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by larrys 11y ago
Where do you get the 60k from? The price listed (57k) was the asking price afaik we don't know what it actually sold for.
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by larrys 11y ago
"I wonder what price could have been achieved had it been marketed as "Patio11's Bingo Card Creator" not "a well-established software business creating bingo cards for educational and recreational purposes".&qu
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by larrys 11y ago
Ok that is fine but where is the correlation between what someone feels in their gut and what ends up being true in the end? Plus, what is the downside risk of being overly cautious since that has to be factored in. If the gut is based on t
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by larrys 11y ago
"But ALWAYS trust your gut on NOT to do something. If your gut tells you to not work at a particular company (or to stop dating someone), trust it implicitly as your gut is much better at saving your life than it is at figuring up ups
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by larrys 11y ago
Another "trick" is to pick a career that you don't love. I don't envy them at all. Look at all the people that don't want to retire and could.
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by larrys 11y ago
Why do you feel (honest question here) that charging something or anything would be scummy? "there's no real need to charge people to unsuspend the domain" By that token there is no need to charge people for many things that
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by larrys 11y ago
I also work for a registrar. Keep in mind that the policy is also an opportunity for registrars to charge for taking a domain back off of hold the same way that they can charge for bringing a domain out of redemption over and above what the
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by larrys 11y ago
Actually has value for law enforcement despite what some commenters seem to be saying here. For example if the contact info is not valid then it would be a quick and easy process to take the site offline for a cooperative registrar.
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by larrys 11y ago
I posted this because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569934 I wondered if it was in fact worth the effort to "get your shit together" vs. the probability of an event as described even happening. U
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Your Chances of Dying(besthealthdegrees.com)
2 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
I will let others answer "how should I use it" what I want to know is how did you get 100k in AWS credits.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE – QEMU “VENOM” Vulnerability(community.rackspace.com)
2 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
"Regulations aren't even needed some buildings are just taking care of this issue on their own. " Not necessarily. In some cases the ability to have tenants able to rent out their units will allow the landlord to charge more
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by larrys 11y ago
Not to mention that the speed (+-) is variable by the wind speed.
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by larrys 11y ago
"This is a huge waste of potential." That is the point that is often lost. I think this everytime I see someone who actually went to school and has a degree in something "serious" (with job security) throwing that away t
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by larrys 11y ago
Here is the gist: "Essentially overnight all of the tools that we utilized didn’t work. Google even went so far as to remove both Brand.com and Reputation.com from its search engine…. What I learned quickly was that you should never bu
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Brand.com has filed for bankruptcy(technical.ly)
2 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
It is unclear why you would insult me for what I said.
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by larrys 11y ago
In an oddly related way this reminds me of a time prior to the Internet. In that era you would open up the Yellow Pages and call a company or a store and ask them if they "carried such and such widget". They would reply "no&q
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by larrys 11y ago
When I started to see similar things happen to friends or acquaintances when I was about the same age every time I heard of someone getting sick or dying prematurely I would say to myself "time to buy that Porsche you always wanted&quo
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by larrys 11y ago
See this: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,689438,... "Two years ago, Dan Stillman and Matt Eaton, then sophomores at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, launched WesMatch.com, a site
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by larrys 11y ago
"and that it has been at all times an outright fabrication on the part of the American government to protect the domestic auto industry which is presently owned by the American government" If there were a shred of truth to this th
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by larrys 11y ago
Side issue parent article claims that passages can't be copied because the pdf is locked. Other than workarounds to that (I don't know any but I am sure they exist) you could simply run OCR on screengrabs of the pages using someth
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by larrys 11y ago
"I've even seen rare glimmers of people criticizing EFF for trying to make a cause celebre of him." Perhaps it's entirely possible that the EFF is just like any other organization that needs to find ways to justify their
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by larrys 11y ago
"These sorts of relationships often form organically throughout the process of working together on projects" Agree. And in fact the other way around in a sense smacks of someone being used regardless of whether that was the inten
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by larrys 11y ago
"Microsoft and Amazon were under pricing cloud to kill competition" Who can forget the stories of Microsoft offering their browser for free in order to cut off Netscapes air supply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by larrys 12y ago
Making decisions like that having major implications seems daunting. I wonder what strategies they use to dampen or hedge big decisions like that. Think of all the things that play out overtime that there is no way to predict. Such as the d
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by larrys 12y ago
"Even running a startup with just two people, we could get multiple emails a week from sales reps who just guessed the email based on my name and the company. " Do you really find that getting multiple emails from sales reps (per
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by larrys 12y ago
"Would love to read more about how that worked. I thought my $180/hour with $1k per diem for on-site was phenomenal. Jeez, I need to charge more." Maybe not so fast. To me the 30k is (most likely) editorial hyperbole which is
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by larrys 12y ago
Yeah but for sure life is more like the latter rather than the former. It also comes down to preparation and not making the mistake of trying to wing something that is super important.

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