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by d2 16y ago
What offends me is the godaddy baseball caps. As a customer I feel like I'm going on Bob's trip with him in full support of what he's doing.
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by d2 16y ago
Parsons hunting Leopard in Zimbabwe in 2009 with some propaganda at the start of the video on why killing leopard is a good thing: http://www.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=501 As a citizen of a southern African country I can tell you that A
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by d2 16y ago
So far 19% of HN readers are full time entrepreneurs and 81% are either employed by someone else full-time or contractors.
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by d2 16y ago
This also proves that it's not McDonalds fault.
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by d2 16y ago
What I find most distasteful is the lie that he "saved a village and fed them". That's just bullshit. There are more guns in Zimbabwe than most other parts of Africa. If the locals really wanted that elephant gone, it would have been machin
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by d2 16y ago
Oh hell, I'd buy this. It seemed gimmicky at first, but I love the marketing, product design and packaging. Good luck guys!! These will make awesome xmass gifts.
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by d2 16y ago
What an absurd comment. Newtonian physics seemed sufficient and special and general relativity seemed academic until we applied them both to build GPS. You stand on the giant shoulders of theoretical physicists from the moment you open your
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by d2 16y ago
In retrospect I think the collider would have been a better investment than the ISS because it would have yielded science that has game changing potential for us as a species and more science that we can use. I'd rather understand what we'r
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by d2 16y ago
This is completely brilliant. Mark Suster is rapidly becoming my favorite VC blogger.
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by d2 16y ago
Not to be pedantic, but it's not a functioning viral loop if it dies after a few days and requires another HN or TC post. A true viral loop has exponential growth with each participant recruiting > 1 new member.
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by d2 16y ago
You may be. I'm an experienced software dev and I've never done that with any of our family's windows machines. That'll be changing.
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by d2 16y ago
Good tips. Ask for more than you think you'll get. Throw out a price before the buyer does that is high as it will create the perception of value. [Google "Price Anchoring"]. If they throw out a price first, flinch. [It sounds silly, but it
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by d2 16y ago
It's been 5 years and 8 days since work on Twitter started on March 21, 2006. Several other founding employees will be fully vested by now, so I'd expect a few more departures, particularly now that Ev has made it OK to leave.
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by d2 16y ago
The TL:DR is: Rich people (what he calls Westerners) are fat. Poor people (like afghanis) aren't. Rich people get more diabetes which costs them money. Poor people don't. He's cut both types of people open and looked at their fat.
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by d2 16y ago
There are more websites than competent admins so this kind of thing is inevitable. If you were a nice guy you would have reported it to the admin and left it at that.
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by d2 16y ago
It's not a pleasant thought, but the military applications for this are many and will be very lucrative.
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by d2 16y ago
Comebacks: Despite all the equations, it seems to me that your work didn't require any real mathematical sophistication. Did I miss something? Yes. ---- Isn't this just a straightforward extension of an old result by Hartmanis? Which one? -
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by d2 16y ago
Sure: Bryan E. Kuhn, Counselor at Law. P.C, Denver, Colorado. http://employment.findlaw.com/employment/employment-employee...
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The God of Tech Support(notalwaysright.com)
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by d2 16y ago
If you use this service you forfeit most of your legal rights as an employee. In general, if you lie on your resume, you cannot later sue your employer claiming you were wronged. For example, if you were terminated for cause from a prior po
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by d2 16y ago
"In religion, folk religion and superstition, the correlation posited is between religious ritual, such as prayer, sacrifice or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense." In Silicon Valley, the correlation posited is
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by d2 16y ago
Google turned a profit every year since 2001 and earned a profit of $105.6 million on revenues of $961.8 million during 2003. They IPO'd August 2004.
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by d2 16y ago
Which means they're valued at 51 times revenue. To put that in perspective, Google is valued at just over 6 times revenue.
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by d2 16y ago
Chris is conflating the startup bubble with a general tech bubble and using the strength of profitable companies to defend startups. Twitter and Color are startups with no clear business model. Groupon and Google are going concerns. As per
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by d2 16y ago
Oracle's security team bear full responsibility for this breach. MySQL's founder Monty Widenius left Sun in 2005. Sun declined, Oracle bought them as a strategic buy and the portal has been neglected to the point of being compromised. One w
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by d2 16y ago
I'm curious what the graph of active users looks like.
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by d2 16y ago
This is cool. A few suggestions: * Add a way to delete previews you've made. * Add more viral hooks. FB wall post, email, etc. * Do the same concept but with javascript. * Load each website in a frame with a 50px bar at the top or bottom wi
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by d2 16y ago
I think Color was funded for a variety of reasons, but it has very little to do with product. It's unfortunate that Bill feels he needs to defend the startup at this stage on the merits of it's product or future product - it's not a battle