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by neworbit 15y ago
Why wouldn't they then lease it, or have it owned by some foreign entity not subject to local/national taxes, or have an exemption lobbied into existence for this particular yacht? Cargo ships get flagged Panama or Liberia for roughly this
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by neworbit 15y ago
To take a slightly more balanced view on it, acquiring the team and the early fruits of their research but not a market-dominating position was Cisco's growth strategy for a long long time - cherry-picking startups that had built an amazing
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by neworbit 15y ago
That's not dirty so much as it is awesome. Go start something! Make a name for yourself! Acquire some real experience and notoriety and some great stories to tell down the road. But do make sure you've got the connections to be acquired...
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by neworbit 15y ago
This isn't a particularly new claim - back when the fad weight loss supplement was ephedrine (or a "ephedrine/caffeine/aspirin stack") the purported mechanism was brown fat thermogenesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedrine First I rec
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by neworbit 15y ago
Man, if I had the spare cycles to do it, I would love to build this as a browser based service that just calls a (cloud) back end compiler and produces output files. Ajax UI design plus templates would seem like an ideal basis to build triv
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by neworbit 15y ago
My take: because Monsanto or similar firms are not supporting legislation that immediately threatens YC and the internet in general. SOPA et al is pretty much a declaration of war, it shouldn't be much surprise there's a response to that.
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by neworbit 15y ago
A lot of that isn't available internationally, due to market segmentation by the movie/music cartels. I have no idea how much of the world TPB serves as compared to US only markets, but I suspect it's pretty ubiquitous anywhere there's broa
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by neworbit 15y ago
OK, so where's the source ;)
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by neworbit 15y ago
Dropbox or Evernote are far more useful to me and far cheaper, and it took me quite a while to bite at their price. This would have to be much much more capable than it appears.
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by neworbit 15y ago
For software tools along these lines I adore foreui - the skinning feature is great for placating pointy-haired bosses^H^H^H^H^H^H customers
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by neworbit 15y ago
This article also raises the point that if nationally mandated sales tax equality is instituted, Amazon and its competitors are in the same boat - but that would also free Amazon to actually open physical stores or showrooms across the US,
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by neworbit 15y ago
The only way Spotify can avoid this problem is by becoming too big to ignore, a la iTunes for digital distribution or Walmart for physical goods. At that point the labels have a hard time saying "we're going to pull our inventory unless we
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by neworbit 15y ago
...yet ;-) To a certain extent Amazon does; they wield a lot of clout in book pricing and an enormous amount in ebook pricing. Outside that traditional core competency (and Amazon Android Appstore) not so much
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by neworbit 15y ago
There's a reasonable and pragmatic expectation that a consumer is paying for an unlimited license to listen to whatever music they want (Spotify, Rhapsody, whatever). They are dealing with legacy devices by downloading tracks that work on t
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by neworbit 15y ago
That's true if you only consider human diseases; I suspect you could find trillions of copies of e coli
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by neworbit 15y ago
Clancy's book is Rainbow Six, though the derivation from Seal Team Six is pretty likely. I think that was the book that made me stop reading Clancy novels, come to think of it.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Scuttlebutt from the Seattle network says valuations are lousy there as compared to the bay area. Did you happen to notice anything either confirming or contradicting that?
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by neworbit 15y ago
There are all sorts of cottage industries in the firearms business. My midwestern and southern relatives are extremely enthused about such things. Mostly it amounts to "customizing a stock weapon with aftermarket accessories" as far as I ca
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Don't Give Up: Redswoosh and Travis Kalanick (now Uber CEO)(allthingsd.com)
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by neworbit 15y ago
I contributed based on it being an open source license; if some group decides to change that so they can make money off it, forking and keeping it free is not "cheating them" - it's keeping them from cheating me and every other dev who has
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by neworbit 15y ago
They got a factory on the cheap from Toyota that was being closed - not quite the same arrangement. c.f. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/10/teslas-got-the-factory-...
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by neworbit 15y ago
Liked Cars at least better than Monsters Inc. Cars 2, meh. I keep going to see these under the guise that I'm seeing what Pixar technology is capable of, but I think it's at least as much that I like the films.
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by neworbit 15y ago
It helps if you have a) the right business connections in the space you want (as opposed to a wild hair "I'm going to reinvent this industry because it looks broken from outside") b) Funding enough to see it through c) some track record of
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by neworbit 15y ago
Maybe for the drugs
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by neworbit 15y ago
They fund a lot of things, but yes, I don't think I'd like to be on the receiving end of "You bear a distinct resemblance to someone we'd like to explode."
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by neworbit 15y ago
Well, it is kind of creepy. I wouldn't want a "social network helper tool" to out me if I was still in the closet. Some things should be your own decision.
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by neworbit 15y ago
From a user perspective, it'd be nice if it just came with Chrome. I'm sure Dropbox would be horrified
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by neworbit 15y ago
Well let's be fair, this is in the context of a story about pirating textbooks - if nothing else, the original post is about (mostly) not getting paid.
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by neworbit 15y ago
For other similar* businesses that I'm aware of, streaming isn't more profitable on a per unit basis as compared to DVD rental/sale (but subscriptions to unlimited streaming are much more profitable, because usage tails off but people don't
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by neworbit 15y ago
That shouldn't be too strange. I'd consider buying one, and I don't use many MS products. No reason not to evaluate it in a purchasing decision. All things being equal I'd probably buy another Android device, but I'm not zealous enough to s

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