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by mlinsey 18y ago
"But what's really bad about that is that when you look at efficiency numbers only about 20% of the energy contained in those gallons of fossil fuels are actually doing useful work. About 80% of their energy is simply wasted as heat. That h
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Serious counter-question: Do you donate to those causes? If you do, are you donating as much as you possibly can? In any case, it's natural to look out first for those in your own community (although admittedly you have to have an extreme
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Sure they are! Complicated interfaces make it easy to: 1 - avoid forcing yourself to really prioritize your feature set, something that's really hard to do and requires really understanding your users. 2 - push a bunch of effort from you
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I knew that it was going to send a message to my friends, but there wasn't much in the way of visual feedback telling me that the requests had been made, so I had thought that the request just didn't go through and accidentally sent 2-3 mes
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by mlinsey 18y ago
How long has it been since you left college? I had exactly the same experience recently, but I also only left college 15 months ago.
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What a Business Makes(ducttapemarketing.com)
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You can reap other benefits from scarcity besides charging for the scarce product. To take an example from your list, I think "scarcity" helped Facebook a lot in the early days when you had to have a valid email address from one of a small
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Not sure where to begin here without knowing anything about what you're "algorithm" is about, what it would be used for, etc. If you've created something useful, why not build a business on top of it yourself? If you don't want to do that,
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Everything you said here is true but I'm not sure what it has to do with what I said. You are focusing on the highest end of the curve, presumably because that's where things like advancements in math (and the status it brings) lie. I'm say
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by mlinsey 18y ago
If Google wants to see widespread adoption of Android as a platform, I don't see why they would build their own branded phone and thereby compete directly against all of the potential users of their platform. Then again, if the source of th
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Sure, variance is another question (and one not addressed either way by linked article), but there were some folks in the other thread arguing that maybe men are evolutionarily predisposed to be better at math than women. If that were true
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Regardless of whether or not the "he stole my idea" story is real, I do think that he may have a good case that "Facebook" isn't trademarkable. When I arrived at college the year before Facebook the site launched, we received a dead-tree b
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think it's more likely that they haven't been on handsets that their target audience owns. They just added iPhone and Blackberry, and I can't name one of my friends who has a location-enabled smartphone that's neither a Blackberry nor an
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Pretty amazing considering the initial supply of first-gen iPhones didn't sell out in most places (even the Palo Alto Apple store) until a day or two after launch.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Audiences may be ready to give up ink smeared on paper but they are not ready to abandon storytelling delivered on a screen. You mean like...your computer's screen?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
"[Adding very different business models to a business is] one of the big advantages that small, agile companies have." Which is true, but if you don't do it carefully it's a good way to make your company no longer so small or agile. What wo
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Taleb's statement is a much stronger claim than your summary that "Risk-taking appears to be a necessary but not sufficient condition for financial success" Your summary allows for the possibility that there are other factors besides risk-t
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by mlinsey 18y ago
In between being called "MSN" and "Live", it was "Windows Live". The idea was that MSN was a brand more oriented toward being an ISP or a portal (back when it looked like the internet companies to beat were AOL and Yahoo), and this re-brand
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I'm not sure if you really meant this as a reply/rebuttal to the grandparent, but contesting a charge with your credit card company rarely ever results in "nastiness in court". In fact, that's pretty much the one virtue of credit cards ove
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Well, unless you get interviewed by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYy8R87JMA
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't think anyone except the parties involved can know if that's true, so there's not much point in speculating. But I will note that nothing is better for getting term sheets than already having other term sheets, particularly a Sequoia
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think when he says "the story" he means "the widespread reports of this news", not "this particular post on TechCrunch".
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by mlinsey 18y ago
That brings up an interesting idea - karma is used to rank stories and comments, and make sure more interesting content is more visible. But the "game" aspect of karma (trying to make the top posters list, trying to appear a the top of thr
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by mlinsey 18y ago
This suggests an interesting way of looking at the problem, namely "How do we make the site less interesting for non-hackers?"
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by mlinsey 18y ago
"If I disagree with someone, I won't vote up. If I really disagree with someone, I'll post a rejoinder comment." I haven't been here very long but I've thought that expressing disagreement isn't the purpose of a downvote at all. Instead,
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The article (and the DFC Article it links to) only mentions "install base", not software sales (which I think would be the most informative metric if we wanted to see whether the industry was being "led" by the PS2). In fact, the only menti
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You don't think that all of Google's web properties have good UI's? At minimum they are certainly quite clean and non-intimidating, which is the opposite of what I think you would expect from a company which "executed [their] UI like an en
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by mlinsey 18y ago
This seems to be giving me different results than google.com for many queries (examples: my name, "java", "specialtys") . I presume this is because searches I do on google.com are personalized to my search history and whatever other data g
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that "AI is, in practice, the set of problems that are not yet solvable by computers". It's pretty cynical to call that the definition of AI, but I don't think that's an inaccurate characterizat
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't think this is true - or at minimum, higher math/theory certainly comes easier to some people than others, and there probably comes a level of intelligence where you were progressing slowly enough that it really wouldn't make a good

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