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by jeromec 17y ago
As President Obama said in his State of the Union address whatever the truth is can be considered irrelevant, because the rest of the world believes in curtailing pollution, and will look to invest in the countries that are delivering green
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by jeromec 17y ago
I haven't read all comments, so apologies if something has been covered. I think you could make some serious cash if you execute this correctly as well as heed customer feedback. For the website, several things... The site looks great, but
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by jeromec 17y ago
> E.g. I believe safe municipal bonds are now returning around 3% after tax. If you want to get more than that you have to buy bonds with a higher risk of default. I heard California bonds had jumped because of debt/credit problems, a
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by jeromec 17y ago
No
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Poll: Do Corporations Have the Same Natural Rights as Individuals?
4 points by jeromec 17y ago|5 comments
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by jeromec 17y ago
Yes
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by jeromec 17y ago
I like #47 more, not doubt about it. It fits the brief better, and leaves a stronger brand impression IMO. However, I agree with matt1 that having the character looking directly at you may be an issue. I think it's okay... I'm trying to r
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by jeromec 17y ago
My problem is that I was thinking only of big ideas, which was a mistake because in the meantime my finances suffered while waiting for a larger payoff. I have a list now up to 50 ideas accumulated over years, and many with great potential
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Hillary Clinton to Make Internet Freedom a Policy Priority(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by jeromec 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeromec 17y ago
I agree with pg. If your site is targeted to mainstream, as opposed to geeks or early adopters, you would have to fight really hard to go against default mind-share people will have for dot com. Remember, many people still don't know "what
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by jeromec 17y ago
You might be surprised at the responses you'd get. As you probably know web startups are cheaper than ever to build; that's why the YC model works so well. It's not in a startup's interest to raise huge amounts and give up lots of equity ea
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by jeromec 17y ago
Something I'd actually seriously consider in your place is YC companies. They get around 20K which is just enough to create a prototype/beta to solicit a larger round. This is not very much and I imagine many don't raise money right away af
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by jeromec 17y ago
I think the answer heavily depends on how confident you are in yourself. Do you feel your success was a fluke, or could you mimic it with something else? Having 24K in capital is great, but if you know anything about the tech startup space
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by jeromec 17y ago
I have a lot of respect for this guy. The thing that disturbed me most from the article was this: People walking to their cars and getting in their cars and sitting in their cars while he's still loading the bags from the cart. No "thank y
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by jeromec 17y ago
Whip up some minnow soup and algae salad, Aunt Edna is coming over. ;)
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by jeromec 17y ago
> God cannot be proved or disproved Incorrect. Why would you think not? After all, you can see God, pet God, and even show him to others. However, it may be that you are not referring to the Great Dane named God I read about online. I
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by jeromec 17y ago
I don't think it's astroturfing. I've always heard Michael Arrington explain that his ideology (and I imagine what he tells his writers) is to write about what interests him, not worrying about the audience, saying readers will either come
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by jeromec 17y ago
Yes, jacquesm, you were one of the first names I began to recognize, and in one early thread you were being downvoted, something to do with poverty differences in nations I believe. I thought man this guy is getting beat down, but you stood
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by jeromec 17y ago
...expressing an unpopular or contrarian opinion, etc.. Amen to that. I'm still a fairly new member, and recently I finally got past the karma threshold to be allowed to downvote. I felt like I'd ascended to Mt. Olympus, and couldn't wa
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by jeromec 17y ago
Way to be contrary to the maverick, @jason. ;) I totally agree with you, though; people will totally craft their own viewing experience. I was catching up on a Simpsons episode recently and when the 30 sec ad started, without even thinking,
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by jeromec 17y ago
I was joking (mostly), but if we did it I imagine we'd go all the way and host the censored content, changing IPs faster than they could block. They would have to wall us off completely to their people, which is exactly what we'd want.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Well, since we control the root servers maybe we can fight fire with fire and have some fun with China. We could randomly allow innocent (to the Chinese govt) sites to be redirected to free speech and human rights activist sites.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Awesome. It looks like a mod here changed the title for HN. The original article has a misleading title reading "China: Google attack part of widespread spying effort".
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by jeromec 17y ago
Could you change the original title's construction? It currently suggests Google initiated an attack.
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by jeromec 17y ago
It's not that Google is running away from Chinese hackers. Google has some of the brightest engineers in the world. The attack appeared to target some Chinese human rights activists. These people were using Google accounts, likely because G
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by jeromec 17y ago
> "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on google.cn," Good for Google. China may be an emerging force on the world stage, but so is the spread of information, and I know which I'd place my bet on;
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by jeromec 17y ago
There was a thread called "What are you working on?" here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032699 and someone suggested the topic come up periodically, which I thought was a great idea. Even better, I think, would be if pg would add a
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by jeromec 17y ago
Do you apply your indignation to bankruptcy to all cases? After all, bankruptcy is used strategically in business situations by everyone from General Motors, to airlines, to Donald Trump who usually come back with even larger undertakings,
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by jeromec 17y ago
Are you the HN member behind http://big-old-house.blogspot.com ? I've been enjoying lurking and following that site since it was mentioned here.
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by jeromec 17y ago
Wow, now I know where to look the next time I have a hardware project. Nice.

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