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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hi Peter, thanks for your response. If you'll see below, my question is more on the practicalities of this (copied at the bottom of this comment.) Personally, I'm not aware of any VCs in the "dividend business", but I'm by no means an exper
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French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy's computers(thehill.com)
9 points by rpm4321 14y ago|1 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
My impression was that they were pressured into selling off their shares of Alibaba in order to generate cash to buy off some activist shareholders with either a dividend or share buyback. Marissa then reconsidered after taking the helm, an
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by rpm4321 14y ago
He's actually defending you. He's saying you shouldn't have to write a paragraph long preamble to explain why you're second guessing PG. Personally, I think you're way off-base. PG obviously can't elaborate on the voting ring detector or gi
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'Super-Jupiter': planet in another solar system photographed(space.com)
3 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
From everything I know about PG and YC, I highly doubt they themselves would take that kind of action unless a post was outright slander. It just seems Nixonian. That said, there is obviously quite a bit of goodwill on HN for PG and YC. You
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Thanks for the tip :) No, I'm well aware of App Engine and Heroku. I guess I'm talking about an even greater level of abstraction and simplicity - an "Apple Easy" layer where you never have to think about any aspect of the servers, and that
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by rpm4321 14y ago
My impression is that quite a bit of the source for flagging, vote-ring, and spam detection isn't included in the arc download, for obvious reasons.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I've actually thought about this, but I think there would be conflict with the investors in that there might be a sense that their shares are being taken hostage, especially if this plan wasn't disclosed upfront. If the company has no inter
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'm not knocking Treehouse - apparently they have a good reputation, and I haven't personally tried their product - but I was astounded at the number of employees on their About Us page: http://teamtreehouse.com/about compared to the amou
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Thanks refurb, appreciate it.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
As a developer who's never been entirely comfortable with the hardware end of things, it seems like there is a tremendous opportunity here. I would pay a lot for set it and forget it hosting, where if you get TechCrunched or HNed the only c
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SEC Employees Bring Laptops w/ "Blueprints of Wall Street" to Black Hat Con.(abcnews.go.com)
18 points by rpm4321 14y ago|9 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I've got to be honest, I've never made that connection. To me, W3 is simply a popular abbreviation for WWW, like "dub dub dub". When you think about it, at 9 syllables WWW has probably the highest word-length to syllable ratio out there.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'd be fascinated to read any sources you might have regarding the Biotech LLCs. Thanks in advance.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
If a young founder makes it known that he's in it for the long haul with no possibility of IPO/acquisition - we're talking decades - presumably the value of their shares would be depressed significantly. It's a bit like having the deed to s
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yep. That's really my question anyway - is there a path to victory as a non-bootstrapped startup that doesn't include IPO or acquisition. How would you structure things to where investors and employees are confident they would share in the
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"This Is Your Brain on Neural Implants" - Ray Kurzweil(slate.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How did Treehouse get 5M in funding without wanting an "Exit"?
49 points by rpm4321 14y ago|26 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
As a practical matter, how would this work? Wouldn't there have to be a fair amount of upfront and unique legal legwork to put something like this in place? Would the investors be guaranteed a certain percentage of any money Carson takes ou
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe YC's shares are non-voting, and I know that they don't insist on a board seat, which makes the machiavellian scenarios above even more far fetched.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
It seems like we are having two different arguments. My main point here has been that material scarcity will likely be a non-factor in the future. You seem to be in agreement with that point, but seem dead set against the practicality of sp
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by rpm4321 14y ago
We are talking about a five hundred year time line. As I mentioned in my post, there will be massive reductions in the cost to orbit and back. Hell, we are already witnessing the very beginnings of this phenomenon with SpaceX. Certainly i
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I agree with most of your comments, with the exception of your concerns about continued material scarcity and human longevity. Regarding material scarcity, I think space mining becomes a lot more economically viable once you have not only e
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Well put. It seems to me that there is a lot of room for a moderate libertarian party, which could sit between the two major parties as a reform-oriented 3rd party. The majority of the electorate is uncomfortable with the idea of government
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by rpm4321 14y ago
And now it's filling up with garbage data and more shitty attempts at humor. I genuinely had no idea that if you removed the possibility of a down vote there would be that many dicks on HN.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I don't think that's a very fair assessment of Kurzweil's role in technology. He was on the ground getting his hands dirty with the first commercial applications of AI. He made quite a bit of money selling his various companies and technolo
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yeah, I mentioned below reading his predictions for 2009 only a couple of years before they were supposed to come about (which he wrote in the late 90s), and many seemed kind of far fetched - and then all of a sudden the iPhone, iPad, Googl
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yeah, I don't get the recent backlash with Kurzweil on HN. I understand being critical of some of his conclusions, but he's had a pretty impressive career before becoming an author, and quite frankly he has the best track record out there o
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Now there's a Webvan one. I kind of don't get it. It seems like YC is one of the least deserving targets if you're going to mock the Valley hype machine.

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