kdw

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by kdw 17y ago
Okay, you win. I'll leave HN as well. I'm just a guy with a deep and abiding fascination with economics and public policy. One so deep I recently picked up a graduate degree on the subject. One so deep that my current startup is based en
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by kdw 17y ago
Personally, I take the approach advocated by Benjamin Graham. I have separate accounts for investing, and speculation/trading. I just view them as fundamentally different activities, with different risk profiles, and different sorts of ana
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by kdw 17y ago
Frankly, reddit is a truly horrible source of information about business and the economy. The loudest commenters on those topics tend to be educated primarily via blogs. Personally, I'd advocate a subscription to the Financial Times, which
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by kdw 17y ago
> I think it is important that every business have a good impression of what they do, and what they do not do. If this is the case, they should ditch the banner ads. On my laptop, with a vertically maximized browser window I can see t
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by kdw 17y ago
For what it's worth, I'm running 10.6 on one of my Macs, and I still have some Ports that don't work on it. In particular, I've had issues with ghc and R. Most other software (both common and uncommon) has been okay, but I'd recommend most
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by kdw 17y ago
The article is right for the same reason that horoscopes seem right, because it doesn't really say anything. To my knowledge, nobody intelligent was seriously suggesting that a sharp recovery was likely. His article then discounts that re
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by kdw 17y ago
Part of the problem is likely that some menu items are simply far worse for you than you'd guess, if you don't check the nutrition information. As an example, I was on the road recently and I stopped by a Burger King drive-thru to get a qui
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by kdw 17y ago
Restaurant meals have grown so large that I only order an entree if I'm planning to take home a doggie-bag. If I want to actually eat all I order, I usually get two appetizers, or an appetizer and a salad.
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by kdw 17y ago
I actually had one. I switched to blu-ray because of netflix. A netflix subscription and a blu-ray player is both cheaper and more interesting than subscribing to all the premium movie channels.
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by kdw 17y ago
They came down, but now there are EV SSL certs that are still a couple hundred dollars/yr for a non-wildcard cert. As a business owner, I feel a bit like it's a big con game, as I have trouble understanding what it is that EV SSL certs solv
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by kdw 17y ago
Am I correct in thinking that a wildcard only gets you one level deep? e.g. that *.mycorp.com matches "foo.mycorp.com" but not "foo.bar.mycorp.com"?
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by kdw 17y ago
Blu-Ray is a transition format anyway. Long-term, my money is on network-based digital distribution. It sucks... but for a couple hundred bucks, I'm fine with my blu-ray player, my netflix subscription, and my purchased copy of Planet Ear
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by kdw 17y ago
As somebody who is over 30 and works in startups, I'd say you're right. I'd not even consider for a moment the standard YC deal ($11k + $3k/founder for 6%). When I was right out of school, or off my first job I might've considered it... bu
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by kdw 17y ago
Why exactly wouldn't I want a royalty on the sales?
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by kdw 17y ago
Marketing: Meeting the needs and desires of the customer at a profit. It's a pet peeve of mine when people conflate advertising (hiring a seductive model), and some very narrow areas of marketing (identifying that successful, young customer
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by kdw 17y ago
I bought my car from a local dealer for a price that allowed them some profit not because I care deeply about "free oil changes", etc., but because I care about them staying in business. If my local dealership goes out of business, the next
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by kdw 17y ago
You can find a number of them on the opensolaris forums if you search on terms like 0906 iscsi, comstar 0906, etc... here's an example: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=104593&... Our experience was that 0906 was utte
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by kdw 17y ago
zfs performance in 2009.06 has some very serious problems, particularly with zvols.
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by kdw 17y ago
My facebook account has precisely nothing in common with my real information. It's all totally fake info that I use to play scrabble with my dentist, who also has a completely fake account.