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by chimi 14y ago
I don't think being a startup should grant you immunity from the law or absolve the requirement to follow local regulations and licensing statutes. Lawyers, doctors, electricians they all have to follow the law too. Why is Uber a special ca
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by chimi 14y ago
This is a problem bigger than United -- which has a lot of problems. This is what you get when you subsidize bad companies that need to fail. United needs to fail so someone better can take over. The moral hazards are ruining the country. I
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by chimi 14y ago
It's neat. It's basically a different take on forums or twitter. Where your twitter page is a jumble of comments about N different conversations, Branch separates them into threads. It's a new way and it'll get a lot of attention, but it's
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by chimi 14y ago
Am I reading it incorrectly? It says, "You'll be committing to prepaying for a full year of 'member-level' service." That doesn't sound like, "You get a year of service."
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by chimi 14y ago
Why don't people who donated to app.net at least get an account to use the service? They paid $50 and they don't even get an account? In a way, by paying $50 or more, they are committing themselves to pay an unknown, perhaps greater amount
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by chimi 14y ago
You say, "Cost of hiring in America was the only reason..." to outsource. Then you say, "Only now people have realized ... cost-wise it is ... (economical and easier) to hire ... within the States" in your first post you said, "The cost of
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by chimi 14y ago
It's more fundamentally about this: Do you want to be the product (facebook, twitter) or the customer (app.net)? A lot of people don't want to be the product and believe when a company focuses on them as a customer rather than them as eyeba
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by chimi 14y ago
Do you need proof? If so you can watch the 60 minutes expose on their insider trading: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7388130n/ They don't just do this in the military industrial complex, they do it across the board, making decisi
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by chimi 14y ago
I did that this morning at 4 am and coincidentally, it was raining...
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by chimi 14y ago
The subsidies you received and I received are the ambient subsidies we all have access to. The point you are not acknowledging is that some people take those subsidies and create additional value and improvements to the quality of life fo
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by chimi 14y ago
It's not that hard. If you are able, but don't work and live off government subsidies for food, housing, and health care then you're definitely mooching off the system.
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There are actually quite a lot of successful planned communities, including Washington, D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community Many of them were started by entrepreneurs.
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In a mathematical sense, how is what has happened with the US banks any different than living under a monarchy where the king can take risks at the expense of the ruled? Isn't escape from this kind of tyranny the reason the first colonists
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by chimi 14y ago
u r the product
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Look, it's your app, you can do what you want with it, but you're losing potential users with this requirement -- end of story.
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by chimi 14y ago
There is no need to force me to create an account to use this service. Have a list of supported news sites and let me pick the ones I want to see, then save a bookmark to the page. Requiring an account is a back button.
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by chimi 14y ago
Are the physical capacities of space and time capable of getting us to scale in these technologies? Only so much energy comes from the sun per square foot. Batteries can only store so much of that. There are only so many tons of required me
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by chimi 14y ago
Most risky loans require collateral and have legal stipulations that have pretty onerous consequences if the money isn't repaid, so there is a lot risk of default in typical loans and in that case, the bank gets something, which is thought
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by chimi 14y ago
Risk and reward. No bank is going to loan a company at this stage money and there's no guarantee the investors who are providing this money will get any return at all and there is no collateral, so the founders should pay more for the money
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by chimi 14y ago
The comments from "DietPepsi" do not sound like American English. I don't think whoever wrote it is American. > his attempt at aslyum in Ecuador. [sic] Americans would say, "... to gain asylum..." > as a protest against h
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by chimi 14y ago
This is a very nice first web app. Congratulations, you've done fine work. I will offer one UI design tip. The radio button for All and check boxes for yes/no, etc under the filters tab is not how these ui elements are typically used. Check
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by chimi 14y ago
This is why this debate is really a religious one. It's your beliefs against mine. You believe digitization relinquishes one's right to future revenue from the creation. I do not. In a world where your beliefs are supported by the courts, a
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by chimi 14y ago
This semantic argument really needs to die. The legality and/or morality of the act is not determined by its label. Stealing or not, it is immoral and illegal to appropriate digital goods for oneself without honoring the financial stipulati
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by chimi 14y ago
It's a travesty that consumers still think producers must relinquish all rights to income post-digitization. You don't have a "right" to culture. If it weren't for the risk and expense of marketing the corporations invest in the success of
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by chimi 14y ago
My website monitors were going off the charts one day and I started investigating. Tons of SQL Injection attempts were flooding my servers. Without much difficulty, I tracked the IPs to a company that does security checking and reporting. I
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by chimi 14y ago
http://farmlogs.com/ I'm all for this. It's a field I've considered many times. I'm an urban homesteader and programmer, so I see the value. I want you to succeed. Please understand my criticism is meant only to further your progress. I l
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by chimi 14y ago
I wish AT&T would put as much time, thought and money into creating a reliable product with good customer service as they do on marketing.
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by chimi 14y ago
I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but Quora users are the product, not the customer. Quora wants to make money and they can make more of it by showing everyone who is looking at what. If they can go to advertisers and say, "See,
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by chimi 14y ago
If the gp meant that, then the US would have a 4 ocean navy. I'm not arguing the size is the biggest, I'm arguing that the reason it is the biggest is not due to coastlines on two oceans.
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by chimi 14y ago
For the record, there are other multi-ocean navies: russia, south africa, australia, canada, and argentina among them. I think that's a pretty small factor compared to the influence of the military industrial complex. The size of the US nav

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