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by pyoung 14y ago
There are numerous intangible benefits to these programs beyond the success rate of the businesses. Jobs get created, technology is invented or improved, and supply chains and support networks are created or are made more efficient. While
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by pyoung 14y ago
A extremely simple analogy here would be home loans. If your home loan costs you ~4%, but you can make 10% in the stock market, than it would make no sense to pay off your home loan early, because you could use that money and invest in the
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by pyoung 14y ago
It is basically a chatroulette for mobile photos, with the additional creepiness factor of knowing that the people on the app are some where nearby.
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Is there really an opportunity cost? There are tons of companies, non-profits, and academic research being conducted in the medical and other more worthy spaces. It's not like the existence of Facebook changes that. Also, the tech talent
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One thing that doesn't really get brought up enough is the transition from intelligent life to advanced civilization. Due to our sample size, it is impossible for us to even make a rough guess at the odds of a successful transformation from
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Was AI accounted for at all? If super-intelligence can be achieved then technological advancement becomes more or less an issue of logistics, not time.
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They asked Google to check if the video violated YT's terms of service. That is much different than what you are insinuating.
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"for political reasons" I would say this is more of a security issue. If the protests had been peaceful, and had there been no deaths, I doubt this request would have ever been made.
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You are not taking into account concurrent sentencing. So if the punishment for stealing a bike was 5, and if assault was also 5, the guy would only serve 5. Theoretically at least.
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Yup, very popular here in SF. I recently just got my wheels stolen. Also had a few seats stolen as well. Stealing parts is probably more common than stealing entire bikes. And if you look at the pictures of the stolen bikes linked in th
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by pyoung 14y ago
uhhh, 5k is over 3 straight days of driving at highway speeds. It is longer than the distance between SF and NY. I highly doubt that EV's need to be optimized for these distances, as no one in their right mind would routinely go on trips
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by pyoung 14y ago
I am not sure I agree with that. If you think about it, the gas costs for your trip are a wash, because you would be spending that money either way. However, with the amount of money that you saved on fuel with an electric (a few thousand
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Also, you can get access to HBO shows via Netflix's DVDs. Of course you won't get the current season, and you have to order each disc one by one. But for an extra ~8 a month, I have gotten a good value out of it.
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I was a bit disturbed that he seemed so surprised by this. It seems so obvious. I work in consulting and we have a very diverse set of clients, which theoretically provides some protection against the actions of any one client. Even then
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Assuming that leaders of companies always have the best interest of the company in mind is dangerous. The type of personality that tends to succeed in the business world is probably also the type of person that is willing to shut down a co
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They may be charging you more per gallon in the summer. Also, rural municipalities need to charge higher fees and taxes per person to recoup their costs. This is due to the fact that they have to maintain a water system that serves a larg
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by pyoung 14y ago
I'm interested to see what gets sold here. The open source hardware movement has been awesome, but at the moment, it seems to only have resulted in a large hobbyist movement, and hasn't quite affected mainstream consumers yet. Perhaps the
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This is an awesome idea by the way. I work in the energy industry and haven't heard about anything like this. Just curious, it seems like with prior art, MDI would not have exclusive rights to the motor, right? Also their Wikipedia page s
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by pyoung 14y ago
In another thread, the rumor is that they were going out of business, not getting acquired. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4398439
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Maybe add '(YC S12)' in the title? I know you were working on this before YC, but these are the kinds of things I like to see get supported.
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I am currently working with some govt data. Not fun. If it ever got to the point that I could log in and pull some summary stats from a variety of clean, public data sources, this could be very useful. For me the issue isn't the complexit
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by pyoung 14y ago
Everyone should be skeptical that they can beat the market because it is true, there is overwhelming amount of evidence that few people can do it on a consistent basis, even some of the best fund managers. Also, I think you picked up Apple
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I imagine a good number of employees have stock options, which means that, depending on the price of the option, they would not have any value to them. One thing to keep in mind however, is that it is not uncommon for companies to do a re-p
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by pyoung 14y ago
From my understanding, Facebook is not owned by a lot of institutional investors and asset managers. If you look at the 'Inst. own' metric in Google finance, it says 7%, which is fairly low. I could be misinterpreting this however? Can s
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by pyoung 14y ago
It depends on the transit system. MUNI (San Francisco's transit system) buses are horribly off schedule during rush hours, to the point where if you rely on them, you often end up waiting longer than if you randomly show up at your stop.
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Or that we were (note: past tense) in a bubble, but that bubble consisted of a handful of companies and only affected a small number of investors/VCs. This was a common theme in the HN threads on SV bubble speculation, and ultimately I thi
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Curious as to how much these cost to produce? I have been playing around with some Arduinos and it seems like getting something set up with wireless and a rechargeable battery is a lot more expensive than it should be. Would be cool to ha
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I am surprised IKEA doesn't do this actually. Considering how ubiquitous there furniture is becoming, and that a significant portion of people pretty much use them exclusively for their furniture needs, seems like it would be a great thing
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In the article they say that a typical interior designer can cost between 5k-10k. Although, a typical interior designer probably does a number of in person visits and oversees the actual installation. It looks like at this point, the websi
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That line also struck me as odd. My immediate hunch is that she took some liberties with the quote, as I doubt a medical professional would ask a question like that.

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