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541.
by niggler 14y ago
" I have serious doubts about the team and am doubtful that the product will be successful " That's a sign to go. If you don't believe in the team and the product, then why are you spending time on the startup?
542.
by niggler 14y ago
GiveSpark hasn't launched yet ... or at least, at this point, they still have a signup landing page
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by niggler 14y ago
" it has been considered sacrosanct that deposit holders be protected, no matter the cost. " In 2011 and 2012, in the US, protecting the deposit holders was deemed sufficiently important that FDIC deposit insurance was extended to unlimited
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by niggler 14y ago
BTC is far from a stable and accepted currency, and the fluctuations in USDBTC are still being driven by developments in the bitcoin community (e.g. good press, bad press, technical issues, new sites that accept BTC).
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by niggler 14y ago
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433433 [dead] Bang with friends is on sale for 550,000$ (flippa.com)
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by niggler 14y ago
After seeing the other cases, I'm inclined to agree with your mentality, although I really would like to see more KS oversight or at least more options to flag what seems to be a violation of TOS
547.
by niggler 14y ago
Let's make one thing clear: in the spectrum of possibilities, a massive inflationary event (where the purchasing power of the dollar is significantly impaired) is far more likely than any government agency raiding everyone's bank accounts,
548.
by niggler 14y ago
"this is still an inappropriate way of using the site." "It would still be against the TOS, so yes." Ultimately that's a question to be directed to kickstarter who, as far as I can tell, has to sign off on the projects before they show up
549.
by niggler 14y ago
We don't know the underlying family dynamic, but the storyline that is being sold here is: - Girl proposes idea of making a game - Brothers were skeptical: "She tried with my brothers but they weren't interested." - Brothers challenged girl
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Revamped Cyprus deal to close bank, force losses(reuters.com)
84 points by niggler 14y ago|67 comments
551.
by niggler 14y ago
"There's no feel-goodery in helping a rich mom sell her daughter out when there are plenty of girls out there without money or mothers to exploit them.' If you didn't know the mother was rich, would you feel the same way? If the mother was
552.
by niggler 14y ago
The problem is that Kickstarter gets a 5% fee, so it is to their business interests to raise as much money as possible
553.
by niggler 14y ago
"This KS thing was just a big lie designed to pull on heart-strings." I don't doubt that every single contributor feels better about himself or herself, even though they essentially purchased overpriced clothes. The lemonade itself is over
554.
by niggler 14y ago
Lemme give a counterpoint: What if the lesson here were to teach how to raise money? What if it were to go through the actual process of building a game (which includes far more than just writing the game)? Instead of looking at it as a s
555.
by niggler 14y ago
Best quote from that conversation: "I see kickstarter on the same level as Quibids these days"
556.
by niggler 14y ago
This is absolutely brilliant if you want to teach kids lessons about raising money. What better way to teach the barnum lesson about suckers than to take advantage of them? I can fully imagine the mother thinking that this is a lesson she
557.
by niggler 14y ago
Is there a way to list the visa requirements for a US citizen? (just a simple list of the other countries and whether or not a visa is required to visit those countries)
558.
by niggler 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if many of those people came to google through an acquisition or other means (I took a very cursory scan but couldn't find a contributor that identified as working for google out of mountain view)
559.
by niggler 14y ago
"until Google warns you and gives you months to migrate all of your data to a competing service" That's a big assumption. Google could axe a service tomorrow with no notice (which apple has a tendency of doing)
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by niggler 14y ago
I wouldn't necessarily call this strange if you think about how this directly translates to assembly instructions.
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by niggler 14y ago
"What a rip-off." The opportunity to showcase your product and have it seen by millions of potential customers and investors on national television may actually be worth far more than their take.
562.
by niggler 14y ago
Regardless of the level of offense, 'Dad' isn't a natural word to use in that context (I've never heard anyone use the word 'dad' when discussing redundancy). 'Master' would be much more appropriate.
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by niggler 14y ago
"Many white Christians find gays offensive as well" I am not homosexual and I don't find gays offensive. Nonetheless, I would be incredibly disturbed to be hearing about "homosexual haskell" or "faggot functions". It's not appropriate in
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[Quora] That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It Seems(gayle.quora.com)
8 points by niggler 14y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
It's sad to see this shadowed, since even after a week we as a community haven't fully come to terms with what happened.
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by niggler 14y ago
There's a profound difference between 'refraining from obvious and offensive references' and '"kinder, gentler" atmosphere appropriate for delicate-minded women-folk.' References to porn or sex or virginity or rape or molestation or fondli
567.
by niggler 14y ago
I personally don't think public shaming is the right answer to this in the first place, regardless of whether the right person was shamed (makes it worse that the wrong guy was shamed), and please don't construe this as defense of the pract
568.
by niggler 14y ago
"Porn is deeply offensive to many groups of people on religious as well as gender grounds". Interestingly enough, many white male christians find it offensive as well. That's not an exaggeration. It's really poor form to draw an analogy
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by niggler 14y ago
"Photographing someone without consent at a conference is really not minor" It's a public place. Do you really think you live in a bubble where no one can take pictures of you without your consent? "posting said photograph to Twitter" When
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by niggler 14y ago
$50K starts the auction, but the "Buy it Now" price (in the blue button) is $550K

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