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by seats 15y ago
Then perhaps we agree at the margins. It all depends on what you consider to be a 'slight change' in the model. We also probably disagree slightly on what businesses you are willing to claim as startups. Is a new restaurant a startup? How a
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by seats 15y ago
Franchise to me implies licensing branding and/or materials from a franchiser, and while that certainly covers one case, it is not all-inclusive of possible answers to the question.
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by seats 15y ago
What would you call a company that from its start uses a well-known scalable and repeatable business model?
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by seats 15y ago
Flying cars do exist and can be bought (pre-order) today. http://www.terrafugia.com/ Unrelated, except to the sub-title. I also posted deeper in the comments, but I think it's a pretty cool project and thought it's worth trying to repost
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by seats 15y ago
Actually flying cars exist now and have been approved for use by all requisite governmental agencies. http://www.terrafugia.com/
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by seats 15y ago
PG, clearly you are an apologist for YC and that's totally fine, but his post is broader than YC. I disagree that any angel 'who is paying attention' can narrow the field. In fact I would say any angels who want to have skin in the game hav
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by seats 15y ago
I'll own up to that. Talking over people is probably one of my worst tendencies, but I think it was a little exaggerated by the editing. It was necessarily to do a bit of chronological editing to get the tangents we covered into a better fl
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by seats 15y ago
Pickled Onion, aka Paul Tomes is still working at Rackspace, however not directly with slicehost.
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by seats 15y ago
Yes, but you could never signal faster than the information arriving on earth in a straight line at the speed of light. To understand why picture the triangle between the start point (A), end point (B) and the moon (M). The distance AMB is
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by seats 15y ago
Well that is certainly an interpretation that would make sense, so thanks. I reread the FBI's statement, and I'm not convinced that what you suggest is what they actually mean, however. Does yousendit actually work that way? Can I send some
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by seats 15y ago
>> "By intentionally transmitting the ApacheBench program to YouSendIt's server..." the FBI said in a statement. This statement makes it clear how unfamiliar the FBI is with technology.
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by seats 15y ago
Any recommendation on the best way to learn lock picking?
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by seats 15y ago
I suppose. My quick read of the details makes me think this is no good. It sounds like the primary problem being solved for is the backlog of patent applications not the quality of patents being issued or anything at all related to litigati
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by seats 15y ago
No kidding, and this one too- "Opposition came mainly from groups representing independent inventors, small businesses and academics."
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by seats 15y ago
What did we used to call them?
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by seats 15y ago
I like this idea a lot. Also something that would help would be an ignore based backward compatibility standard. Like how browsers ignore tags they don't understand, then you could send a markdown formatted message that is marked in a way t
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by seats 15y ago
Infinite too
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by seats 15y ago
I wonder how the distribution of bitcoins compares to that of dollars
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by seats 15y ago
When the market is really big, then only the really rich people can manipulate it. Comforting thought ;)
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by seats 15y ago
Hyperbole yes, but I think he was just trying to describe the sensation as a spectator. I can imagine it was truly cringe worthy to watch their little faces slowly realize what is happening. Of course you hope for all children to learn impo
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by seats 15y ago
I didn't hear the author call anyone racist. In fact I think you are only supporting his point. These kids were minorities in at least two ways, race and age (for the girl there is a third). I would say that age was clearly the biggest dete
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by seats 15y ago
Preying on the weak for fun Preying on the weak for profit They both kind of have a sociopath sound to them
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by seats 15y ago
Great list, but to me the last two items aren't like the others. Everything about starting tech companies has gotten easier and cheaper, but accountants and lawyers haven't really changed all that much. He didn't specify exactly how much th
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by seats 15y ago
>> That number is about as high as I'd want it to be. If it were 100%, I'd worry we were being too conservative in who we funded. There is market feedback in this thought (and in the footnote where you cite 'beta'). Really what you
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by seats 15y ago
Also, remember this is a power law distribution. So talking about an average amount of dilution is probably risky. The dilution on the single largest exit is going to move the needle the most.
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by seats 15y ago
I appreciate this thread and I think that the movie plot patent is a fantastic analogy so great topic starter submission. I have to say though that I am disappointed by the blog post. Based on the title and the topic I kind of expected som
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by seats 15y ago
The USPTO is overwhelmed and understaffed, so I can understand why they have poor QC on patents, particularly when they require technical knowledge to determine triviality. What I don't get though is why it seems to be such a challenge to p
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by seats 15y ago
I bet he assumed a product as a service, where the code isn't in the hands of the customer.
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by seats 15y ago
Iteration from the wrong starting point could end up in a local minima. I think that's hard to recognize in some cases and takes something more dramatic to address (like simulated annealing)
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by seats 15y ago
I wonder how challenging it would be to build a device capable of achieving non-contact suction without the tether. Definitely super cool

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