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by gregcohn 12y ago
Doesn't any civilization-ending apocalypse, if human-precipitated, necessarily imply that any of the political and moral dimensions of other comments are a waste of time? What good is handing down our political thinking to a new societ
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Awesome. Hope you can find one or more full-time ones! (If that's the way you're hoping to go.)
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Agree with point about title being too strong for general news, esp. given geographic constraints. As a point of reference, Uber do not pick up at LAX and have specific in-app notification prompts to tell you this if you open the app there.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Voice.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
It's important to strike the equity deal in such a way as to create incentives for your actual objectives. There is a huge, huge difference between giving someone a little equity spiff in lieu of cash for professional services (e.g., a
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I never thought of zipcar as a phone booth you can rent by the hour, but that's actually a pretty good solve if you have one nearby. You can reserve them in advance.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
People might send you mo bitcoins, which could cause mo problems.
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MMS comes to Google Voice(techcrunch.com)
1 points by gregcohn 12y ago|1 comments
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by gregcohn 12y ago
There's some good advice here, but so far no one has said the most important thing, which is to clarify for yourselves what your other best option is. (In MBA jargon, your "BATNA" -- Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement
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Ask HN: Share your file sharing and management for small teams
1 points by gregcohn 12y ago|0 comments
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by gregcohn 12y ago
While hiding your roller suitcase behind a lamppost.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Assuming you are technical, even a failure is probably a net positive to your career prospects. This is particularly true if you are very early in your career, or are later in your career and have been involved with some well-known or succ
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Zinger appreciated, but it's a disclosed surcharge -- the real problem would be if it were deceptive. As any New Yorker will tell you, pre-Uber cab regulations were not exactly followed to the letter. For example, they state among oth
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I can't helping thinking "right problem, wrong solution". I would take the bet that there's more ongoing demand for voice calls than many in the tech community realize -- but I don't think this demand is primarily
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I think it might succeed.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Asana for projects and structured/hierarchical lists, ideation, etc. Evernote for more detailed note-taking. Use asana to point to google docs, dropbox files, etc.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Consider the alternative: "Hi, I think you might be a developer, but I haven't looked at any of your public stuff, and yet in a thinly veiled attempt to make it seem like this email is personalized, I'm going to tell you I t
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Independently of being a bad idea from the entrepreneur's point of view, it is a very negative signal to a potential investor if you can raise your own early-stage round (per loumf's comment). Fundraising is harder than it looks o
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Predatory behavior unless perhaps it's in addition to their own investment. See http://www.feld.com/archives/2011/06/warning-to-all-entrepre... .
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I hadn't really thought of Linkedin as a company that charges money for privacy before, but I think this is a correct interpretation.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
For blood pressure (and iOS), the Withings blood pressure cuff works well. Mine has a 30-pin connector and i haven't actually checked to make sure it will work with Lightning yet, but it works fine on an gen2 iPad.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
How about a little OP love for a great question. All the responses saying liability is a large part of insurance cost are correct, but comprehensive is a non-zero part and your cap in terms of reimbursement does in fact go down over time.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Better network QoS and noise canceling. It's odd -- and somewhat appalling to me -- that there's all this innovation to which call quality (the point!) seems to be inversely correlated.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
No because betting on a network effect before there is a network effect is speculating, and I'm not into speculation. This doesn't mean it won't go up, or won't work, I'm just not sure those two things are correlat
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I find it surprisingly sticky and think it could be great. I am also not prepared to accept the assertion that it has failed. I will agree it's not as successful as it could be though. For one thing, they only recently added the capa
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Evaluating this from a cost/benefit point of view requires more context. If it's a brand you don't mind being associated with publicly (on the news, in blogs, in corporate pr, etc), and if you are reasonably sure you would g
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by gregcohn 12y ago
$ rm hat.jpg
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by gregcohn 12y ago
OP said "invest", not "speculate".
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by gregcohn 12y ago
My answer would be, it depends on your objectives. Are you hoping to build this into a large game company? Are you happy to try to craft a "lifestyle" game studio? Do you care about money? Are you just wanting to see lots of pe
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by gregcohn 12y ago
haha yes. of course the bastards would do this and then demand confidentiality. i guess it depends, then, on whether the OP would get greater satisfaction from publishing or from settling.

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