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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I once got approach by someone putting together a fund for just this purpose. The rules were something like: 1. You buy into the fund with your shares. 2. The shares had to have had a valuation by a major VC in the past N months (N=4 IIRC)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The only code I would trust is the code I generate myself... ;) I dunno about you, but it's pretty clear that the code I generate myself is the last code I would trust.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Mr. Gamble boarded at the Choate School in Wallington, Conn. If the article can't get even the verifiable facts right, why would anyone bother with the rest?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
It is beyond me why anyone would open with an example from the year 2000, the most artificial, inflated, unreal market in 3 generations. Salesmen were mere order-takers: They could spout whatever bullshit they fancied and still deliver inc
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Original title: The Next Big Consumer Application Will Possibly Not Coming From An Accelerator Linkbait title: The Next Big Consumer Application Is Most Likely Not Coming From An Accelerator GMAFB. Edit: Title changed, blood pressure
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> And guess who needs untraceable shell companies? Patent trolls. Why is that?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> There's basically no difference between the two. 1. There's more to contract law than reading the contract. 2. There is a huge difference: Google gets the placement right, Apple does not.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> wrong or non existent hospital. FWIW: I can see that turning into a lawsuit.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> No one knows what really happened for Apple to make this change. I find it very unlikely this move was prompted by Google. Honestly, it looks positively amateurish the way the change was implemented by Apple. I will admit it will d
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Could the message be any more clear? Stop putting Apple in your critical path. They hold all the cards and you hold none.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> This is a good thing, right? Yes. Lobbyist = legitimate bribery, and we need somebody bribing congressmen to start voting our way on patents and copyright (among other things.) Of course, they'll be bribed to vote against small com
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
BTW, I agree. I lived in the Boston area (mostly across the river in Cambridge) for over a decade and still miss it somewhat. OTOH, I do not miss winter in Boston. When they paved over the cowpaths, they didn't leave room for snow remova
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Would love to see Boston added. (Most believe that Boston city planners used the throw-spaghetti-against-the-wall method of city planning.)
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> But the bank… was different. No one could give an overview of the wholesale mortgage management system. As a side note: The fact that few folks understood the global mortgage ecosystem lead directly to the housing bubble. For the ba
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
1. Thanks for the arxiv link, (OP: it belongs at the top) 2. Magnetic characteristics of perfect diamagnetism are indeed "actual superconductivity." If there were some residual resistance, the magnetic field would not be completely expel
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> This is an attention-grabbing headline, at best. Absolutely incorrect. Superconductivity occurs because two electrons pair off. This transforms fermion behavior into boson behavior: Fermions obey the exclusion principle; bosons do
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Holy moly. Maybe I'm a latecomer, but never tried this before. Now after a quick 5 minutes I'm searching for the credit card. I hate you guys. I believe I hold the cynicism record on HN and even I'm impressed.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines Correct?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
LMAO. Vinod must be going senile if he forgot the KPCB hype around Bloom Energy. Not to mention Segway, which was going to supplant the car like cars supplanted horse and buggies. And those are just the two examples that spring to mind. I
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I haven't found a compelling reason to enable any app in facebook, and I suspect I'm not alone.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> 1. Allowing an IPO that was vastly overpriced. As others have pointed out, that's a feature not a bug. They raised a ton of money for not much equity, which is the best case result for an IPO from the company standpoint. Not so mu
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I should have been more clear that I was writing to those that were not ex .
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Good move. Having a nose for when an organization will work for you among good organizations. (It will work against you in bad organizations "What?! You didn't stay to help turn it around?" SLP is most likely going to strip out whatever
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> "It won't fail because of me." Leave now. It will be a black mark on your resume if you stay. Seriously.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
As for the US: The entire realtor system needs to die a quick death. It is anti-competitive and is engineered to take advantage of noobs, both to housing and markets in general. If there is any doubt, this publication was published by the
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I'd add "business risk" into the discussion. Mysql has an interesting road ahead of it, and there are certain people that just won't put open-source Oracle in their critical path.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> It comes out of founders' equity And how is the next investor incentivized to let that occur? Edit: I should be more explicit. The next investor is anti-incentivized to let it occur, which is why it gets negotiated away by sensible
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Seriously: Does anyone expect the FBI to say "Yeah, we're busted. That was our laptop, we've been working with company XXX on collecting UDIDs, and we would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids."
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
There is a big point missing in the article: The dynamics of the folks entering the next round with those in the current round. For example: The purchasers of the next round would be idiots to let the first investor execute the equivalent
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
http://i.imgur.com/HK4mp.jpg 334K health insurance deduction? WTF?

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