jmduke

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by jmduke 13y ago
I'd say presidents are generally better judges of character than the vast majority of the populace, given their position. It's fun and often therapeutic to assume that government officials and politicians aren't as smart as
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by jmduke 13y ago
Put another way: since March 20, Yahoo has averaged an acquisition every ten days.
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think I agree with both you and the commenter to whom you're replying. My general purchasing process involves: 1. Go to Costco and purchase as many huge things in bulk as I can. People like to equate 'buying in bulk' wit
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by jmduke 13y ago
I discovered this when going to a Target in Seattle after two decades of going to Targets in Virginia, and was pleasantly surprised when I could more or less find everything easily. It's, in a way, a similar value proposition as Starbu
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by jmduke 13y ago
The implication that Walmart and Target executives have a worse idea about what's best for their business model than someone who reads an article about CostCo is hilariously disingenuous.
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by jmduke 13y ago
Overstock.com recently launched a promotional campaign selling all their hardcovers for 10% less than Amazon.com.
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by jmduke 13y ago
In terms of actual content: um, The Economist. I don't think Hacker News is a particularly more valuable bellwhether of 'valuable content' for non startup/tech-related stuff than the publishers themselves (I'd sa
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by jmduke 13y ago
Benedict's analysis is consistently interesting, as he tends to apply a level of financial rigor often absent from tech journalism/analysis. His stuff for Enders is incredible (though its unfortunate how difficult it is to get
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"How do I cite a tweet?"(mla.org)
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by jmduke 13y ago
Napkin math is saying that you'd only have to purchase thirteen orders a year (13 * 7.99 = roughly 104) at above $35 each to recoup your investment. Even for someone living alone, that's very easy to do.
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by jmduke 13y ago
Mehta, in a call with TechCrunch, stated that simply tacking on new cities to his company’s service doesn’t, in a sense, prove much; that’s just hiring. I think the whole idea behind geographic expansion is that it proves more people are
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by jmduke 13y ago
On one hand, I really really want Soylent to be successful; it would solve so many problems if we had a ubiquitous, cheap, and above all else effective meal replacement option. On the other hand, I can't shake the feeling that it&#x2
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think the implication here that Yahoo doesn't put a lot of thought into their landing page is disingenuous. Keep in mind that the majority of Yahoo's consumers are people who have Yahoo as their home page.
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SaltyBet: online gambling on AI fighting matches(saltybet.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
why not just join profitable companies that are no longer startups? This is important, as people seem to forget that startup is a subset of small business and not vice versa. There are a lot of incredibly profitable businesses with head
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by jmduke 13y ago
I started doing the seven-minute workout before I showered and ate breakfast in the morning and it improves my day immeasurably. Getting the juices flowing as soon as possible is quick, easy, and wonderful.
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I'm curious: how did you detect who was/wasn't a gamer?
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Bezos has what The Washington Post needs: imagination and patience(poynter.org)
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I went into this article thinking it'd be a puff piece, but the details about holacracy are very well done and a lot of the insights are more or less actionable even if you're at a more traditionally-organized company. Something t
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The $300 Million Button (2009)(uie.com)
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I think SimpleLegal is my favorite startup out of the batch; I'm an absolute sucker for ideas that boil down to "apply common sense and technology to verticals that are usually ignored by those things." Really excited to see
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Letter from Don Graham about the sale of the Post(washingtonpost.com)
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Block by block, Brooklyn's past and present(bklynr.com)
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What is EdgeRank?(whatisedgerank.com)
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Quality is the best business plan(bokardo.com)
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Entrepreneur Vignettes(followgen.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
This is true, but I think the U.S.' education spending doesn't just go towards academics but extracurricular activities (sports, the arts, dances/events, facilities + infrastructure) to an extent further than that of other co
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by jmduke 13y ago
You added Chei? I lost many a Naga because of you, until I got the hang of Temporal Distortion :)
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by jmduke 13y ago
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is an open source game (and not open source in the sense of "you can look at our code but don't expect us to value your input", open source in the sense of "make pull requests!") and it&#x2
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by jmduke 13y ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982459

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