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by arbuge 7y ago
I think the cost of Facebook and Google ads blindsides many founders who take them for granted as a distribution channel when planning their startups, particularly founders who have no experience with them, or (even worse) founders who used
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by arbuge 7y ago
"the operators go out on the air using strong transmitters built from bits and pieces of equipment stolen from factories or bought on the black market.... Under Section 206 of the criminal code, officials confiscate their equipment and
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Miss Shilling's Orifice(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arbuge 7y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 7y ago
> It's not merely that the returns from following a path are hard to predict. They change dramatically over time. 1830 was a really good time to be obsessively interested in natural history. If Darwin had been born in 1709 instead o
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by arbuge 7y ago
> 400 million+ phone numbers. 200 million+ US-based valid cell phone numbers. Sounds like a nightmare in the making for those cell phone users and their carriers when those begin to get SIM jacked.
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by arbuge 7y ago
“Where we want to be as America's railroad is to cover all of our operating costs through our revenues,” [the CEO] says, “and then use the grant that we receive from our owners, the United States government, to invest in the infrastruc
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by arbuge 7y ago
This is the one in Dallas: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2018/06/...
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by arbuge 7y ago
Temperature relates to how fast atoms are moving. If they're moving very fast, then we say it's very hot. Damage from high temperature however requires a substantial quantity of those atoms, not just that they be moving quickly. B
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We already have negative interest rates in practice for savers in the USA(publicemails.com)
2 points by arbuge 7y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 7y ago
“Having a college degree is most beneficial to the kids who aren’t that smart,” Reeves said. Intelligent kids will have thousands of opportunities to demonstrate their skills. Less-talented kids, on the other hand, have to rely on credentia
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by arbuge 7y ago
> “[In] the logo market … at least a billion dollars of logos are sold every year. If you look at just 99 designs and Fiverr, they sell about $150 million of logos per year. So it’s still a very sizable market,” said Whitfield. That one
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by arbuge 7y ago
phpList is free and open source: https://www.phplist.com/ We've been using it for years without any issues.
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by arbuge 7y ago
This is probably not a viable strategy for any startup without significant financial resources and time to dedicate to it. From the post itself: > It is tempting to settle with patent trolls if you can settle for less than litigation cos
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by arbuge 7y ago
There is an Option C: bankruptcy or fire sale. It's quite possible that the company will remain a loss-making convoluted mess of SPEs that will never turn a profit in time to avoid that outcome.
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by arbuge 7y ago
This is not going to work.
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Do Java programmers make more money than .NET programmers? Anyone describing themselves as either a Java programmer or .NET programmer has already lost, because a) they’re a programmer (you’re not, see above) and b) they’re making the
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by arbuge 7y ago
"You might not have heard about these “real tech” companies—like Zscaler, Anaplan, and Smartsheet—because they mostly sell business-to-business software or cloud services. But all of them are trading more than 100 percent above their l
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by arbuge 7y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by arbuge 7y ago
I found this article somewhat high on the fluff and low on the substance. To me the biggest takeaway might not be what the author intended... never ever sign leases which put unreasonably large amounts of cash at risk. To answer his questio
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Client Side PHP(atymic.dev)
3 points by arbuge 7y ago|1 comments
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by arbuge 7y ago
A lot of not so elderly and not so distinguished scientists would also agree with his statement though. All it takes is familiarity with the physical constraints imposed by the speed of light and the distances to the planets in question.
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Look at tornado alley moving west I think you mean east: https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2018/10/17/tornado-al...
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by arbuge 7y ago
"We are unable to issue refunds. Executive order 13884, orders the cessation of all activity with the entities including no sales, service, support, refunds, credits, etc." Harsh.
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Because as an ad business it can neither match Google at targeting audience by exact user intent, nor Facebook at targeting audience by exact user profile. User profiles are primarily useful to build up a picture of user intent. User i
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by arbuge 7y ago
Partially isolated. The article mentions that it died during the 14 day lunar night.
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by arbuge 7y ago
The key part seems to be this: > In other words: We’re making a piece of consumer electronics just-in-time in the US. It is indeed hard to bring down costs that way, but when each unit needs to be individually programmed, as in this situ
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by arbuge 7y ago
Previous record holder was the well-known Arecibo telescope at 305m diameter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory 500m may not seem like a huge improvement over that but here's a picture that puts it
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by arbuge 7y ago
I see alot of the proposed solutions to the US healthcare system boil down to some form of "Medicare for all". I think a single payer system would be great and I am all for it. That said, I doubt it would solve all the problems in
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by arbuge 7y ago
Another good one to illustrate the fragility of the world we live in: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs. To me it was eye-opening to read about all the close shaves which co
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by arbuge 7y ago
Mortgage and auto loan debt are probably significantly larger components of consumer debt than credit card debt.

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