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by FelixP 14y ago
I don't think there's much question as to the legality here. Rather, I think the degree of maliciousness is a bit unclear at the moment, i.e. was this driven by a conscious attempt to screw over his investors and cofounders, his desire to r
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by FelixP 14y ago
I think the author's complaint that all of the beneficial events, connections, etc. came from the participants and not the organization is a bit misplaced. After all, the whole point of Startup Chile (as I understand it) is to provide exac
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by FelixP 14y ago
I'm reserving judgement until we hear both sides of the story. Obviously, this could simply be blatant bad behavior, but as even Arun said in his post, he doesn't really know what's going on. I could easily envision a situation where the c
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by FelixP 14y ago
I grew up in Venice and my parents still live in the area. This is completely ridiculous, and I'm pretty sure the NY Times doesn't have the faintest idea what they're talking about.
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by FelixP 14y ago
I would consider myself a longtime power user of both Powerpoint and Excel. I HATE the ribbon - it's much less efficient for most tasks (although it is prettier).
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America's Pizza Circulatory System(youtube.com)
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by FelixP 14y ago
I think this is more about political activism than racism. Something like a fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs, and Arabic is one of Israel's two official languages. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
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by FelixP 14y ago
How is this better than the yelp search functionality (other than the fact that I'm not a fan of Yelp's UI)?
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by FelixP 14y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by FelixP 14y ago
>he jumps straight into 12 reps dumbbell press @ 30kg (66lb per hand) That really isn't that much weight- imagine bench pressing 60 kilos. 30 kilo dumbbell presses shouldn't all that strenuous for someone who works out regularly.
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by FelixP 14y ago
Groupon isn't exactly a startup anymore - they're a public company. And what do public companies generally do? Try to keep up with startups.
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by FelixP 14y ago
Great post on the benefits of habit-forming. I've certainly found something similar in my own exercise experiences. On a more humorous note, the first portion of the piece reminded me of this gem: "I live in the American Gardens Building o
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by FelixP 14y ago
I believe that the suit alleges that she was passed over for promotion several times - if that's so, then the opportunity cost of filing suit may be smaller than your scenario would indicate.
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by FelixP 14y ago
Isn't what they said about tanks and horses?
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by FelixP 14y ago
Some vaguely interesting statistical analysis, but here's the money quote at the end (TL;DR)- "So why do I still buy lottery tickets? <b>Definitely not for the expected monetary return on investment.</b> I think of it as a d
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by FelixP 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that Google Translate already supports Pinyin since it shows the pinyin on the dedicated translate.google.com page (click the pronunciation guide button after you translate something to Mandarin - it's the capital A with an
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by FelixP 14y ago
I think this breaks down somewhat for languages that don't use phonetic characters, such as Mandarin and Japanese. It would take a long period of dedicated study before the average person could read media in these languages.
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by FelixP 14y ago
>Really the reason to use kickstarter.com is as an advertising platform. I'm not really sure if having their audience as well as our own would have benefited us in this case or not. I would also point out that Kickstarter acts as a trus
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by FelixP 14y ago
Of course the answer is no. Far too many legal and social hurdles to cross (not to mention technological). However, in the spirit of playing along, and in light of the fact that it's Friday, I'll throw in this quote from Deus Ex which I al
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by FelixP 14y ago
Link to source article in the McKinsey Quarterly (free, but requires registration) https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_second_economy_2853 Also, see this piece from Jaron Lanier for a much more tech-oriented and cerebral treatment of mu
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by FelixP 15y ago
I think the combination of payments, deals/coupons, and loyalty programs is what will really nail this space- but I agree with you, it's mostly the payments that will make or break this. There are also some interesting opportunities with on
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by FelixP 15y ago
|assuming a four year program. Virtually all full-time MBA programs are two-year programs. Here's an example of the math a prospective MBA student might consider: Current cash comp (incl. bonuses) = ~$120k/year Length of program = 2 years -
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by FelixP 15y ago
How applicable has your experience @ McKinsey been in the startup space versus your experience in business school? Also, which program did you attend (if you don't mind sharing)? FYI, there is a typo ("trully") on this page of your site:
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by FelixP 15y ago
Mobile, location-aware deals is their main hope of driving large amounts of new revenue since most of their current audience is already suffering from email daily-deal fatigue.
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by FelixP 15y ago
Yeah, it's rare to find the kind of headline that's both completely relevant and complete click-bait.
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by FelixP 15y ago
So, basically, all of the "jiffy-lube" type basic maintenance services, and not the "replace your entire engine" type stuff. Makes sense to me.
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by FelixP 15y ago
The other main point of friction I've encountered with AirBnB is the whole checkin process - it's rare that people lay around their apartments all day long, so there's always a bit of scrambling as both parties try to sync up their schedule
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by FelixP 15y ago
| their users had been getting gouged at their mechanics' shops I feel like this is a distressingly commonplace problem.
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by FelixP 15y ago
This makes a lot more sense to me. Obviously a smartphone makes for a pretty poor CoD controller - but that's because CoD wasn't designed to be played with a smartphone (or even a touchscreen at all) in the first place. Looking forward, I
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by FelixP 15y ago
I really like the approach of trying to reduce friction as much as possible. The main problem that I have with TaskRabbit, fiverr, etc is that while those services might be able to help me outsource things I don't want to do myself, they c

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