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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
No it's not. Zynga has 200MM+ monthly active users and a revenue run rate of $900MM. It's nothing like 1999. You may think Zynga is overvalued, but if so, I'd be curious to see you put that in the form of a quantitative argument.
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
It seems like it would be easy to redraft the law to close the loophole. I mean, I can't just walk in and donate $.10 and get a toy. They have gone from bundling a toy with the happy meal, to bundling an option to purchase a toy.
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
A friend used to work in security at Akamai, and in fact he would bring home stories about the secure enclosures he was designing for insecurely colocated machines. They were supposed to emphatically destroy the data on the box if it was op
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
You're not really offering significant benefits to the hackers. We're talking about a few thousand dollars cash value. Salaries in silicon valley for sharp engineers are easily six figures. And someone who is relocating to join a startup wi
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
OK, you've got this thing off the ground, and it's bringing in a trivial amount of cash (compared to the salary you'd get at the "normal job" you could obviously get with your skills.) It sounds like you are committed to the product, and wa
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
It is not offensive, as long as you offer meaningful amounts of equity (it sounds like you are at the idea stage and are basically looking for cofounders, and you should probably offer cofounder-size stakes and use the same care you would t
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Nice to see we have "juggalo" covered. Somewhere, Violent J is smiling.
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
No. So many people have signed so many petitions, and the people who organize the petition drivers are often tricky, so the average person isn't quite sure what they signed up for. And many people sign petitions because their friends (or a
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
If you're a campaign manager, the reason you run a "sign my petition" appeal like this is usually to build up a mailing list, not because you think anyone with power will actually care much about your petition. Petitions are cheap. Then you
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
I'm getting: Request Timeout This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Represent, yo.
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Startups are just so much work. You need some help. For example, if you have two founders, then one can go out and do fundraising for a month while the other keeps the company running. If you had only one founder, you'd be dead in the water
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
What I don't understand is, how does it send the information it gathers back to its operators? I thought that these industrial facilities weren't usually connected to the internet, and that a worm had to get lucky with a thumb drive to get
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
I don't see this as troubling at all - actually, the opposite. In the 90's, people cashed out by taking their companies public. Now, for a variety of reasons including the new burden of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, founders are waiting mu
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
I'm willing to believe that the ideal candidate is a fixed point under your operator, but I think it's going to be tricky to prove convergence :)
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
The danger here is confusing activity with progress.
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
For music startups, this could make music licensing even more of a mess than it already is. Imagine negotiating separately with every artist in your catalog. I know that to some extent separate negotiations already happen for the biggest ar
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Some US musicians may soon be able to reclaim copyrights from their labels(nytimes.com)
12 points by geoffschmidt 15y ago|3 comments
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Now, with a little googling, I learn the following things: "Most viruses encode proteins that can inhibit apoptosis" There is actually already cellular machinery for triggering apoptosis when a cell is infected with a virus Some viruses ind
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Please assume good faith. My question is, "Is it more likely that natural selection didn't find the apoptotic strategy, or that the apoptotic strategy wasn't a net win, in the environment in which the natural selection happened?" So let's t
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
So if it's that easy, why did natural selection not find this solution? It sounds like the cells already have far more sophisticated machinery to detect and respond to dsRNA. Evolutionarily, adding apoptosis to that must have been found to
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by geoffschmidt 15y ago
Stripe: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/stealth-payment-startup-str... WePay: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/wepay-ice-paypal/ Both have Paypal founders among their investors.
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Ben Horowitz on the Skype acquisition(bhorowitz.com)
77 points by geoffschmidt 15y ago|18 comments