foompy_katt

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by foompy_katt 3y ago
There is no disadvantage to going second... in fact, in tournament games, the player to go second (white) wins about 2% more often than black does. All of black's first moves actually transpose, so white has the first real choice in th
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by foompy_katt 16y ago
I believe the body of water was the Monongahela river, actually, but close enough :). Go to http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc3.htm and then click on Chapter 10. That's from the online version of "The Underground History of Am
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by foompy_katt 17y ago
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "rejection reduces short-term performance"? It makes sense that someone who has just been rejected would have a hard time focusing on an immediate task- their brain is still stuck trying to understand and
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by foompy_katt 17y ago
I used to serve Cleese meatballs at a local market. He's as funny in person as he is in his work. I don't think he can help it. I'm glad more people are getting to experience it, no matter the reason.
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
It would be great if an one's own ranked list could be exported straight from your website. Maybe you'd want to keep track of individual users' lists anyway, to prevent people from gaming the results? Great idea :).
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
Right, I don't think it'll ever happen. But if it did...
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
"Assuming that "less than listed retail" is a bargain is false. " By "less than listed retail" I mean a price less than whatever they would have otherwise paid at checkout (after coupons, package deals, whatever). I was thinking of "the pri
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
I like it :). Good luck!
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
Yes, let's be friends :). I'm grateful somebody mentioned "trust relationships". That's a good start. My email address is ben dott seeley att gmail dott com. Email me some contact info, and I'll mail you mine.
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
This has nothing to do with entertainment, or the kind of censorship the moral conservatives would be interested in. It's way off topic. It's not even full "censorship"- there's nobody stopping the creators of such an ad from putting it on
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
I really appreciate your concern, and I'm with you on the anti-censorship bandwagon. But, widespread censorship is not popular with a majority of the public- if it were, it would have already been done. They can't even make pornography ille
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
"I wished people again found their natural ability to create trust relationships, from scratch." I completely agree with this. I don't honestly feel people of good faith need to deal with complicated rules or institutions. But not everyone
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
Ok, objection noted. The name isn't important- you can call it "Pie Love" if you want. In case you couldn't tell from the post, I was talking about investing in the talent people have. I'm not talking about slave labor, I'm talking about do
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
You raise a valid point. Implementation counts for a lot, as it does in everything, I suggested the data be anonymized. So, the govt. knows how many people have downloaded something, but not who. If that is being abused or music is being ce
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
I was just going off of what Graham wrote- "But no one wants to use a dating site with only 20 users—which of course becomes a self-perpetuating problem. So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that yo
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
The government would not have any role in producing or censoring media. Just paying for it, according to what is listened to the most, seen, read, etc. This would actually result in a flowering of original media; successful artists could ge
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
IANAL, so if you say exclusivity would be unenforceable, you might be right. But it's not really crucial- the only important thing is collecting useful data, and there are myriad ways to do that. You'll have to tell me how consumers would g
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
28. Fixing email overload. I have an integrated solution which might also fight spam, and which would relate to contact lists / social websites. I.e. if someone is in the contact list of one of your contacts, their email gets treated as not
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
26. Better video chat. Skype and Tokbox are just the beginning. There's going to be a lot of evolution in this area, especially on mobile devices. It's called "meeting people face to face". Oh, you didn't laugh... But seriously, if you real
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
13. Online learning. Well, if educational materials were either cheap because of my idea for #17, or the government were putting educational materials in the public domain (that would be a good place to start, in my opinion, before branchin
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
8. Dating. Current dating sites are not the last word. Better ones will appear. This problem falls under the classification of "critical mass" problems. I think any solution that works for one of these types of problems, is likely to work f
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
2. Simplified browsing. I got nothing on this, since I'm not in the target market. Btw, my pet theory is that smart people will have the best luck inventing commercially successful solutions, if they focus on jobs and activities that hardly
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
5. Enterprise software 2.0. This might be partially solved by my commercial idea for #17. But, that idea breaks down for things which are only rarely sold. And it would be very difficult to apply to corporate buyers, who have varied and cha
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
3. New news. I think users of Slashdot/Reddit/HN/Digg might like this, especially those who are longing for an eternal September, since it's primarily an idea regarding keeping chat forums from degenerating: given that we can readily see th
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
30. Startups for startups. I think Y Combinator doesn't take its model far enough. What I'd like to see could be called "Human Resource Investment"- investing in people, not startups per se. This would be structured as a debt and/or equity
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by foompy_katt 18y ago
This is going to have to be a multipart comment, I wrote so much: 1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. My idea for this is included in a more robust solution for #17. 17. New payment methods. Here's the $100 billion dol