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by garply 17y ago
"[V]enture investors have been trying to solve the mystery of how they could possibly threaten the financial system." Couldn't a case be made that venture capital helped fuel the dot-com bust?
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Just pointing out that the primary justification for Internet censorship in China is also 'to protect children from pornography'.
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"Following such a method you can learn a language in 6-12 months" Were you able to learn Chinese in 6-12 months? What's your mother language? I know a lot of Westerners who've learned Mandarin and no one achieved fluency in anything near
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I actually don't think the tech in Silicon Valley will provide the best return on your investment - it's no longer the wild west out here, more like the 3rd generation of settlers setting up small to medium businesses. If you understand th
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I think so - as these countries have their middle classes develop, they're going to need cheap labor to fulfill the roles that their citizens are no longer willing to do themselves. So, far in the future, China will export its low-wage fact
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by garply 17y ago
That consulting is pro-cyclical surprises me - I always figured that large corporations had some people who weren't terribly efficient and that in a downturn they would be cut and their workloads would be outsourced to a 3rd party, whom the
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Why is this a problem? These people should just allocate their time to the new opportunities created by the downturn. I have several friends who are unemployed recent grads and they seem to be just sitting on their asses, sending out resu
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by garply 17y ago
If you're doing business in CA you'll still need to register as a foreign corporation, so the Delaware registration gets you very little. http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/corp/corp_faq.htm "Do I have to register (qualify) my out of state (o
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I've got both an LLP and an S-corp. For the income pass-through reasons, you're right that a S-corp or LLP is the way to go. If I recall correctly, the tax difference between the 2 boils down to how much you're going to make - that is if y
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With regards to the current recession hitting the developed and developing worlds differently, I was looking at this graph a while back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007-2009_World_Financial_... and I'm still trying to decide how to
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The Great U-Turn(online.wsj.com)
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Who is your target demographic (whom do you expect to purchase these surveys)? Small companies?
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Who said international competition was fair? Presumably, the Chinese government pursues policies which it feels are to its advantage and which it has the leverage to get away with. Also, I suspect this is more due to the government's inabi
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by garply 17y ago
I used to think like that as well before I launched TweetLinx - I was working on my news engine with peace of mind in my personal echo chamber when I realized that I might be able to make use of Twitter's buzz to introduce people to my comp
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by garply 17y ago
Wow, these are kind of cool. If I could be shown studies that demonstrate that these don't affect health very negatively, I might be willing to give them a try. I think nicotine, like caffeine, can be useful, but its benefits aren't worth
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by garply 17y ago
I've personally had these types of problems while living in China - I'm sure, as a foreigner, I just scream "sucker" - but in my mind a lot of these problems become less severe if you've developed good relationships with local residents. Ar
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by garply 17y ago
I think a lot of those things can be turned to your advantage. If Chinese laws favor weaker IP protection, start a company that does legal arbitrage between the US and China (e.g. Megavideo - which is based in Hong Kong). Weak rule of law
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by garply 17y ago
Hm. The nebula and color gradients feel unnecessary to me, but I think there's potential for innovation in having the recommended searches prominently located on the left sidebar - provided that the recommendations are intelligent enough. I
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Scribd earned my permanent disdain for spamming engines with irrelevant content. Part of it is not their fault - my browser's flash plugin is very choosy and likes to lock up and crash my browser when their embedded pdf loads. But combine
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by garply 17y ago
Why not just post your image to Flickr?
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In all seriousness, if you don't want children, what is the purpose of marriage? What little I know about divorces and children suggests that marriage functions as a crude insurance policy for the kids - which seems reasonable. But if you
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by garply 17y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by garply 17y ago
Speaking of moving my data, is there a way for me to migrate out of Gmail? I read an interview (Playboy interview with the Google founders - http://kottke.org/plus/misc/google-playboy.html ) where Larry Page specifically said: 'For example
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That's true, it's one hell of a calculator.
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I'm not so sure the blame falls entirely on the news sites. As I've watched a seemingly unnatural amount of attention fall upon an unreleased product over the past few weeks I've come to the conclusion that we're being led around by Wolfra
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I don't think it is.
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I'm actually shopping through these different hosting services today, so this is very timely for me. What I'm really liking about CloudLayer is their ability to expand my HD storage capacity (a feature which is important to me as I operate
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Why wouldn't they? For a profit-seeking entity, lower costs seems like a good reason to me.
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I mentioned this once or twice elsewhere today, but I actually just launched a twitter link aggregator (that does index and analyze), would love some feedback: http://tweetlinx.com (using it via a twitter bot to aggregate / preview hacker
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by garply 17y ago
A couple days ago, Fred Wilson asked for an application that aggregates the links of the people he follows ( http://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/1694722348 ). I told myself, "Hey, I could probably hack that together," and so I did: http:/

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