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by garply 16y ago
I'm sure HN is a huge time sink for you, but I don't believe that, taken as a whole, moderating and interacting here is a low value activity for you. I suspect HN is a very important marketing tool for YC. That said, I wish you'd spend a bi
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by garply 16y ago
The fact that you used them as a gift is particularly interesting. Obviously, the value for us is to raise our brand awareness, so the more people made aware by one discounted purchase the better. I am lucky in that my product is almost alw
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by garply 16y ago
Thanks - that's a great idea. I actually am friends with the operator of one of these clones and she herself has expressed that it might hold dubious value for most business owners. I will try to hunt down some retailers offline who've actu
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by garply 16y ago
I'm very curious to know the experience of business owners who've used Groupon - I've just made a post questioning its value at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490096 . I'd love to get HN's feedback on whether or not we should use the
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Ask HN: Should I use a Groupon-like site?
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by garply 16y ago
The notion of the sun as the fundamental power source driving the earth was somewhat novel to me. I mean, we all know humanity wouldn't exist without the sun, but I hadn't thought of the stars as the batteries of the Universe before.
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by garply 16y ago
I almost down-voted this because it's illegal and I thought it was a sarcastic remark, but then I thought about it some more and, aside from working at a job or doing consulting, it sounds like one of the few realistic ways to do what you w
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by garply 16y ago
So, if I'm reading this right, the servers will be totally distributed? I don't care about a Facebook replacement so much as a totally distributed file-sharing system where trust and recommendations are based on my real-life friends. It see
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by garply 16y ago
This is not an answer (as I am mid-twenties), but rather a related question: I have been told by many people more successful than I that I should always try to be friends with people older than I. How can I do this?
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Yup, but you and I are not casual computer users - some people are frustrated by the change and decide it's easier to just use Baidu.
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China is only nominally communist and has no dictator. I think pseudo-capitalist oligarchy is more accurate.
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I don't think this changes much - Google isn't really going dark in China, people will just have to type in google.com (which many of them probably already do) or google.com.hk. I think much of the damage from Google pulling out has already
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by garply 16y ago
Yes, but for little startups / projects like the kind you mentioned, you could likely go through a middleman with good connections who could get you a working ICP, which would probably technically be that of a shell company you did not own
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by garply 16y ago
The NYT link is just a short snippet doing summary. This is a better link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/06/23/128047942/more-mon...
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by garply 16y ago
No, I don't think taste is the biggest selling point, but just as there is a dizzying array of potential flavors in nature, so too is there a dizzying array of marijuana intoxications. Just because most types of 'drunk' are similar does not
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by garply 16y ago
Maybe you don't have enough friends who smoke pot. Not only will marijuana consumers judge by flavor, they will also judge by harshness, and, probably most importantly, by the style of intoxication the strain creates (for example racing, in
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by garply 16y ago
I'm in a very similar situation. Moved from Silicon Valley to Beijing and haven't looked back. I can only reaffirm what olalonde says - and if you're worried about the GFW, a VPN is a simple workaround. I'd also point out that China's not j
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by garply 16y ago
I've had like a $5 chair that kills my back (jabs into it) whenever I slouch against it for the past year. Every couple of weeks I think to myself: "I really should go buy a more comfortable chair" and then I reprimand myself because I feel
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by garply 16y ago
Regarding losethos's message: I'm really curious how that nonsense text is generated. Presumably it's not totally random - and perhaps "Incurable" and "Pays the bills" are frequently queried search terms. I wonder what else went into that a
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by garply 16y ago
Welcome to how the majority of nations in the world operate.
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I really want a transcript because the video is going to take like 5 hours to load here in China. Or maybe the video hosting company just needs to get some servers in Asia.
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Ah, the ability to switch is a good thing. I had issues with Pidgin, for one.
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by garply 16y ago
StumpWM is another one for you lispers out there. Tiling WMs are indeed awesome. However, some applications just don't play nice with them - if you use one of these apps frequently, you will have problems and probably end up switching to so
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by garply 16y ago
Travel is great, but living abroad, in as alien of a culture as you can find, is even better.
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As he said in his article, it probably depends on your location and social group.
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I'm from the Midwest and that was the response I got from a lot of people when I first started my own business. More interesting is who really supported me at the start - I'm from the upper middle class and people always expected me to go o
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by garply 16y ago
That's not really fair. My parents and my gf's parents both have houses with empty space that we could live in that's not being used. Essentially the space is being wasted. I bet many people's parents have similar available space (probably
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by garply 16y ago
Snake is a lot of fun.
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Why does a business need to be sellable to be valuable? And why aren't photo studios valuable? Our company uses photo studios to photograph our products - they're definitely valuable to us and I see more competition in the space as a good t
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by garply 16y ago
Interesting that all the paths involve selling the company. What about generating $5M for yourself through sales of the company's products instead of a sale of the company itself?

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