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by frogpelt 12y ago
I wonder if they went to ebay and bought up all the stray copies before they did this marketing push. There's one copy there and the bid is currently at $260. And the product image is a picture of Bill Gates reading it. EDIT: Link: ht
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Those are on pretty much every website that spends any time talking about stocks.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
You are asking this question at the wrong time. It is also true that the majority of restaurants fail. But the time to study that statistic is when you are deciding when and where to start you restaurant and what kind of food/service
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by frogpelt 12y ago
They probably tried to focus on companies that began as internet companies. Microsoft and Apple most certainly did not. Google, Facebook, and Amazon most certainly did.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Somehow, Nigeria didn't make the list. http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/01/victims-lost-93-bill...
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Sounds like he took a loan from his family but wanted it to sound more sensational.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
For some.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
So, what were you referencing?
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Not according to Scott Adams. In fact, check out the title of the book.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
The principle only holds if you are comparing switching between north-south or south-north. If you compare switching to not switching, it doesn't hold.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
The color is white. The shading is usually not.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Please explain how he can include a route to switch between routes that takes zero time. That does not make logical sense at all. It kind of ruined any premise he might have started with.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
I'm a huge fan of toll roads. And I really like charging for use at certain times. Perhaps you could reduce rates for each passenger in the vehicle. Maybe a four-passenger vehicle gets to drive free anytime. This encourages car poolin
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Action begins at 4:30.
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Briefing on Toyota’s Fuel Cell Vehicle Development(newsroom.toyota.co.jp)
2 points by frogpelt 12y ago|1 comments
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by frogpelt 12y ago
And two about the comments (mine and yours).
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by frogpelt 12y ago
In a lot of cases here in the States, pay day lenders also do title pawn which is where the person hands over their car title as collateral for a small loan. The lender then repossesses the car if the debtor doesn't pay.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
"no vacation" In the Cadillac ad, the heavily painted individual said two weeks instead of the whole month. Just pointing that out.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Look at how Square attacked the POS market. They didn't start by trying to replicate everything existing POS systems were doing. They started by appealing to small shops who were not using full scale POS systems. It may appear now tha
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by frogpelt 12y ago
You sound pretty convinced. But it is almost never the case that a product or service is insulated from competition. And I completely disagree that for competitors to emerge they MUST do everything that OpenTable does. They only have to off
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Pinterest is about the ideas and projects that are being pinned more than just about the act of pinning. A needle and thread is a nice way to represent those ideas that are being shared.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Perhaps I shouldn't call it a fact without data but I assume English majors choose English over the other choices because they feel that they would enjoy English more than the other choices. Is that logical?
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by frogpelt 12y ago
For me, the problem in English class was that "good" writing was very subjective. It always seemed as if the goal was to impress the teacher. I've only had one English teacher in my life who I felt gave me concrete instructi
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by frogpelt 12y ago
So one of the very few English professors in the country with a computer science degree is offended by Google's hiring practices. The fact is most English majors don't enjoy heavy duty math or science as much and it's not tha
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by frogpelt 12y ago
A couple of points: 1. More government revenue does not always equal more community needs being met. Many times it is just the means for more fraud, waste, and abuse. 2. Also, to say that hotel taxes do not "seem to really impact deman
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by frogpelt 12y ago
I can understand the Embry problem a lot more simply because the distance between the decision and implementation of the decision is not that far. How on earth do you "accidentally" load up enough weed killer to treat 54 acres of
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by frogpelt 12y ago
This would require cooperation.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
It may help to view this set of laws the same way that some people view labor unions. Labor unions started with positive intentions and were needed to protect workers who were often overworked and underpaid. Now many feel that labor unions
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Think about it like this: If the creator posted a link on the page for a worthy cause, he has the audience necessary to make a huge difference. Whereas if you were to start from nothing and try to create impact, it would be a major uphill b
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by frogpelt 12y ago
My takeaway: if you want to throw creepers like this guy off your trail, harvest a hotel picture from the internet and post it to your Twitter account.

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