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1141.
Get career security by being "bad and nationwide"(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
2 points by sethg 19y ago|1 comments
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by sethg 19y ago
Paul Krugman once pointed out that since the US went off the gold standard, the Consumer Price Index has risen more quickly than the price of gold. In other words, the gold-denominated prices for things that Americans actually buy and sell
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by sethg 19y ago
The secret to a good con is finding marks who want to believe .
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by sethg 19y ago
I found the article disappointing; the headline and lead promised a story about why, in general, the Valley is attracting startups away from Boston, but the article was a story about Facebook in particular.
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by sethg 19y ago
As far as I can tell, OpenID is intended to provide a decentralized replacement for the current practice of everyone having separate usernames and passwords for each Web service they subscribe to. On the one hand, I think this is a Good Thi
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by sethg 19y ago
Well, I've got one out of four....
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by sethg 19y ago
Whenever I am tempted to buy some new and cool high-end electronic product, I ask myself, "Since this thing will probably cost half as much a year from now, do I really need to own it right now ?" The answer is almost always "No." (Of cou
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by sethg 19y ago
The comments here by people who don't recognize TFA as satire are funnier than TFA itself.
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by sethg 19y ago
My employer offers health insurance and other benefits through Administaff, a company that specializes in HR outsourcing. Perhaps if YC arranged for Administaff to handle all of the companies it invested in, it could get some kind of volum
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by sethg 19y ago
Cf. James Morrow's novella City of Truth ( http://www.amazon.com/City-Truth-Harvest-James-Morrow/dp/015... )
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Fake Steve Jobs explains how iPod is the gateway drug for Mac(weblog.raganwald.com)
3 points by sethg 19y ago|0 comments
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by sethg 19y ago
You think that's painful? Ha!
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by sethg 19y ago
Could this be sampling bias, i.e., the kinds of startups that tend to do well in Boston are the kinds of startups that you and your team are not so interested in funding? The startups that I've encountered in the Boston area tend to provide
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by sethg 19y ago
I am strangely reminded of an academic paper that came out, shortly before the (first) dot-com bubble popped, reporting that even after controlling for all sorts of other factors, companies saw their stock value go up after appending ".co
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by sethg 19y ago
IIRC there was a Supreme Court case involving a company that bid on one of the earlier spectrum auctions, won the auction, and went bankrupt before it paid. The government wanted to take back that piece of spectrum, but the courts said tha
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by sethg 19y ago
Kenan Systems. See elsewhere in this thread.
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by sethg 19y ago
I work for a small company in Cambridge, Massachusetts (we have about 60 employees and were founded in 1999; I'm not sure if we count as a startup any more), so it's certainly possible. My impression is that high-tech startups in the Boston
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by sethg 19y ago
We have a florist's shop a block away from our house, and another one farther down the street. A year or two ago, a Kabloom opened up on the same block as the local florist. The florist was pissed, partly because the Kabloom franchisee ha
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by sethg 19y ago
Even that would be too generous. Brainfuck, Befunge, INTERCAL, and Java2k were jokes , duh, never intended by their authors to "take off" in the first place. And I think "never took off" and "waned" are both inaccurate when applied to Ha
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by sethg 19y ago
...and if they _did_ play by Wal-Mart's rules, Wal-Mart would have an easier time beating them.
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by sethg 19y ago
There seems to be another catch-22 here: if you are too successful at promoting kratom, and people are buying it because of its opiate-like properties, then you're inviting the FDA (DEA?) to schedule it.
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by sethg 20y ago
The sysadmins where I work (an almost-exclusively-Linux shop) swear by ThinkPads.