WarDekar

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by WarDekar 15y ago
There are plenty of startups based in SF proper as you mention, instead of the Valley. It certainly varies depending on the type of person you are, but I would think that in general most tech-minded people would prefer SF-proper to Manhatt
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by WarDekar 15y ago
They've been around for a few months and were one of the higher volume exchanges. They were doing ~800 BTC in trades/day for the month prior to this, so ~$11k/day with their commission of .006*2 (I think it was .006, and on both sides) the
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by WarDekar 15y ago
That was my reaction as well. Not just the fact that it's ambiguous whether they're trying to sell for 17k EUR or 17k BTC, but the fact that they're even trying to sell it at all, and then the buyer is presumably on the hook for the BTC th
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by WarDekar 16y ago
While I enjoyed last year's app, I'm a little irked by the fact they require iOS 4 this year. I'm still using a 3G and don't really want to upgrade to iOS 4. I understand that sometimes there are reasons they want to put features in an ap
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Isn't the point that it took a pretty major natural disaster (or two, depending on how you want to look at it) to even cause a problem like this in the first place? And STILL the radiation levels are below the safety guidelines? I'm sure p
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I don't think saying 80% or so of YC founders didn't go to top-tier schools means schools don't matter- I haven't seen the data on the applicant pool which is obviously relevant to this, but to me it seems like if 20% are coming from top-ti
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I would much prefer to stay at an AirBnB place than a hotel even at the same price (though getting comparable accommodations for half the price is obviously a plus). I've met a lot of interesting people as hosts that I've gone out with, sh
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by WarDekar 16y ago
There are sites that don't offer a full page version but do offer print versions- WashPo comes to mind though I know some other sites do it as well. I think in cases such as these linking the print page is fine- you can argue we should supp
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Is your argument that following the law = ethical conduct? If so, how to do you reconcile differences between laws and cultures? Shouldn't ethical conduct be universal? Certainly you must concede that there are unethical behaviors that are
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I use my iPhone for tethering and I get calls while I'm using it sometimes and would like to be able to get the call without it knocking me offline all the time. Granted not many people have tethering enabled on their iPhone as it's not of
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Groupon markets to you in a way that claims you'll gain long-term customers, that's where the retailer is supposed to make money. The problem is that doesn't end up happening for a variety of reasons, as has been pointed out elsewhere in co
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Unfortunately I've also accidentally ordered books (more than once) when trying to delete the sample. As a testament to Amazon's great CS though, I've gotten refunded immediately when that has happened.
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by WarDekar 16y ago
"It's not that I disagree with you; I just thought you could of been a bit less harsh" Was this intentional? Or did you just skip over his post entirely because it was "too harsh"
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I should probably submit this to him (and I shall now), but my chief complaint with Instapaper is that on split-page articles it doesn't automatically combine them into one. Some sites (namely WashPo comes to mind off the top of my head) w
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by WarDekar 16y ago
In case you haven't noticed, charter schools have far more interest from parents than there are spots open, that's why they have lotteries to get in. In fact there is a documentary specifically about this, called simply [1] The Lottery. Al
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Are you sure it's a "paywall" and not just an account sign-up? I made a throw away account for NYT years ago and it seems to access the page fine, I wasn't aware they had activated a paywall yet?
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by WarDekar 16y ago
This, also a rather unfortunate change in the recent firmware (to me, anyway) is that this page turn starts when you press the button instead of when you release it. I was so used to pressing it in anticipation, and releasing when I neared
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I use my Kindle to read all sorts of non-fiction works (I very rarely read novels). I'm not sure why everyone assumes it's only fiction readers that would care- there are plenty of non-fiction books that aren't reference books. I find it
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I tried to get Ephemera, but it crashes on launch any time I try to open it. Unfortunate because it looked pretty useful to me. I realize you (probably) aren't the author, but thought maybe others on here were having problems with it. Go
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by WarDekar 16y ago
In one of John Taylor Gatto's books he brings up that Ivy League schools base part of their admissions process on the attractiveness of the applicant because they want to project a certain image. I'm not sure if this is true or not, and I
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Same with Coke and other soda bottles in other countries. At least in Central America, anyway, as I've spent a lot of time down there and the Coke bottles are quite obviously several generations in. In fact you'll often see a copyright no
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I agree. I'll get up in the morning, sit on the john and either add things to my NPR playlist (the NPR app is great- required download IMO) or read some news (or Hacker News), then listen to my playlist while I shower. I haven't gotten in
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by WarDekar 16y ago
For a great look at this, check out the documentary [1] The Cartel. He focuses on New Jersey for the most part, but he touches on how difficult it is to remove poor teachers because of the teachers unions (which fight for the teachers at al
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by WarDekar 16y ago
I'm not the parent commenter, but where I went we had up through multi-variable calc and linear algebra, though really I thought the toughest was Prob/Stat in HS but that's probably because the teacher wasn't very good at motivating student
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Well considering even the people with access to all the data on what happened still don't know exactly what went down, it'd be a little tough for me to prove anything. What we do know is the only people that were able to make trades were
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Why am I getting down-voted? Institutional traders cleaned up because of this, the people that got screwed are the ones without the power to effect any changes to the system. The only way there would be (successful) lawsuits is if the sit
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by WarDekar 16y ago
Whatever money was 'lost' was also 'found'/gained/(won since this is gambling), and the people that make the rules are the ones that won, so...
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by WarDekar 16y ago
When? Someone should really either fix the link in the OP or give the info there... I'm not sure what this Anyvite site is, but this is giving me a horrible first impression for something that may or may not even be their fault. Unfortunat
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by WarDekar 16y ago
More like relative cost- the price of the belt is a small % of the price of the suit as a whole. Similar to how it's easy to sell the power seats, w/e other luxury on a car for $200 when the car is $20k+. Anchoring would be if the suit sal
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by WarDekar 16y ago
When I tried that link it said I wasn't on the guest list to that event :(

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