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by arbuge 10y ago
Great list - one you're missing is the $5 Pi Zero by the way.
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by arbuge 10y ago
By definition, the more leveraged the company, the more of it is owned by creditors. So if the company later does go belly-up, it is the creditors (banks, bondholders, etc.) who lose most on a percentage basis. This simplistic analysis howe
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by arbuge 10y ago
Uber built its network city by city and a competitor could do likewise. As others have pointed out, most rides are local - if you live in Dallas, TX, you probably require rides mostly in Dallas, TX. If a hypothetically better (in some way)
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by arbuge 10y ago
Indeed, and the effects of this are visible everywhere. In the advertising systems of Google and Facebook, for example, you can target individuals according to their buying patterns - whether they've recently bought furniture, trips ov
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by arbuge 10y ago
Hazarding a wild guess here that mopeds are produced in much larger volumes, which drives the prices for both their parts and assembly down. The ebikes in that article did seem very expensive, unless dropping $3k-$4k for a bike is acceptabl
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by arbuge 10y ago
I was in classes G and subsequently F before moving to B (no interest in A). Would much prefer any of those to class D from what I know.
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by arbuge 10y ago
>> HN style site that combines karma based gamification with in-app purchases! Imagine if you could "buy" your way to the top post, thus ensuring you get more eyeballs, and hopefully more upvotes! Worried about downvotes aga
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by arbuge 10y ago
If you actually are a US resident and declare that, you would be breaking the law. And if you receive payment in a US bank account and declare yourself a non-resident, expect questions to be asked.
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by arbuge 10y ago
Startups indeed do not typically require employees to shell out hard cash for their equity, but one could argue that they're just extracting payment in employee time instead.
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by arbuge 10y ago
Actually $400m is quite easy to hide, if denominated in $100 bills. It would fit in a small 1-car garage. You could squeeze $1B in if you had a regular 2-car garage. Souce: http://thehustle.co/how-much-is-a-billion-dollars
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by arbuge 10y ago
And as long as there are dumb clients out there spending vast sums of money indiscriminately without demanding to see results, there will be very little motivation to fix anything. Those clients are mentally still stuck in the TV age, where
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by arbuge 10y ago
>> Dont affiliates get paid purely on click throughs? No conversion required? No, not all. I'd be a billionaire by now if this was true. I've been in the affiliate business for 11 years and so far I've yet to come acros
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by arbuge 10y ago
https://addue.com Online marketing tools - conversion tracking, etc. Rather unique in the way these as are defined as "rules" which can be concatenated.
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by arbuge 10y ago
It seems what the author is actually recommding goes beyond just sharing and is actually open sourcing a project's code. Not saying that's necessarily a bad idea, but on the other hand I'm not sure it's always guaranteed
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by arbuge 10y ago
Presumably that's why it says "in a place with more opportunities"....
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Using lasers to kill mosquitoes(en.wikipedia.org)
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by arbuge 10y ago
I'm surprised you would mention Reddit in this context. It seems to me they're one of the lightest websites out there, which is not really surprising seeing they're mostly serving text. Reddit and HN are pretty much the only
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by arbuge 10y ago
PayPal is down here in Dallas, TX. Twitter is having issues loading images. Was going to move our websites over to a new server today but something tells me the timing might not be ideal...
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by arbuge 10y ago
Nevertheless it seems like a flaw in the study if it's not counting other liquid sources of cash, such as checking accounts, brokerage accounts, cash itself, etc.
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by arbuge 10y ago
Which incidentally also goes to prove that most doors are not really closed these days...
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by arbuge 10y ago
This is incorrect. You certainly can buy competitor trademarks as keywords. You are only restricted from using them in ad copy. Source: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6118?hl=en
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by arbuge 10y ago
Let's see... "VirnetX Holding Corp". Just East Texas back at work handing money to patent trolls... nothing to see here folks... move along.
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by arbuge 10y ago
The first time I installed Windows 10 on my Lenovo laptop I was left with a file manager which gets hopelessly spinning circle stuck every few days, requiring a reboot. About 25% of file copies also hang up for about 2 minutes before comple
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by arbuge 10y ago
Perhaps, but that mindset is what led to the tragedy you mention in the first place...
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by arbuge 10y ago
>> What's less obvious is how nerve-wracking it is to know that there are real consequences. Danger creates stress, and stress ruins results. Paradoxically, if you know you have more than one shot, you're more likely to succ
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by arbuge 10y ago
To mean, this sounds pretty meaningless. If true, I would take it to mean that if you start a successful business in, say, the USA, you are likely to face your most dangerous competition from Switzerland. Hardly likely unless you're wo
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by arbuge 10y ago
"From the American Academy of Ophthalmology[1]: "Staring at your computer screen, smartphone or other digital devices for long periods won’t cause permanent eye damage, but your eyes may feel dry and tired."" I always be
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by arbuge 10y ago
TL:DR; Moore's law can no longer be counted on for performance gains, so speeding up things will now be dependent on replacing general purpose hardware with hardware specifically designed to implement specific algorithms. Of course wor
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by arbuge 10y ago
Source? I suspect that building say 200 apartment units requires similar red tape whether done vertically or horizontally.
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by arbuge 10y ago
"Taxes for multinational companies are complex, yet a fundamental principle is recognized around the world: A company’s profits should be taxed in the country where the value is created. Apple, Ireland and the United States all agree o

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