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by fnid 17y ago
says whoever upvoted me.
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by fnid 17y ago
Yes, this is the real issue. Even for a healthy entrepreneur, health insurance costs more than hosting.
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by fnid 17y ago
One of the problems is that people don't down vote for the same reasons. Some down because they disagree, others to resort topics, others because they don't like the person's comment, tone, bias, etc... Without a consistent use of the do
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by fnid 17y ago
In the nearest large town to me, they had 2800 doses for a metro area of almost a million. Even if it is effective and even if it doesn't do anything bad, the vaccine is probably going to do little good on the grand scale.
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by fnid 17y ago
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm EXCERPT: What percent of our ancestors were women? It’s not a trick question, and it’s not 50%. True, about half the people who ever lived were women, but that’s not the question. We
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by fnid 17y ago
According to genetic research, 80% of women reproduce, but only 40% of men reproduce.
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by fnid 17y ago
This happens all the time in the material product world. You go to customers, get their orders, then have the products made. Watch some Shark Tank on Hulu. Anyone with a product and tons of inventory is scorned by the panel. They all say
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by fnid 17y ago
Why would you waste 25% of your time making balls you could buy for $5? Go to a 99 cent store, there are tons of balls in there for under $5.
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by fnid 17y ago
And again, none of these can be done in 2 hours or leverage the $5.
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by fnid 17y ago
I did the same with Now and Laters. Buying them in bulk and selling them individually to kids at school.
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by fnid 17y ago
The real lesson here is: Break the rules. The rules were, 2 hours and $5. No one spent only two hours and only $5. The first suggestion from the class was a $50 house party. Tire pumps cost more than $5. The restaurant reservation scheme
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by fnid 17y ago
It probably makes sense for the government, or any organization for that matter, to regulate the behavior of other organizations it is responsible to bailout if their behavior gets out of control.
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by fnid 17y ago
Lots and lots of people live in RV's. The problem with the social impression of it is that it isn't a choice for most. They cant afford a house, so there is a stigma about living in an RV. The other issue is that people want comfortable li
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by fnid 17y ago
This is some interesting analysis, but it only considers the negative effects of not getting the flu and neglects the negative effects of getting it. Consider this poor woman who got dystonia after receiving a flu vaccine: http://www.you
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by fnid 17y ago
Currency is like stock in a nation. We always talk about the falling dollar, but what we are really talking about is the decline of the American empire; decline of trust, decline of confidence, decline of a prosperous future, decline of
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by fnid 17y ago
Renting out a house is a lot of work and a lot of risk. I have rented out a house to some free loaders and they destroyed my house causing more in damage than they ever paid in rent and causing me a lot of work and hassle. I do not believe
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Prosperity without Growth Report [pdf](sd-commission.org.uk)
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by fnid 17y ago
I don't think that's true. I learned how to program in high school and we had a network and it was fun to write computer programs to allow my classmates to send messages over the network to other students. This was back in the Novell mess
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by fnid 17y ago
People ask me this question a lot and really, the best way to learn how to program in any language is to figure out something you want your computer or the web to do and make it do it. You have to want something. Hackers want to solve pr
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by fnid 17y ago
I have to say, I agree with the lawyers on this one. They are similar products, i.e. electronics, not like coffee and computers. Brand names aren't just written, they are spoken. They are both electronics. SPARC customers could think S
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by fnid 17y ago
Wow, you're hard to please! ;) Have you looked at how they have it set up? Your link goes into a queue for the servers that are called "Factories." It is a massive distributed computing environment like SETI where people volunteer their
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by fnid 17y ago
This is only true of "unclever" code. You haven't written a lot of code if you haven't found a concise, optimized, abstract way to solve problems that aren't intuitive when first seen with the naked eye. We aren't writing books, we're wri
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by fnid 17y ago
I love browsershot.org Don't agree about the poor execution. I think it's great.
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by fnid 17y ago
Sounds like the TED talk from Alain de Botton where he talks about the old days when we saw a homeless person on the street and considered them among the "less fortunate." http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_g...
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by fnid 17y ago
Those 44 people could own 50% of Germany. In America, the fringe group that is the top 1% owns 90% of the wealth, gets lots of subsidies from our Government and still pays less tax as a percentage than the other 99% of poorer Americans
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by fnid 17y ago
Rich Americans believe they should be taxed higher as well. http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/05/04/business/econwatch/e... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ap3I...
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by fnid 17y ago
There is a final truth, I believe. Doesn't mean the truth won't change. There's nothing in science that says something can't come from nothing, so something could just ... come to exist that would change everything. I'm agnostic about hum
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by fnid 17y ago
I agree with his point and your point. I have done what you are doing: Build something I love. But remember, your customers are not you. When you start selling your invention, that thing that makes you happy, your customers may not be hap
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by fnid 17y ago
Science is just what we can't yet prove to be wrong through observation. In other words, what we believe about the universe is only true because it works within the limits of our observation. If we could observe better, we would find that
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by fnid 17y ago
I think the point is that if you create something for yourself and no one else, then you won't be a successful entrepreneur, because to succeed at that, you have to create something other people love and secretly, you want them to love y

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