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Tyranny of the old: Wealth gap between young and old is widest ever (hosted.ap.org)
2 points by curt 15y ago|0 comments
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by curt 15y ago
This is exactly why high taxes hurt startups. How can a startup/small business compete profit wise against Google or another large company when they are paying a much lower effective rate. Since their tax burden is so much lower they can ch
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by curt 15y ago
My point was that there are so many more healthy cells vs infected cells except on rare instances that even it kills healthy cells too they are far larger in number. Just like what happens during radiation treatments or any number of other
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by curt 15y ago
Nah you would be given a dosage large enough just to kill the invading virus. It could hurt the person, but killing them is unlikely. Actually wrote a paper on a something similar I came up with back in undergrad using HIV.
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by curt 15y ago
My undergrad took this to the extreme. Our lowest level math class was Calc 1 and to get into the class you had to either take Calc AB in High School or show up to school a couple months early and take it before Freshman year started. I kne
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by curt 15y ago
Big fan of using Central and South American developers. You don't have the time zone issues, their English is usually fantastic, and the cultural differences are minimally (when compared to places such as India). Used them all the time when
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by curt 15y ago
Usually here people just seem to email me with their questions. Either I answer it or point you in the right direction.
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by curt 15y ago
This is getting ridiculous.
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Apple patents touchscreen unlock gestures(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by curt 15y ago|5 comments
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by curt 15y ago
Damn I really should have stuck with the education iOS market. Was in the top ten for quite a while when the app store first launched and was making good money, just could only ever manage to keep an app up in the rankings for a few months.
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by curt 15y ago
This is bogus. Hate all this overpopulation nonsense. Every developed country in the world other than the US has a negative replacement rate (births - deaths). The developing world is rapidly slowly as well. If I remember right the world on
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by curt 15y ago
Move a sample video to the landing page or put a big "view first video for free" button on the page. You want a persons eyes to be drawn to 3 things: logo/call to action, packages, and the sample.
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by curt 15y ago
Think there is room for one more player in the market. Think Amazon, Facebook, or a partnership between the two could really make a splash. Eventually when the HTML5 frameworks become more developed and there's more fluidity between the app
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What Cash Crunch? Khosla Ventures Closes Another $1 Billion Fund(techcrunch.com)
3 points by curt 15y ago|0 comments
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A Facebook/Amazon Phone?(curtgeen.com)
1 points by curt 15y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley Reality Show(sfbay.craigslist.org)
2 points by curt 15y ago|1 comments
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by curt 15y ago
It has to do with dilution and something called liquidity preference. If an investor puts in $5 million and has a 2x liquidity preference they get out $10 million before anyone else. That happens to every investor on down, whatever is left
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by curt 15y ago
Integrating web and specifically mobile technologies with the real world and physical products. Creating a seamless interface, some companies are just starting to explore this in the medical and entertainment areas. The next set of billion
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by curt 15y ago
Another reason and a big reason seems to be past success, you need people with capital to invest. Once an area gets a couple large companies to cash out not only do those people tend to invest or start companies in similar industries but pe
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by curt 15y ago
There's nothing you can do about it other than leveling the playing field by eliminating special loop holes and laws designed to protect the established elite. You shouldn't do more, technology is the root cause. An individual skilled in fu
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by curt 15y ago
With the death of Flash, for front-end web development, likely right around the corner this is a great strategic move by Adobe to stay relevant. Maybe they'll create an XCode like tool for HTML5 using PhoneGap as the glue. With the acquisit
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by curt 15y ago
Nope, no job. Interviewing now, pretty much an interview a day right now. Already got two offers. Nope didn't lose anything on the sublet, other than the fact I had to stay in a hotel for a few days. Yep that would be a problem. I didn't ha
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by curt 15y ago
Just moved here a week ago. Housing is the biggest pain in the butt, had a Craigslist sublet fall through on me twice. Now looking for a sublet in October.... It's a pain. I've found there are a ton of networking events (106 miles, Hackers
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by curt 15y ago
This is exactly what I did. I treat the MBA as just another tool. Started a business sadly it failed after a couple years, but I just moved out to SF last week and loving it. As an engineer with an MBA that can code well, does stats, and to
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by curt 15y ago
If you decide to put this into production and need help/advice on how to bring the costs down, manufacturing, or logistics let me know. Really you just need to standardize the hardware, find one manufacturing that uses nearly all those part
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by curt 15y ago
That's nearly very plant, factory, and warehouse in the world. There's nothing unique about these conditions. When I was younger and worked in my family's plant I'd get to work before 5am to beat the heat. Sometimes I couldn't and the heat
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by curt 15y ago
My specialty is creating consumer electronics and web/mobile applications that seamlessly integrate. Have quite a lot of experience with this. Check out my blog, it's in my profile, wrote a popular article here on HN (it's also on my blog)
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by curt 15y ago
Exactly, the "poor" in the United States have it better than the middle class in Europe. This is from an article today, "...the typical household considered "poor" by census officials has a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the h
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by curt 15y ago
Have a 14 year old TI-89, that I still use to this day. It's small, simple, quick, and have all the functions and symbols I use under the custom menu. Amazing their haven't been any screen and function improvements (built in programs).
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by curt 15y ago
Been actually getting a lot of questions about this lately, think I'll write a post on it. But here's a short summary: Example I was creating a product in women's apparel so I would go to a bar, find a group of women, and buy them a round o

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