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by kdsudac 14y ago
You can figure try to figure out the "why" for specific cases but it's tedious work and comes down to subjective opinions that can't be generalized to other cases. The theoretical worth of the shadowy middlemen (whether they gov't or insur
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by kdsudac 14y ago
By relative risks you mean the possibility that an event occurs that requires medical care? If so, there are many cases where a founder or their family member has a pre-existing condition that makes them uninsurable. If someone loses the g
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Nice catch, that's an important piece of fine print.
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Wow, order of magnitude cheaper than S3 (1 cent per month vs. 12-14 cents for S3). Data transfer priced the same. Drawback is "jobs typically complete in 3.5 to 4.5 hours." Seeing as how people tend to be pack rats, I can see this being hu
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Pre-arranged meetings are the first thing that jumps into people's minds, but do telecommuters really want to replicate the experience of being in meetings? For me, one of the nicer aspects of telecommuting is I can call into meetings and
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Another competitor designed for industrial settings: http://collaborate.io Disclaimer: I'm the founder
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by kdsudac 14y ago
My point is those thresholds aren't that high for people like "doctors, lawyers, small business owners, senior managers, corporate officers, etc." Senior level engineers, accountant, etc could have net worth exceeding $1 million once you fa
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by kdsudac 14y ago
I checked out the video. Was disinterested until 0:50 mark. Once I saw minimum investment as low as $1,000 my interest went up. Kinda lending club meets kickstarter. Probably a fair amount of people (myself included) would like to be an
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by kdsudac 14y ago
I agree with your sentiments, and have also been frustrated by this. I don't have answers but can only offer apologies and rationalizations: 1) I think the smart phone mismash disaster was largely because of carrier's keeping phones lock
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Interesting question, and I could hypothesize all day about issues you'd have to work out: -> liability if stuff gets stolen? -> 24/7 access? (if you're renting storage space in the basement, do you have to give renters keys to your
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by kdsudac 14y ago
The most unbelievable part of your story: you didn't know how to use your own bike pump! From your description it sounds like a pretty common design.
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Looks cool, but the hybrid structures created in the video don't look very impressive. They look like something kids made (it probably was made by kids). I think if the video included at least one 'sexy' structure it'd attract way more cus
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by kdsudac 14y ago
The public library is your friend, especially if you live in the right area. For example, many California libraries are in a program called Link+ that allows you to borrow books from other libraries, including college libraries. Even if a
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by kdsudac 14y ago
I'll have to check it out. I didn't even know the IPython notebook existed until I saw this post, but it would've been incredibly useful in the past.
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by kdsudac 14y ago
I wonder what it would cost? Amazon S3 pricing starts at $0.125 per GB per month. So if you just want to store an extra 500 GB that's gonna run $62.50 per month on a HDD! Given SSDs are 5-10X more expensive who would be willing to pay $300
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Seagate and Western Digital are way too busy making money hand over fist selling hard drives :) A lot of the SSD companies aren't really making that much money. The fabs to make the memory chips are huge capital investments and suppliers h
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by kdsudac 14y ago
A cross-platform multimedia platform that renders (relatively?) consistently across most browsers. Thank god we got rid of that! Can't wait to tweak my HTML5 for all permutations of OS and browser! Hooray!
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by kdsudac 14y ago
I'll give you one example from the electronics industry: Solid State Drives. Of course, this technology was built on the shoulders of the IC industry and decades of hard-core research by individuals and companies. My friend's MacBook Pro h
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Shaping entire industries might be a little hyperbole, but I'll happily concede they have shaped entire product markets (e.g. mp3 players isn't really an industry; consumer electronics is an industry which they helped to shape). So we agr
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by kdsudac 14y ago
I noticed you answered my question by asking another question. You bring up an interesting point and I'll answer it; however, I'd appreciate it if you returned the favor and gave me a straight-forward answer to my question. Q: And how much
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by kdsudac 14y ago
Disclaimer: I've been a long time apple hater so take what I say with a grain of salt. I get particularly annoyed when people describe Apple as an innovator. They're really just a mainstream cross over hit, while the real innovators never