jakehow

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by jakehow 16y ago
Clickable link: http://techfounders.heroku.com
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Tech Founders NYC Inaugural Meeting
6 points by jakehow 16y ago|2 comments
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by jakehow 17y ago
I saw multiple Bump interactions in highly dense technophile populations at SXSW where two people got a random contact when they bumped.
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by jakehow 17y ago
All of the press implies that this lets you make payments by bumping phones. If you have actually used the application, you will see that all it does is send the person's email address to you. Because Bump is not deterministic(ie, you coul
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by jakehow 17y ago
NYC - Onsite We are a pre-launch mobile payments startup with a unique twist on how we think payments should work. iPhone/Android developers - looking for people with experience shipping products on these platforms. Familiarity with crypto/
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by jakehow 17y ago
Chargify is led by EngineYard founder Lance Walley, and came out of Grasshopper's ( http://grasshopper.com ) inhouse incubator. I would not hesitate to go with them.
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by jakehow 17y ago
Mutual funds are no different. You contract/agree with a fund that represents your investment criteria and they invest on your behalf and charge you a fee. There are already 'values' driven mutual funds in existence today. ( ex: 'green' m
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by jakehow 17y ago
Shares in a corporation are a contract(read: agreement) that you have with that corporation and the other shareholders. If you think that donating to a campaign or cause is always wrong, you can seek out companies that do not do that, and o
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by jakehow 17y ago
Maybe, but are we going to do away with PACs, which are essentially corporations, also? If people want their influence to be heard and heeded they will just find some other place to put that pressure. My point is that this in and of itself
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by jakehow 17y ago
He does need to approve comments before they post. However, he has approved other comments and made a response since I made the submission. http://img.skitch.com/20100122-8ei6k4jishxjw3h7q91rg1trfc.jp...
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by jakehow 17y ago
Posted a comment directly to Doug's blog but apparently he doesn't approve of it or think it adds to the discussion. I thought that I was actually supporting some of his argument. Here it is: Hey Doug, “Corporations” in the simplest sense
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Corporations as Uber-Citizens(rushkoff.com)
1 points by jakehow 17y ago|9 comments
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by jakehow 17y ago
Again, not sure how this matters as it seems like you are going down a path that is unrelated to the actual protocol. There has been discussion of Ripple on the agile banking list and other payment systems that rely on intermediaries, and O
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by jakehow 17y ago
You deal with it the same way you do in real life. You don't do business with them. If I only trust dollars I can stick to dollars. But if I trust Brooklyn Greenbacks or the BACE, then I can use them. Not sure how this is related to the
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by jakehow 17y ago
Surely you can comprehend that people might want to make transactions related to securities, current accounts, and any other store of value/assets?
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by jakehow 17y ago
Just got back from Ghana. RT flight was about $1250 direct from NY. Internet is definitely still spotty, though it can be acquired. Accommodations in Accra that match what you are used to in the Americas can be quite expensive, but food an
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by jakehow 17y ago
Check21 should have alleviated this but I think ACH and Check21 are separate rules systems. A bank I use (USAA) lets me scan checks and upload the image to deposit the check. Funds are available instantly (I do not know if they are lendin
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by jakehow 17y ago
Fuel efficiency has increased, the industry is just not always optimizing for the miles per gallon metric. The Model T 4 cylinder made 20hp. There are 4 cylinder motors today that make 200+hp and go 20+mpg in the vehicles they are used in.
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by jakehow 17y ago
Roundtrip SFO->MEM is ~$500. In comparison to the costs of a liver transplant it is miniscule (even if you go 6x). Most middle income people could do the same thing if they: A) have savings and B) think the situation demands it Supple
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by jakehow 17y ago
I am pretty sure NYU has a summer stay program in their dorms. You may want to check SVA also. I lived in a student only residence that was run by a private company for 1 semester quite a while ago. Seems like it has changed a bit since t
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by jakehow 17y ago
Not sure if using another sites API is what you were getting at but I have heard some people using the Viddler API (no personal experience with it). http://developers.viddler.com/documentation/
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by jakehow 18y ago
Seeing Woods's law play out is always amusing. "Whenever the private sector introduces an innovation that makes the poor better off than they would have been without it, or that offers benefits or terms that no one else is prepared to offer
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by jakehow 19y ago
The problem is that it doesnt work. I installed wifi in large NYC apt buildings for a long time. WiFi just doesnt work as reliably as wireline solutions. Here in NYC, I cannot even use my own wifi network from more than 15 feet away bec
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by jakehow 19y ago
The central banks are flooding the markets w/ currency right now to try and bail out the banks who took on bad debt. The European central bank floated more currency(~100bn) than the Fed did(~60bn), so I think that is why the dollar gained a