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by netsp 17y ago
That point I was talking about comes after the point you were talking about.
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by netsp 17y ago
I actually think this is exactly the right thing to be doing. For both advertisers and for facebook. The main problem with display ads in the search/ppc era is the same problem as display ads in the print media era: Banner ads do a crap job
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by netsp 17y ago
The thing with Skype is the lost potential. Skype has been happily sitting on all those PCs for so long at the centre of the so-called virtual office. I recently updated my skype & noticed the screen sharing, which for me makes it far m
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by netsp 17y ago
I think that it is not unusual for lease terms to be negotiated on commercial property.
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by netsp 17y ago
You're getting to be a politician
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by netsp 17y ago
ramen profitable means not trying to raise money?
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by netsp 17y ago
I think the your second paragraph answers your first. In economics this tends to be called transaction costs, though I think that is typical economists avoidance of ever dealing with mess. Standardised contracts allow buyers & sellers t
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by netsp 17y ago
World population will likely grow until there isn't enough to feed the world by any method. So the less toxic, time-tested method should continue to provide an alternative. Have you thought about the method which this ceiling will impose
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by netsp 17y ago
Is it different money or is it just mixed in with YC's personal investments?
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by netsp 17y ago
By inverting this list, we can get a portrait of the "normal" world. I suspect that this observation has something to do with the last PG essay to hit HN about putting yourself in the centre. If you take any list of characteristics that y
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by netsp 17y ago
Are you being ironic? It's fairly amusing hearing (usually Americans) revive some colonialist axiom or piece of logic as if it is new & brilliant. The relationship between wealth & compliance is complex.
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by netsp 17y ago
From: http://altmedicine.about.com/od/healthconditionsatod/a/Depre... St. John's Wort Omega-3 fatty acids Sam e Folic Acid 5-HTP Diet (sugar, caffeine, alcohol, vitamin b6, magnesium) exercise sunlight etc. I suppos
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by netsp 17y ago
where would you suggest digging to uncover the motive of illiterate bureaucrats from 2500 years ago? I imagine it should be easy compared to uncovering the motives of living politicians in information societies.
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by netsp 17y ago
Letting an opportunity like that slide (from the perspective of US employers) cals in to question the US' supposed non socialist system.
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by netsp 17y ago
no matter how bad it gets?
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by netsp 17y ago
Intention s irrelevant in the long rung. The only reason European politicians talk about it is because you can blame someone for intention.
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by netsp 17y ago
I am morally opposed to immigration restrictions in general. But I agree with dbc. An increased supply in engineers lowers price (wages). If all immigrants left SF tomorrow, the companies left short would bid up the price of an engineer. Th
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by netsp 17y ago
Let me get this right: Your position is that it is impossible to change this industry no matter what because of a deeply flawed political process unique to the US.
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by netsp 17y ago
At some point, the main job of Wikipedia editors will be to update the encyclopedia in response to new information.
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by netsp 17y ago
I have heard answers of that nature coming from Google before. I think they are avoiding the question. Searchers? Fine. They are using a free, take it or leave it service. Almost anyone would understand that they will be shuffled in to some
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by netsp 17y ago
You can get just as bad with a $100,000 account.
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by netsp 17y ago
I remember a comment at some point by pg that customer service might be Google's Achilles heel. The evidence is accumulating. Any service that cannot be provided without it cannot be provided by Google and there is an opportunity to compete
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by netsp 17y ago
The point in the above comment is that adwords customers with large accounts pay such large amounts each month because When you do get to speak to someone (via above hidden shoephone method) it's still like speaking to a clumsy CIA agent. I
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by netsp 17y ago
This brings me back to the returnees/emigrant issues. The catch 22 seems to be that individuals, once they have that experience, had a high likelihood of leaving. The potential resource is that due to returning the pool of people which such
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not Indian myself. I work a lot with Indian suppliers though. Lately there seem to be more returnees in that pool running little outsourcing companies. My own experience is often frustration. The best jobs (quality & time sensitive
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by netsp 17y ago
I have been thinking a lot lately about Indian professionals moving back home. I always thought that India's catch 22 was loosing the better (or at least better educated) talent. What do you think about returnees? Resource, potential talent
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by netsp 17y ago
That makes sense. But I still don't see how it adds up to a bootstrapped product company. Especially not one like Zoho (wide product range, products directly competing with major players, products in long established categories and classes)
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by netsp 17y ago
It's not a straight conversion to aggression. Germans, I believe, drive fast. Maybe aggressively too. But, if you put them in an auto, they also pick up the behaviour of building speed fast for 1-2 seconds then braking hard. It happens a lo
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by netsp 17y ago
The point of counting seconds instead of distance is that it works at any speed. People tend to keep the longest (time) distance at suburban speeds. 7 seconds at highway speeds can be over 200 meters. I'm all for safety, but that is excessi
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by netsp 17y ago
Not only does a manual transmission help, but it kind of pushes everyone into that kind of driving. Maybe it's just because you don't need brakes as much. When I drive an auto (usually rental), I find I'm a lot more aggressive. I also fond

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