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by edge17 16y ago
Climbing mountains isn't foolhardy adventure. Success is getting back and the summit is only half way. Turning back is the part that takes courage and discipline, because the mountain will always be there. There's an inscription at Camp Mui
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by edge17 16y ago
These two companies don't do the same thing under the hood. Netflix has a lot more time to do it's transcoding than Hulu does. Hulu gets their content from studios and has to have a turnaround of hours sometimes, whereas Netflix can take we
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by edge17 16y ago
If you're familiar with both ecosystems, there's nothing to clarify. Both companies make a lot of money, Apple does so with an elegant closed system. Google does so with a janky open system. People love to argue about whats better; both of
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by edge17 16y ago
not quite 'the worst' but an interesting story no less - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
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by edge17 16y ago
why is admitting to a bug in software embarrassing? suggesting software is bug-free is practically oxymoronic.
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LinkedIn Buys Business Card Converter CardMunch(techcrunch.com)
12 points by edge17 16y ago|2 comments
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by edge17 16y ago
I had recruiters calling me for 9 months; including somehow trying to reach me through calling my parents house (i don't know where they got that info, but I guess it's on google... either that or a really really old resume). I started the
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Measuring Growth from Outer Space(aidwatchers.com)
1 points by edge17 16y ago|0 comments
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by edge17 16y ago
Wonderful comment. One of the reasons there has been a huge influx of funding is that there was A LOT of sideline cash in 2008. A lot of the fear has since evaporated, and funding and liquidity has increased, albeit, with some pent up back
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by edge17 16y ago
most of the small chinese companies at CES that were "making" tablets just buy kits and assemble them.
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by edge17 16y ago
the model has an expectation that the number of people redeeming will be less than 50%. I guess they have data that suggests it, but I find it hard to swallow. Also, an accountant could tell you better, but gift cards are great for accounti
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by edge17 16y ago
sure, most marketing laws that succeed tend to be self-fulfilling
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by edge17 16y ago
most industry insiders will tell you that Moore's law is a marketing law that drives timelines more than anything else. sure he used his experience, but CEO's have also been known to make wild and extravagant statements :)
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by edge17 16y ago
remember Moore's law? that was based on two or three data points :)
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by edge17 16y ago
not to disagree with your point, but it's a supply/demand issue. In Bangladesh, I'm sure the pipes they don't have enough of (though times are changing) deliver water. In the US, the pipes we have issue with are the ones that deliver data.
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by edge17 16y ago
anyone interested in buying this knows how to set up shells outside the US. This is probably just to help them get around rules that the US govt is trying to impose on them. I'm sure GS will happily assist their clients in setting up the sh
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by edge17 16y ago
craigslist isn't a fixed-price economy; approaching it as such is silly. Most informal market places in the world are not fixed price economies.
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by edge17 16y ago
kids going to school - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUTzQXyQSo&feature=relat...
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by edge17 16y ago
Do you have a link to the Morgan Stanley story? I'm curious about some of the finer details
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by edge17 16y ago
shorting means you have to also be able to stomach the upside pain. Maybe it'll end low, but you have to have enough capital to float against margin calls while it climbs. I know people that got eaten alive for shorting yahoo back around 20
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by edge17 16y ago
if you'll excuse my naïveté, but what's the purpose?
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by edge17 16y ago
ha that's difficult to disagree with, but you know what they say, one man's trash....
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by edge17 16y ago
I live in the bay area. Every time I fly back east, the first place I hit is dunkin donuts.
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by edge17 16y ago
How else would you be all-inclusive? If interest rate is a measure of risk, i.e. the riskier the individual the higher the interest rate, then the most untrustworthy person can only get a loan, or access to capital, at the highest possible
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by edge17 16y ago
The table only denotes what the borrower took the loan for, and not for what actual use the money was put to. Basically it boils down to this: once the money is in their hands, unless the borrowers have had some information dissemination o
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by edge17 16y ago
Capital - assets available for use in the production of further assets http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=120... Baseline level of trust = 100% risk 100% risk = 0% return 0% return = Charity That's not to say charity
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by edge17 16y ago
also high rates of default
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by edge17 16y ago
Thanks for the post shrikant. Most people don't seem to realize this, and it's in part because of all the attention MFI's are getting rightnow. There's very little data and numbers available, but are some - http://microfinance.cgap.org/201
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by edge17 16y ago
the loans are non-collateralized loans and short-term, and the borrowers are high risk. Think about a pay-day loan with no collateral.
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by edge17 16y ago
all those nytimes articles require user acct

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