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by larrys 12y ago
Interesting that there is an old style drafting board behind Dyson in the video. About a robot "high tech" vacuum cleaner. Hard to believe that company in particular uses a manual drawing process or why anyone would use that as a
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by larrys 12y ago
"I didn't see this as being a business service at all" They could handle returns and repair logistics for companies once the network is built. Cases where a bad item needs to be picked up and there is either no packing materi
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by larrys 12y ago
"We have the barrier of a warehouse in every city" I'm assuming when you do you are going to be locating your warehouse near Fedex/UPS depots then?
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by larrys 12y ago
"The coolest—and also biggest—tech in the place is a machine that takes raw cardboard and cuts custom-sized boxes that eliminate all the empty space that Amazon so often fills with those plastic air-filled bags. And smaller boxes can m
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by larrys 12y ago
"You can then get shotgunned by spam filters, too" Have you had that problem and weren't able to get by it? I've had IP changes over the years and while it's taken a small bit of work to get the new IP accepted (i
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by larrys 12y ago
"Maintaining it is arguably not." Do you have anything in particular you'd like to offer to back that up? Have you ever done this? (I do and have done since the mid 90's on various equipment and I'm no Eric Raymond
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by larrys 12y ago
While it's not trivial it's not that hard to spin up a mail server on a VPS (which can run smtp, imap and/or webmail). For that matter you can run it off a static internet connection or even a dynamic IP from your home or off
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by larrys 12y ago
"When is a startup no longer a startup?" There is really no dejure definition of a startup as it is. Not to mention that the site doesn't even give its own definition of what qualifies to be listed on the site.
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by larrys 12y ago
"Finally, Coinbase being insured against the value of the bitcoin loss doesn't translate in to you being covered" Additionally I'm very curious why they never disclosed this publicly before. It's a decent marketing
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ALS Association Files Trademarks for “Ice Bucket Challenge”(tsdr.uspto.gov)
3 points by larrys 12y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"Also, wouldn't this break analytics and reporting for most websites too?" True but that's a "YP" not a "MP". (Bogie Nights, "Your problem" not "My Problem". I mean we're not
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by larrys 12y ago
Depends on the password you still have to worry about that being cracked by brute force. http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/using-the-comman... http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013&#
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by larrys 12y ago
"Lots of people have claimed to sell fake currency in these marketplaces" It's actually possible to print realistic currency as long as it doesn't match (in certain ways) real currency. When I was in the graphics indust
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by larrys 12y ago
Police/prosecutors will generally try to build a case before they decide to simply bust into someone's house. And they work on that case for a long time because it needs to hold up in court. I'm not saying that it isn'
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by larrys 12y ago
I have no intention of buying the money I was just curious specifically about the law surrounding the issue. If I did intend to buy it (for whatever reason) I certainly would check further. I just found the language on the page interesting
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by larrys 12y ago
My question was "is buying counterfeit money but not using it a crime". According to this, it's not: http://www.secretservice.gov/money_law.shtml "Possession of counterfeit United States obligations with
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by larrys 12y ago
An attempt to highlight how much gambling they will be doing going forward as opposed to simply riding some (much easier) opportunity. "Microsoft will need to be bold and make big bets to succeed in this new environment. Writing great
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by larrys 12y ago
"to have skills that are both enjoyable and in demand." Well that's now, in this slice of time, and if you have the skills that are hot at the given moment. If not, assumes that a programmer can easily pick up the new thing
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by larrys 12y ago
A really good point. Of course I think it's still possible for a small owner operator to use one of these services to gain a consistent customer base (and even get referrals from that customer base) and then cut out the big corporation
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by larrys 12y ago
"You don't have to give up your life to the government—it's possible to help in short-term rotations—but this is the best shot we have in a long time to change the way our government works." Can you connect the dots for
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by larrys 12y ago
Let me give you an idea and direction to at least look into for your product, either currently or in the future. Feedback, for hospital stays is super important. You should look at adapting a version of your product to suit people having ho
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by larrys 12y ago
Feedback: You have to get many more screen shots showing actual use on your website. I'm not seeing any. Hard to say much w/o seeing that. Can't even pass it along to anyone who I might think is interested without more of tha
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by larrys 12y ago
Another good name for this would have been "stroked".
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by larrys 12y ago
"Why the focus on a mobile app" I would imagine mobile suits this very well because reactions and praise are immediate and device in always in your hand no matter where your physical presence is (you may not be near a laptop or de
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by larrys 12y ago
That's already in there. The rent is due the 1st and on the 5th the penalty is due.
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by larrys 12y ago
Agree that this letter (as what you have just indicated exactly) is a YMMV for sure. As a landlord myself I didn't have to even read this letter to know that it would be worth my while to dispose of this problem by paying back the mone
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by larrys 12y ago
Hey, tenants can be "assholes" as well. Here's a txt that I got two days ago from a tenant who hadn't deposited his rent (due on the 1st) by the 7th. (I waited two days before even saying it was late): [first he sends a
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by larrys 12y ago
Let me ask you a question. Do you personally (or anyone else) think that there is anything wrong with trying to negotiate down what the government tried to recover and possibly penalize? Before you answer please review the facts here again:
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by larrys 12y ago
Note also the clip art photos on the firms website: http://www.holdsecurity.com/ Not only that but if you pull a whois on the domain it has what appears to be Holden's home address. [1] (I won't post that here but
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by larrys 12y ago
Noting your link, btw way this way many years before the internet when is wasn't simple for a small company to know all the potential pitfalls.

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