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by dtap 18y ago
Without being inflation adjusted it is not too revealing. Here is a link to CPI since 1913: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt A quick modification would make the data more powerful.
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by dtap 18y ago
The value of public embeddable chats, at least to me, is the ability to participate without having to sign in for anything. Meebome works extremely well for this. A possible application to look into is integration with BlackBerry Messenger.
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by dtap 18y ago
While there are very few hard facts in the article to support his claims, I tend to agree. The current business models for music start-ups do not work. That being said, music industry executives are not as dumb as we see them. The music ind
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by dtap 18y ago
Late 2011 is a long time from now. Two and a half years is a lot of time to get behind schedule, especially for Tesla. I sincerely hope it comes out awesome but am highly skeptical.
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by dtap 18y ago
Best of luck to all the YC companies planning to apply!
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Ask HN: A good way to learn the Twitter API?(amazon.com)
2 points by dtap 18y ago|6 comments
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by dtap 18y ago
The advanced elementary school I attended(15 years ago) did numbers. We always just saw them as a rewrite of letter grades.
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by dtap 18y ago
Business schools are very self propagating. People who get them decide they are valuable and then convince others of the same which builds a bubble. There are certainly valuable skills (accounting, finance, marketing) that can be learned wi
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by dtap 18y ago
Of course, Hulu is only available in the U.S., where it is fourth most popular video site
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by dtap 18y ago
And while railroads had begun to lose their luster, they were still carrying more tonnage than ever before in their history The railroads had business at their door but were unable to run an efficient operation. By contrast, the auto indu
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by dtap 18y ago
I played the original game through many classes in middle school. As long as you don't have big dreams, maybe play it as an updated version of the old game. If the old game got 1000s of kids to play when the only way to transfer games was c
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by dtap 18y ago
http://redemptionincorktown.blogspot.com/ A friend of mine's blog about buying and fixing a house in Corktown in Detroit. It is very interesting to see a dilapidated house that is from 1856 be renovated to a 4000+ sq. ft. place. He is ver
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by dtap 18y ago
It is definitely a step in the right direction for education. However, surgery is a very experiential type of learning so the true value is limited. If it could be integrated with a live video feed would increase medical value. As far as a
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by dtap 18y ago
This strikes me as very close minded. The measure of success depends on the metric. How innovative I am does not always manifest itself in money. Does that make my endeavor any less entrepreneurial? I think not. If all you care about it mon
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Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers(mckinseyquarterly.com)
1 points by dtap 18y ago|0 comments
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by dtap 18y ago
Every start-up that relies on someone else (eg. Twitter) for part of their core competency is subject to the whims of that company. The risk of that happening is something that every developer must consider. Places like the App Store are re