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by netsp 17y ago
High energy prices are good for whoever owns energy. Mostly it's countries with natural reserves. But there is nothing stopping anyone from investing in a way that ties his fate with theirs. A house deteriorates too. You invest in upkeep. T
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by netsp 17y ago
Yes, that's what I was asking about.
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by netsp 17y ago
I'd be interested to know if (your) reasons for home schooling are mostly related to peer or system influences?
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by netsp 17y ago
With the growth of homeschool, I'd be interested to know if there is any reaction/support coming from the private school industry. The first thing that pops into my mind is 'Can't there be a hybrid?' A 10 hrs a week school or something like
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by netsp 17y ago
Your right. I was just trying to illustrate a point. The story of the 12 year old pulling apart a junked Pong console, may be slightly over told.
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by netsp 17y ago
"he problem is with the pipeline. There are fewer girls than guys who explore computing when they're 12." Is that really the pipeline? If you go in to a 1st year CS/IT class, how many have been tinkering with programming for years? That's a
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by netsp 17y ago
- Calling it inept internet advertising is missing the point. Adwords created a market for what is essentially a raw input very quickly. But all of the rest of the ecosystem had to be in place to drive bids up to their current level. I see
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by netsp 17y ago
1 - Why is 'y' necessarily so low? An average Indonesian may be poor, but facebook users are above average income. It may be more a case of an immature ad market. IE something that will improve over time. I keep pointing out that advertiser
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by netsp 17y ago
I want to point out the the left-right colouring of GW is largely a US (Also Australia, where I live) development. I think the reason for this political situation is quite silly. If GW is true, this probably requires regulation, complex int
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by netsp 17y ago
Seems like a bit of an issue costing money & efforts. They are running ads "Dropbox (Official Site)" on both Google Search (maybe no longer necessary) & the sponsored listing on the actual site.
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by netsp 17y ago
If anyone is interested in this topic, I expect comments pointing out that Betterworldbooks.com are not on Amazon's radar. This may be growth, but it is still a small piece of the large pie. That is true. However, I still think it is an exa
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BetterWorldBooks Recent Growth - Is Altruism a competative edge against Amazon?(siteanalytics.compete.com)
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by netsp 17y ago
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/salesforce.com+squidoo.com/
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by netsp 17y ago
For the one that I am most familiar with (Goodbarry), traffic to the site is not an indicator of anything. You might as well measure visits to their office. It irritates me when I see a list of startups with traffic estimates beside them. (
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by netsp 17y ago
It's important to use would instead of could when thinking about these things. If the teenage girl doesn't know about Adium, it's the same no Adium. It's now more likely that she would Google "MSN for linux" and be successful. That's relati
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by netsp 17y ago
The dollar bill & the economist.
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by netsp 17y ago
Are you asking where to find them or how to recognise them?
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by netsp 17y ago
Being very speculative.. Isn't this a free option? If it's enough to get the judge swapped isn't it enough to overturn a guilty verdict? They get an opportunity to try the case, the possibility of winning. Then they have an easy path to a r
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by netsp 17y ago
It is a mistake to take 'revenue forgone' too far. You would not (usually) spent that time in paid employment, so you haven't foregone that time. Anyway, no need to get too fancy. If you don't enjoy cooking, don't do it. anyway: "I take it
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by netsp 17y ago
Yes. Good point. I have no problems with that statement. Working with the public is certainly better than secrecy. I'm just pointing that a music tax is being presented as reasonable. I was surprised the author implied this. *I'm not perso
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by netsp 17y ago
I guess that the answer to your first question relates to how much faith shareholders have in those contracts as a way to keep the average cost of Windows high. Milking a cash cow is not a win-lose, binary process. It is a matter of how muc
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by netsp 17y ago
Tiered pricing is not seen as bad as it once was. Bill Gates is currently promoting it as an international development tool. I'm not sure what the laws are (or will be), but I think there could be work-arounds.
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by netsp 17y ago
'You know what would probably get something done? If the record industry proposed a law through the front door, with public hearings, to find an equitable, simple way to get paid for the use of its material online. A blanket license, say,
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by netsp 17y ago
"There was a European version whose provisions were very similar to the Broadcast Flag -- I was allowed to attend these, but only by promising nondisclosure. No problem: I stumped up and down Europe, saying, "There's a crazy, evil DRM thin
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by netsp 17y ago
Take that even further. Just because a web page looks good on black cardboard, does not mean it is a beautiful web page. The piece of paper on the black card is what is beautiful. The former is a representation of the latter. It may lose so
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by netsp 17y ago
How do you keep this a Listing/Wiki of HN startups as opposed to a Listing/Wiki of hnstartups?
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by netsp 18y ago
Economies of scale.
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by netsp 18y ago
It's perhaps a sad symbol of our time. Learn to be a millionaire in a weekend is something you can only sell to optimists. Pessimism bring skeptisism.
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by netsp 18y ago
Interesting choice. Quoting the milder form opens a seperate discussion.
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by netsp 18y ago
That's exactly what this article is pointing to. The difficulty caused by introducing 'principles' like justice. Free speech is such a principle. Principals are compromised by compromise. Preferences are not. Therefore if you think in te

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