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by sgpl 9y ago
This is off-topic but I'm learning python and just ordered your book earlier this morning (after reading through glowing reviews on amazon). I remember reading your bio and thought that it was pretty interesting that the author was a s
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by sgpl 12y ago
The book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (the psychology professor at Stanford mentioned) also offers great insight into this. It is also a very well written book, and if you are into audiobooks, the narrator for thi
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Traders Beat Market Indexes Borrowing Tools From Sports(bloomberg.com)
4 points by sgpl 13y ago|0 comments
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New York City building collapses after explosion(bbc.com)
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by sgpl 13y ago
Can someone please explain how this is possible/allowed? Also wouldn't this patent (if granted) be refutable due to prior art, etc? From the article: > BitMit was the first successful Bitcoin marketplace (well, second if we co
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IPO Dot-Com Bubble Echo Seen Muted as Older Companies Debut(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sgpl 13y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs – Academy of Achievement Speech [1982](news.rapgenius.com)
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Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box(medium.com)
74 points by sgpl 13y ago|82 comments
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Mommy Bloggers Spur Web-Coupon IPOs Amid Digital Bargains(bloomberg.com)
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Georgia Tech Starter | Peer-reviewed Crowdfunding Platform for STEM Projects(starter.gatech.edu)
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Startup using Lisp [2005](groups.google.com)
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)(tom.preston-werner.com)
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Pizza for bitcoins? [2010](bitcointalk.org)
45 points by sgpl 13y ago|26 comments
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by sgpl 13y ago
For those unfamiliar with the Indian political scene: Arvind Kejriwal is a rookie politician who defeated (three-time Chief Minister of Delhi) Sheila Dikshit in the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections (held today). He co-founded a politica
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by sgpl 13y ago
Obviously I can't speak for the OP, but here are three things I can think of: [1] Current Bull Market. (S&P500 is up 22.5% YTD) [2] Tech IPOs are hot atm. (see TWTR) [3] Lots of liquidity in the market courtesy of the Federal Reser
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Dirty Munich Home’s Nazi Loot Estimated at $1.35 Billion(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sgpl 13y ago|0 comments
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New Study Finds Cash Alone Effective Way to Fight Poverty (poverty-action.org)
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by sgpl 13y ago
"Yoga is fucking judgmental" Sorry it really isn't. Yoga is its true sense is an individual practice for improving one's mental, physical, spiritual state of being. Perhaps if you are a practitioner of Yoga, you might be interested in lea
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Heinz dilemma(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by sgpl 13y ago|0 comments
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Soldiers Turn Entrepreneurs as One Million Exit Military(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sgpl 13y ago|0 comments
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by sgpl 13y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. Agreed that they could have done a lot of things better, but perhaps testing at scale was one premise that would have validated its viability in the long run. I do argree that they should have perhaps concentrated in suc
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by sgpl 13y ago
According to PrivCo [ http://goo.gl/AW7GD ], here are all the payouts of the 1,100 mn: $286 mn: USV $231 mn: Spark Capital $253 mn: David Karp $176 mn: Sequoia $88 mn: Greylock, Insight Ventures, DFJ $66 mn: Employees (6% of the 1,100
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by sgpl 13y ago
I was expecting this post to be about Glencore merging with Xtrata [1]. Although in news for over a year, the merger was completed earlier this month. It is important for the fact that this merger creates the largest commodities trading ent
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Purloined Picassos Chased by FBI Art Sleuths for Wealthy(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sgpl 13y ago|0 comments
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by sgpl 13y ago
There is a huge potential market for "cheap" smartphones particularly in developing countries, and because of the nature of iOS, Android is the only viable game in town. So people will continue to buy subsidized/cheap smartphones for a long
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by sgpl 13y ago
At the current exchange-rate, it seems counterproductive for Avalon to sell their units instead of running them in-house to recoup the cost of production (in a couple of days), and then continue to generate profits. Also, since they are the
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by sgpl 13y ago
NNTR: 'no need to reply' is another common abbreviation. Pro-tip: Use them as TextExpander snippets to avoid getting another message asking you to clarify what EOM/NNTR means as only a subset of people are familiar with & use these abbr
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by sgpl 13y ago
Kiva does that [ https://www.kiva.org ]. Kiva is a lending platform focused on micro-finance. All the money you lend directly goes to the borrowers(via its lending partners), and once the lender returns the money, you can recycle the amount
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by sgpl 13y ago
>>> Steve clawed his way to the top, and turned himself into a god, when all of his talents were really nothing more than hiring the right people (Steve would have been an absolute nobody if he had never met Wozniak (or a man o
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by sgpl 13y ago
Adding this here since this is the top comment: Suspects are Chechnyan brothers: 19 and 20. 1. Tamerlan Tsarnaev [dead] 2. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev [still at large] Dzhokhar is trapped somewhere in a 20 block radius in the town of Watertown, that

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