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by cjlars 16y ago
Another good source is online poker forums. The biggest is 2+2. Plenty of card players have moved abroad and play remotely. http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/92/travel/
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by cjlars 16y ago
"While the highly indebted and the newly “asset-poor” have good reason to spend less than before the crisis, creditor households have no reason to spend more. Indeed, the collapse in interest rates in a slump lowers their incomes and so is
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by cjlars 16y ago
I can't be bothered to actually read this article. Does anyone actually think America is in 'decline'? As a retort, here's Hans Rosling on narrowing GDP/capita and the first world's role in this 'new economy': http://www.ted.com/talks/view
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by cjlars 16y ago
(un?)Suprisingly, his four rules of the 'sick system' lay out a pretty good groundwork for social games and MMORPGs.
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by cjlars 16y ago
Daft Punk used this sort of extreme time stretching in the opening of their Alive tour in 2007. They used (I think) the stretching algorithm in Ableton Live to cut one of their hooks down to 1/10 speed or so before slowly bring it back up t
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by cjlars 16y ago
Well, if you can get a second or third founder on board, doesn't it mean the idea has been vetted out a bit by definition?
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by cjlars 16y ago
409600% if compounded!
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by cjlars 16y ago
I actually think Smart Bear is a pretty good brand. Think about it for a second, how does your mind respond to the name? Smart Bear Software implies a lot of things, almost all good. Perhaps a product that is intelligently designed, with a
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by cjlars 16y ago
Having worked in operations for two major banks, I can confirm the article. We used software in DOS emulation and old fashioned command prompts to process trades, which were essentially done by hand. This was during the wave of consolidatio
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by cjlars 16y ago
You'll notice he keeps suggesting his opponent's throws. He demonstrates the game to the first player with scissors, who then throws scissors. Then he demonstrates how "rock smashes scissors", so his opponent thinks "Rock!" and throws it. L
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by cjlars 16y ago
The Alexa data implies 1.4 trillion global page views last month (430 million reddit views / .03% global share). Or about 1k monthly pageviews per user for 1.47 bn global users. If Alexa is off by a factor of ten, like some of the other com
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by cjlars 16y ago
Funny that this article, and its ilk, overlook the scandalous price we're charged for text messages. Perhaps by putting an explicit price on data transfer, someone will be able to back AT&T into a corner over the several thousand dollar
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by cjlars 16y ago
I hope you succeed. With modern settlement techniques, there's no reason that a select few companies should be leeching 1.5 - 3% from a $ trillion or two worth of transactions.
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by cjlars 16y ago
It does seem a little odd, but this actually is standard practice. When a company is holding money for you, with the expectation of you spending it on some service or good the company can hold on to those funds for only so long before they
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by cjlars 17y ago
"Match.com made $342,600,000 last year. That's $137,000 in user fees per marriage." - There's your key takeaway.
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by cjlars 17y ago
I understand the basic process of licensing a product is this: 1) File for a provisional patent (cost $110), this will get you a year of weak to moderate legal protection 2) design, mock-up and create a sales page for you product 3) attempt
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by cjlars 17y ago
Right indeed, a $16 million fine is ironically small considering the uproar cut $10 or $20 billion from Toyota's market valuation.
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by cjlars 17y ago
Don't forget that Apple is reaping 30% fees on all software sold on its platforms. It's not just a little bit of money btw, the fees taken off the app store are very nearly 100% profit and are currently running somewhere in the hundreds of
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by cjlars 17y ago
Presumably Target would know to throw out the outlying data points, but that doesn't mean the cashiers know they're allowed to take a few minutes to help the customers.
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by cjlars 17y ago
Bizbuysell.com is another good listing service (the biggest I think), and while they specialize in more traditional businesses, there's plenty of websites for sale there.
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by cjlars 17y ago
It's not apples to apples for a lot more reasons than that. A 22 minute show gets about 1.5 minutes of ads on Hulu, versus perhaps 8 minutes on broadcast. It's never good to be buried in the middle of an advertising block. Also there's got
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by cjlars 17y ago
Seems to me like he pretty much nailed the point. Certainly some legislative outcome could prevent double-taxation, but wouldn't it be more efficient to just let the market to take care of it?
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by cjlars 18y ago
I'm relatively uninformed on this, but couldn't you reduce these unpleasant effects by 'flattening' the 3D image? If the optical effect never (or rarely) appears to come more than say, several feet off of the screen, then you loose the naus
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by cjlars 18y ago
I love this in concept, but somehow feel like it'd be better established as some sort of data blog. Perhaps you could find some aspiring young writer out there willing to work for equity?