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by shawnee_ 16y ago
4. By giving away a free valuable product, you create an imbalance in the relationship between the business and customer. The customer now feels indebted to you. Works sometimes. But other times it creates an expectation of "free" that d
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3. By 2030, only 2% of the world's population will live in extreme poverty. The eradication of extreme poverty will happen in our lifetime. In 1990, 42% of the world’s population lived on less than $1.25 (constant 2000 dollars, PPP). In 20
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Yup. What frequently happens is that companies in an Oligopoly are able to collude to raise the barriers of entry, keeping out new competitors: sometimes with "help" of government regulations, sometimes because of lack of government regula
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
The state is too big to manage doing what state governments were originally designed to manage. Because CA is such a large stage geographically and population-wise, and economically it has too much on its plate for one government to handle
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California needs to be two states: Northern CA and Southern CA. It doesn't make sense for one state to have so much oomph, but to be such a disaster, financially. Northern CA and Southern CA are completely different worlds; they have diffe
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Two words: good headlines. Non-link-bait headlines that are accurate and descriptive, now written to incite. TC's major flaw (or as some might argue: TC's major strength) is what might be described as arrogant Arringtonism A couple exa
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
It's probably a combination of factors that make "the female founder" seem more rare than she actually is. There is a breed of female founder that lives to pose for cameras and magazine covers and to be mentioned in Valleywag. But more com
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
You are welcome. Must stick up for print people; my design career technically began in middle school, on the yearbook staff. It is hard to forgot those basic fundamentals when they are drilled in so young. Even today I spend far more tim
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
>>#5: Wrong. A good front-end engineer must be able to operate those three separate layers: structure (HTML), presentation (CSS), behavior(JS). There is very little of that in print, not to mention other qualities that fundamentally
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We "talk" with body language. So should our cellphone.(fastcodesign.com)
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I don't know if iPads should be lumped in with the "Global PC" market. To me, the iPad serves a different function than a PC. . . can't write code on a PC or cannot easily type. The iPad seems to me to be one of those "for entertainment p
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
DOJ Fail. The biggest problem with this merger is that it messes with what should be a separation of control between content and distribution. One of the core purposes and intentions of Net Neutrality was to enforce a clear line between the
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
The headline of the article is misleading. A guy who has a job as in public defender's office cannot promptly pay off his $400K in student loans due to the fact that his wages in the public defender's office are ~ $12/hr and he has a daug
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Embracing Intellectual Messiness(bigthink.com)
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Silly robots , Google Instant promotes spam, not relevant search results. . .
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Imagine a place where early-stage technology companies can get inexpensive development capital from the pooled investment dollars of individuals who trade their stock directly over the Internet. (from the document TechnoEquity)
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There are two things that make this particular case so interesting. (1) Facebook is still technically a < 500 shareholder company, subject to a "special case" set of rules for reporting. In 1964, regulators started requiring companies
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
First, Goldman’s cost of capital is close to zero as a bank holding company, it can borrow from the Federal Reserve at negligible interest rates so any capital gain it makes on its venture in Facebook will be sheer profit. And here we hav
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
What needs work >> Venture Capital Given the interesting things going on in the engineering labs I visited and the startups I met, one would have thought the place would have been crawling with VC’s fighting over deals. Instead i
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Valuations of individual companies in emerging industries can be tricky. Better questions to explore would be Q(a) "What is the value of the mobile payments sphere?" Q(b) "Is the industry growing, or on the decline?" and Q(c) "Are there
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
I think the article is articulate and makes some good points. Mainly: creativity is a process that feeds on, and thrives amid chaos / disorder / complexity.
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I bet there is a decent-sized market with untapped demand for laptops / "tablets" ( http://paulgraham.com/tablets.html ) with a built-in privacy screen mechanism. The hardware itself could be the screen, either by making the screen part of
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Pretty much every industry that has bankrolled agencies would have people believe otherwise. Associations and consortiums spend considerable time and money trying to convince people of the importance of their role in the whole process. Pr
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9-Year Old is Youngest US Chess Master(mercurynews.com)
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There are a lot of things working against us. In my experience, it basically boils down to not being given a chance.
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I am LDS, and it's true that there are a lot of very competent techies who are members. The two major factors that likely influence the high ranking are : as mentioned. (1) the SEO is affected by links pointing at the site from external s
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Very smart. CL has needed something like this for awhile. Is there a reason, aside from your small "need a coder" link, that it's being offered for free?
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FCC Adopts Net Neutrality Lite(arstechnica.com)
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Well, the vote hasn't happened yet. But the fact that it has come "down to the wire" literally and figuratively is perhaps foreshadowing for the impending doom of this legislation. Because it threatens the nature of viral. More eyeballs b
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by shawnee_ 16y ago
Blue, blue, blue. . . twitter is blue, facebook is blue, most of microsoft/bing is blue, even gmail (default) is blue. A more creative / edgy design would help a lot. Design critique aside, the idea is a very good one.

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