rsheridan6

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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Yes, you could probably share cars to a greater extent than we do today, but not nearly enough to get the ~20x reduction in the number of cars on the road that the parent suggested. If you have optimized traffic, you could live further out
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Even the proper use of the nipple has to be learned - if you start a baby on a bottle it often won't use the nipple correctly: http://www.askdrsears.com/?q=topics/breastfeeding/common-pro...
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
If we have $20k models in 10 years, we'll have $5k used models in another 10.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
The problem is that most people need their cars at the same time - rush hour.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I don't understand why he chose restaurants and barbershops as examples of non-startups. Both make things lots of people want, and some of them are big chains that have wide reach, so they fulfill criteria a and b. Either these are startups
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
That's true. Even Ebay started as a pez dispenser trading site.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I agree with almost everything you said, but being leery of a startup because it has stiff competition or regulatory hurdles is not the same as reacting with a "WTF?" to the basic idea like PG did when Facebook was new. It was an odd exampl
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I assume that any awesome product that's free can sell ads, since people will be looking at it.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I think there is a way to improve your chance of winning big - don't invest in startups that serve niche markets. Look at this list of YC companies from last summer: http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Summer-2011-Y-Combinator-co... Don't yo
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I have no idea, but isn't that exactly what Facebook and Google did?
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I'm not a VC, but I don't see how most successful startups seemed like bad ideas. Google was entering a crowded field, but the field sucked (still does, actually) and Google was obviously superior early on. As for Paypal, do you remember ma
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
#3 is underappreciated. We have a generation that's going to be slaving away for years to pay off large student loan debts that are at high interest rates compared to a mortgage. Naturally they're going to be averse to wasting money on an o
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
The great majority of Americans, including millenials, live in unwalkable areas where not having a car is a major PITA at best. They can't get away with not owning a car any more than you can.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
A pod would actually be much easier to clean than a regular hotel room, because it's smaller. Suppose you had the bedding removed and cleaned in a high temp machine after every use, so all that's left is hard, smooth, easily cleanable surfa
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I don't know what you're talking about, but it's not indentured servitude as the term was used in America. Indentured servitude was generally for a fixed period of time. The first sentence of the wiki article: "Indentured servitude refers t
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
If you have federal loans, you can use income-based repayment, where you pay a tolerable fraction of your pay and the loan is forgiven after 25 years. If you have private loans, you're pretty well screwed for life.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
We've also gone thousands of years without having everything we said recorded for all time for anyone to hear whenever they want.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Ice storms are another story. When I lived in KC I had week-long outages twice due to ice storms knocking over large fractions of trees.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I think it'll work the other way - with a self driving car, long commutes will be more tolerable, since you can do other things while you drive (are driven), so sprawl will increase. Imagine having some sort of bathroom built in to the car
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
>Some significant percentage of Google's employees are gay...vBy lobbying to improve the lives of its employees, Google is improving Google. Does that mean that if a company has a significant percentage of homophobes working for it, it
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
If it was just about which platforms pay out the best, there wouldn't be much software for Linux, and there wouldn't have been much for Apple during their inter-Jobs nadir.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
In a year Apple will probably have done something new to piss off people who care about this kind of thing. If not, then you're right.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Anyone below the poverty line with a house is probably not paying for it themselves. If they're more likely to have houses now, it's probably because they're getting Section 8 now instead of apartments in the projects.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
True, but developers are more likely to care, and they matter a lot more than the average user. A lot of developers preferred not to use Microsoft products when MS was the evil empire, and there would probably be an MS monopoly now if they
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I've owned two MacBooks, a MacBook Pro, and two iPhones, but I won't now. No more. I had no particular reason to want to boycott them then before because they weren't behaving atrociously at that time. The kind of person who would boycott A
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I'm not talking about a category of employment as in "delivery driver," I'm talking about a category of employment as in "jobs accessible to bottome 50% of people." If relative wages are declining in that category, it's hard to make a case
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
>I think you'll be hard pressed to find a single category in which contemporary Americans have less than 1970's Americans, for any reasonable value of x. If you dispute this, go ahead and find that single category. I hear this argument
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
There are a lot of things businesses are required to do that they don't do. I saw the checks - Darden wasn't deducting any sort of taxes from the paychecks (yes, checks, not under the table cash payments) of the undocumented workers they em
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Paul Graham convincingly argued that the existence of wealth inequality was not a bad thing, compared to a completely level society, but nobody is really arguing for a completely level society where dishwashers make as much money as doctors
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Who says he's paying FICA and other taxes? I worked for the same employer (Darden Restaurants) when I was fresh out of high school, and I saw the pay stubs of the immigrant workers - they did not pay any of that. Their take home pay was the

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