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by DanBlake 13y ago
Exactly right. Anyone telling you it is or is not going one way is crazy. Im simply refuting that "its just like 2000" and showing some strength points.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Thats a pretty blind way to look at this. A shopping site launching in 2000 had a fixed potential audience of X and a MAXIMUM revenue of Y. A shopping site launching today has more than 10x the audience. If you want to discount that, go ahe
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Hi, I think I give a pretty fair argument about this towards the end in comparison to broadcast.com In short, yes- Back then the bubble was based on the hype that people were coming. The hype now is that the people are here. Again, compare
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Stop comparing this to the 2000 bubble(harknesslabs.com)
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by DanBlake 13y ago
From reading the facts in the article, it seems totally unrealistic. Post some dumps of executables, network packets or SOMETHING besides a story. Honestly, this type of paranoia sounds more like someone on the brink of a breakdown. Can you
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by DanBlake 13y ago
The graphics cards are the big piece. You pay alot of money to get that firepro label, compared to performance of similar gaming cards with very comparable specs. You could cut out ~500$ that way.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
You dont pay state income tax on money you pay to the federal gov. Surprised how few people know that. So on 1m you will pay ~350k to the fed gov- That leaves you with 650k 'net' remaining. CA taxes you on this amount. Hence the 6
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by DanBlake 13y ago
San Francisco/CA is 9%
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by DanBlake 13y ago
The advantage is for high income people, of course. If you make alot of money (or have alot of retirement income coming in) florida kicks ass. As a simple example: If you make 1 million a year and live in a 2 million dollar house. Property
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by DanBlake 13y ago
I just moved from SF to Miami Beach a month ago. I loved SF but if you have the ability to work from home as I do, financially it does not make sense to stay. I honestly would have preferred to move to Honolulu over here but the only area I
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by DanBlake 13y ago
This has been done before, not sure why it warrants a kickstarter. The Copenhagen wheel has been around for around ~5 years and looks identical to this, sans the GPS. http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/mits-co
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Uh, yeah. SF may have crime but its nowhere near the danger level of oakland. IIRC, SF isnt even on the "top 100 most dangerous cities" list, but oakland usually is in the top 5. So, yes- Big difference. 10x higher chance to get m
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Everyone forgets points/cashback. That visa card you just got that gives you 2% cashback? That doesnt come from thin air. It comes from the merchants pockets paying their transaction fee.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
So long as you live in a system called capitalism, yes. Thats the basic premise of supply and demand. If not, sign me up for a place in Aspen or Greenwich though.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Not sure if you are implying there will be 28% more rentals available in 18 months than there currently is, but thats totally untrue. There is about 135k current apartments in SF. About 8,000 new apartments, mostly in mid-rise and high-rise
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by DanBlake 13y ago
I really dont agree. Breaking Bad and Mad Men are ending shortly. Walking dead seems to be tapering off fans, turning from less of a zombie show to more of a drama ( each episode is 95% talk, 5% zombies ). The fact is, both breaking bad and
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Isn't this just a launch rock clone that offers less and charges more?
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Too bad it's completely impossible to use the service. It takes forever to get verified and even when you do transfers hardly go through. Total waste of time when I tried it a month or so ago.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Obviously illegal and will be struck down in court. Heres the issue- Bankers created the housing collapse, as far as the homes value is concerned. By allowing many 'liar loans' that started defaulting, we exploded with foreclosure
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Looks like if you edit facebook in firebug while you are posting a link to your newsfeed you can change the source userid which is not validated/checked and gets posted even though you dont have the permission to do it
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Either build more housing, remove rent control or have SF no longer be appealing. Those are the only options to stop rental increases. Anything else is artificial and doomed to fail by introducing flawed mechanisms to try and subvert the mo
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by DanBlake 13y ago
I am really late into this thread, but the way I got around this exact issue is I just renamed the field from "coupon code" to "referral code". Users dont mind skipping over it and it does the same thing.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Any bandwidth included? If not, how much is transfer?
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Surely these countries have the power to grant him a passport for their country if they chose to do so.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
My understanding is that this is a special 'trial phase' for Kennedy. The planning department is not approving other similar projects until it studies/weighs the outcome of these.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
The reason for San Francisco's high rent/home price is very simple, despite how others like to complicate it more: 1: Its desirable for most people to live here. Possibly the most desirable place in the USA, depending on your tast
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Seems like they would have been better off just taking the rumored 20m from microsoft in 2008 (before they raised FIVE additional rounds of funding to the tune of nearly 40m).
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by DanBlake 13y ago
I think its high ball. The servers were no doubt paid-for by that point. The only real cost they could have is depreciation on the servers themselves and power to keep them on. I dont think its fair to call potential income they could get f
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by DanBlake 13y ago
Most important question: How often do you check for new content? A RSS feed reader is useless to me if you will only check my feeds once a day for new content. Bare minimum reall needs to be once every 30 minutes for me to consider it.
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by DanBlake 13y ago
I never understood why keyfobs work in a UDP style, when communication between the remote and car would be infinitely better. For instance, instead of just sending "12345" and having the doors open since the code was expected, What about if

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