cottonseed

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by cottonseed 15y ago
I didn't realize there was a market for knockoff Zippos, but that totally makes sense.
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by cottonseed 15y ago
Zippo? Weird.
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by cottonseed 15y ago
I didn't mean to imply such a close relationship between price and volume with my example. What I meant to ask was, if more people saw it but he made the same amount, would he like that more? I know this is a deeply nested comment so that
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by cottonseed 15y ago
> The value of the thing you bought doesn't change no matter what he uses the money for. While this is true, I don't think it is the whole story. Money is also a signal, and understanding how you signal is part of being an aware consu
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by cottonseed 15y ago
Right. Based on what he has said (and done), I don't imagine that was his goal. I imagine several goals: to entertain people, to make a reasonable profit, and show he could successfully develop and distribute his own content unencumbered.
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by cottonseed 15y ago
I wonder if he's charging too much, given that he's giving away 1/3 of his profit.
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by cottonseed 15y ago
Moved abroad, traveled a lot, now in a PhD program.
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by cottonseed 15y ago
> Today nearly a third have college degrees, and a higher percentage of them graduated from nonelite schools. I wonder how value of degrees from elite schools have eroded (or grown). That might go to explain part of the intensity with
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Who Takes Risks?(mathbabe.org)
2 points by cottonseed 15y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 15y ago
I think per-capita GDP is much more interesting than total GDP. Japan: 34k/yr, India: 3k/yr (source: wikipedia).
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A Good Idea...(notjustmath.wordpress.com)
2 points by cottonseed 15y ago|0 comments
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by cottonseed 15y ago
That's what I thought, until we took the acquisition exit.
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Mathematical Learning (and math as a hobby)(3quarksdaily.com)
7 points by cottonseed 15y ago|0 comments