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Paul Vs Paul: Fundraising and YC VC(statspotting.com)
1 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
I stopped learning objective c for fear of losing interest in programming. It is, simply put, horrible.
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A Harsh Reminder(statspotting.com)
1 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Are We Trained To Solve Problems, But Not To Identify Those?(statspotting.com)
1 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
Some people might be okay with the risk of someone else driving their car, for the money, especially in these tough times.
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by npguy 14y ago
Right. That's exactly the point from Jawed Karim's speech. Except that these are not big waves always. These could be small technology enablers. But the conclusion is the same.
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PG’s ‘Startup Ideas’ Post: One Missing Heuristic(statspotting.com)
27 points by npguy 14y ago|7 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
the one issue I see, is that the number of movies is not so large for current human feedback systems to fail. Ratings in general is a different story though.
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Why Steve Ballmer Fired Steven Sinofsky, Las Vegas Edition(statspotting.com)
2 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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‘Groupon Should Have Been Built As A Technology Company’(statspotting.com)
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OMG: Twitter Thinks DHH Is Similar To Devops Borat(statspotting.com)
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Facebook’s 2012 YTD Revenue: What Taobao.com Sold In One Day(statspotting.com)
1 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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George Soros, Nate Silver and Barack Obama: A Story of Reflexivity(statspotting.com)
1 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What was your Project/Startup's Aha moment?
1 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
Fixed that. Thanks
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by npguy 14y ago
The point is to understand the magnitude. The time spent on these adds up. To huge possibilities. Like the Wikipedia example.
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Curiosity: Should We Poke The Cube?(statspotting.com)
8 points by npguy 14y ago|9 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
Here is something we spotted: that one-fourth of Kenya's GDP flows through this mobile payment system called mPesa http://statspotting.com/2011/04/kenyas-m-pesa-the-unbelievab...
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by npguy 14y ago
Thanks! Like I mentioned before, I am glad a lot of people liked the title!
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Show HN: Solid Collection of Finance Feeds(filll.com)
2 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
Thanks ! Glad a lot of people liked the title !
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by npguy 14y ago
They must have gone lighter on the margins with the merchants and locked them in. One example I can think of, is to have merchants accept Groupon coins, like Bitcoins, and make people gain Groupon coins elsewhere.
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by npguy 14y ago
And .. No money back :-)
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The Best Groupon Deal Ever: 86.2% Off On GRPN at NASDAQ(statspotting.com)
126 points by npguy 14y ago|72 comments
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Show HN: A Solid Tech Reading List(talll.com)
3 points by npguy 14y ago|0 comments
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‘Curious’ Folks, Before You Poke The Cube ..(statspotting.com)
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Annual Income And Happiness: The ’75000 USD’ Tipping Point(statspotting.com)
2 points by npguy 14y ago|1 comments
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by npguy 14y ago
It is a lot. A percentage drop in a metric like that, IMO, is huge.
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by npguy 14y ago
if you take a 10 million actively looking for jobs unemployment number, 100,000 is 1 Percent!
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Money Spent On 2012 Elections = Annual Unemployment Benefits For 100,000(statspotting.com)
3 points by npguy 14y ago|4 comments

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