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by rjett 16y ago
After a match this long, I would bet heavily that whoever wins will lose their next match. I wonder how much odds-makers will adjust odds in the next round because of this.
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by rjett 16y ago
"In the UK, his books sold for $6 each; in America, they sold for $0.06 (or so)" I wonder how much this fun fact is skewed by the fact that the pound was worth way more than the cheap American paper money during the time (not to mention tha
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by rjett 16y ago
Joking? I'll bite anyways... There has been myriad research detailing the adverse effects of children (aka developing humans) viewing violence, sex, drugs, etc. I think four year-olds safely qualify as developing. If stuff like this isn't a
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by rjett 16y ago
Reading the title, I thought they might be doing something smart, perhaps using RFID tags or something similar to cut down on plate manufacturing costs and to make the registration renewal process more streamlined. Nope, it turns out they'r
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by rjett 16y ago
Hard to believe that you and your wife consume in a year what I would consume in 7 years if I stuck to my current standard of living :)
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by rjett 16y ago
"Don't cry on HN that something needs to be done." I read nothing in that comment that sounded like crying. As to your first suggestion about the Co-Founder-Wanted-Meetup: Am I such a cheapskate that $65 in advance/ $125 at the door to atte
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by rjett 16y ago
There's nothing specific that says "negotiate this price" but I just email the people and see if they're open to it. Interestingly, there are a lot of things out there that don't seem negotiable at first, but you would be surprised how open
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by rjett 16y ago
I've noticed this before when I've posted a comment that is otherwise receiving upvotes. I just chalk it up to "fat fingers" accidentally clicking the down arrow. It happens.
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by rjett 16y ago
One of the things I love most about AirBnB is that a lot of the people advertising their space on the site are open for negotiation. So let's say Derek looks at this particular place's calendar and sees that in the recent past and in the ne
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by rjett 16y ago
Under what circumstances would a company fail to IPO successfully? I'm assuming this would happen if they didn't create enough interest among investors to raise a specified threshold of money. Is my intuition correct?
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Yuan shot heard round the world but quiet in China(reuters.com)
13 points by rjett 16y ago|5 comments
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Facebook '09 revenue neared $800 million(reuters.com)
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by rjett 16y ago
AirBnB and if you want to stay w Hacker News folks, you can look through the AirBnB Hacker News group to see which accommodations are available.
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L.A. San Francisco Bullet Train Bidding May Begin Next Year(bloomberg.com)
7 points by rjett 16y ago|1 comments
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Interplanetary Internet(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rjett 16y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 16y ago
Here's my quick review of the whiteyboard: After seeing the techcrunch review climb the HN front page a couple months back, I convinced my office to buy two of the 4' x 6' Berthas. I left the actual ordering up to my office manager. Five da
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by rjett 16y ago
Cool! I'd be interested to hear your experience with 1) getting into YC as a single founder and 2) working alone in the ensuing months. That's quite a feat.
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by rjett 16y ago
So before this, was Notifo a one-man YC-funded startup?
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by rjett 16y ago
I'm not familiar with Clearwire, but perhaps another useful analogy would be the stock of Vonage, which IPO'd in 2007 at $13ish I believe. Vonage wasn't profitable up until last year and their stock is at $2.47 as of today's close.
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by rjett 16y ago
If you're interested in participating in an IPO and you have ETrade, I would use this page as a jump off: https://us.etrade.com/e/t/estation/pricing?id=1301050000
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Tesla Motors Sets IPO For Week Of June 28 (online.wsj.com)
52 points by rjett 16y ago|29 comments
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by rjett 16y ago
"I compare what I have now to what I can get tomorrow." This is an interesting point. Everyone has their preference point. Some people (like startup founders) can live on ramen income of < $20k/year if there's hope that they'll one day
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by rjett 16y ago
"Armed with the old Russian charts, the United States Geological Survey began a series of aerial surveys of Afghanistan’s mineral resources in 2006, using advanced gravity and magnetic measuring equipment attached to an old Navy Orion P-3 a
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by rjett 16y ago
Really? Zerohedge certainly does paint an alternate reality from most other sources, but most of the time the writing seems so manic and chock-full of conspiracy theories that it's hard to take seriously. Zerohedge gained traction in an env
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Manoj Narang, CEO of Tradeworx, Explains High Frequency Trading(video.pbs.org)
2 points by rjett 16y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 16y ago
What I quoted is after transaction costs. If I go off from Jan 1, 1998 when the S&P was 975.04 to Dec 31, 2009 when it was 1115.0, that means it has averaged 1.12% compounded annually.
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by rjett 16y ago
One question for Michael or any other rails developers out there: railstutorial.org teaches rails using Rails 2.3.x, but it looks like at least the first batch of screencasts you're putting out will be about Rails 3. How much of what I just
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by rjett 16y ago
Cool site. I've been looking for something ever since newmogul went down. Markenomics just didn't cut it as a replacement (mainly because there was hardly any good discussion there). One comment about your design: Maybe use a smaller font s
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Michael Hartl announces the Rails Tutorial Vanguard (railstutorial.org)
22 points by rjett 16y ago|18 comments
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by rjett 16y ago
"I am a big believer that individual investors can't beat CAPM and shouldn't be picking stocks." First of all, hasn't CAPM been shown to be a nice, but not terribly accurate, picture of how the market works? Among other things, it assumes t

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