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by rjett 16y ago
It's interesting that you say "behavior programming" because that is exactly how some would define marketing. This startup, in its current state, is basically just an outsourced marketing campaign for Cabot (that might be a bit reductive of
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I don't mean to belittle I Move You in making this comment, but would companies like this exist (as companies, not side projects) if they didn't have programs like ycombinator to catapult them into the spotlight? It seems to me that without
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by rjett 16y ago
If one could make $25000 in a month doing this, then I think there would be quite a few people considering career changes.
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OkCupid gives 3 ratings: a Match percentage, a Friends percentage, and an Enemy percentage. Isn't the op's idea already rolled into this?
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I would assume this is a chicken and egg problem if they're bootstrapping the startup. On the one hand, they probably need the fee to be this high while the amount of users is small so that they can sustain themselves and grow the business.
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by rjett 16y ago
The market for this sort of thing strikes me as very similar to the market for patio11's Bingo Card Creator: competitive adwords environment, heavy value in A | B testing to get conversion rates as high as possible, a TON of single use cust
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Find good foods that you enjoy and exercises that you don't dread Regarding the exercise part of that statement: I've actually come to terms with the fact that the amount I need to exercise to change my body over time isn't going to be pl
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by rjett 16y ago
I flew from Sacramento to Miami 2 weeks ago with Delta and they had complimentary wifi.
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With a simple google search, it looks like he basically crafted his own major at Dartmouth called "Designing Reality."
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I assumed it was their apartment/home base... sort of like the Bat Cave.
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Yet, in spite of all this, the reporting on it is building continual momentum such that it is perceived as a serious problem for the company. Despite the shoddiness of Mr. Ceglia's case against FB, at what point does the price of negative
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by rjett 16y ago
Meh you could probably make a decent case for why we are in the middle of a web/mobile/social app bubble, but I think the Gold Rush mentality has always been prevalent with the internet from the very beginning. Because of the very low overh
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by rjett 16y ago
That would guarantee a minimum level of aggregate news production but not specify the particular producers. Given how information is dispersed and consumed these days, there are literally thousands of information producers (or at least so
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GE Puts Up $200 Million in Power Grid Idea Challenge(businessweek.com)
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Surprise jump in trade deficit worries economists(latimes.com)
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If nothing else, they've demonstrated they can do cool and sexy quite well.
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There were rumors of Yahoo eying the purchase of Foursquare a few months back for $100 million. Even though this never happened and was merely a rumor, I do believe someone might be interested in paying $30-40 mil for it. http://www.sf
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U.S. Arrests 10 on Charges of Being Agents for Russia (nytimes.com)
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by rjett 16y ago
"Every few months, I find myself excited over the preliminary results of my increasingly sophisticated simulations, only to be disappointed a few short weeks later to find that I was simply wrong." Isn't this why algorithmic traders "refit"
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That was sort of my point. If you're backtesting, then you are assuming that past prices do in fact have some sort of bearing on future prices. Besides, aren't there all sorts of problems with backtesting, one of which is survivor's bias?
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by rjett 16y ago
"The problem is that most Technical Analysis is somewhere in between voodoo and immature quantitative analysis." If you accept that past prices have no bearing on future prices, would you care to explain the difference between technical ana
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Musk Bets on $178 Million Tesla IPO to Fund Battery-Car Gambit(bloomberg.com)
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I guess "independence" is in the eye of the beholder. Working 1-2 weeks out of 4 and sailing around sounds like a pretty nice level of independence for someone like me. If your idea of independence is to never have to work a day of your lif
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by rjett 16y ago
Given the sensitive nature of some of the data they work with and the fact that 70% of their business comes through the [US] government, I wonder if their engineers all have at least some level of security clearance. Or would palantir just
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by rjett 16y ago
Invest in adderall and see where that takes you. Joking. In all seriousness, drop the desire to turn 100k into 1 mil in x amount of time. That will lead you into wreckless, speculative behavior. Trading is tempting for you because it offers
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by rjett 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422681
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"If anyone knows any way out of this besides increasing the number of users by several orders of magnitude, I'd love to hear it" Disclaimer: I have never run a reviews site so this might just be a wild idea. What if you implemented a karma
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by rjett 16y ago
For anyone living on the ramen budget, this struck me as a good deal so I thought I would share here.
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Southwest Airlines Launches 72-Hour Fare Sale(nytimes.com)
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Except Isner is not a low ranked player. He's no 23 in the world. Granted, his biggest weapon is his huge serve and this is his main advantage. I don't think all of the top players are as versatile as you propose. Even "versatile" players f

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