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by lrm242 17y ago
Assuming he compounded all of his returns he'd be the richest person in the world. Making 100% on 100k is demonstratively easier than making 100% on 100m and is not unheard of. So why doesn't this guy manage other people's money? No where i
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by lrm242 17y ago
The comments look uninformed and scattered. Care to share why you think this is a dangerous simplification? From what I have observed and read about the various conflicts, kidnappings, and terrorism that occurs in Africa this article appear
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by lrm242 17y ago
Then the government should review all financial transactions, not just a specific minority based on haphazard benchmarks. (executed regular expression as proposed)
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by lrm242 17y ago
It's not the governments place to tell you how to invest your money in the same way they don't tell you how to spend your money. It is an unfortunate artifact of bad legislation that the government feels the need to protect its citizens fro
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by lrm242 17y ago
To perform this analysis you must further explore the true costs of the first scenario.
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by lrm242 17y ago
Assuming a 15% long term cap gains rate you'd write a check for $135k. You now have 765k--not bad, but how many years did it take? Now, what if the tax rate was 34% (as will be in a few years under this plan in CA): you write a check for $3
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by lrm242 17y ago
And now we will wind up paying for you because your family has medical issues and couldn't previously get covered. The burden has simply been shifted. Good? Bad? Shrug, depends on which side of the line you sit on. I sit on the side of the
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by lrm242 17y ago
Don't become a salesman. Become an evangelist for your product. Selling comes in all flavors, but if you're comfortable talking about your product and helping potential customers understand how you can help them, then focus on the pre-sales
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by lrm242 17y ago
Conspiracy is a very broad legal net. It doesn't take much to conspire to commit a crime, and in doing so you've just committed a felony. In this case, the programmers weren't simply writing code to specifications they were given--they were
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by lrm242 17y ago
Security is implied because I know you programmed it :).
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by lrm242 17y ago
tarsnap + bash script! http://www.tarsnap.com/ Tar-like interface, data deduplication, awesome support, fair pricing. What more could you ask for?
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Thrift + Graphs = Strong, flexible schemas on Hadoop(nathanmarz.com)
6 points by lrm242 17y ago|4 comments
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I love it.
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by lrm242 17y ago
Why is the government always in the corporation's back pocket? The democrats are firmly in control, with a president who has shown a huge favor for unionized labor.
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by lrm242 17y ago
If this is interesting to folks, I highly recommend "Mining the Sky": http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Untold-Asteroids-Planets/dp... .
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Comfortable with Uncertainty(themonsterinyourhead.com)
1 points by lrm242 17y ago|0 comments
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I'd say they had a means of monetizing their audience that was not proportional with the amount of capital required to run the business they built.
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by lrm242 17y ago
In the ever ending question to find Product/Market Fit having a successful forum can easily help someone identify the market portion of the equation. What MVP could you build for a group of jacket loving film peeps?
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by lrm242 17y ago
Tim is a good trader, but like most successful business people he understands how to market. His persona, whether constructed or representative of his real self (it doesn't matter), is a great marketing tool that he has been able to leverag
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Not inflation adjusted but given the short time frame near 0 inflation (in the US) means a small return still allows for growth. A 3.5% annualized return is also a very conservative target.
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by lrm242 17y ago
Hrm, I think you're forgetting about the most important money making tool available: compound growth. Let's assume the following: You invest your current 24,000 and each month you add 20,000 to your investment. Let's further assume that you
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by lrm242 17y ago
Spawn Labs?
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by lrm242 17y ago
GMail has 100+ million users[1]. Imagine how many they could have if they actually did ship something. Crappy development model or not, does it really matter? The thing is widely successful and any insight into how it came about is valuable
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by lrm242 17y ago
Each of these 8 principles could also be applied to being a founder and building a startup. Take 5 minutes and check the video out. 1. Get Focused: Stop hiding who you are and turn up the volume 2. Get Focused: Start being intensely selfish
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The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun [video](eightprinciples.com)
22 points by lrm242 17y ago|3 comments
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Shutting down your startup is sometimes the right thing to do(cdixon.org)
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by lrm242 17y ago
Seems likely an awfully minuscule thing to get worked up about.
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Getting Things Done: An Entrepreneurial Prerequisite(fitnr.com)
2 points by lrm242 17y ago|0 comments
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by lrm242 17y ago
I've built a platform company in the past, and it's probably one of the harder startup genres to master. One of the problems is its very hard to impress upon your listener how cool your platform really is. Even with fancy demos, we never
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by lrm242 17y ago
Indeed. From the perspective of a learning algorithm, what would it think about either of these links? They've both been shared on Twitter, both been retweeted at least once on Twitter, and one has been curated here on Hacker News. Alas, ul

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