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by mixmax 16y ago
I entirely agree that borrowing for durable goods isn't a bad idea if you can afford it. My argument is that for the last many years normal households have been buying stuff they can't afford with money they don't have. And now that the hou
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by mixmax 16y ago
the big problem for the US is the American consumer. For the last 20 years the average American has been using $1.10 for every dollar made. This has been possible due to cheap loans and rising real estate prices. The bare truth is that for
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by mixmax 16y ago
Much more than you would ever know.. The original version of Sim City was written for windows 3.x and included a bug that read memory that had been freed to the system. It worked in windows 3.x, even though it shouldn't, because that partic
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by mixmax 16y ago
I can only comment based on my own observations, but I see two explanations: 1) Slash is an outlier. I'm sure there are rockstars and actors that spend most of their time doing drugs and chatting up models. There are probably people like
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by mixmax 16y ago
I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free b
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by mixmax 16y ago
It's all about cause and effect, which a lot of people seem to miss. I remember starting a company some years ago, and our investors insisted on filling the board of the company with politically well-connected high-rollers that knew how to
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by mixmax 16y ago
Great idea in theory, but unfortunately there are a few problems: - There is no scheduled date for when the first manned launch is (It's ready whenever we damn well feel it's ready, and safe...) - The people riding the rocket will most prob
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by mixmax 16y ago
Clickable links: Homepage: www.copenhagensuborbitals.com TEDx talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua9oGxNNGd0 Submarine Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC3_Nautilus Submarine homepage: http://www.uc3nautilus.dk/ Booster
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Ask HN: Funding for friends that are planning a manned space mission
15 points by mixmax 16y ago|4 comments
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by mixmax 16y ago
Doesn't happen for me for some reason. It keeps on being flash.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Well it appears that at least the linked site does need flash. If you click on features and specifications the embedded video is flash (firefox 3.6) So not quite true.
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by mixmax 16y ago
An entrepreneurial VC would see this as an opportunity - there's probably a great untapped market for VC's willing to move a few hundred miles east.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Related to your list that goes to eleven: There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Then it might look a bit like ruby, designed by this Japanese fella: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
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Reddit AmA: Director of the first ISP to challenge the USA Patriot Act(reddit.com)
154 points by mixmax 16y ago|17 comments
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by mixmax 16y ago
Choose love over money. Always.
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by mixmax 16y ago
The two are probably linked. A hot company for hackers is one where there are other hackers that are great. Once you reach the point where your company isn't only staffed with only great hackers but also merely good developers the company s
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by mixmax 16y ago
I think this is the exact problem Goolge is facing right now. It's increasingly hard for them to keep their high standards in hiring worldclass engineers and hackers. There simply aren't that many of them.
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The 3/2 rule of employee productivity(cybaea.net)
120 points by mixmax 16y ago|54 comments
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by mixmax 16y ago
Well it looks like there's at last a place where Europe is ahead in the startup game.
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by mixmax 16y ago
I wrote a blogpost about price elasticity a long time ago that you might find interesting: http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/01/getting-product-pricing-...
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by mixmax 16y ago
Very fitting username
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by mixmax 16y ago
There are many things that have only spread in a small area of the big social graph, but that doesn't mean that clones will go viral. As stated above I can't think of one single instance where a clone product or derivative of a viral produc
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by mixmax 16y ago
Can you give one example of this? I can't seem to think of any. There's only one threewords.me, and there's only one chatroulette. The followers most likely won't go viral.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Around a month ago a good journalist friend of mine was taken prisoner in Algiers because of his reporting. After a few days of heavy pressure from the embassy he was released unharmed. A lot of friends were worried and continually asked if
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by mixmax 16y ago
Ah, sorry about that and thanks for the correction.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Human beings are technology too, albeit very complicated technology. Another quote from Douglas Adams[1] sums up humans as machines quite well: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Altering and improving
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by mixmax 16y ago
I've been through two Danish incubators run by the state. In 2000 I founded a company that did social bookmarking/crowdsourcing of search that got founding from Teknologisk Innovation ( http://tekinno.dk/ - link in Danish). They were, to s
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by mixmax 16y ago
The CEO of a publicly traded company has a legal obligation to disclose any matter that can impact the stockprice positively or negatively. This certainly falls in that category. Also, for better or worse, part of being a public figure is l
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by mixmax 16y ago
They're also a lot easier to move and set up than cranes.

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