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by fraserharris 11y ago
At the heart of the divide between contractor and employee is America's idiotic healthcare bargain between Democrats and Republicans: employers provide private healthcare and the public system is only for the destitute and old. Obamac
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by fraserharris 11y ago
TLDR - Fleet Problem 13 was a naval wargame in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands in the winter of 1932: "The expectation was that Yarnell would attack with battleships, but instead he left his battleships behind and proceeded only w
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by fraserharris 11y ago
There is a subtlety involved: - people care if other people know what they have read - people care much less if a machine knows what they have read
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Masquerading? As long as its relevant and engaging, it is content.
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You are conflating the role of advertising in general vs specific kinds of advertising and consumption that you view as a waste. Our entire industry (tech) relies on advertising to boost awareness of our products. Is it overconsumption tha
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Part of the explosion in ad-tech companies are alternative ad-formats and methods. The future lies in native ads - TripleLift (among others) is doing interesting things. You'll see more and more "sponsored stories". With T
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by fraserharris 11y ago
The HN community has an outspoken minority that believes: a) ads do not make money, b) ads do not work, and c) ads (targeting) are morally wrong. My sense is that the silent majority recognizes just how massive the advertising business is
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by fraserharris 11y ago
The function of the Supreme Court is to decide edge cases. Anything they hear is either a question of overlapping laws and/or an area without significant precedents.
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by fraserharris 11y ago
As a director in a public company, he is very restricted in when and how he sells his stock. In one case I know of that meant placing sell orders 3 - 6 months in advance regardless of the stock performance.
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The bulk of your comment is an highly speculative attack on A16Z. Chris Dixon publicly stated they passed on investing initially because of technical obstacles.[1] Their investment in RapGenius was in part because Marc Andreessen tried to
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Actually, the ultimate test of a Silicon Valley investor is their return on capital. Your test is projecting your desire onto investors.
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Jet.com's strategy is to get large enough that the brands have to list on their site (like they do an all major marketplaces). Many of the larger brands are currently sitting on the sidelines "seeing how it goes". You can th
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Well, a business would take the free cash flow and invest in expansion. Then again, a business would be paying the island's network operator and there would likely be no free cash flow.
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"The laws are malleable. Caught drunk driving out of a nightclub in the capital Managua with a beer in your hand? Pay the security guard $1. Caught by the police on the highway with no driving license? Pay the cop $4. It’s as simple as
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by fraserharris 11y ago
a) You can not escape the need for locks because there is a 8" height difference of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. Additionally you have tidal variation. b) The Panama Canal locks are already in pairs to allow simultaneous bi-di
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by fraserharris 11y ago
In fact, its the perfect transition from startup to mature company with a substantial moat. With a proven business model then can raise $Bs in non-dilutive debt-capital to finance vehicle purchases.
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by fraserharris 11y ago
The point of onboarding emails is to boost your activation rate. Users frequently get distracted during onboarding and drop of. A drip campaign that highlights the benefits of completing the onboarding is highly effective. The majority o
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by fraserharris 11y ago
My objection is you imply that only un-educated and influenceable people use heroin, and that they wouldn't with better packaging. Drugs in the same family are abused by people of all walks of life, in large part starting with prescri
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Opiods (including morphine and oxycodone) are highly addictive. Highly educated and un-influenceable people get addicted to them through prescription use. Your post comes off as downplaying this very real risk.
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This is especially true when unions are actively sabotaging the introduction of new technology in order to maintain their high wages or inflated numbers (introduction of containerization to Oakland).
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by fraserharris 11y ago
FlexPort's customer is the business paying for the shipping (freight forwarder & customs broker), not the port. Their interest in port automation* is that it makes for interesting content marketing and it may benefit their end-cust
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Could 98% be an artifact of the 100's of millions of people who have tried social games? 2% is at least in the high millions if not low 10s of millions of people. I (and it appears a significant number of others) ended up paying for th
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by fraserharris 11y ago
You are creating a delineation to in order to obfuscate that you want to deprive content creators the option of charging you directly for their work. The unit costs of digital copies are irrelevant when the alternative, patronage, doesn&
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by fraserharris 11y ago
I was defining UBI as a forced redistribution of wealth. For your benefit, i've corrected socialism to social welfare.
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by fraserharris 11y ago
You are correct. I've corrected it to socialism. Its a forced redistribution of wealth. My point is the gaping logical flaw in the original post. How is this the top comment?
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"No micropayment system has ever succeeded" This is wildly incorrect. $ billions have been transacted as micropayments in social games[1]. The key to their success was bulk purchases of intermediary "currency" that fre
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by fraserharris 11y ago
It's tragic that the author's highest desire [is to be able to pay for content]. We already pay for [network connectivity]. Meanwhile, the right answers to the cost of content creation are [a form of social welfare].
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The heart of your argument is that there is some clear distinction between residential and commercial which doesn't actually exist. Residential properties have always been used for profit - its called an apartment. These visitors are
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by fraserharris 11y ago
Agreed - my comment is specifically re funding programs. Government employees are not equipped (to put it charitably) to evaluate the likelihood of success of startups. Their proxy metric is an onerous rules-based application process. Perv
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SR&ED is a tax refund - cash in hand at the end of your taxable year.

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