elmuchoprez

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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
A common argument is that easy access to guaranteed, government-backed student loans is responsible for rising tuition costs. In other words, a persons ability to attend college is no longer directly linked to their financial ability to pa
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My guess is that he was pandering. The statements were made at a fundraiser where he's trying to echo the narrative of the crowd, not present a realistic overview.
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I'd be curious why RoR (not that I disagree with that decision)? Did you find a competitive advantage over say PHP or Python? Is it easier to teach? More job opportunities? Picked out of a hat?
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The same as any tuition program or grant: When you separate the cost from the consumer, prices skyrocket. With 100% of their tuition being paid by anonymous donors, why should these kids care how much it costs? And if the kids don't care a
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Honestly, as an adult male (with adult male sized hands), a difference of 1 oz and 1mm seems insignificant to me. I suspect those measures are well within the variations caused by different cases. I suppose it could make a difference when
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
I don't know how long Kickstarter's "hands off" approach will work, even though I understand why they don't want to get involved. But if backers start feeling like KS is a place to take money and never deliver while KS itself turns a blind
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Kickstarter backers should fund a project with the understanding they are trying to encourage people to do cool things, and that their is better than even chance nothing whatsoever will come of the project. Then, the rare time that somethi
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My guess is that the pros are throwing them into a van or pick-up rather than riding away on the bike.
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What's ironic then, is that Nintendo has slowly lost its dominance over the video game console industry... How are you measuring dominance? I don't really follow these types of things closely, but hasn't Nintendo been in the video game b
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"I personally feel like I've already won the lottery for all of the things I have no control over: living in a wealthy country, not having to worry about food or water, being reasonably healthy and having access to healthcare, etc." Do yo
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Myspace just got replaced with a different version of Myspace (facebook). If some community funded, privacy secure, no ad service like Diaspora had replaced it, that would be a different story because the core model would have changed. Bu
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"He could simply have a marketing problem at this point, although he's done pretty well thus far if that's the case." The message may by cloudy, but it's out there, which is the most impressive part of this in my opinion. App.net may be a
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John Siricusa blatantly stated that he funded it before even fully understanding what it was. His support was based on Marco and Grueber (among others) supporting it. Marco is supporting it but has blatantly said he doesn't think it's goin
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
The kid who hacked Sarah Palin's email got a year in jail. He was convicted of "the felony of anticipatory obstruction of justice by destruction of records and a misdemeanor of unauthorized access to a computer." [wikipedia] The guy who hac
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
It's a question of how closely the ID can be inspected for accuracy. When I go to the store and buy beer, they want to see my license. They always make me take it out, which means the clerk can feel it, and the "feel" will often give away
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
He is leap years better than Gruber and Daring Fireball. Or Jim Dalrymple, who in my opinion, took the on the role of official Apple apologist for the 5by5 Network when Gruber left. He also has much more to say on entrepreneurship (given
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That would require a liquor license, which can be quite a difficult and expensive proposition in its own right.
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I couldn't tell from this site if the owner is under the impression that he was never informed it would take that long to get the money, or if he signed the contract knowing full well what the reimbursement policy was and just thinks it's u
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Most, if not all, of the stories listed in this article are pure puff pieces, not the kind of hard journalism that you would expect someone to rigorously fact check. He made up an embarrassing story that supposedly happened in the office th
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These huge jumps (and crashes) in bitcoin valuation are precisely why gambling sites can't use them as proxies for cash... there's just no guarantee of parity between what a dollar is worth and what a bitcoin is going to be worth tomorrow.
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Calling bitcoin a "currency" seems a bit off to me. I think of currency as the thing you use to buy a gallon of milk or buy a movie ticket. It's for facilitating day-to-day transactions. But nobody (or almost nobody) is using bitcoins to
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not, to say they "turned a tweet into $1 million" is a bit of a reach. They saw a tweet advertising an event which Branson would be at, borrowed several thousands of dollars from their parents to
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by elmuchoprez 14y ago
"I think this will partly depend on who has been donating. How many of these are developers who want this to develop on..." The Developer Special, which is the lowest level package ($699) that seems to specifically target devs, is capped at
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Jokes aside, people continue to vote for politicians who are under-qualified and who make promises they wouldn't even have the power to keep... and yet study after study shows that bad promises are far more effective at getting votes than s
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"Now, with years worth of feature planning and a solid product design already..." Do you realize how fast this market changes? Anything you conceived years ago is most likely irrelevant, or at the very least, far less impressive than you m
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Well then congrats to you sir. When a company can manage that kind of profit, it's nice to see them using those resources to invest in serious talent for the long haul.
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Let me start by saying that I don't know anything about Treehouse or their profitability... but based on that benefit list, they're either REALLY profitable or they've got a bunch of upfront investor money to burn through. Given how young t