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by kalvin 17y ago
In Mandarin it's much closer to "chee" (elongated "chi") than it is to "tea"
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by kalvin 17y ago
It exists. But yes, people don't like attaching the phone to their arm. http://www.iphoneappsfinder.com/productivity-apps/absalt-eas...
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by kalvin 17y ago
A good friend and I are in the process of agreeing to something vaguely similar. We each get x% of the others' proceeds if we're a founder at a company that has an exit. So it increases our chances of seeing a payout and decreases that payo
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by kalvin 17y ago
"Don't tell me they are being exploited, because for example cheer-leading seems to be highly desirable to middle class high school girls (judging from movies and MTV documentaries" I'm sad that I don't think you're trolling... a) The issue
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by kalvin 17y ago
Confessions of a Car Salesman: http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article....
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by kalvin 17y ago
Don't bother clicking; this is linkbait spam compared to what usually makes its way up here. Summary: Jeff Bezos invested 250k in Larry and Sergey and got a 5000x return, platitudes, sign up to hear my seminar so I can sell you my ebooks pr
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Why energy sources like biofuels/solar/nuclear are not the magic ticket(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by kalvin 17y ago|1 comments
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by kalvin 17y ago
A few months! Aw. That's the only feature missing that I can't live without.
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by kalvin 17y ago
Aardvark for potentially kicking off a new way to search (and even if not, for having awesome diction) Kickstarter for being beautiful and the first crowdfunding site that looks like it has a chance to explode.
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by kalvin 17y ago
Wow, one commenter built a business from the same idea (sorry to repost a comment, but it's pretty great.): "I have been doing the same thing since 2001. Only I live in Cook County Illinois, the second most populated county behind Orange Co
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by kalvin 17y ago
First comment on the linked article: "This is the single worst recap of any defcon talk I've ever read. It's clear you're looking for the sensational headline for the click through, but your article is flat misrepresentation. He started his
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by kalvin 17y ago
On a site with a desirable niche audience, you can hit $4 CPMs averaged across 6 ads, so you'd only need ~200k page views to make 5K.
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American health care, like America, is innovative and wasteful.(slate.com)
2 points by kalvin 17y ago|1 comments
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by kalvin 17y ago
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I read the NYT every day and I'd gladly pay $5/month for it.
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by kalvin 17y ago
Agreed with above, although $25k might be more realistic for the SF Bay Area if you're not naturally very frugal. Just to make it a little more concrete if you choose the first option: - $700-$1200/mo for rent+utils (1BR in shared space, so
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How To Destroy (Almost) Half the Planet for Just 5% of Global GDP(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by kalvin 17y ago|2 comments
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by kalvin 17y ago
TextFree. They haven't added push yet, but I'm 100% sure it's coming.
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by kalvin 17y ago
No, Facebook has at least 700 employees (see source on Wikipedia for 11/08) and probably more like 800.
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by kalvin 17y ago
About 30% per hour. I only use it an hour at a time.
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by kalvin 17y ago
I've been doing exactly this for almost six months using my jailbroken iPhone and the PDAnet app. It turns my iPhone into a personal wireless router which I can connect to with my laptop. Works great (in the SF Bay Area, anyway). PDAnet: h
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by kalvin 18y ago
I went to a focus group in SF that turned out to be organized by Facebook (the last question was "what could Facebook tell you to convince you to work there?"-- it wasn't possible to tell up till then, surprisingly) and of the dozen CS stud
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by kalvin 18y ago
You're right. That's why I've let it sit for five years. But I thought it might be solvable, so I asked. I'm sure you guessed what those six characters were-- it's partly a vanity thing, obviously. :)
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Tweenbots: human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter(tweenbots.com)
1 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: 6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control?
12 points by kalvin 18y ago|17 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
Just to clarify, Matt and Jessica Flannery (married) founded Kiva. Matt's the CEO. Premal is the president. Also, Kiva is awesome. Story from Matt's perspective: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/itgg.2007.2....
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by kalvin 18y ago
Out of 9 students, selected from hundreds, 2 of them want to help MLM? What a class. "His students don't miss the math classes. They want to learn how to build a business from scratch and market the hell out of it. Two people want to sell t
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Yes, We Plan: How Altruism and Advertising Could Change the World(blog.wired.com)
2 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
I wish I could better inform the six people who upmodded you, because you've clearly been lost to the conspiracy theorists. Read some facts first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddt
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In the Open at Last, a Secret All Women Share(nytimes.com)
1 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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When Consumers Cut Back - A Lesson From Japan(nytimes.com)
5 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments

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