Sambdala

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by Sambdala 14y ago
Kickstarter doesn't help organize peer to peer distribution lines or, necessarily, open up new forms of decentralized business, other than making it more attractive for customers to prepay for products in development.
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by Sambdala 14y ago
Morning. Eastern time.
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by Sambdala 14y ago
It's also an area where there's a lower cost of pivoting. When you combine that with an area that will realize returns more quickly than traditional businesses, you have a strong incentive to "MVP" your processes often and early.
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by Sambdala 14y ago
What you're talking about is rebuilding the status quo in a different form. Disruption is taking a $100,000/year teacher from teaching 30 students a year to teaching 30,000.
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by Sambdala 14y ago
It seems most fear-mongering in the media is phrased this way. "Coming up at 11. Are children being killed by breastfeeding?!"
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by Sambdala 14y ago
I like how clean the site is, but (imo) you have to change the name, especially if you want to get some consulting work or build a community out of this. It's also really hard to tell what the product is (pdf sheets? Physical note cards?) u
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by Sambdala 14y ago
For any project that you want to pivot or extend substantially beyond your first iteration, this seems very risky as you might end up with code that has bad commenting, indecipherable, or needs to be completely rewritten before you can eith
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by Sambdala 14y ago
It's easier to see what's wrong in a particularly egregious example (savings rates approaching 50%!!!) and then later examine what parallels you can find in your own (assuming you're not Chinese) culture.
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Confessions of a Former 'Idea Man'(conceptpending.com)
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by Sambdala 14y ago
Then don't activate flash/video/etc unless you activate it. Dolphin HD browser supports this behavior. And it's absolutely desirable behavior in any site that gives you related videos (such as YouTube) as you get to open multiple videos an
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by Sambdala 14y ago
I love that the video starts buffering but doesn't start playing when you load the page. I don't know that I've ever seen that before. You either get buffering and playing when you load the page or you need to click play before the video s
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by Sambdala 14y ago
When can we just start ignoring these patents? If patent wars get to the point where no one can create anything legally without paying extortion fees, do we start using an equivalent of bit torrent or TOR for new web services?
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by Sambdala 15y ago
My point is his whole argument consisted of an emotional appeal about a. the intention of the 'creator' and b. the cost of creating XYZ piece of 'IP' as defenses of copyright.
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by Sambdala 15y ago
So, some sort of modified Labor Theory of Value?