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by mfringel 14y ago
On one hand, Amazon just launched a half-price competitor to DropBox. OTOH, Amazon also just dropped DropBox's Cost Of Goods Sold by (what's likely) a non-trivial amount.
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New Yorkers: 1993 is calling from a payphone.(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mfringel 14y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 14y ago
Completely neglecting systemic observations is just as pointless as completely neglecting individual agency.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Even if a company has a policy of giving bare minimum information, find out a TELEPHONE NUMBER of someone in that company who knows your candidate and start a conversation. So, now you're going to get someone who is dumb enough to respond
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by mfringel 14y ago
I have a feeling that it's regional. I live in Boston, and there are still significant amounts of restaurants that don't take credit cards.
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by mfringel 14y ago
More accurately, "Google I/O tickets now available on secondary market for actual market-clearing price." EDIT: I stand corrected.
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by mfringel 14y ago
I'm sure you know where you're going, but I'd like you to continue. Entering a crowded space with no perceivable differentiators means one of two things: 1. You intend to grind it out on volume and compete on price. 2. You intend to differe
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Why I Like DST(leancrew.com)
2 points by mfringel 14y ago|1 comments
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by mfringel 14y ago
The "Non-Practicing Entities must post a bond" section (section (b)) is the one I was most happy to see. It means that at least the first levels of "Have a corporate shell that dissolves upon an adverse finding" tricks will be defused.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Being an intermediary does not necessarily mean you're gaming the market, but it does mean that you're in an optimal position to do so.
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by mfringel 14y ago
''Do you really believe that if all guns disappeared tomorow, those who want to kill themselves would not find another way?'' Strawman. "Banning all the guns" was never mentioned or advocated. Please rephrase.
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by mfringel 14y ago
I'm aware of the point. I think it's more than a bit disingenuous. Let's take heart disease, for example. Can someone walk up to a healthy person and instantaneously give them heart disease? Method and execution counts. A gun is a man-po
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by mfringel 14y ago
It informed me that there are 1621 people dead since Newtown. That's useful to know in as much that there are continued gun-related deaths in the US. Now, we can relate those to per-capita deaths in order countries and compare, like-to-lik
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by mfringel 14y ago
Agreed, and they don't want to... Apple's cash is much more useful to Apple wherever it happens to be. It's the shareholders who want the cash, which in a lot of cases means repatriation.
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by mfringel 14y ago
This looks like a very tax-efficient way to repatriate cash.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Well, given that it's from the official account of Major League Baseball, that seems like a likely conclusion.
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by mfringel 14y ago
At a large enough scale, you can't handwave away the eggs you'll break on the way to your omelet.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Daily exercise is an individual choice, but humans are social beings. An implicit societal framework for being physically active helps at the margins... and the margins are pretty large.
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by mfringel 14y ago
They are willfully responding, and that makes all the difference in the world.
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by mfringel 14y ago
In sentences like that, I tend to ignore everything before the 'but'. To my admittedly uneducated eye, nothing in the rest of that article indicates any kind of remorse or regret over the author's actions. The clause before the 'but' is how
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by mfringel 14y ago
"Pay yourself first." I've been able to save a rather impressive amount of money by just diverting a portion of my paycheck to an investment account. I never see the money in my checking account, so I never have the money to spend. Paying
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by mfringel 14y ago
Nowhere in there did I see you say "I invest my savings to earn a return over inflation." Do you consider that non-viable?
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by mfringel 14y ago
Your statement may be true, but it adds nothing to the discussion. You did not point out alternatives, examples, or links to same.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Indeed. I stopped playing EVE when the web of obligation felt too much like an uncompensated and slightly boring job.
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Ask HN: What's the *second* Arduino book?
9 points by mfringel 14y ago|4 comments
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by mfringel 14y ago
The hard numbers don't tell the whole story, though. For example, something like Kayak.com takes a very long time (~10-15 seconds) to load a results list. However, the whole experience feels very fast because the data layer is separated f
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Shit Hacker News Says(plus.google.com)
3 points by mfringel 14y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 14y ago
I think what we're actually seeing is users declare that the value that Instagram provides them is not worth a perpetual and transferable commercial license for all photos taken, past and present.
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by mfringel 14y ago
Glib dismissal of large swaths of human interaction as "playing corporate politics" isn't the most airtight of analyses of the human experience.
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GE uses piezo jets to keep a laptop cool(engadget.com)
2 points by mfringel 14y ago|0 comments

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