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by ithought 15y ago
Like everything, it's all about moderation. It's very useful to have something to say in social and work situations. Spending 10-minutes a week reading pop culture or sports news, or keeping up on what concerts, events etc are coming to yo
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by ithought 15y ago
You would prefer to see a grown man die on TV? Your comment is wrong and false. He doesn't spend every night in a hotel, the shoots are between 5 to 7 days. Some he stays outside all night, the other supporting shots he stays in a hotel.
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by ithought 15y ago
I wouldn't conflate 'bullshitting' with bullshit. The ability to schmooze is largely about communicating personal emotions and resonating with others in obvious ways. You acknowledge their feelings, regardless of how trivial it is, and no
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by ithought 15y ago
Like RevolutionMoney? Free transfer fees I think, then sold to American Express. (Was/is Steve Case's company.) I hope Dwolla never sells for this reason.
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by ithought 15y ago
The biggest real cost of a film is film; the stock, its processing and the prints to be distributed to the theaters. This makes the distribution channel narrow and the market is such that spending more money almost always mean breaking even
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by ithought 15y ago
Already is and will. Check out Shai Agassi. (BetterPlace) EDIT- Israel, Denmark, Australia and some US testing. Why is this downvoted? My point was a solution exists and is being implemented on a large scale.
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by ithought 15y ago
My only interest in Facebook is keeping in touch with old friends and having a way to remind either myself or others to reach out and say hello. If it wasn't for e-mails (gmail), I would had never re-connected with some people on Facebook.
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by ithought 15y ago
I can cut 40% of a film's budget just going outside of the studio system. Plus more with technology you reference. Studios want the films to appear to lose money so they can keep all the profit. They control distribution and inflate produ
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by ithought 15y ago
Studios inflate production budgets so it appears the films lose money in order to cut out investors/producers/etc from net profit participation. The studios make their money on distribution and by charging exorbitant rates. A lot of money
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by ithought 15y ago
This is absolutely wrong. Feudalism died because people joined debate societies, talked about enlightenment ideas, fought hard and took over the government to fight the oppressive nature of the monarchy and the Catholic Church. Honorable p
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by ithought 15y ago
We should have lobbyists pushing Congress to investigate Hollywood studios for massive fraud- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by ithought 15y ago
This is indeed awesome. I was literally just thinking about the importance and potential of something like this. FLUX Power bms are too expensive but remarkable technology. Thanks for doing this. It is open technology like this that wil
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by ithought 15y ago
I like Aaron's post on this topic- http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity I currently work at 6 startups, 12 hour shifts, over 24 days per month. The 2 main startups I spend 48 hours per week at. The other 4 take up 36 hours per wee
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by ithought 15y ago
Jew here. I'm willing to give up my religion if I can find a Muslim friend to pledge to give up his religion. We could become deists and agree to stop allowing religion to influence government, culture and education.
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by ithought 15y ago
I'm gonna try this. Coding to me is mystifying even though I started in grade school. Later I met a hardware engineer/hacker when I was 18 and I decided then to focus on the business side even though I had made a few applications. He was
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by ithought 15y ago
If a man like Santorum was President, Google would probably be required by law to fix it. The problem with your excellent comment is that nobody gamed Google's search ranking. Google can't censor the result as it is legitimate. The real p
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by ithought 15y ago
He could have stopped before PayPal after he sold Zip2 for over $300 million in 1999. Elon's incredible and the next 50 years will be amazing because of people like him.
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Those small tech startups are exploiting a loophole in the law to allow them to monetize the studios' content. There is nothing unethical about monopolizing access to content you create. Think of how profitable cable & satellite TV is
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by ithought 15y ago
This is spot on. I didn't realize until now that the owner of MegaUpload was kimble. Unbelievable. He used to have all these intensive flash sites celebrating him, his businesses, his hacking etc. Everyone I knew considered him a joke a
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by ithought 15y ago
I thought 137 was the secret number? Feynman, Heisenberg, Weisskopf and Pauli were intrigued by it. http://www.1377731.com/137/
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by ithought 15y ago
I am guilty of downloading one episode of Pawn Stars after my DVR messed up the recording. My DVR re-recorded it the next day. If this is illegal, then I'll just get a VPN and cancel my satellite service.
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I started writing notes if I thought it was worth remembering. Too often I'd read the article and then later try to discuss it with someone and forget simple facts. I realized I'm not even learning anything, just temporarily distracting m
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by ithought 15y ago
This is highly inaccurate. You guys are referring to Gresham's Law which is only applicable due to legal tender laws. Without legal tender laws, the "good money" wouldn't be driven out by the "bad money" (i.e. US currency). Also, the reaso