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by axiom 16y ago
You're buying the bottle not the water. People buy bottled water for the same reason they buy cans of pop rather than 4 gallon jugs of coke that they can use to refill smaller containers. It's so cheap that the convenience is worth it.
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by axiom 16y ago
98% of companies that apply to YC get rejected. Around 10% of startups succeed. Given this, YC rejects about 3 out of 4 successful startups even if their selection method is absolutely perfect. YC is in an amazing position where hundreds (t
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by axiom 16y ago
Twitter has about 200M users, of which about 20-30M are actually active. That's $50 per user. Or around $400 per active user. Nuts.
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by axiom 16y ago
Regarding the classic view, isn't there a bit of bias there? since people mostly only look at the front page, then the stories they vote up are chosen from ones already on the front page. So comparing what the front page would look like if
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by axiom 16y ago
So, you do realize that once you can fit something like this in your ear you have a bona-fide Star Trek universal translator.
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by axiom 16y ago
Only 7.5MHz bandwidth, and actually only 2 channels. Still $200 is a damn good price.
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by axiom 16y ago
The word "hustler" really rubs me the wrong way. The literal definition is someone who deceives others to get their money. I know that's not the intended meaning here of course, but every time I hear it I immediately visualize a card game s
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by axiom 16y ago
I dunno, if a company we hired on contract pulled shit like that we'd fire their ass exactly 3 minutes after the first invoice arrived (and of course we would require weekly invoices with written notice if there was deviation from the origi
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by axiom 16y ago
Ok, lets say it didn't take 5 minutes. Lets say it took 3 hours for a designer to make the favicon pixel by pixel, and 1 hour for a developer to upload the favicon to the server (maybe he only has one arm or something, I don't know, bare wi
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by axiom 16y ago
From the Google blog post: "This [torsorophy] example opened our eyes, and over the next few months we noticed that URLs from Google search results would later appear in Bing with increasing frequency for all kinds of queries: popular queri
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by axiom 16y ago
Dropbox was a YC company, which meant they had quite a bit of free press and access to a lot of valley connections. I would imagine that had a lot to do with their success.
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by axiom 16y ago
My point was that if you age adjust the numbers you no longer have the top 20% owning 90% of everything, you have the top 20% owning around 50% of everything, which is a lot less shocking. Age adjusting these numbers takes it from "oh my go
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by axiom 16y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. Take a look at the average net worth of people in the 50-60 range.
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by axiom 16y ago
I don't think you parsed what I said correctly.
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by axiom 16y ago
"The global wealth pyramid has a very wide base and a sharp point. The richest 1% of adults control 43% of the world’s assets; the wealthiest 10% have 83%. The bottom 50% have only 2%." Why do they never think to age adjust these damn numbe
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by axiom 16y ago
Crashes if tasks have dashes. Also, a bit too friction-ey to enter tasks, should be a shortcut to enter today's mood/tasks right from the main screen of the app, as well as some pretty graphs. I like that some tasks are pre-populated and th
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by axiom 16y ago
I'm really excited about this. We were burned bad by building on top of App Engine and then eventually had to switch to EC2. If they add native Python support this will give us the best of both worlds.
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It's SparkFun free day (servers are down)(sparkfun.com)
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by axiom 16y ago
Thank you! As soon as those wealth inequality posts started popping up I've been waiting for someone to point out the idiocy of lamenting the wealth inequality between 22 yearolds just entering the workforce and 65 yearolds about to retire.
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by axiom 16y ago
Also their recent strategy of suing successful developers on their platform shows they're serious about keeping the Blackberry competitive! I know that's the kind of company I'd bet on.
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by axiom 16y ago
I guess what I was trying to say is that there's room for revenue growth, not that there's no chance they'll tank.
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by axiom 16y ago
Come on, that's not fair. They only started playing with monetization strategies a few years ago. Not only that but they are the de facto standard of social media online. That's a pretty big asset that can be monetized in lots of creative w
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by axiom 16y ago
I disagree, I think the article is very clearly making that point. The premise of the article is that the attempt to attack/suppress violent porn is wrongheaded because it's based on the notion that violent porn warps men's sexuality. The a
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by axiom 16y ago
Well, a P/E of 100 isn't that outrageous, especially given their growth rate.
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by axiom 16y ago
"While sexual aggression and the desire to debase women may not be what arouse all men, they are certainly an animating force of male sexuality. They may be unattractive and even, if taken to extremes, dangerous, but they’re not, perhaps al
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by axiom 16y ago
Octopart is an insanely useful tool when you're doing hardware. A few years back when I was doing hardware design their site was like a second homepage for me. It's really exciting to see them succeed. The whole space they're in needs to be
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by axiom 16y ago
I totally agree with you. That's exactly my goal in hiring early employees - they are de facto co-founders that should get a ton of equity and a livable salary. If someone wants 90k and 40 hour work weeks they should go work at Microsoft or
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by axiom 16y ago
I didn't complain about that. The developers I work with are amazing :) (oh and of course they have a ton of equity)
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by axiom 16y ago
I guess you'll have to take my word for it that I'm not talking about the obviously silly ways of making developers accountable (like LOC or tickets closed.) I'm a developer, so I know that typically managers who don't know how to code shou
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by axiom 16y ago
I have to say that sometimes the sense of entitlement among developers here gets to pretty absurd levels. There's an attitude that developers are the only ones that matter, and anything that adds any kind of accountability is oppressive. $9

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