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by po 15y ago
I'm just betting that the investors, who are pretty savvy, do know whether their financials are good. You should probably stay far away from Wall St for your own good. The savviness of the investors should be a warning sign, not one that
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by po 15y ago
They're a very young business, they're spending a lot of money building their economic fortress. The fact that they aren't profitable is surprising, but for such a young company not too surprising. Ok, I'll give you that. Maybe this is
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by po 15y ago
Yes, the amount of money they’re spending on customer acquisition and retention is absolutely insane. (And the amount owed to merchants is especially troubling.) But look at what they’re up against. Pretty much single major player is now c
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by po 15y ago
In other words: it's a good trade.
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by po 15y ago
This is because the link is to the mobile version of the site. It's supposed to be read on a handheld. At the bottom there is a link to the "desktop" version of the article but if you click that you will quickly realize the reason the link
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by po 15y ago
It's HARD to tell the difference between Iridium and Amazon. I agree, which is why it is important to also look at the behavior of the founders who have intimate knowledge and secret desires. I won't begrudge anyone taking some money of
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by po 15y ago
…in the (not unlikely) event that a malware incident on your machine… I believe it's even worse than that. The normal instinct as shown by this response is to centralize security into a "super secure" bank. I think that's exactly the wro
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by po 15y ago
They would probably just use a highly reputable bitcoin bank. It could stay anonymous because there could be "cash for bitcoin" like sites around cities and a transfer could be made into the bitcoin bank without anyone ever knowing. If yo
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by po 15y ago
My main fear with something like bitcoin is this: imagine a virus or worm that infects machines and then transfers all bitcoin found on that machine to an anonymous address. There is absolutely no recourse. Hell, it could be a bitcoin "clie
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by po 15y ago
There's nothing more dangerous than a confidant gambler. Taking one high risk may wipe you out or make you rich, but taking a series of high risks will almost certainly wipe you out. His past success has nothing to do with this wager he's m
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by po 15y ago
An idea is a starting point. If you were to have a race to success, having an idea would put you farther down the road than starting without one. That being said, the idea is worthless if you don't actually start running. Building a team th
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by po 15y ago
That's not abuse... they could easily have blocked a single website. I'm thinking it would have to be spammers using google translate to generate content or something.
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by po 15y ago
Wow, that is unexpected. I can think of a lot of developer tools that use google translate to give a rough first translate. Things like Wordpress and web framework plugins. It seems like they should have just dropped a fee structure on top
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by po 15y ago
I was surprised and impressed by pg sniffing out the last guy. I felt like there was something shady about how he was describing his company… like it was a 'platform' and too general and he had too many 'users' for what he was describing. T
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by po 15y ago
as aidenn0 mentions, I don't think a film that works well with a TV would necessarily work well with a laptop. The pixel sizes are different but also the viewing distance is much greater. This 3M product says: Anti-glare film, for example,
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by po 15y ago
I've looked into getting one but all of the matte films I have seen have a 'shimmery' appearance to them. It looks like the surface grain of the film is not fine enough. Does anyone know of a good brand of film to use?
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by po 15y ago
I think this is meant to be a fun project that gets people to learn some of the quirks in the Javascript language. It reminds me a little bit of code obfuscation contests: the more deeply you understand the language, the better you will do.
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by po 15y ago
This is designed to be used by experts most efficiently. This is already minimalist. Single function (non-modal) buttons are the fastest, most fail-proof way of controlling state. Peek into the cockpit next time you get into a plane. I wa
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by po 15y ago
Having grown up in the American system, I have to confess that this has always bothered me but I didn't realize that it was only American writing! I guess I never noticed it when I read well-edited british source material. Now that I know d
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by po 15y ago
I got this same error when viewing it with Chrome. Seems like a huge mistake, because as a normal user there's nothing you can do.
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by po 15y ago
If you turn it on in the OS X services preferences you can do Safari-->Services-->Summary Here's what I got: This seems to be the heart of TheLadders’ method of doing business: TheLadders itself is the source of inappropriate job a
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by po 15y ago
I think an interesting data point is that the bitcoin faucet guy had to implement an out-of-band authentication system because people were anonymously double-dipping with new, trivially easy to generate id's. You can prove you paid a transa
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by po 15y ago
I don't think wealth is zero-sum. That doesn't mean that wealth cannot be transferred. In this case I believe that international companies and Bermudians gain and the average US taxpayer loses. I am more sympathetic to the average US taxpay
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by po 15y ago
…at the expense of the rest of the world. If you built a perfectly legal way for companies to get billions of dollars of income into the US tax-free and all it requires is a holding company on your island, you can be sure that you're going
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by po 15y ago
He's not setting up a straw man argument; the original article is a poll of 500 top CEO's asking which state they prefer and he's saying the results are not surprising. He's not trying to refute the results of the poll. In fact, it looks li
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by po 15y ago
The Bermuda's 0% tax rate is a particular favorite. There were $51B in untaxed profits there in 2006. See also: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b42240452...
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by po 15y ago
A Couchapp has features that are trivial in couchdb (replication, map-reduce) but require more setup in traditional server side code. The target market will be applications that value these tradeoffs. If you decide you need something else,
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by po 15y ago
What ever became of the erlang branch? https://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/tree/erlang I never really understood what the main driver behind that was. Are there still plans to release that?
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by po 16y ago
* I find it pretty hard to read the time. They maybe should reduce the white space between the ball grid. * The android holding the QR code covers up the time. I think the designer has a larger monitor than me. :-) * The balls bouncing arou
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by po 16y ago
Arrington might be a bit whiny here but he brings up a good point: why is it not considered required disclosure to not only state your own conflicts of interests but also those of your spouse? The government considers your incomes to be the

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