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A Google Retail Store? Why It's Not As Crazy As It Sounds(forbes.com)
2 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
Heroku was acquired by Salesforce, so I guess it's not really a YC company anymore.
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by clicks 14y ago
While we're on the topic -- there's also http://mailchimp.com/ if you want to outsource the job of sending subscription e-mail.
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by clicks 14y ago
Indeed really nice, and happy that they're doing this -- I absolutely love the idea. But please don't making the viewing application be a constricted frame of a sort, that I have to use the nested scroll bar for. Let it encompass the enti
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by clicks 14y ago
I personally think mine is the best one. :-) Public boarding schools. Lots of folks are hurting financially these days, so there's a lot of distraction for teenagers and not enough structure. Boarding schools will go a long way to solving t
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by clicks 14y ago
> I had some thought to start my own business until I have found out that: In Iran once you go to register an LLC you have to have business office – you are not allowed to work from home – you are not allowed to have an online business
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by clicks 14y ago
Would you like to enlighten us by explaining a little more all the ways exactly in which it is 'retarded'?
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by clicks 14y ago
You come off as overly authoritarian in your comments such that a chance for measured discussion is I think probably often quelled by your domineering attitude. Since the last decade our civil liberties have only been eroding -- that is the
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China's New Bachelor Class(theatlantic.com)
4 points by clicks 14y ago|1 comments
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Pope Benedict XVI Says He Will Resign(nytimes.com)
4 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
> (Though yes, tuition is a major barrier at > 18k/year.) I don't know where you're getting that. Hardly any 4-year college is that inexpensive nowadays. Granted, nearly all who need it are able to acquire a significant amount of fi
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by clicks 14y ago
I'm assuming you manage to make more than 50k. It's when you're making below 30k (which a lot of Americans do) that life becomes hard and you see yourself get demoralized easily. Software engineers et al. (the userbase of HN) are paid well
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by clicks 14y ago
The likelihood of these chance serendipity things happening greatly increases when you're from or are in an environment that's well nourished and socially supportive. There are probably a few graduates of Berklee that didn't end up where th
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by clicks 14y ago
Yeah, it's a little different when you're poor. When you're poor, and you see others doing things that you can't do because you can't afford them, you're directly reminded that you're poor. This results in negative emotions.
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by clicks 14y ago
One of the reasons I would hesitate in letting my children near Facebook until they're ~15+ is the enormous pressure it places on them to maintain a front that is completely free of any errors or embarrassments. This article talks about adu
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by clicks 14y ago
Research says otherwise. Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individual's everyday experience—the frequency and intensity of experiences
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Chinese Officials considered ban on foreign artists without university degrees(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
While I don't disagree with the point that pg is not out to just make loads of money -- he's obviously a really smart guy who has richer pleasures to enjoy than what money can provide, I do disagree with the stated premise that pg does not
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by clicks 14y ago
Same here. 1080p on a 15" laptop. I can't read it (at least without getting profoundly annoyed) if it's anything less than 130%
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by clicks 14y ago
This PG approached him with a "business opportunity" -- so the Canadian security folk probably did mean to confuse him into thinking that this PG is our HN pg.
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Co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Founder of Flattr doing a Reddit AMA (reddit.com)
1 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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Copyright: Forever Less One Day(youtube.com)
5 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
> Thought experiment: in games like World of Warcraft, weapons, armor, etc, are trivially reproducible. But would anyone play the game if you could just click on someone's weapon that he stole off a dragon (or whatever it is you do in W
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by clicks 14y ago
Oops, sorry I misread you. > If the fact that something has a marginal cost approaching $0 means you are morally obligated to provide it for a price approaching $0, why is there not a similar moral obligation to provide something that h
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by clicks 14y ago
> There are physical goods that are reproducible for very low marginal costs. Clothes, food, etc, medicine, etc, are all very cheap to produce in large quantities. Is there a moral obligation to provide those goods--not for free but for
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by clicks 14y ago
> I see the "free information" people as the antithesis of that. They don't just want to share what they create. They want to share what you create. And I see that as an impingement on freedom. I think the way the "free information" peo
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by clicks 14y ago
Have you read Eben Moglen's writings per chance? Your thoughts? If you haven't looked into his work, here's something (in line with topic) to get started on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbcy_ZxXLl8 -- I'd be curious to hear your though
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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard: Full movie(youtube.com)
1 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Software Engineering team doing a Reddit AMA(reddit.com)
1 points by clicks 14y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 14y ago
So, to be clear, this is not a Reddit AMA. Which he did do, some while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y5vn0/i_am_ed_lu_forme... sadly, it didn't take off very much.

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