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by seagreen 14y ago
What about a service that lets you post to every barter site at the same time, not just craigslist. Has that been tried? If you could get people to use it (through better UI and more exposure for what they're selling) you could break crai
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by seagreen 14y ago
How about, "I find your wife/daughter/mother really attractive?" Bad things can happen if you tell people what you think. It's important to be precise when giving public social advice, because the people that could benefit from it the mos
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by seagreen 14y ago
Fair criticism. Maybe not, but I find the "what if foo was missing" arguments emotionally manipulative and so worth making fun of. It's like going up to someone in 1935 and saying, "What if there wasn't any metal ? Your life would totally
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by seagreen 14y ago
"Just for a moment, suspend your scientific beliefs and imagine that electricity suddenly ceased to exist. Waking up, your alarm wouldn’t work. Unless you have a gas grill, you can say goodbye to your morning toast." Uh, I'm not a scientist
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by seagreen 14y ago
Are you propagandizing against government (not that there's anything wrong with that) or asking a factual question?
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by seagreen 14y ago
Hey foenix, have you actually seen the way American governments (state, federal, local) spend money? I think it's almost certain that every dollar you spend on your tutoring business helps people more than the marginal benefit of another do
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by seagreen 15y ago
That's gorgeous! I found more info here if anyone's interested (I can't read Chinese): http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/edushis-3-d-pi...
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by seagreen 15y ago
Whether it would be better for him is debatable, but getting more money to people like Linus is better for all of us because money ≈ power.
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by seagreen 15y ago
I think a lot of people think the same way, which is why these location/social startups haven't caught on more. It seems like the big question is whether their problems are inherent or are actually just software problems. I can imagine a pr
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by seagreen 15y ago
Cool, thanks. It's actually a slightly different idea though, because (as far as I understand it) highlight doesn't signal your interests, it just shows who you're connected to. Maybe more like a class ring than actual clothing?
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by seagreen 15y ago
This is funny because I just had a long conversation with a friend about a startup idea. It would turn your smartphone into a beacon that broadcast your profile and your interests to the world, so that you could look around a coffeeshop or
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by seagreen 15y ago
Some of this has already been said by michaelf below, but you do realize that you're getting into the education market, right? I realize there have been elements of this even from the beginning of Y Combinator, but just because a change is
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by seagreen 15y ago
It's basically wrong for the same reasons not wearing a suit is wrong at a business meeting - it makes you stand out for something other than your accomplishments. A businessman's uniform is a suit, and a hacker's is a hoodie, and there's n
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by seagreen 15y ago
Link's now dead.
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by seagreen 15y ago
That would have the additional advantage of giving you easy access to your vimrc no matter what computer you were on.
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Yahoo tries to stop users exporting contacts that originally came from FB
2 points by seagreen 15y ago|1 comments
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by seagreen 15y ago
Here's a list of at least some of the companies that fought the patent: Google, Amazon, Adobe, CDW Corp, JCPenney, Staples and Yahoo. [1] Well done guys. Long live the fighters! [1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-09/google-amazon
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by seagreen 15y ago
To address your first point about patents, I really think that would be a bad idea. Making the patent code more complicated just rewards the people who spend lots of effort on mastering its arcade rules and not making something people want.
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by seagreen 15y ago
You almost certainly know more about this than I do (I had to google FNSAX), but here's my issue with this strategy: You don't make money off stocks by investing in strong companies. You make/lose money by investing in companies that do bet
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by seagreen 15y ago
If you have any sources for that I'd enjoy seeing them (this isn't sarcasm, I'd actually like to see them).
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by seagreen 15y ago
Never buy individual stocks. Buy mutual funds.
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by seagreen 15y ago
It's probably just a tribal thing. Libertarians know they'll do better as a group if there are places to run. Unmanned space travel doesn't help from this perspective.
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by seagreen 15y ago
As someone who loves tricks and tactics it pains me to suggest this, but one sure way to replace Hollywood would be a frontal assault. Get a ton of money and make your own movies. You would definitely distribute them better than Hollywood,
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by seagreen 15y ago
Here's one argument for allowing corporate money in politics: Money can always find a way to affect power in a democracy. For this reason it's better to make the process straightforward and aboveboard than opaque and indirect.
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by seagreen 15y ago
Perfect. Thanks very much.
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by seagreen 15y ago
Gotchya, so you're saying that the 'purposes and principles of the United Nations' is being used as a technical term referencing the rest of the document, and doesn't depend on what the organization of the UN wants at any specific moment.
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by seagreen 15y ago
Please forgive me if I'm missing something, but doesn't Article 29, Section 3 make the Universal Declaration of Human Rights kind of a joke? The right to enjoy the arts doesn't really have teeth if the UN can just say it's contrary to its p
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by seagreen 15y ago
Does anyone know how a FB comment compares to a phone call in effectiveness/time commitment? Is it something worth doing after at all, or maybe just after you've made all the calls you feel are reasonable? I really need to find a guide that
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by seagreen 15y ago
There's social networking for one thing if you have friends in the US. A FB link to a blog post might be effective, especially since a certain segment of Americans are very sensitive to foreign opinion. If you're up for a larger time commit
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by seagreen 15y ago
It's probably better not to bring up any of the traditional wedge issues (guns, abortion, etc.) during discussions on SOPA. We're incredibly vulnerable to them due to the diversity of our little coalition and they'll just derail the discu

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