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by bjoernw 16y ago
"By allowing you to forwarding all your support emails to a special address..." By allowing you to forward
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by bjoernw 16y ago
2 years ago I spent a summer in Kenya establishing reforestation projects with local schools and many families already owned a car battery and a cheap solar panel as well as one cell phone per person. This is not a new development.
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by bjoernw 16y ago
The problem is that success and money are not the same. There might be a parent that made a lot of money taking stupid risk. The education that the child gets from the parent isn't worth anything and he will have to burn through a lot of mo
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by bjoernw 16y ago
I just moved to Manhattan. More like $1/lb for wash and fold. 7)Having a local farmer's market deliver a basket of fresh vegetables to you every two weeks.
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by bjoernw 16y ago
It gets transported in bulk in containers that maximize the amount that can be transported on a truck. I think it's fair to say that the amount of gas used per bottle of toothpaste is probably less when transported in bulk. Not sure about a
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by bjoernw 16y ago
Think about the environmental impact of having toothpaste shipped to your house on a UPS truck vs. picking one up at the store while doing your groceries. I like the idea of Amazon Prime but I would feel bad just ordering some paper towels
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by bjoernw 16y ago
Great, I too can see myself coming back looking for new music. One thing: I had to think about 5 seconds to figure the "More Obscure" part out. Maybe I'm just slow but the word choice didn't make it obvious to me right away. Design-wise I w
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by bjoernw 16y ago
For now just lock the phone with the top button during every call. The antenna seems to be a much bigger issue and possibly even a hardware problem whereas the proximity sensor issue sounds like a calibration problem.
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by bjoernw 16y ago
www.23andme.com
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by bjoernw 16y ago
since when does trading volume suggests special sauce? you can buy and sell 100 million shares a day and only trade 20 stocks.
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by bjoernw 17y ago
Thanks for your post. I about to graduate college and am already in a 5th year program working on my MBA. I subscribe to the hacker lifestyle even though I don't program and I really value this community. It's sad to see educated people mak
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by bjoernw 17y ago
I would have preferred "DasPad" though
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by bjoernw 17y ago
Even actually good events need to offer something to get students to come out - at least in colder climates.
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How to reach students w/ offline marketing(bjoernw.com)
4 points by bjoernw 17y ago|2 comments
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by bjoernw 17y ago
I don't understand your point. My point is that American students subsidized my education and there is no easy way for me to stay and repay society. Either through taxes, donations to charities in my local community, or job creation. German
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by bjoernw 17y ago
It might be worth looking at all the foreign students that the U.S. attracts. I was born in Germany, did 2 years of high school in the U.S. and am about to finish college here, too. I got a big scholarship ($20k per year), which is subsidiz
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by bjoernw 17y ago
I wonder where the problem that engineers have with business people comes from. Is it because on average business people get paid more than developers even though it is easier to measure the contribution of developers? I would really like t
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by bjoernw 17y ago
What I got out of your post is that the journey matters, not each individual app. If someone strives to make 400 apps that will make $400/month he will learn a ton along the way and be forced not to fall in love with one idea. When people f
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by bjoernw 17y ago
Advisors use brokerage accounts at places like Schwab, which give both you and the advisor access to the account. And brokers are not investment advisors. They are in the business of selling stuff to you. So if you are saying don't give mon
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by bjoernw 17y ago
If someone promises to beat the market for you, don't hire them. Go with someone who applies academic theory. I spent last summer interning with a firm in Maryland. I learned a ton about the academics behind it and am writing my senior thes
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by bjoernw 17y ago
that's terrible advice. An investment advisor needs to know about your overall wealth to tailor a strategy to your situation. And 5 million is not that much. Managing 5 million or 10 million is pretty much the same amount of work. It actual
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by bjoernw 17y ago
The problem with working in Gold or other commodities is that you can only prove a correlation based on past performance. Stocks and bonds on the other hand are inherently negatively correlated because of what they are. Gold is a highly vol
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by bjoernw 17y ago
I understand people's fear of having other people in charge of your money but maintaining a portfolio and keeping allocations at a certain level (like 30% stocks, 70% bonds) on a daily basis requires some help. Some investment advisors mana
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by bjoernw 17y ago
Ethics and compliance is a huge topic in bigger companies for a good reason. Cool hip web start-ups shouldn't forget that it applies to them as well and giving a 17yr old some ethics training before letting him write on a blog that makes an
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by bjoernw 17y ago
What's their business model?
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by bjoernw 17y ago
knock yourself out :)
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by bjoernw 17y ago
I took all the information from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089829
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HN Internships + Potential Interns [gdoc](docs.google.com)
99 points by bjoernw 17y ago|33 comments
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by bjoernw 17y ago
Here is a Google Doc with all the info from this thread. Feel free to add yourself. https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xM... P.S. I'm looking for a marketing internship :)
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by bjoernw 17y ago
Are there companies here who are looking for marketing interns that embody the hacking lifestyle?

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