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by jeromec 15y ago
Sure, using an A&P is fine. I'd still imagine the maintenance costs on this thing, consisting mostly of a drag engine, propeller, and chute would be less costly than that of a traditional airplane wouldn't you agree? I do agree it would
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by jeromec 15y ago
Airplane maintenance is way more expensive than car maintenance, but every hour you drive this thing on the road will count as an hour towards maintenance required at airplane rates. Yes, but this isn't an airplane. It's a flying car ;) S
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by jeromec 15y ago
Yes, he drove it 1400 miles, and it does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, with a top speed over 95 mph. In the air it goes 40 mph, so it's definitely more able as a car. But it's also a boat and a snowmobile! "The propeller has 3 uses: in the air, on t
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by jeromec 15y ago
Sure, it's got some market value in general, but how much is it worth accumulated in a single place? The same as its market value in general. Large parts of the reserve cannot be spent, used, distributed in any significant way. So how mu
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by jeromec 15y ago
The problem is everything you mentioned except for bitcoin has something backing it up. Gold and silver have thousands of years of history being regarded as valuable backing them up (rare metals with pleasing qualities/applications). And th
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by jeromec 15y ago
I had to upvote this for the humor, but I have yet to flag a Bitcoin post. It's technology, it's interesting, and some are clearly interested in talking about it, which sounds on-topic to me. Funny, though.
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by jeromec 15y ago
It's only standard insofar as Sara Lacy, now a regular TC writer, wrote it. I was a regular reader of TC at the time Sarah Lacy was transitioned (stolen?) from Businessweek , after a similar longer form write up she did about venture capit
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by jeromec 15y ago
Inertia and lack of time/energy are understandable, but unfortunately that's a sure fire way to have another 7 years of non-results. You mentioned not having great web skills, but you don't need to in order to make money online. You just ne
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by jeromec 15y ago
...to just leave the main site in place to preserve the URLs for pages that have been around a while. Google shows about 4 links pointing to healthgazelle.com ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=link%3Ahealthgazelle.... ) ... all fro
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by jeromec 15y ago
Yes, I saw the link to the blog, but that's not what I mean. In terms of SEO you want to think of your site as a house, or library. You don't want to have people be presented with distractions or have to enter through some back door to get
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by jeromec 15y ago
Still, I want to use this site to learn about building traffic as it is the most developed site I have. Okay, if you want to learn about building traffic you need to learn either SEO (learning best practices for Google's model), or how to
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by jeromec 15y ago
I actually just looked into your site healthgazelle.com. I'm afraid I would recommend pursuing another avenue to reach $2,000-3000 per month. One area you seem to be good at is writing. I'd pick another area you're an expert in or passionat
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by jeromec 15y ago
How would one get more quality traffic with this specific challenge: It's a health site where I talk about getting myself well when doctors claim it cannot be done. The first thing to define is "quality traffic". Let's say the health cond
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Invite HN: StartupsWorking.com(startupsworking.com)
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by jeromec 15y ago
You know, I believe I read about that on HN long ago. Google is utterly failing me for the lookup, though.
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by jeromec 15y ago
I think I heard something about Warren Buffet paying the eleven-year-old kid of a relative to put up his site, seriously.
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by jeromec 15y ago
The first 5 mins of your conf call / meeting are sometimes just spent troubleshooting for guests. Wow, and that's the norm for a 5 billion dollar industry? Well, considering Microsoft just bought Skype for 8 billion you should be in prett
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by jeromec 15y ago
I don't know, to me the narration puts good emphasis on the loading difference. If the target is people who value their time -- as many business professionals do -- I think it's a good attention grabber.
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by jeromec 15y ago
I do feel a bit like kicking myself for not seeing that bitcoin would end up where it is today. I first heard about bitcoin on HN when they were worth around .01 each, and could be generated fairly easily by simply running the mining softwa
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by jeromec 15y ago
Hey, I see you're gaging potential reader interest by asking what they might pay. You might consider using StoryFunded ( http://www.storyfunded.com ) for this. Our site lets authors raise funds for promising book projects. Like Kickstarter
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by jeromec 15y ago
I think Pg is right for not adding a lot of features, or spending the limited time he has working on the UI I believe HN's plain design is actually an intended feature, not a bug. From one of PG's essays: So the most important thing a co
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by jeromec 15y ago
These are great ideas, thanks! You have a good point about the marketability perception of the site. We may have to make the site more appealing to less casual readers. We will be watching to see how things play out with reader interest.
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by jeromec 15y ago
We're not really competing with Kickstarter. An author could use both sites, for example (if Kickstarter decides to feature their project). We think it's pretty hard for authors to make their work stand out among so much noise, including th
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by jeromec 15y ago
The focus is on fiction, but we have categories for non-fiction and "other". Ultimately, contributors decide what they want to fund. OpenCalais looks interesting. Something that advanced would be much farther down the road for us, though. R
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by jeromec 15y ago
Several reasons. First, we're focused only on books. A talented author can build a fan base and even early market demand. Also, Kickstarter manually approves which projects are accepted (about 80 per week I believe). With StoryFunded the co
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by jeromec 15y ago
> Um, no. I am building this. I am not just sitting around thinking up some idea and wishing it were true. Well, now we're talking! :) You are under the wrong impression. It's not that hackers don't want to see idea people succeed, it's
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by jeromec 15y ago
> For me, whenever I have "an idea" I take it as far as I can take it sans having it developed. But that's the problem. You know why? Because anybody can do this. You can have one million people do this, for one million years, and you
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by jeromec 15y ago
phlux, didn't we have this argument before? ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2061369 To try and clarify further: ideas are not worthless, but they also don't have value. How can that be? Simple, unless an idea is coupled with execut
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by jeromec 15y ago
> I am also concerned by the willingness of communications companies to respond to requests without warrants. You probably don't want to read this then: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/warrantless-eavesdr... It’s easy to for
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by jeromec 15y ago
If you're not a US citizen dollars are not meant to be held as a store of value and trade (although some outside the US actually do use them this way). However, to answer your question directly you can get interest from the US government in

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