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by chimi 14y ago
The vast majority of them do need a lot of work, especially from tax sales. From Sheriff Sales, where the home owner fails on a mortgage, the houses are in better shape, but cost more. It's not an avenue for everyone, but neither is giving
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by chimi 14y ago
No, I really meant $5,000 -- total cash money for an entire house that you own free and clear. No typo. I know it sounds too good to be true -- but it's not. See the link I posted above. Some of that stuff you see on infomercials really doe
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by chimi 14y ago
You can actually get them for even less than that and get more in rent. The cheapest way is through Tax Sales. You can buy a 3 bedroom house at a Tax Sale for low thousands of dollars and rent them out Section 8 for $800/mo or more and th
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by chimi 14y ago
Yours is a very pessimistic view. You have no faith in your fellow human beings. There are a lot of smart enough people out there with sufficient will power to make these changes in their life if only they have the education and awareness o
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by chimi 14y ago
There's a little icon at the bottom to "Change Control Mode." Click it and the inversion reverses.
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by chimi 14y ago
http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html is a library to make all the connecting easier. I've used it. It's pretty nice.
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by chimi 14y ago
There's actually a lot of evidence that the vic was involved with and owed a lot of money to coke dealers who killed her in a manner consistent with prior M.O.s so while I did at one point believe OJ did it, there is some doubt in my mind a
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Asperger's dropped from revised Diagnosis Manual(health.yahoo.net)
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There are plenty of channels for customers. If you're a customer. None of these people are customers. Google is their customer and Google is saying they don't want to be their customer anymore because Google doesn't trust them. Content pr
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Because they never want to have to deal with the potential problem ever again. They want to move forward and creating a machine moving forward with all the ducks in a row is better than constantly re-evaluating the potential fraudsters -- h
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by chimi 14y ago
Right, dozens out of dozens of millions. It's totally irrational, sensationalist, click bait.
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by chimi 14y ago
I think years and years of people focusing on the tiny percentage of people who are wrongly accused by the googleplex is what set me off. Everyone knows. It's boring. Get over it. It's exactly the way it is supposed to be and there is no be
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by chimi 14y ago
Probably because I made it up. Look, the post had what, 4 very one-sided arguments from people whose credibility is unknown claiming they are honest and Google is cheating them out of money and a couple more who weren't even smart enough to
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by chimi 14y ago
So then why don't you build your own content delivery system and advertising network and create a marketplace with enough advertisers to bring you the same level of income? If not for Google, you may not have a dime of that money you've ear
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by chimi 14y ago
I would say a 99.9999% success rate is a reasonable algorithm.
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by chimi 14y ago
They do provide that. That's why accounts were suddenly re-enabled. The advertisers are the customers and customers want to know they are paying for clicks from valid opportunities. Google is handling the customer appropriately by banning t
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by chimi 14y ago
These stories are getting tired. Google is too big to investigate every single exception to their machine rules. We know. We get it. When you have 100 accounts, you can devote time to every exception. When you have 100,000,000 accounts you
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by chimi 14y ago
A couple comments have suggested this is Imposter Syndrome and it might be a little of that, but additionally it's the opposite. Imposter Syndrome is about feeling like your successes are not your own. This article is about not feeling like
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by chimi 14y ago
I think piracy is morally wrong. It's quite simple. Take your argument for pro-piracy to the logical conclusion. Everyone consumes all media through piracy. Does that world look as entertaining as the logical conclusion of people pay money
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by chimi 14y ago
Do without. Watch something else. Play cards. Go for a walk. Write some code. Start a side project. I don't understand why that's a hard concept to grasp. Really it just sounds kind of pathetic that you can't control yourself enough to simp
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by chimi 14y ago
Same is true for citizens living in the U.S. with regards to BBC and CBC shows like Dragon's Den. I really like to watch BBC docs, but I don't feel the need to go and download them illegally or anything. There's a lot of great stuff from al
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by chimi 14y ago
Here's a thread where you knock "mundane, income-producing businesses..." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=175469 As it turns out, it's a carsonified post. Strange. I also remember a post where someone listed a whole bunch of awesome b
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by chimi 14y ago
There have been several threads like this pop up from time to time arguing that there are successful paths outside group founded vc backed avenues. I've seen people list a number of great startups that didn't take your proposed path and you
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by chimi 14y ago
Ryan, I don't know about you, but I didn't start any of my companies to become big. I started them to be my own boss and achieve the happiness you can only get through control of your time. I wake up when I want to and work on what I want t
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by chimi 14y ago
It's also rather low to hate on the OP's startup because it doesn't fit your definition of great success. You do that a lot and it's not nice. In the realm of startups -- single-founder or not -- Treehouse may very well be well above averag
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by chimi 14y ago
This is the problem with the state of journalism today: Information is released AFTER the bad decision has already been made and it's too late to do anything about it. The media isn't doing their jobs in this world and that's why WikiLeaks
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by chimi 14y ago
False analogy. Last I checked, Wikileaks doesn't have a seat at the UN Security Council...
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by chimi 14y ago
I don't want to pry too much, but do you have a team? Are these companies looking to hire just you or your IP? I am curious to hear more if you'd like to share.
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by chimi 14y ago
> passing down the possible $20-per-handset fee [to consumers] Let's be real. This is a drop in the bucket. $20 on a phone is not going to make or break the deal when they cost hundreds to buy outright. Most of the costs are absorbed by
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by chimi 14y ago
To be fair, starting a company in your parents basement, relying on free food and expenses is a lot cheaper than moving to the valley, so don't neglect that path. A lot of startups look just like that.

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