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by lmg643 13y ago
I think the problem with a device like this is that the kind of person who would be interested to use this just may be precisely the kind of person that the NSA would like to keep tabs on, just in case. Enough so, that an NSA worried about
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by lmg643 13y ago
That's a pretty good idea. You could probably even do it for less, or in a way that guarantees usage over time - pay $1 per month they are active on the service and adding friends, over a year.
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One of the key tenets of Warren Buffett's theory of investment value is based around "moats" - businesses that can't easily be replicated. It's impressive how large WhatsApp has grown but it might be more remarkable
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Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals(bloomberg.com)
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Ben Lawsky Demonstrates ‘Evolution’ on Bitcoin Issues in Reddit AMA(coindesk.com)
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Dave Barry's Manliness Manifesto(online.wsj.com)
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by lmg643 13y ago
regulation is not a guarantee of much. major banks in foreign exchange are in the middle of a scandal involving widespread collusion on fixing of prices.
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I think the thesis is correct - but I couldn't finish this piece. I tuned out after the comment about diamond scarcity. Diamonds are their own example of economic rent extraction through monopoly/artificial supply. Might be more i
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by lmg643 13y ago
Production counts - "80% of success is showing up." I particularly liked the opener: "Without thinking much I said ________, but having thought about that a bit more, I think it’s probably right."
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by lmg643 13y ago
this is a silly article. re-write the headline and it is an explanation of reality: SV's innovation fever is driven by acquisitions (or the possibility anyway). People launch companies, iterate like mad, in the hopes of a payout of som
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by lmg643 13y ago
Agreed on all fronts. Rooting for the Simple crew to keep their product rocking. I also have to note that the Spanish banking system is among the worst, most troubled, in the world. Santander recently bought Soverign bank (US regional bank)
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by lmg643 13y ago
agreed - asoftmurmur rocks - listened to it all evening.
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by lmg643 13y ago
This reminds me of an article I read a year back, same topic: http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-big-toe.html "The bottom line is, if we are in a simulation, there needs to be compressive sampling beca
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by lmg643 13y ago
interesting that they didn't change the donation addresses. so if someone uses theirs, and likes it, sends some BTC to them, it will go to you?
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by lmg643 13y ago
it's a strange thing to contemplate how a startup like this could directly contribute to housing cost inflation in your own backyard. and to think you might be right - the answer could be you might need to give up some privacy (let str
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by lmg643 13y ago
no one travels 75 miles by subway - the longest single stretch is 31 miles inside the city. plenty of people do that by train and subway combined though. the key difference between "classic" big city commuting and the google commu
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by lmg643 13y ago
It's crazy to me that buses have become the flashpoint of controversy about silicon valley companies, enough to drive protestors in the street. i guess it's really true when they say all politics are local. i don't live with
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by lmg643 13y ago
seems like a good thing for bitcoin that this happened. sure - it could be a flaw in the bitcoin protocol. but could just be "there's no honor among thieves". at least when criminals exchange cash for illegal goods, there&#x2
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High-Speed Stock Traders Turn to Laser Beams(online.wsj.com)
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i used to read the site. he was an outsider observing finance (the roomate of a bunch of bankers) who launched a popular website instead of following "the path". high point was the book, which came out in 2008 - worst possible tim
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by lmg643 13y ago
Considering this guy is running a finance/consulting parody website, I have to assume there's a measure of jealousy and regret that the website he is running does not have attractive enough characteristics to be let into Y Combina
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Apple $2.2 Billion Case Hinges on Two-Bit Issue (bloomberg.com)
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Google Deal Machine Ramps Up to Pass Intel in Top Spot (bloomberg.com)
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Facebook Puts a Downer on Upworthy(bloomberg.com)
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can anyone from facebook comment on this? I have a hard time believing the company can hit $7.8bn in revenue per year and have this being more than an insignificant fractional percentage of the total revenue. surely major customers would ha
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by lmg643 13y ago
It also says a lot about armstrong that he saw fit to comment on this in the way he did. by the time you get to the executive level, you should know when to check yourself, or at least to run comments by a good PR team.
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by lmg643 13y ago
it's small-ball management, certainly not appropriate for a firm of their size and stature. we've seen some crazy unprofessional behavior from armstrong before - the spot firing conference call is also classic amateur hour. not a
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Bank Of America's 'Why Stop There?' Cloud Strategy (wallstreetandtech.com)
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by lmg643 13y ago
When I saw "slavery stories" - I did a double take - I thought someone was putting up a website to talk about modern day slavery stories. CNN has a good site up on this subject - estimated 20-30 million people work in forced labor
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by lmg643 13y ago
i would definitely keep running with this. would def support. iconic text, and this makes it easy to dive in and play with. perhaps the examples appear in a mini-IDE on the right, where you click the example, it shows up in the IDE. click c

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