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by larrys 12y ago
Also missing: Anything related to domain names ie - registration - aftermarket sales etc. And also: - Web hosting - Blogging I guess it also comes down to what you call a "business model".
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Museum Hopping to Paris 747 Style (1972)(news.google.com)
1 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"Sometimes I get to the point where I can't keep my eyes open after 30 mins in which case I pack away the book or kindle and go to sleep. " Agree and I would add that an excellent way that I have found to get back to sleep (i
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How Safe Are Your Shredded Documents? (2012)(livescience.com)
1 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"robots will drive our cars, manufacture our goods, and do our chores." "Drones will take the jobs of postmen and delivery people." I can't take seriously an article that makes absolute statements like this. Not onl
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by larrys 12y ago
"I did projects I thought were fun. But I finished them" Key point - it was not "work". Very true. "I was at work at a garage changing oil on cars for the summer. A guy came in, we started talking. " Key point
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by larrys 12y ago
"If the owner hired a local property manager instead of trying to make money as an absentee landlord she would have known the risks of 30+ day rentals and wouldn't have rented the condo so casually through a place like AirBNB.&quo
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by larrys 12y ago
Did your property insurance cover the damage? I've had damage happen and my insurance, less dedictible, covered the damage from paint spilled on carpeting. (Got all new carpeting as a result).
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by larrys 12y ago
"I am not a fan of AirBNB but AirBNB doesn't deserve blame for this. " Well (I'm not a fan either if that means I use it or have used it - I haven't) Airbnb knows this situation could exist because statistically i
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by larrys 12y ago
"I use TimeCapsule on a standalone drive networked over my router." Doesn't protect against a fire. Or someone who swipes the router and/or the data source. Suggest either an offsite backup or a fireproof hard drive (io
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by larrys 12y ago
Little tip for the fire safe. YMMV. Put some cash in the fire safe. If someone breaks into it (thinking there is money) they will probably be less likely to take other things in the safe or destroy those items (I mean a hard drive they migh
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by larrys 12y ago
Since HN is a site where one of the things that people learn through transparency is how different business models operate, it would be interesting to know (even roughly) how partners fit into the profits or payout from YC companies that
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Ask HN: Old Laserwriter 1; Pagemaker 1.0 Box
1 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
Why don't you try and counter or answer what he is saying instead of attacking him for saying it.
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by larrys 12y ago
"The question is, can Coinbase sell these coins as quickly as they receive them? If not, what kind of exposure do they have to the violatility of the price of Bitcoin?" That's a great question and I had wondered the same afte
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by larrys 12y ago
Interesting. Thanks. For the hedge fund market (or for any market for that matter) you might want to append this statement: "via API or spreadsheet" on http://priceonomics.com/data-services/ to also say &quot
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by larrys 12y ago
Along the lines of my other comment I'm sure it helps with recruiting: http://priceonomics.com/join-the-priceonomics-writing-team/ (The above was a link on the 2nd page done 5 hours ago)
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by larrys 12y ago
"but is this really their best channel?" Do you mean is HN their best sales channel for what they are selling? The blog appears to show a wide variety of posts about different subjects. I'm only seeing a few that appear to be
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by larrys 12y ago
"Sequoia presumably only ends up invested in only a small # of companies from YC, so saying their success is based on Y Combinator is logically incorrect " I'm unclear how a headline that says "The Big Winner from Y Comb
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The Dangers of Private Planes(nytimes.com)
2 points by larrys 12y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"we'd have to ask them to take time to do something that would be helpful for us and not for them." I see it as what is good for you is good for them. Knowing jobs allows you to influence policy because info like that is ofte
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by larrys 12y ago
"makes a big difference in this new world of marketing." What world are you talking about? The startup world? There is a big big world of marketing that exists separate from startups, YC, and venture invested companies. Edit: AKA
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by larrys 12y ago
"A technical marketer will say, "I tested 100 variations and these 3 performed the best. Let's try and optimize them even more." I disagree with the idea that "your VP of marketing should be an engineer". An en
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by larrys 12y ago
"I can't tell you how many times I and others read over that" From years of being in the graphics business I noted that people tended to miss words that weren't particularly difficult but at the same time (and same peopl
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by larrys 12y ago
"If they're not getting enough money to continue building, first off, I find that hard to believe" Entirely possible that they are getting enough money to continue but they want to take a break to inhale some excess profits n
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by larrys 12y ago
It's like stuffing envelopes. If you have to do 3 or 10 inefficiency doesn't matter that much. If you have to do 100 or 500 or 5000 all that extra time to guess name@ or name.last@ or nlast@ or n.last@ etc. is a big time waste. Pa
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by larrys 12y ago
"easily harvested" I get your point regarding some of the things you mention but having to pay $9 to save time guessing or tracking down email addresses doesn't seem like a bad deal.
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by larrys 12y ago
I don't know but I think it is a paradox. Here is why: You put up a firewall to make you secure. So you should be secure. But by putting up a firewall you fail to secure something else or you are lax in another area of security. Beca
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by larrys 12y ago
"but it's still hard to distribute your information." In a sense because of the increased competition (and increased content available) it's even harder. Otoh, in theory the hard work has shifted and it is possible to ge
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by larrys 12y ago
"Xerography is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing, because it means that every reader can become both author and publisher,”" One of major issues with publishing was distribution. Merely having the tools (back

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