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by cellis 15y ago
I think so. If you're going to spend the better part of your life trying to make it big, at least make sure you keep the lion's share of the wealth you create, otherwise you could make the same amount of money with less risk (and blood,swea
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by cellis 15y ago
Wow, I actually found the link! You can read it for yourself here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341774
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by cellis 15y ago
It's really as easy as creating a HIT(? been a while but I think that's what they're called) that says "Beta test this website/app/game" for $0.05. You will probably get a lot of feedback that you didn't expect, even if you don't ask for it
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by cellis 15y ago
Something I learned on HN a long, long,long time ago was that if you wanted really cheap, unfiltered traffic, you could buy quite a bit of it using Mechanical Turk. As the commenter said "It's pretty amazing what will happen if you throw up
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by cellis 15y ago
Completely untrue. How do you explain Apple if that's the case?
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by cellis 15y ago
Yeah, haXe is cool. It's a step in the right direction, but it's not first class native support.
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by cellis 15y ago
Agreed. Javascript is a horrible language compared to as3, and a disastrous platform compared to flash. I cringe everytime I have to write some javascript, even if I'm using jQuery and the only browser it will ever be run on is Chrome. What
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by cellis 15y ago
Probably an anti-dilution clause prevents that.
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by cellis 15y ago
Read "The lady from Zynga", a post by Spolsky for a very in depth answer of this very thing. http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
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by cellis 15y ago
Right around the time you get around to execute him he'll have hired a private security force, bought off judges and police with all his millions and jet off to the next laissez faire economy. Don't kid yourself.
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by cellis 15y ago
That's hilarious. Anyways, like other readers, I too am skeptical of his "finished 2 bachelors in Comp Sci in 3 semesters" claim, as well as his psuedoscientific polyphasic sleep theories, but there is still a great deal of truth to what he
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by cellis 15y ago
Sorry, but what does that have to do with the validity of the original post? So the guy talks to some imaginary being? Guess what, billions of other people do that too! It's called religion. Yeah, I admit it is kind of strange but that's a
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by cellis 15y ago
Without any data to support this, I'm going to go ahead and file this in the illuminati-esque, conspiracy theory column.
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by cellis 15y ago
I think the most important metric is return on equity. Profit is not really a consideration on Wall Street.
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by cellis 15y ago
Is this the best you can do to add to the discussion?
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by cellis 15y ago
Maybe this is revolutionary web design?
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by cellis 15y ago
Launch weekend. Has the whole rocket trajectory thing going for it.
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by cellis 15y ago
Exactly. Billionaires are truly international citizens, shifting their wealth to the most amenable climates (often literally, e.g. Florida), so few of them will be truly invested enough in a certain locale for cost of living to matter. And
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by cellis 15y ago
Yeah, I think he meant that $100 million makes you richie rich among the HNWI set, just "one of the guys" in the UHNWI set, and downright poor in the billionaire set. I'm pretty sure being worth $100 million makes you a serious "What-ar
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by cellis 15y ago
I like how they conveniently left out the fact that Amazon lost money hand over fist for years before finally becoming profitable.
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by cellis 15y ago
...Extrapolating the 50k if true...1.5million/mo * 3 = 4.5million fires/quarter. That's halfway to what Apple is selling and they've just gotten started.
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by cellis 15y ago
How about next protesting Microsoft, Oracle, Dell and any other company that contracts the Department of Defense ( one of the biggest suppliers of violence in the modern world )? Guess that means we also need to start going after thousands
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by cellis 15y ago
I think you still got it wrong. It is more like Kinkos discovering you need to make some copies and then buying up ALL the paper and ink at staples, and then setting up shop right outside your house, with a higher price :). I don't see an
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by cellis 15y ago
Humans do make decisions in milliseconds.
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by cellis 15y ago
Ironically, one of these asset price bubbles is...Silicon Valley! How else could a photo app get $40 million before it even has customers?
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by cellis 15y ago
As long as we have the technology we have today, everyone notable. If there is a nuclear war, biological outbreak or other 1000x Black Swan event, perhaps no one. Those who do survive an apocalypse won't be too worried about remembering any
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by cellis 15y ago
Despite reading about that back when it was news, I had completely forgotten about that. At the forefront of my mind when I heard "Palantir" and "2.5 billion", was "wtf". How can a company that simply makes data visualization software be wo
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How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia(online.wsj.com)
3 points by cellis 15y ago|0 comments
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New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota(npr.org)
79 points by cellis 15y ago|46 comments
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by cellis 15y ago
If they keep adding people at the rate they are, in 10 years they'll have wired together the entire human race. I'm not sure if I should be scared or thrilled or skeptical.

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