rpm4321

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by rpm4321 14y ago
From what I've observed, the greatest factor in post ranking (besides upvotes on the post in question, obviously) is your karma average per post, not your total. Also, PG has made so many unpublished modifications - for obvious reasons - to
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Creating 3D Brain Tissues in a Lab Dish(kurzweilai.net)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Thanks for your post, appreciate it. One follow up question if you don't mind? If Ireland ditched its "debts" and left the EU, in addition to the negative credit rating impact, wouldn't it significantly lessen US companies' interest in inve
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by rpm4321 14y ago
It appears I was right: http://betabeat.com/2012/12/anonymous-launches-ophunthunter-... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4862779
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DNA Imaged With Electron Microscope for the First Time(kurzweilai.net)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this whole situation - which is not typical HN fare in itself, let's face it - is just such an absurdist farce that no other comment could really do it justice. It really is Simpsons-esque: Wikipedia - In 2001, the word "Do
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Groundbreaking Oculus Rift Virtual-Reality Glasses Delayed(nbcnews.com)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
doh!
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Wow, Gaelic has to be one of the most unintuitive languages in the world to pronounce. I've read that word probably a hundred times in various news articles, and always pronounced it in my head as Tao-Seech, which I'm assuming is ridiculous
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Thanks Eoin, appreciate it.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
When they say natively, I think they mean as a primary language. My impression is that there's only a small percentage of people on the West Coast who speak it daily, but Gaelic used to (and may still be) required in a lot of schools as sor
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Sjf wrnsd asdf wioefj cszkl asdlk oiajf asdnw wsafa awsfadswef. - Actually, I just sat on my keyboard cuz I wanted to fit in :) Just curious - is Gaelic still required in schools and in some dealings w/ government?
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hey Eoin, couple of quick question for you if you don't mind. I know you're probably not a tax lawyer, but what's the personal capital gains situation like over there? Also, just wondering what "morale" (for lack of a better word) is like n
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by rpm4321 14y ago
12.5, or 10 if you are manufacturing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Republic...
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Obviously Groupon's situation isn't a perfect parallel, but with lots of competitors smelling blood in the water and circling a nascent, rapidly growing, revenue positive, high profile market, it seemed apt. Also, regarding barriers to entr
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Do you mean like pirated avis and mp3s? I think the difficulty in finding DDLs is partly a feature. If they are easy to find, they get DMCAed immediately.
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Bell-Labs-Style Research Center Aims to Cut Battery Costs by 80 Percent(technologyreview.com)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lya292wdpo
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yeah, I think we fundamentally agree that they haven't paid nearly enough attention to the political end of things. I guess I just have trouble seeing how you can effectively grow a startup at half speed. PG recently wrote a very persuasive
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Steve Jobs on the Gordian Knot of Television(technologyreview.com)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hi Pekk, I posted this headline, and I copied and pasted it almost verbatim - adding only the "Uber:" label at the beginning for clarity. NYT sometimes changes headlines on stories, and even uses alternate headlines for some links. If you g
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the political process is purely transactional and that they can just throw money at the problem, but from all of the mainstream coverage I've read on Uber - and all of the quotes attributed to various politicians
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by rpm4321 14y ago
>> My advice to Uber? Slow down. Figure out what the other side is about, and I mean all about, good and bad. I agree with most of what you said, except for this. They are in the land grab phase. If they don't continue to expand a
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I hate to be mean and kick them when they are down, but quite frankly this might speak to their ability to execute on their final product. $28 dollars shy of an all-or-nothing $50,000 in free (relatively) seed money, and they let it slip th
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Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl(nytimes.com)
83 points by rpm4321 14y ago|57 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
In your defense, after the first few rounds of YC I remember VCs and bloggers squawking about all YC companies being features and not products, and that you were deliberately mass producing acqui-hires. To me, it's clear that the quality of
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How to Use Twitter Friends As Sensors to Detect Disease Outbreaks(technologyreview.com)
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A Budding War Over Internet Economics(technologyreview.com)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I suppose that depends on how pervasive patent trolling has become. But yes, I would say that the development of the vast majority of inventions worth protecting would necessitate more than some scribbling on a bar napkin. If the process be
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by rpm4321 14y ago
For an inventor or a patent troll? I'm disputing them being characterized as anything but the latter.

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