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by bokonist 15y ago
Great points, especially about the busses. I wonder if you could build a network that optimized for both bicycles and small motorized vehicles (ranging from segways and mopeds to enclosed three wheelers like the auto moto or carver one). A
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by bokonist 15y ago
The real bailout happened in the shadows, while TARP was publicly paid back. Read: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2587.html
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by bokonist 15y ago
If you have an xbox or playstation buy Madden and try learning to play the game it a bit. The formations, plays, and strategy are pretty much all real. You'll learn about different formations, routes, zone defense, etc.
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by bokonist 15y ago
Techstars should include the actual valuations or acquisition values. Just citing number of "acquisitions" is meaningless these days. I know for at least one company listed as an "acquisition" was basically a failure with a few members of
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by bokonist 15y ago
Have you read "The Fates of Nations" by Paul Colinvaux? It's a fascinating - and disturbing - book, covering the exact topic you are talking about. But where Colinvaux and myself would disagree with you, is the direction of the cause and e
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by bokonist 15y ago
Yeah, for 1200 minutes + unlimited data + unlimited texts, Virgin Mobile is now $45 http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
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by bokonist 15y ago
They use Sprint's network, the coverage has been pretty good for me, I haven't been anywhere where I expected service and haven't got it.
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by bokonist 15y ago
$120 a month??? I pay $25 a month from Virgin Mobile for unlimited text, unlimited data, and 300 minutes of call time, with a pretty good android smartphone. (It would be $32 a month if you amortize the price of the smart phone, which I ha
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by bokonist 15y ago
I think the thrill of the riot is pretty widespread. I myself am a pretty staid, law abiding, non-violent fellow. But I definitely feel the urge - whether its wanting to destroy my tennis racket after losing a game or wanting to participa
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by bokonist 15y ago
Forty years ago Harvard Professor Edward Banfield wrote a chapter in his book about the riots of the 1960's. From what I can tell, almost everything he wrote applies to these current riots in London. The primary reason that people riot is
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by bokonist 15y ago
Right, the only risk of default is political risk. But the S&P's rating is still absurd. The peak of political risk was one week ago. Now the risk of a politically-caused default is much lower than it was one week or one month ago.
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by bokonist 15y ago
Issuing currency to back the "debt" is not a devaluation. Imagine you hold $100k in treasury bonds. The Federal reserve then prints a bunch of money, buys those bonds from you, and gives you cash. Are you then going to be willing to pay
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by bokonist 15y ago
History shows that fractional reserve banking is incredibly unstable with that degree of leverage. As soon as there is the slightest hint of fear of bankruptcy, everyone hoards cash, no one can repay loans, and thousands of banks go bankru
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by bokonist 15y ago
Mindboggling. Does the S&P understand that the U.S. debt is all denominated in a currency that the U.S. government can print at will? If the U.S. government doesn't have an AAA rating, what does an AAA rating even mean? At the moment,
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by bokonist 15y ago
American conservatism is a machine for driving a wedge between the people who are trying to save this society ("liberal intellectuals", although neither word should be pejorative) and the common people of the country they are trying to sav
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Online Banking begins to crumble(borepatch.blogspot.com)
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by bokonist 15y ago
I think the War Nerd makes a pretty convincing case that air carriers are basically obsolete. In the next major war, they will be WWII equivalent of the battleship. http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-this-is-how-the-carrier...
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by bokonist 15y ago
Intuit, although very early on Scott Cook found a young hacker who a partial salary and some equity and essentially became a junior partner.
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by bokonist 15y ago
My brother had a friend who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his teens. He spent the years 14 to 22 on various drug cocktails and going in an out of treatment facilities. He'd be ok for a bit, but then do something like smash a TV wit
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by bokonist 15y ago
Yeah, I think that's what ilkhd2 was attempting. But the attempt at parody doesn't make any sense, because the sentiment he is trying parody is actually perfectly sensible and reasonable. He just rewrites sentiment in bad English to make
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by bokonist 15y ago
What's the joke?
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How to Turn Your Windows Machine into Unix(fitzblog.com)
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by bokonist 16y ago
More importantly, Harvard and Yale charge ~$60 to apply to, so you are applying against a pool that's already heavily self-selected.
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by bokonist 16y ago
The author is talking about landing pages, you're referring to splash pages. Landing pages should not require any additional clicks: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/7177/What-Is-a-L...
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by bokonist 16y ago
Source?
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by bokonist 16y ago
The author inadvertently proves Bon Jovi right: "My wife has carried around all of your albums (and many more) on Steve Jobs’ Apple devices since she bought her first iPod years ago. I know from personal experience that she taps into your c
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by bokonist 16y ago
I prefered Women's day as Mothers' presumes that unless a woman is a mother, she doesn't deserve to be celebrated. If a woman works she is celebrated via labor day. If she fights she is celebrated via veterans day. If a woman neither wo
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by bokonist 16y ago
Do you have historical stock market data (going more than thirty years back)? Or just recent data?
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by bokonist 16y ago
When the author writes out all the sacrifices needed, it makes it look incredibly hard. And, in fact, starting a startup is in general a very long slog. What makes it worth while is the prospect of asymmetric returns (either in money or i
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by bokonist 16y ago
Windows NT - a complete rewrite of windows, and became the core of XP and windows server. This was a major success, IMO, NT/XP was far, far more stable than the 3.1/95 family.

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