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by jmm 16y ago
Exactly. I got in a little argument with my sister the other day about how obnoxious the modified bikes were that cruise around her neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico. People attach little two-stroke engines (or whatever) that are loud
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by jmm 16y ago
Perhaps you're both being a bit too literal? I think what Chris is trying to say is that while it may be more obvious to pursue a consumer facing startup because of the attention they get, entrepreneurs should still keep in mind the less s
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by jmm 16y ago
I co-managed a SF/LA test prep company up until recently, so if you any questions specific to test prep, hit me up. And a reaction... I'll be interested to see how well you're able to retain your better tutors. Tutoring clientele grows fir
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by jmm 16y ago
Why keep talking about college athletics? Comparing U of Phx admissions/passing criteria to that of high level athletes at big schools is not exactly redeeming. Because everyone knows the idea of the scholar-athlete at major programs is
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by jmm 16y ago
The NFL (and other football governing bodies?) are actually equally worried, if not more worried, by the repeated lower intensity hits that take place in the trenches (read: offensive and defensive linemen). So improving refereeing is per
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by jmm 16y ago
See The Streets "Fit But You Know It": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbNMLwmxYk
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by jmm 16y ago
Actually, I hope that people's budding interest in hobby beekeeping can help pick up the slack... I was thinking the other day about the viability of a small business that would install apiaries in peoples back yards, and the hosts would ge
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by jmm 16y ago
Especially considering that Mashable provides one of the worst ad experiences ever for the iPhone.
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by jmm 16y ago
What's with the language "agreed to acquire" over simply "acquired"?
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by jmm 16y ago
Yes - while most would argue that some kind of passion is necessary for a successful venture, it is rarely sufficient .
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by jmm 16y ago
This reads like an argument analysis answer choice on the LSAT or GMAT. In a good way.
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by jmm 16y ago
I was perplexed for a second and thought MG had discovered nested tweets, but actually it looks like it was just too much to ask him to take screen shots consistently.
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by jmm 16y ago
Testing related diagnoses should be viewed with a bit of skepticism, I think. I worked in test prep for five years, and our [high end] clientele had quite a way of paying their way to various diagnoses that granted extended time on the P/S
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by jmm 16y ago
Tilapia and catfish are good fish to be eating over their carnivorous cousins (food input vs. food output), but the specifics of farm raising have something to do with an individual fish's greenness. In the end, I hope that we push up pro
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by jmm 16y ago
Yes, our obsession with cleanliness/newness is one of the major culprits in our piles of waste. And to think we once lived amongst each other with communal drinking cups at the water fountain...
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by jmm 16y ago
Here you go (I had to type it up for the police report). My friend actually met the dudes at the BART station with a brown bag with a candy bar in it, the police waiting in the wings. All for my iPhone. What a guy... Me (on Steve's phone
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by jmm 16y ago
A feel-good story about the UC Berkeley police... I was playing basketball at the Cal rec center and someone stole my iPhone from my sweatshirt. Later that night I texted the phone from my roommate's hoping that I could convince the thief
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by jmm 16y ago
So this is where I groan over MG groaning about having to carry a couple extra pounds in his purse. And perhaps I'm missing some greater MG-context, but using the first person singular pronoun that often in a speculative review of a devic
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by jmm 16y ago
Based on the comments here, I think Carwoo will take a while to convince users of its utility. But there are people out there for whom this will save time and hassle. A friend of mine, for instance, recently decided on the exact car he wa
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by jmm 16y ago
Good stuff. I've used maptimize.com in the past for dealing with ad hoc geographical visualizations.
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by jmm 16y ago
I like what Tom Wolfe called it, the "fuck patois." Though he was at the time parodying lax boys, etc., at elite institutions.
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by jmm 16y ago
This ongoing "conversation" between Zed and Jaques reminds me a bit of The Fountainhead. I won't be so obvious as so say who I think is Howard Roarke and who I think is Ellsworth Toohey, I guess :)
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by jmm 16y ago
I get what you're saying. Even this exchange we're having is not productive in the truer sense of the word. But I do think titles of articles here are for the most part honest and direct, and that should provide some decent filter for avoi
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by jmm 16y ago
Oh, come on. Elon is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of our generation and it /is/ news that he's been run through the wringer by Justine. This has to be distracting from companies that are aiming to do truly great things... solar
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by jmm 16y ago
And I think this is one of the common reasons why people are OK with the AmEx annual fee... no hassles.
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by jmm 16y ago
I'm sorry to say but calling Posterous "Preposterous" isn't really a dig... the word was the inspiration for the current name and the reason they pronounce it like they do, with a short o instead of a long o. I remember some such tag line
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by jmm 16y ago
Um... that's true of buying any stock, right? So I'm not sure the logic allows you to make any kind of comparative decision.
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by jmm 16y ago
Foursquare isn't a carrier feature; it's an independent application. And the reason money is flowing in is because it's an application that is poised to be quite well suited to serving targeted local ads/offers across every mobile network.
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by jmm 16y ago
The Larry Summers of HN!
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by jmm 16y ago
I get what you're saying. But it is an interesting engineering failure story. Was one of our case studies in engineering ethics class...

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