetius 16y ago
Modern society, esp. one nearing 7 billion in number cannot live without finance. Without finance to equitably allocate resources, there would be massive shortages -> famines -> wars -> apocalypse. However, I am going to pull th
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by Aetius 16y ago
Creativity is often the result of great adversity. But in a roundabout way, you're right (but probably not in the way you think). See, by having fun, you're wasting time you should be spending solving the problem. Then just before the dea
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by Aetius 16y ago
Fame is wealth. You're talking about money .
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by Aetius 16y ago
Along with the other answers, there is often the case that the startup is, you know, actually profitable . My company buys them and grows the company in order to make more money. Their principals sell in order to achieve liquidity. Win Win

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