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by curt 15y ago
Always get a kick out of the markup on cables. USB cables in bulk are less than $0.50, HDMI cables aren't much more. Profit margins on them are ridiculous.
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by curt 15y ago
You have no control group so the $1038 vs $626 or unemployment numbers are meaningless. The top would natural succeed even without going to college, you can't tell how much value it actually adds.
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by curt 15y ago
You're going to run into big trouble with the health department from day one. Cities are shutting down and fining kids lemonade stands.
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by curt 15y ago
No they wouldn't there are a lot of procedures that cost more than a 100k (any transplant, open heart, high end implants are more). Really the government and insurance companies would save a fortune if the cure cost between 100k - 200k.
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by curt 15y ago
Completely right. Didn't want to go into detail meant the anti-virus theory and why. I'll try to explain. You want to use HIV because of a few unique properties specifically the fact that you can split the gene material used in replication
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by curt 15y ago
Wrong mind set, they could easily charge 100k+ for the treatment and insurance companies would still jump for joy since it's cheaper over the long run.
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by curt 15y ago
This is what I wanted to do and the exact reason why I left the biotech industry. They don't like crazy ideas.
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by curt 15y ago
You're right, missed that part. Was wondering how they got around the FDA. Now it makes complete sense.
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by curt 15y ago
Came up with an idea (edit: wrote in generalization, took to much credit, sorry, didn't want to bore everyone with details) 10 years ago, everybody thought I was crazy for wanting to inject HIV into people. The idea I had was to treat the h
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by curt 15y ago
Really, down voting a post that tries to explain the Austrian School of Economics. Trying to suppress a view point are we?
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by curt 15y ago
This is exactly right. Not many people understand the Austrian School of Economics, whatever you want to call it, "supply side", "tax cuts", not even the politicians that campaign for it. Not all tax cuts are created equal and the goal is n
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by curt 15y ago
Don't know why more research hasn't been done on Boron fusion. Since it gives off an electron you don't need any turbines or heavy equipment just a transformer. Instead we spend billions on H2 H3 fusion. Makes no sense to me.
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by curt 15y ago
Also there is a big difference between GOING to college and GRADUATING from college. A ton of people drop out during their first or second years.
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by curt 15y ago
Rare Earths are deposits of exotic minerals used in nearly every advanced technology today (wind mills to MRI's). California used to produce the entire world supply until China undercut the price. As demand boomed (prices going way up) and
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by curt 15y ago
Exactly. How about all the unemployed horseshoe manufacturers (blacksmiths)? Technology doesn't kill jobs, it improves efficiency so capital can be deployed elsewhere. The problem today are the hurtles government places in the way in the fo
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by curt 15y ago
There are tax, liability, and business issues. Trust me it's a mess especially when you try to minimize the tax liability, you can do all sorts of crazy crap.
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by curt 15y ago
No, they hire the best and brightest to work for the government and hold them accountable. Something western governments refuse to do with government workers usually because of union/civil service work rules. But what ends up happening then
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by curt 15y ago
It's not the laws themselves (with some exceptions) but the paperwork required to comply. For example Singapore has many of the same laws as the US but they really focus on streamlining the bureaucracy so it's not as heavy a burden.
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by curt 15y ago
Even if Apple wanted to the regulations surrounding manufacturing, especially on a large scale are crazy. Can't tell you how many operations are moving overseas not because of the labor costs but because of the bureaucracy, paperwork, EPA,
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by curt 15y ago
Great response but there's still going to be a ton of damage done to the brand that will really hurt their long-term growth. How many millions of people are hearing about Airbnb for the first time in a negative light. That's hard to overcom
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by curt 15y ago
Now that the big news outlets are reporting on the incident, Airbnb's future growth might really suffer. You only get to make a first impression once and this is a big negative first impression. It's going take a lot of time and cost a fort
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by curt 15y ago
Find someone to look over your resume and cold-call CEO's/hiring managers of companies you're interested in. It's my first time ever applying to job postings. Started looking a few weeks ago and found out my resume was crap, after getting s
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by curt 15y ago
Swiss Francs, Silver, and investing in foreign stocks (Brazil, India). Mostly the later now.
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by curt 15y ago
Great idea but hope you guys are changing the UI/UX. The diagonal lines being blue and the text being blue cause the eye/brain to want to close the shape which is quite distracting. Take a look at the contrast and fixing the anti-aliasing.
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by curt 15y ago
Actually he does have the right to prioritize spending in such an instance and therefore does not need congressional approval. It's a power of the Treasury Secretary. Clinton did it in '95 during the government shutdown.
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by curt 15y ago
The US won't default unless the President chooses to, there is still plenty of money to make the interest payments on the debt, it's under 10% of revenue. All we have to do to balance the budget is go back to what we were spending 8 years a
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by curt 15y ago
Correlation does not mean causation. What we need to do is go back to the Clinton level of spending. The revenue side isn't the problem. If you look at when the rates were changed, revenues on the upper income individuals actually increased
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by curt 15y ago
You don't need a 'crash' you need a correction to fix all the manipulations of the economy by the federal government. When the federal government subsidizes a product (housing, ethanol), taxes/regulates it to an extreme, or spends your mone
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by curt 15y ago
Let me give you my method, it might help. Don't go head first full bore into an idea at first. Build a quick, cheap prototype with only the main features and see how your target customer responds. Gives you a ton of feedback while validatin
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by curt 15y ago
It's really hard raising funding without a huge list of credentials and contacts. That was my world, I bridge the gap between the digital- physical world. Had it down to an art form and could produce a mobile-physical, web-physical, or pure

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