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by dirtae 15y ago
> I've never heard a serious, mainstream economist propose it. Jim Grant has been calling for a return to the gold standard. He is the publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, which is a very serious publication widely followed by p
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by dirtae 15y ago
I have been using SECWatch for awhile, and noticed that the email notifications I've been getting have been pointing to MarketBrief for the last few weeks. Didn't realize it was a YC company until now. This is a product I have a personal ne
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by dirtae 15y ago
Excellent PR work by Match.com. Anyone who has actually used Match.com knows that it is, from an engineering and design standpoint, utter crap. The algorithm being pumped here is probably nothing special, but hey, getting PR by hyping your
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by dirtae 15y ago
Absolutely agree. We (AnyLeaf) send a weekly email newsletter to our users, with one-click unsubscribe. Companies that make unsubscribing difficult are ruining it for everyone. Even though we are very clear about the fact that we'll be send
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Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
53 points by dirtae 15y ago|32 comments
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by dirtae 15y ago
You're wrong. The long term capital gains tax rate in the U.S. is 15% for most people. The tax rate for "qualified" dividends (essentially, dividends on stock that you've held for awhile) is 15%. Starting in 2013, dividends will be taxed at
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by dirtae 15y ago
Broccoli crowns are on sale this week at Lucky (in the Bay Area) for $0.57 / lb. This should allow the OP to shave at least $0.50 per day from his food budget. :-) http://www.anyleaf.com/product/broccoli-crowns As the co-founder of AnyLea
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by dirtae 16y ago
Safari is my browser of choice, so the fact that I need to launch some other browser just to use InboxQ is annoying. But, since I'm already launching a different browser, I guess I might as well launch Firefox instead of Chrome. The Firefox
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by dirtae 16y ago
InboxQ's core functionality is very nice, and I've been using it lately to help promote one of my products. I haven't been able to figure out why it is delivered as a browser extension, though. It doesn't seem to add any value, and in fact
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by dirtae 16y ago
Glad you like it! Figuring out where to stock up on soda is one of our most popular use cases. Diapers too.
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by dirtae 16y ago
If you look at the page for an individual item on our website then we show you some historical pricing information. For example, if you visit: http://www.anyleaf.com/product/navel-oranges Then you'll see that 25 cents / lb is the low pric
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by dirtae 16y ago
We experimented with a multi-step sign up process where we first prompted for a zipcode, then prompted for an email address (letting you know at that step whether we had data for your zipcode), but a multi-step sign up process felt too heav
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by dirtae 16y ago
We support grocery items at Target right now. In the future we'll expand our coverage to include household goods like toilet paper, paper towels, and soap. One non-grocery item that we already cover is diapers, due to popular demand. Trader
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by dirtae 16y ago
We hear you, and that's why we just launched our iPhone app. It's a bit buried in this article, but it's mentioned about halfway through. The app makes a great complement to our website, allowing you to view a shopping list created on the w
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AnyLeaf (YC S10) — Putting an End to the Old Supermarket Circular(xconomy.com)
55 points by dirtae 16y ago|26 comments
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by dirtae 16y ago
As co-founder of an online fax service[1], I'll be watching HelloFax closely. It's a mature market, but most of the existing players are crappy, so I think there's a big opportunity here. It's a difficult marketing problem, though. AdWords
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by dirtae 16y ago
If we don't have data for your area, then we don't send you email. We experimented with a multi-step sign up process where we first prompted for a zipcode, then prompted for an email address (letting you know at that step whether we had dat
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AnyLeaf (YC S10) Aggregates And Delivers Personalized Grocery Store Deals(techcrunch.com)
88 points by dirtae 16y ago|27 comments
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by dirtae 16y ago
This is very welcome, but I hope Google fixes this problem in the official protobuf distribution. It looks like protobuf 2.4.0 has experimental support for backing Python protocol buffers with C++ via the PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTAT
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by dirtae 16y ago
I don't think that the idea of a corporate campus is evil or bad, but I do think that the implementation of corporate campuses is often very bad. Most corporate campuses that I've visited rely on large squarish buildings, which means lots o
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by dirtae 16y ago
Apple fans should make the trip to HQ in Cupertino. Apple operates a company store here that is, I believe, the only place in the world to buy official Apple apparel. The 1 Infinite Loop sign makes for a nice photo op.
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by dirtae 16y ago
Yes, theoretically. In practice, managements have a long history of buying stock back at inflated prices and buying back stock simply to hide the shareholder dilution that is occurring due to management equity compensation. I prefer dividen
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by dirtae 16y ago
"Before anything else, let’s do the numbers: money market funds yield around 4%." What? The Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund (VMMXX) is yielding about 0.13% right now, and I think that's fairly typical.
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by dirtae 16y ago
As others have mentioned, you can already do this on Yahoo Finance for free. Notifo also allows you to set up free stock price alerts: http://notifo.com/user/stockalerts It's certainly possible for you to do a better job than those servic
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by dirtae 16y ago
Check out the comments on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241165 I would start by reading The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham. If you like it, then move on to Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman. (I have a value investin
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by dirtae 16y ago
Leveraged ETFs seek to provide the expected return on a daily basis. They do not provide the returns that you might expect over periods longer than a day, and therefore are only useful for day traders. http://www.etfbase.com/leveraged-et
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by dirtae 17y ago
The iPhone OS 3.2 SDK (which is used to build iPad apps) provides explicit developer support for detecting the pinch gesture, in the form of UIPinchGestureRecognizer: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi... http:/
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by dirtae 17y ago
The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham is a classic, and a good place to start. A Random Walk Down Wall Street is also a must read, even if you reject the efficient market hypothesis. Of course, there is a huge difference between trading an
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by dirtae 17y ago
Watch out for these UltraShort ETFs. They are only useful for day trading. Over periods longer than a day, they don't match the returns you'd expect to see for a variety of reasons. More info here: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/ul
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by dirtae 17y ago
Some counties in California have been talking about leaving the state for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Jefferson

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