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by jdp23 15y ago
Indeed. I don't know about today, but back in 2006 MSN was as popular as AIM and Yahoo! worldwide and particularly strong in certain areas -- there are some countries where it was even a verb ("I'll MSN you"). But then MS changed the name
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by jdp23 15y ago
I would potentially go for something like this, assuming I could then use the code as a basis for ongoing tweaking. $1000 seems reasonable, maybe higher, depending on how much is getting prototyped.
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by jdp23 15y ago
i'd suggest both an "other" and "decline to state" choice. or go crazy and include Libertarian, Tea Party, Green, and Working Families Party as well!
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by jdp23 15y ago
It's a lot more complex than that. Check out Lama Yeshe's Introduction to Tantra: Transformation of Desire -- http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Tantra-Lama-Thubten-Yeshe...
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by jdp23 15y ago
I don't think "no mind" is a trivial solution by any means; and Vajrayana Buddhism (as well as some other branches) do allow for desire. Agreed that there can be other solutions as well. However I do think Buddhism has some very valid crit
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by jdp23 15y ago
by contrast I've had exactly one interaction with Arrington and he tried to bully me. http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=1552#comment-88361
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by jdp23 15y ago
I wonder how AOL feels about the acquisition these days? I've talked with a lot of people recently who feel that the "tech blogging" space is ripe for disruption ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
Great comments, thanks so much for taking the time to share!
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by jdp23 15y ago
presumably your new investors understand the difference and are happy with the real numbers. so it's a great chance to invent the future (as you said above): do it the right way, and have other folks copy you.
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How Long Until The RIAA Kills The Best Music Service Around?(techdirt.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
Congrats to Sam and Nick. Sound exciting! This has to be a bit disappointing from Facebook's perspective. When they bought Divvyshot it was described as a talent acquisition ... turns out that at least for Sam, it was just a short-term ta
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by jdp23 15y ago
No I'm not involved with it ... agreed, it still needs some work; it's still an interesting direction to go. Aza Raskin's privacy icons look great but similarly I'm not sure how easy they are for end users to understand. It's a bit of a c
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by jdp23 15y ago
Interesting! Have you looked at also generating "privacy nutrition labels"[1] automatically? [1] http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/
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by jdp23 15y ago
Agreed, there's huge potential upside if it all goes well. PayPal was acquired for $1.5B. A $2B for Square (at its very early stage, with a part-time CEO) seems pretty bubblicious to me.
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by jdp23 15y ago
about that bubble ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
For those who have been following the Economist debate, I'm curious who you think is getting the best of it so far?
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Look at Paul's example that I posted above
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by jdp23 15y ago
From "How to Disagree"'s definition of Ad Hominem: For example, if a senator wrote an article saying senators' salaries should be increased, one could respond: Of course he would say that. He's a senator. This wouldn't refute the
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by jdp23 15y ago
I was too. Sure, there was plenty of uninformed media coverage jumping to conclusions. As I said at the time, though, the "this is not a problem" camp was equally premature -- and came across as cavalier to the tens of thousands of people
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by jdp23 15y ago
Isn't this the kind of argument that Paul Graham charcterizes as "ad hominem" and usually gets voted down on Hacker News? Don't get me wrong, personally I think it's very valid to bring up and important to keep in mind while reading their a
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US CIO Vivek Kundra to Leave Post in August(bloomberg.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
As somebody whose last startup had people working remotely from four different states ... yikes! With state budgets as tight as they are, it's no surprise to see them looking for reasons to tax out-of-state companies. And it sounds like it
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by jdp23 15y ago
Well said, and I'm seeing the same behavior and attitudes with friends and acquaintances. The high school and college students I've talked to recently have similar feelings about Facebook as well. There are a lot of emerging social network
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by jdp23 15y ago
Great description, thanks for sharing. I too am very introverted by nature, although these days people are shocked to discover it: I'm frequently acting like an extrovert, and usually enjoying it! But it's learned behavior ... And it's a
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by jdp23 15y ago
Historically, companies like Citi haven't faced any meaningful consequences for putting their customers at risk by not doing "security 101". Will things be any different this time?
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by jdp23 15y ago
It's not a matter of women being "scared off". Diversifying the people at the top is one of the key steps to getting a more diverse organization. This was an opportunity to do it. YC chose not to. In contrast, there's 500 Startups, where
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by jdp23 15y ago
Four more guys! That'll really help scale to a more gender-balanced group of companies! No insult to Sam, Garry, Emmet, and Justin who I'm sure are very talented. But given how Jessica Livingston talks about how hard it's been for Y Combina
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Facebook User Numbers Growing Quickly, or Slowly, or Falling(insidefacebook.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
excellent points. and post-it notes and a bunch of pens too.
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Ask HN: What should I bring to Startup Weekeend?
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