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by rwhitman 14y ago
I'd be surprised if Google doesn't have at least a data center in Detroit. Considering how much Google has been investing in urban real estate lately (NYC, Chicago) you'd think they'd want to snap up one of the big old factories and put a m
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by rwhitman 14y ago
IAC is already the Viacom of the internet
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I'm in the demographic that this article is talking about and I nodded my head in agreement to everything they said. My attitudes about lifestyle and my relationship to driving has shaped my value system about new car ownership and home own
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Or maybe there's a market for independent electronics stores to sell independent gadgets.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
None knew how to code, so Sofia taught herself... “At first we tried to hire somebody, but we quickly realized that master coders are just not that interested in the wedding market,” says Markia, “and we were like, well, we could just sit
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Probably because its the reason everyone is here
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Having ran a travel directory site for a bit I'm always interested in Google's ambitions in the space. I still haven't completely understood why Google bought Zagat, and now Frommer's is a bit odd as well. My theories - 1) Small business re
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Having lived the last 2 years in NYC and the previous 7 in CA I can say that high speed rail is the more valuable project. The water here is fine, and no one is suffering because there isn't a 3rd tunnel. But the transportation situation in
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I read this the other day and found it interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet Apparently NASA had plans for launching an orbiter specifically as an optical communications hub for Mars but scrapped it in 2005:
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by rwhitman 14y ago
A Russian scientist revisited these recently and became convinced that there could be life on Venus. A fun read: http://io9.com/5878554/russian-scientist-claims-to-have-disc...
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I would like to see this result in a frustrated James Cameron building his own Mars probe for filmmaking
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Personally I think Venus is the more interesting planet to be exploring
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Exactly. The race to the moon was justified by national security, but really there isn't much economic incentive to explore Mars... yet. NASA needs to find good reasons to keep going back.
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I'd think its much more likely we'd be sending people to Mars on a regular basis if we found out there is something valuable there. If space tourism was sufficient to foot the bill for space travel, we'd be sending school field trips to the
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I would take a bet that the FBI just handed New Zealand some warrants, told them what they wanted and paid them a bunch of money for expenditures. The local PD probably got giddy over the idea that the US was footing the bill to use all the
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Eventually one of these private space companies will have a highly public, challenger-type disaster. I wonder if a startup like SpaceX could survive something like that.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I really feel this way as well. Its as if the system is designed specifically to punish self-employed workers.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Health insurance for healthy people without kids shouldn't be a deterrent to freelance. Self employed health insurance is generally relatively affordable and easy to get, provided you are in good health and don't have any dependents. If you
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by rwhitman 14y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (NYC based, but need to work off-site) What I do: Frontend (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript etc), UX & wire prototyping, full-stack PHP, Django (tho a little rusty), project management. I'm currently stuck working off-site
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by rwhitman 14y ago
So they really did nuke the whole thing. There's no legacy content migration, none of the user DB is intact. It seriously was just a premium domain buy. Fascinating
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by rwhitman 14y ago
They have utilities to run marketing campaigns (sweepstakes, like campaigns, ads etc) on primarily Facebook but also other social media.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Considering the bulk of their offering is marketing tools for facebook, I'm really curious what this means exactly.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
My favorite book on UX has been "Designing the Obvious" by Robert Hoekman, Jr. http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Obvious-Approach-Application... Might be a little dated but it was really influential a few years back
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Looks like Philly is missing a lot still, DreamIt Ventures and Independents Hall come to mind
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by rwhitman 14y ago
The only well known fact when dealing with Facebook is that if you want to manipulate their documented rules you need to either have deep pockets or a lot of influence.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
If someone can put this together in a package that consumers can wrap their head around, I think the open twitter movement would have a shot. Probably the best candidates would be all the Twitter client apps that are getting burned by their
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Because they have no sources or comment from the company, and the entire article is speculation based on poking around the apple website
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Greenland ice sheet melts 97% in 4 days(guardian.co.uk)
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Yea I think I've only ever refused to waive the late fee once
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Looks like I should have read your post more carefully. My apologies, deleted.

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