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18y ago
Well spotted. Linking this to small identity is a part of an extremely important consciousness-raising that I hope is happening. Hopefully this will curb what you are describing about the anti-Bush movement. I was recently talking about som
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18y ago
Maybe the statement should be a little sideways: "If your answer is ads it is likely to be the wrong answer." At least more so then other answers you might hear. Doesn't mean there aren't good businesses to be built on ads. Just that there
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18y ago
I think that in general, these sort of tests need to be seen as early probes, not absolute measures. They might be better in a relative test: "Should I build this or this?" rather then "Should I build this?"
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18y ago
This brings to mind an add-on question. Have any Slinksets become important hubs on any domain? I haven't really seen any with a sufficient number of comments & points to "qualify" as HNs. Strange considering how well it works.
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18y ago
How would other investors react to this? It seems an obvious case of letting one investor in at valuation A & another at valuation A+B with anchoring in the relative value of the company at these two points. Is the socially correct in t
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18y ago
I would have guessed that if you wanted to create a paypal for the next ten years you would want to go the opposite direction on the technology >> people friendliness continuum. There is a lot to be done on making payment online pai
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18y ago
I think it might be useful to generalize that even more. Google are good with aggregate. When problems are granular they are not.
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18y ago
In retrospect, this is a bad business for Google to have gotten into for that reason. They are not good with the type of problems that come up. I was using paypal the other day & thinking the same thing about them. I came to the conclus
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18y ago
I guess most of the things you can do the positively affect the first also positively affect the third.
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18y ago
At this point, does more applicants mean better participants?
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18y ago
No Censorship, like like no economic intervention, no prohibitions etc. are not intuitive concepts. Censorship is not bad just because it's bad (like murder or assault). It doesn't usually hurt anyone directly. In fact it's trying to help.