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by dpatru 16y ago
> I also agree wholeheartedly that the "reasonable expectation of privacy" rule has to be applied consistently, i.e. if a police officer can videotape me over the course of his or her work, then I should be allowed to videotape that o
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by dpatru 16y ago
I think YC is on a virtuous spiral. A YC investment increases a candidate's chances of success. This attracts a lot of candidates which enables YC to select the ones that have the greatest chance of succeeding. Which further improves YC's r
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by dpatru 16y ago
Relative to the amount of opportunity it has, YC is very selective. According to Business Week, YC's acceptance rate is 4.4% (1). For comparison, Harvard's rate is 6.9% (2). I'm just realizing that besides launching early, working hard, it
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by dpatru 16y ago
One of the points that Charlie Munger makes in his talk on worldly wisdom ( http://ycombinator.com/munger.html ) is that good investors tend to bet heavily when the odds are grossly in their favor and not bet at all the rest of the time. Th
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Teen Trades up on Craigslist from Phone to Porsche in 2 Years(mercurynews.com)
69 points by dpatru 16y ago|56 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
> There are thousands of very, very, very smart people running around looking for "simple solutions to overlooked problems". I don't think you have reason to be so pessimistic. Sal Khan, maker of Khan Academy, mentioned in an intervie
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Principles for Making New Things (2008)(paulgraham.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
Selling is helping prospects understand how your product can benefit them. It's teaching the lesson of the benefits of an innovation. If the innovation/lesson is simply a lower price for an existing product, it is not hard to understand,
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by dpatru 16y ago
He gets more specific later in the article. It seems that the key to effective cold calling is patience and seeing things from the prospect's perspective. Cold-calling is difficult for most people because they don't have the patience to und
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Richie Sowa's man made island - 4 minutes(youtube.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
The lesson here seems to be that if you innovate you can count on the US justice system to punish you. More than any other company, Apple has improved the state of the art in cell phones for US consumers. Now they are getting sued because t
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by dpatru 16y ago
The problem here is that it's too easy to make and use a software invention once you have a sufficiently detailed description of it (source code). An analogous situation would be the invention of a new homemade bread. A detailed recipe of t
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If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You(whattofix.com)
74 points by dpatru 16y ago|26 comments
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Html 5 Demos(htmlfive.appspot.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
Sal is proof that you don't need a degree in the a subject to be able to teach it.
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by dpatru 16y ago
Among the "services" that (American) government provides: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (countries that have not attacked us), military spending equal to what the rest of the world combined spends, social security and medicare (ponzi schemes
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by dpatru 16y ago
Throughout history people have refused to submit to immoral government controls and have suffered the consequences. They are to be admired by people who aspire to be free. The income tax is an assertion that government owns the work of its
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by dpatru 16y ago
Adobe's Ideas has an 8 minute "user guide" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILS13_b2p8&feature=playe... ). 37Signals's Draft presumably doesn't require a user guide. If all you want to do is what Draft offers, then the extra "features"
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Against School, by John Taylor Gatto(spinninglobe.net)
2 points by dpatru 16y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
This article illustrates why freedom (as in free speech and freedom to contract) is so important and why a state's attempts to restrict freedom should be vigorously opposed. Without the ability to control speech and restrict free contracts,
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by dpatru 16y ago
Asking for copyright permission doesn't make for interesting real-life either. Nor does it fit with today's technology and expectations. This was the point of the article. The law needs to be changed.
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by dpatru 16y ago
The SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) system is very similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R .
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How to read faster(personalmba.com)
22 points by dpatru 16y ago|9 comments
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How to make McDonalds french fries(aht.seriouseats.com)
396 points by dpatru 16y ago|93 comments
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by dpatru 16y ago
This was my first thought. It's sad that whenever new technology is developed, governments think of ways to use the technology to kill people.
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by dpatru 16y ago
Seems to me that Toyota recognizes that government is among their biggest threats. To avoid this, it tries to make itself an insider by hiring citizens. This makes it hard for government to hurt Toyota without hurting its own citizens.
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by dpatru 16y ago
I think both parties have a shaky record on free speech. For example, the McCain-Feingold Act regulates campaign speech. Senator McCain is a Republican. Senator Feingold is a Democrat. President Bush, a Republican, signed the law. The chief
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by dpatru 16y ago
The work done to build a robot is amortized over all the robots built. So I think it will be cheaper. Factory robots do replace workers because they are cheaper. Humans can do high quality paint jobs too. It just probably takes them longer,
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by dpatru 16y ago
With very little addition, something like this could be used to allow people to control machinery remotely. I'm thinking of commercial janitors (vacuum cleaners could be remotely controlled) and lawn mowers. Both of these activities are mai
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Trained chimp versus NOAA(nationalcenter.org)
1 points by dpatru 16y ago|0 comments

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