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by crikli 14y ago
Yeah, sorry for the confusing terminology and context switching. I did not do a great job of communicating what the voices in my head were telling me. I frequently talk about business in terms of flying an airplane. So I meant "burning ca
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by crikli 14y ago
It's different from real estate because domains are not like real estate, although squatters like to use comparisons to real estate as apologia. A developed property in SF/NY isn't like a domain name, because at some point someone investe
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by crikli 14y ago
No, maybe. A very qualified maybe. I've tried the UDRP route. You have to have an extremely solid case to get the domain name. Furthermore, the domain name must be very very specific. So if I've got a business called "Chris's Midwest
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by crikli 14y ago
Yes, if . It's not a matter of nobility, it's a matter of putting my money in the areas where the a) the ROI is highest with b) the highest probability of realizing that ROI. My experience has demonstrated that forecasting the ROI on a dom
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by crikli 14y ago
Hyperbole, I was using it. The worst I'm going to do to a domain squatter, should I meet one, is give them an uncomfortably firm handshake. Very firm. There may be some mild bruising. (That's more hyperbole there, to be clear. I'm exagg
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by crikli 14y ago
I'd much prefer to find ways to use that $50K that contribute to the economies that my industry supports and relies upon. I'd rather burn $50K paying on-staff marketing or agencies to work around a sub-optimal domain name. I'd rather buy m
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by crikli 14y ago
Good question. I think the term domainers is me succumbing to sqautters' attempt to sound more legit. I've updated accordingly and will give my brain 20 for falling for their attempted re-labeling.
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by crikli 14y ago
Semi-related: I've started several businesses, consulted with other startups...basically spent a lot of time trying to come up with business names only to find that a depressingly high percentage of the corresponding domains are being campe
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by crikli 14y ago
Now up to $97k.
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by crikli 14y ago
The total is now $57K with 15 days left. Matthew is in the position of being able to use the internet as a money spigot if FunnyJunk really wants to escalate.
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by crikli 14y ago
No, I don't work at Yelp. I don't think I even know anyone who knows anyone who works there or works for their VC investors. And I'm not saying that a problem doesn't exists: I'm saying that *within the scope of my experience( the complain
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by crikli 14y ago
Regarding your ad hominem statement, I've been running small businesses since my first in 1996. I've not witnessed this scenario you present and I have no relationship to Yelp that might give me some greater insight than anyone else. I hav
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by crikli 14y ago
I keep seeing articles like this. I read the article, then I find the company on Yelp and read through the reviews. Every single time it's been very clear that Yelp is telling these businesses that they have a problem. But rather than a
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by crikli 14y ago
If you can find a way to produce equipment that costs what you feel it should then a large market awaits you.
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by crikli 14y ago
Rule of thumb in the area where my family lives, Hamilton County in Nebraska, is that 1000 acres will be required to financially support a family of four. Land has sold within the last four years from $6K to $10k per acre. Therefore, usin
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by crikli 14y ago
Agree 100%. Refined sugars, regardless of the source, are bad for the human organism.
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by crikli 14y ago
We don't accept subsidies and would absolutely love to see them go away completely. They're doing nothing but sustaining inefficient farming practices and keeping afloat farmers that are quite simply bad at what they do. I don't want to ge
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I meant both. See my response above but minimizing inputs is the core motivation of most of our family's technology and infrastructure investments. GPS integration alone has allowed us to use the minimal amount of fertilizer as we're able
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by crikli 14y ago
Food Inc is what really whipped up the anti-Monsanto rhetoric; it's uncommon for me to interact with someone about agriculture and food without the film coming up.
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by crikli 14y ago
I'm using the word sustainable in the dictionary sense of the word rather than in the context in which it has become a rather vaguely defined buzzword. We've(1) been harvesting crops off of the same ground every year for over 100 years. Th
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by crikli 14y ago
The claims made in this article, Food Inc., and other pieces of agitprop are not based in reality. I'm part of a fifth generation farm family. We've been working the same ground for over 100 years (that's sustainability in practice) and I'
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by crikli 14y ago
American markets will not accept lab meat. I say this based on the reaction to what was dubbed "pink slime" and about which the media and the public flipped out. The result is that a completely safe and efficient process to increase yield
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by crikli 14y ago
The jury selection process is called voire dire and IIRC each side can only eliminate, not choose, jurors.
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by crikli 14y ago
No it's not. FTA: "The IPO produced the worst five-day return among the largest U.S. deals of the past decade." That's an extremely qualified factoid. Please retitle this post.
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by crikli 14y ago
You're right. I made that comment early this morning and forgot where I was. I've been on here for a coupla years and I should have known better. My apologies folks.
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by crikli 14y ago
Tangent: these kind of sites (the site that was stolen from), I'll call them "concept" sites, make me want to throatpunch a baby. If you are seeking to demonstrate your jQuery/HTML5/CSS3 skillz then do it in a way that has some applicable c
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by crikli 15y ago
What's the application for such a thing? I'd buy one just because it looks completely cool but I'm not sure what I would do with it.
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by crikli 15y ago
Yup. Upfront cost is of negligible importance. Reliability and support have far greater financial impact.
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by crikli 15y ago
Government sites are expensive because of all of the hoops that must be jumped through. The increase in administrative load over a normal corporate client is at least one order of magnitude.
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by crikli 15y ago
Downvoted. Sexuality is one of the strongest, maybe the strongest undertone in society. This is (was) a game lampooning some of the silliness. Take a deep breath and laugh at the silliness.

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