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by rjett 12y ago
This is complete spit-balling here, but: Does anyone know whether bookstores like Borderlands sell their inventory on consignment, similar to newspaper/magazine stands? Or does the business purchase books at a wholesale price and hold
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by rjett 12y ago
All privacy concerns aside, Facebook has had declining utility to me (and my loved ones) over the last few years, which has translated into less and less use by everyone in my network. My news feed from three to five years ago was much more
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by rjett 12y ago
A few thoughts: 1. Five star rating systems by themselves contain such little information that they are basically pointless. If there's a critical mass of ratings, then they can be somewhat useful. Yelp is a 5 star system, but without
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Hackers with Apparent Investment Banking Background Target Biotech(nytimes.com)
43 points by rjett 12y ago|13 comments
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by rjett 12y ago
I have a friend who quit his day job working as a developer for a design agency. He now makes handcrafted leather products for men because he likes the satisfaction of working with his hands on physical products. Incidentally, Horween suppl
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by rjett 13y ago
I'll take a model that iterates often, with higher likelihood of variance in ideology, over one that optimizes for moderation at the expense of gridlock.
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by rjett 13y ago
For real. Assuming monthly credit charges are evenly distributed from month to month and you max out your allowed credit charges under the flat rate plan, you effective rate is 1.32%. Anything charged in addition to this gets charged at the
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by rjett 13y ago
http://brewmethods.com/
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by rjett 13y ago
Amen! Kopi Luwak has the inherent marketing advantage of describing the production process in a one sentence, narrative hook that everyone understands. Even non coffee drinkers know about "that coffee where the weasel poops it out.&qu
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Ask HN: Restructure during financing round
5 points by rjett 13y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Next round of financing
3 points by rjett 13y ago|3 comments
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The Stunning Student Made Short that got Hollywood's Attention(fastcocreate.com)
2 points by rjett 14y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 14y ago
Actually, we tried to create some buzz on social media even before opening, but I'm unsure how much this actually drove traffic in those first days. I think your friend will figure out pretty quickly that at first, opening a brick and morta
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by rjett 14y ago
That's great! Compliments like this are the real payoff when you open a coffee shop.
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by rjett 14y ago
While this article was noncommittal in offering up the reasons for HB's success, the pleasant sales experience was reiterated throughout the article. THIS IS HUGE IN RETAIL. As of this coming Saturday, I'll be a year into operating a coffee
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by rjett 14y ago
There's too much dissonance between the two brands and their models for sourcing, roasting, and preparing coffee are entirely different. It's hard to see the synergy from such an acquisition. The only thing Starbucks could possibly offer Bl
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Twitter's fake Bill Murray shuts down after breaking parody rules(dailydot.com)
1 points by rjett 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: New passwords
5 points by rjett 15y ago|1 comments
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Anonymous Vows to Attack NYSE(bloomberg.com)
2 points by rjett 15y ago|0 comments
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Who are you and what are you doing here?(oxfordamerican.org)
1 points by rjett 15y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 15y ago
I find it ironic that the OP, who hacked the experiment to divert funds onto his own card (which are now going to a just cause), is the brother of the person in the original comments thread who was posturing about whether or not the card ha
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by rjett 15y ago
Filling out the survey was a breeze but it took at least 3 minutes to calculate quotes and then when it was finished, it listed quotes for each insurer as N/A... buggy and anticlimactic. I'll check back later when they've worked kinks out.
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A Nation-Sized Battery(countercurrents.org)
1 points by rjett 15y ago|0 comments
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Research: The Emotions of Aid(ssireview.org)
1 points by rjett 15y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 15y ago
I also don't understand the need for charging stations to generate their own electricity. I do, however, think the way which electric cars are filled/charged will be fundamentally different than how our current automobiles are filled with g
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Nearly 3,700 post offices slated to close(money.cnn.com)
5 points by rjett 15y ago|0 comments
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Travel marketplace Airbnb raises $112 million(news.cnet.com)
1 points by rjett 15y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 15y ago
I'm not talking patent theory 101; I'm talking about the business of what amounts to the securitization of patents for the purpose of extorting money (either from businesses who pay IV as an insurance policy so they won't get sued or from b
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by rjett 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, so this is just a naive suggestion but I'd like to hear some informed discussion on the issue: Couldn't a company like Intellectual Ventures be prosecuted under some form of antitrust law? There seems to be evi
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by rjett 15y ago
Since this _is_ hacker news, can someone in the know explain the considerations that have to be heeded when developing LED technology for lighting environments? I'm much more interested in hearing about the science behind these bulbs and ho

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