jtbigwoo

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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Most of my kids' friends see Minecraft as a game for kids. Except for a few minecraft loyalists, they're moving on to "grown up" games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto. It's a small sample size, but I think M
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> That's 2.5 instagrams. What do you feel, realistic, too much, too little? I don't think there's the revenue growth potential in Minecraft like there is in Instagram. On the other hand, Mojang made $330 million in re
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
You make a good point, so I'm going to try to refine mine. You're right that a small minority of readers and gamers actually follow criticism compared to reviews. I think the influence of criticism on authors is much much larger
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I heard an interview with Ed Begley, Jr. where they talked for twenty minutes about his eco-friendly lifestyle. His house has super-insulated windows, walls, and doors, recycles rainwater, generates power from solar cells and a wind turbin
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
There's a difference between the culture of literature and the culture of gaming. I think it boils down to the difference between reviews and criticism. Games, for the most part, get reviewed. Reviews are functional and focused on c
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
If you're writing a manifesto, you should be able to test future decisions by running them past the criteria in the manifesto. The first four statements are great in that regard, but the next six are a little fuzzy. It might help if t
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Many competitive sports are strongly context-dependent, though--just like art. Part of the beauty of basketball, for example, is we will never know if Wilt Chamberlain or Michael Jordan or LeBron James is really the greatest basketball pla
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I have first hand experience with the first set and agree. Companies that are paying for dry cleaning, gyms, food, etc. are often expecting to make up for that investment with free labor.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
We often don't understand is that our inaction communicates just as much as our actions and speech do. The difference is that the recipient can interpret inaction to mean whatever they want it to mean. In an interview process, I coul
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
As it's spelled out, I'm not sure I see the problem, either. When I cancelled with Comcast a few years ago, the woman spent a couple minutes inquiring about my issues and offering to take another shot at fixing them. I didn&#x27
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
It's a good thing for you (and all of us) that most people think you're nuts. If the threshold for having a kid was $1MM in the bank, our population would crash and our economy would be doomed.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Nope. The implication of quid-pro-quo would make any potential date/relationship/other an ethical mess.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I always look forward to backblaze's posts. Does anybody know if drive manufacturers pay attention to their posts about reliability? I know when I worked with mainframes we sent every bad drive back to IBM for failure analysis, but wo
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> Even in the case of minor fraud, they would likely spend more in manpower than they could possibly reclaim from such a low-earning outfit. I think they're counting on the fact that you'll straighten things out and continu
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
For me it wasn't even that expensive. I was a one-man operation who did some of my own bookkeeping to keep costs down, but I never spent more than $2000/year on both my accountant and my lawyer.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
When I was looking, I printed out a list of 5 independent accountants nearest me and set up a half-hour to talk to them. Some have "packages" where they charge a set amount for certain services like helping with quarterly tax fil
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
The OP's language makes it seem like the relationship is already strained and he is isolated from the founders ("half-baked", "shit money", "feeling helpless") while still wanting to continue with the comp
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
> this has pretty much always been around. Yep, the difference now is that it's less predictable. In the past if you were a part of the existing power structure you could expect to be safe, even if the political landscape changed u
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I think the criticism is reasonable, though. Roemer has been a self-declared Republican for 23 years. Painter seems reasonable and thoughtful, but when making political judgements it's tough to overlook his connection to the Bush admi
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Unless you own a Kindle Paperwhite.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Is that 30-40 hours per week or over 12 weeks?
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
It's interesting that Durkosh didn't say, "the average driver who works 40 hours/week makes $54,000." I wonder what the average income of those who actually try to work 40+ hours/week are.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Uber doesn't check up too carefully on its drivers' insurance situation, which helps keep costs down. From other articles, it appears that Uber drivers in general don't pay for appropriate insurance.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
The article did seem oddly biased. It talks only about revenue for the Uber driver and only about costs for the traditional cab drivers. Some costs would be difficult for their driver to figure out (like depreciation), but couldn't t
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
I've a storage unit when selling my home. Apparently buyers like to look at nearly-empty shelves and closets.
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Downtown Minneapolis had/has the same thing. The interesting part is that most of the parking lots are owned by groups of moderately wealthy folks (doctors, mid-level corporate execs) who had bought super cheap in the 70's. The i
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
The IRS doesn't have much leeway here, I suspect. IANAL, but it's my understanding that U.S. laws specify dollars as the only currency of the U.S. If people can invent other currencies that the government is then required to acc
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
The IRS isn't that concerned about the guy in the next cubicle who owns 2.8 BTC. (Though they'll certainly go after him if they find out he's cheating the government.) This is aimed squarely at: -big investors (like Goldman
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
The last couple paragraphs of this article are kind of ridiculous. If the IRS decides that bitcoins are like stocks and bonds, the IRS will accept an average cost basis rather than the user having to account for each individual bitcoin (or
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
We're getting off-topic, but... I suspect a decade living like the normal rules don't apply to you will make you think that the rules don't apply to you. Brin, like most executives, probably has an group of people around him

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