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by abat 13y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I've started to get things faster with the new 7 days a week delivery partnership with USPS. The one downside is that USPS's tracking is terrible compared to UPS's.
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by abat 13y ago
There are marketing reasons for law firm mergers. Law firms make money by having the biggest/richest clients who pay multimillion legal bills. The idea is that these clients want to hire the "best" law firms, and they determi
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by abat 13y ago
Cable companies pay them a lot of money to retransmit network TV. If Aereo is legal, that means that cable companies could use same trick destroying a large portion of their revenue.
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by abat 13y ago
Looks like a great idea. One comment though. The preview pages load slowly for me because all the cartoons are loaded at full resolution (800px width) and then greatly scaled down and cropped on the client (to around 253px with). Browsing p
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by abat 13y ago
I've met people who did Peace Corps, and my opinion was much better after meeting them. First they actually became fluent in the local language. Second their focus was often more on enabling locals than on trying to do stuff themselves
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by abat 13y ago
I don't think that's true. I was in a store this morning where the cashier was talking to tech support because she didn't know how to restart the new win8 computer. All the hidden menus (eg charm bar) were making it very unin
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by abat 13y ago
This is the SEC trying to protect the "little guy". This is why they can only let "accredited" investors invest that have over a certain amount of money/income. If you're outraged, make sure to point your outra
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by abat 13y ago
You can't directly contact VCs unless they already know you, you need an introduction from someone on their radar. Notice the company in the article refers to meetings via introductions as "outbound." VC's will at least
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by abat 13y ago
Details don't look as interesting as headline suggest. Snapchat doesn't throttle messages, so you can "snapchat bomb" a user with 1000's of messages/sec which will freeze up the phone.
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by abat 13y ago
TL;DR The city must completely disappear from the surface of the earth and serve only as a transport station for the Wehrmacht. No stone can remain standing. Every building must be razed to its foundation. —SS chief Heinrich Himmler, Octobe
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by abat 13y ago
That's just the intro price. It's $5/WEEK if you want nytimes.com + tablet apps. That's $260/year instead of $22/year. I would gladly subscribe if the long term rate was $5 for 12 weeks. See full prices here:
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by abat 13y ago
This looks like the Bitcoin version of the GoldenPalace casino buying the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich for $28,000. The majority of the donations were probably designed to attract attention and therefore help market Bitcoin.
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by abat 13y ago
Simple looks like a completely different thing to me. It looks like a debit card connected to a fancy budget tool. It looks like a tool for people who have basic finances and need help to avoid overspending. Coin looks like a device that re
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by abat 13y ago
But the banks also got an option to buy an additional 10M shares at $26 in the next 30 days. By keeping the price low, the banks made a $500M profit on top of their fees. The banks are triple dipping on the IPO: the fee (3.25%), their optio
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by abat 13y ago
The lockup applies to shares on the open market after IPO. That doesn't preclude someone from participating in the IPO itself.
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by abat 13y ago
Not always. In the past holistic review was to keep Jews out of the Ivy League. The minority being targeted will probably be different 50 years from now. That said, I do agree that soft skills are probably valuable for doctors.
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by abat 13y ago
Only if Reddit.com blocked the sites. Each subreddit is its own privately moderated world. Some subreddits only allow self-posts, which means you can't post third party sites at all. Some subreddits only allow scholarly journals. Some
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by abat 13y ago
I don't know, but the timescale is very different from Twitter. The founder's been CEO at Kickstarter for 5 years. Twitter went from Noah->Jack->Ev->Dick in four years.
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by abat 13y ago
This is true for me with third party sellers. I've had bad experiences where small third party sellers list products incorrectly on Amazon and I have to go through the process of returning the product. A negative review can provide evi
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by abat 13y ago
Yes, look at their upcoming product: /dev/random as a Service: Do you think every random-number-generator is broken? Well, we do! Simply trust us and use our numbers as your only seeding source!
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by abat 13y ago
I think people are valuing Pinterest more on a per user basis, but Snapchat has a lot more users and is growing faster.
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by abat 13y ago
By the same logic, Apple shouldn't have hired him and Elon Musk should not have started Tesla.
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by abat 13y ago
If they're smart they're going to put their best people (and probably spend a lot more time than they bill) on an article that's going to get them press. I like the concept of testing out the service, but I'd like to see
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by abat 13y ago
The pieces he sold here look intentionally mediocre. They're just reproductions using stencils he used a while ago on actual buildings. They look much better in their original context. Here they look flat and boring. Banksy actually do
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by abat 13y ago
The current headline is eye catching, but a more accurate one might be "I wrote their iOS library for free and I got a job offer".
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by abat 13y ago
It's called marketing. Ive "designing" a limited edition Leica is like Murakami being involved with Louis Vuitton. Lecia needs people to believe that their cameras are worth a lot of money and involve a much greater amount of
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by abat 13y ago
Rails has defaulted to scaffolding with coffeescript and sass since version 3.1. It makes sense then in the context of a rails 4 tutorial, that the code would be in coffeescript.
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by abat 13y ago
It's just as likely she meant to slam on the brakes and accidentally slammed the wrong pedal. The fact this was the driver's first time in the vehicle makes this kind of mixup easier.
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by abat 13y ago
They're probably more worried about bad press than the payout for the case. The class action lawyers only care about their own fees. They'll probably get a settlement that involves giving some money to some privacy charity rewardi
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by abat 13y ago
The article is about the changes Andy Chan did to improve Wake Forest's career services. He joined the university in 2009 two year after your experience. Let's hope his changes mean more recent students got more help.

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