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by dkrich 10y ago
What I'm curious about is how this will affect sites that rely on affiliate clicks but more for the 24-hour cookie (ie, where somebody buys anything within a day of clicking the link). I could see a site like the WireCutter getting lot
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by dkrich 10y ago
Also, I'm pretty sure that investment wasn't for 100% ownership, so it's not like that $10 million turned into $400 million. The return would have to be proportional to ownership percentage.
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My guess would be that it has to do with the speed of the ball at impact with the target. The faster the ball is moving, the greater the chance of it ricocheting off the rim as opposed to being slowed by the impact with the rim and falling
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by dkrich 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I should probably be more clear with the message about what the intent here is as I work on the overall design. The intent is not so much to just list reviews by product, but rather to create a curated list of
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by dkrich 10y ago
Creator here. Thanks for taking the time to check out my work. About a year ago I started getting into photography and wanted to buy a good DSLR or mirrorless camera. I found the process of researching cameras and lenses to be far from opti
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Show HN: I'm building a site for researching camera equipment(cameraresearcher.com)
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3. Cheap isn't necessarily a good deal. Can't agree with this more and I learn that it's truer and truer the more interactions I have with Amazon. I recently purchased a pair of boots on Amazon that were marketed as authent
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I learned a while back a form of this lesson, which I would state as "never rely on Amazon as a single source of revenue." My experience was starting a website that showcased interesting/humorous products in the vein of thisi
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This is an extreme example that illustrates something that happens all the time. In this case the publisher is reported as a "fake news site" but I would argue that any publication that cites sources that are not thoroughly resear
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I'm 35 and I remember the Clinton years well. I'm curious what about my comment led you to believe that I would dismiss their well-documented "missteps" as "tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff." Sure, Bill Clinton was
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by dkrich 10y ago
Bravo. Full disclosure, I voted for HRC. However, I've been saying this to my liberal friends for the entire election cycle. The message from of all of my liberal Facebook friends has been some derivative of: "Hear me out. We know
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Ha and how'd that work for them? According to the Wikipedia entry, "within a year HP had written off $8.8 billion of the value." Thanks for helping me make my point.
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I don't really mind criticism if it's from somebody who's been there and done it, or even has a small amount of experience in the area. The problem is that most of the time it seems that the early commenters who speak with so
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by dkrich 10y ago
Goodwill is the amount you paid beyond the tangible assets (cash, property, equipment, accounts paid, etc.) on the balance sheet. You can call it what you like, but basically it's something you spent cash on that you have to show on a
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by dkrich 10y ago
I think he's referring specifically to giving a shit about people's criticism or even lack of interest, not about the product itself. Just about anyone who has publicly launched a product or idea knows what it's like to have
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Right, but just because an accounting team says "Well yeah the market values the company at $5B, but we think it's worth $15B because goodwill" does not make it so. In some cases, there is additional value created by an acqui
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by dkrich 10y ago
It's BS assets that companies use to add phantom value to a balance sheet with things like "brand value" and "intellectual capital". There's no way to assess an actual value, so a lot of companies give outlandi
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And there's really no comparison between the leather in a Rolls Royce Phantom and the leather in a Honda Accord, and yet somehow Honda moves hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year. My question was not a refutation of the claim that o
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by dkrich 10y ago
Does the Art Institute of Chicago, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art qualify? In fact, the existence of products like, say this: http://www.artinstituteshop.org/item.aspx?productId=931 would seem to indicate that there actu
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by dkrich 10y ago
For some reason people who have responded can't grasp that a question of why an alternative service doesn't exist does not necessarily attempt to imply that there is not a market for the existing service. i.e., asking Apple circa
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by dkrich 10y ago
Photos on canvas, sure. But to actually transform a photo into a picture that looks like an oil or watercolor or comic strip or what have you requires some manual use of software like Photoshop. I'll just address the real reason- print
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by dkrich 10y ago
No, never. I just asked about it because I heard the term once a long time ago, but to be honest I'm note even sure what an oil painting is. Is it like the same thing they put in engines to make them run smoothly? This was actually a q
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by dkrich 10y ago
The hardest part was actually conveying that it wasn't just some print or photo filter, and this is something I still have difficulty with today. Curious about whether people care about this. As somebody who takes a lot of pictures,
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@ggggtez Those who think that Trump is the most divisive and dangerous candidate ever have short memories or don't remember Richard Nixon or Barry Goldwater. I certainly do not support Trump and wholly disagree with whatever little bit
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by dkrich 10y ago
I don't disagree regarding Trump, but where do we draw the line? Should any employer who's executive board strongly denounces Trump's views and rhetoric fire employees who support him via donations? Should Google suppress his
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In order to play daily fantasy sports you need a credit card, computer, and internet connection, which are pretty high barriers to entry for people without means. I feel a lot worse about the ads for the lottery our "divine government&
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As a person who has worked for several years with two major government contractors, several agencies, and countless projects, this is humorous to me, because I have never, not once, seen a large project estimate end up anywhere close to rea
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I don't understand the point of this. So the goal is to get better at estimating? In my experience tasks vary in difficulty from one to the next, and it's very difficult if not completely useless to formulate an estimate for the t
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Not an accident- selectivity bias. Ask those hackers to build an app for the USPS, FDA, the DOE or any other agency that imposes strict regulations and has to implement business logic to account for tens of thousands of rules (not an exagge
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by dkrich 10y ago
Unfortunately, there's quite a bit of misinformation in this article. The author makes it sound as simple as hiring fresh hackers from Silicon Valley to take over failed projects from stodgy software developers from the large D.C. cont

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