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by kgrin 16y ago
There's really nothing magical about 10 years vs. 4 - the further out you go, the more you have to discount the predictive value. Is there some evidence that, in general, there's market skepticism about MS' long-term future? Sure. But th
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by kgrin 16y ago
As the author points out, by the same logic Apple and Google have approximately 10 years left, which seems about as dubious as... well, Microsoft having 4 years left.
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by kgrin 16y ago
For all the crappiness, you do have to appreciate the difficulty and complexity of swapping out these systems more or less on the fly.
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by kgrin 16y ago
Main point: while there's a good argument to be made for incentivizing people to invest their capital, there's no good reason why one kind of money manager (or, really, professional of any sort) should be taxed less than another. Just beca
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by kgrin 16y ago
As others have pointed out, this has little to do with the capital itself, but with the compensation that VCs get essentially as money managers. So the impact on actual investment is likely to be close to zero, even if there are reduced in
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by kgrin 16y ago
Specifically with Webfaction, that's exactly what's going on; it has to do with the particulars of their typical Django setup on the shared hosting. (I've had the same "Bad Gateway" errors from PHP sites at Webfaction... it's very much a s
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by kgrin 16y ago
Of course the real trick is for Facebook to automagically know the answer to your secret question rather than having you pre-populate it like you do for banks. That wouldn't be creepy at all!
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by kgrin 16y ago
When the heck are telcos going to support number portability to services like Google Voice?
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by kgrin 16y ago
I have two reactions to this: 1) These are some weird-looking results and make my somewhat skeptical of the metrics. 2) Accepting them at face value, the conclusion I draw is that the legal and regulatory environment (which is what this is
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by kgrin 16y ago
1) "pull --rebase" might help with one of the particular problems mentioned (though obv. not appropriate for all occasions) 2) More broadly: yeah, if you expect it to work Just Like Things You Already Know, it just won't work out for you.
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by kgrin 16y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again - living in Massachusetts made it considerably easier to start a company (for context, the national HCR plan that just passed is a slightly modified, scaled-up version of what MA has had for a few y
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by kgrin 16y ago
Over time the penalties are likely to rise, precisely to make this sort of behavior economically disadvantageous.
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by kgrin 16y ago
A sales tax (or VAT) is highly regressive. There's nothing inherently complicated about a progressive income tax; it's the fact that we insist on having a deduction for mortgage interest, R&D, asset depreciation, hiring new workers and
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by kgrin 16y ago
Unless I'm misreading something, it would be far more accurate to say: "Some FB employee jokes that Zuck doesn't believe in privacy"
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by kgrin 16y ago
Well, sure, but he practiced as a corp/finance lawyer, not a criminal or IP attorney (which seem to be the relevant facets here). And in the OP he says, specifically, "I’m not going to go into the legal issues around this because I’m just
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by kgrin 17y ago
Dubious, particularly if they're so hellbent (for better or for worse) on a specific user experience. Plus, all the little things - like, say, not having enough buttons to truly mimic the Android experience (which the video mentions in an
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by kgrin 17y ago
I wonder how much the Android code had to be hacked to make that happen - like, once you jailbreak your iPhone and get Android on there, and Android 2.2 comes out, will you just be able to upgrade and be happy, or will it be essentially a "
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by kgrin 17y ago
C corp; it's just that getting there from the questioner's LLC may be expensive/cumbersome
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by kgrin 17y ago
a) The barriers supporting Ticketmaster's current monopoly are pretty significant - mainly, exclusivity deals with venues. Ironically, the most successful challenge thus far has come from LiveNation... which managed to one-up Ticketmaster
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by kgrin 17y ago
Stuff like this was part of the reason some artists (including Springsteen) started experimenting with "paperless ticketing" (i.e. they check the purchaser's ID at the gate, so it's basically impossible, or at least significantly harder, to
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by kgrin 17y ago
> something you should do after you've already made some sexy cash on other stuff or at least made a name for yourself You mean like cofounding Netscape?
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by kgrin 17y ago
Maybe, but the article doesn't actually present any evidence that that's what's going on.
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by kgrin 17y ago
I grew up in Kiev, and went to a primary school named for Yuri Gagarin. In most ways, it didn't really matter (any more than the eponym of any elementary school does); but for what it's worth, yeah, it was pretty cool to once in a while re
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by kgrin 17y ago
I know Lessig is the more recognizable name on HN (and probably the Internet as a whole, but the article's co-author, Mark McKinnon, is far better known in political circles. He was a Bush and McCain campaign PR guy, who dropped his formal
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by kgrin 17y ago
Not to nitpick, but the other reason acquisitions sometimes make sense is that a bigger "parent" might open doors that it would take a smaller company a long time to get to, particularly in terms of scaling. In a sense, getting bought by a
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by kgrin 17y ago
Friendster launched circa 2002; I don't have the etymology of "Web 2.0" committed to memory, but it's safe to say the silly naming really kicked in much later.
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by kgrin 17y ago
I'd be wary of having a big group lunch with all the candidates; that gets dangerously close into "group interview" territory (which, to be fair, is pretty common in some industries, but leads to candidates feeling pressure to "stand out"
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by kgrin 17y ago
For all of the talk about the impact of higher cap gains taxes on startups, the far more important impact is likely to be that potential founders will have a (slightly) easier time leaving their jobs and purchasing insurance on a less-broke
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by kgrin 17y ago
I was just there a few weeks ago, and the locals were expecting an eruption in the not too distant future (months or years); they were talking about evacuation plans, gathering points and such.
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by kgrin 17y ago
Flurry is an analytics service that you don't install, but is probably integrated into one or more apps. It's not necessarily a perfect view of the market (not everyone buys Market apps), but it's pretty good. I do agree that the Nexus O

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