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by netsp 17y ago
Teapot
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Someone should license front end to banks.
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by netsp 17y ago
Really? Doesn't this assume that investors are dumb or that they prefer blind-but-optimistic CEOs? I just heard an interview with the CEO of Carsales.com (just went public). He was asked if he was worried about free classifieds doing to the
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These are not mutually exclusive.
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What kind would be useful?
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My issue with ideas like the "startup visa" is that they require restrictions and bureaucracies. You end up with more draconian restrictions on immigrants causing resentment. You end up with more distortion of market signals. What happens w
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by netsp 17y ago
Or move closer to work or buy motorcycles. Point is, it's not like Mac instead of a Windows, it's like margarine instead of butter. Change hurts.
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by netsp 17y ago
nice round number
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not sure about that particular effect, but lets assume that you are right. It's a great example of how painfully inelastic demand for oil or oil derived goods (getting to work in your car) is. The way that higher prices will reflect in
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by netsp 17y ago
My opinion on it would depend totally on cost. If the city could provide free wifi for all at a cost significantly less than what the city currently pays privately, go for it.
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by netsp 17y ago
That's rubbish. Economic growth is not simply more of the same. The next 20% will not be like the last. The 20% before that was also different. If we can get twice as far on a litre of petrol with no other costs (worse car, etc.) that is ec
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by netsp 17y ago
I get pretty depressed when I hear about agricultural NGO programs in the developing world. They invariably sell themselves as dealing in "sustainable agricultural methods that don't degrade the land" or something similar. There is nothing
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by netsp 17y ago
Oil demand is extremely inelastic. Sure, if oil goes to $300 a barrel and stays there, we'll figure out other ways of getting from A to B. But the next day and the next year, we will be trying to consume the same amount of oil regardless of
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by netsp 17y ago
That is true. Oil production doesn't even need to drop off very fast to produce drastic effects. The reason peak oil is taken so seriously is because of inelastic demand. Regardless of the cost of oil, we consume it in roughly equal amounts
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by netsp 17y ago
Pissing off a a few people while reaching a lot is a better then reaching few and pissing off none. You rarely get a downvote as a consumer, just like on HN. Going in to the comments to register your dislike is not the same as a down vote.
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by netsp 17y ago
Sure. Success ultimately is subject to feedback. They can't succeed without creating value. But they can start without it. They may get funded without it. You may not know if you've been doing anything useful for a long time.
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think faxes are any cheaper or easier then scanners (even though I've seen print/scan/copy/fax machines for under $50, so it isn't much of a point). I guess that is my question is Why would someone have a fax machine? The only answe
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think there has ever in the history of the world been a consumer market where unit prices are so low. BTW: Personally, regular payments (especially small ones), do put me off. But I wouldn't mind a prepaid model so much. IE, I pay f
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by netsp 17y ago
The preponderance of corporate pain lurking throughout the lifespan of an ERP suite is unequivocal. To wit: ERP projects have only a 7 percent chance of coming in on time, most certainly will cost more than estimated, and very likely will
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by netsp 17y ago
In the comments they were trying to figure out (before they realised the hoax) why would anyone possibly want this feature. You realise that anything that applies to facebook faxes applies to fax in general. What they come up with is that s
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by netsp 17y ago
Dropbox must be so popular with investors. It could be an important acquisition for so many massive companies. In each case that I can think of this would be an extremely smart thing for them to do.
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is it a web app?
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm going to chime in with the same note that always rings when dropbox get mentioned. This is such an impressive service. This is the first time I've seen web interface since I first installed it and had a quick play. I just moved a folder
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by netsp 17y ago
From the comments: Matt Harwood: I call hoax. There is zero way Facebook would even consider this, nor use that god awful over-sized icon. Jason Kincaid: It’s not a hoax, I’m seeing it when I browse photo albums. Might now be rolled out
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by netsp 17y ago
That is slightly suspicious. Maybe somebody at facebook actually thought that this was a good idea at some point and had developed it as a feature.
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by netsp 17y ago
That's an interesting thought. However, you would expect startups to be prone to more evere cycles and bubbles. People in office cubicles have more of a direct feedback from the ultimate value creation. You don't hire someone unless you ne
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by netsp 17y ago
If they don't survive, it will not be because of damage to their quality, but because of an outcry. There would be in outcry in that case because it is bad and obviously. There is not a perfect marriage between what is good for Google and w
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That doesn't mean it can't be used to achieve a goal. Selectively breeding cows for increased milk production allows evolution to find a way or ways of making that happen. The breeder doesn't need to worry about hormones or glands. Evolutio
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I'm going to parody. Can they threaten to remove sites from their index if you don't write "I love Google" on the top of every webpage? Can they threaten to remove your site if you do not ban the bingbot? I think we would agree that would b
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The more I think and learn about evolution as something abstract (IE something that can exist in principle only, happens to be embodied in biology and could be embodied elsewhere), the more I think that evolution is creation. At the very

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