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by shawnee_ 14y ago
If Lucy Koh is so intent on protecting the singularity of one corporate interest over what is so obviously good for the general public, she should not be a Federal District Judge. She should still be in private practice. We need Federal
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the bank gets paid its full IPO commission on the extra shares it sells if exercises its option, so it has an incentive to sell them regardless of how much excess demand there is. And there's no risk to the bank if the stock price jumps, b
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Twitter is ultimately infrastructure and infrastructure seems doomed to commoditization Interesting take. Seems almost exactly the opposite to me. What makes Twitter valuable is not the "eyeballs," or even the infrastructure, but rather
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
You are missing the point. The point is that innovation drives advancements technology, and litigation stifles innovation. Money that companies spend litigating products which will likely be outdated / deprecated in a couple years is no
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Some Godaddy employees certainly have access to the data of who is looking for what This is scary for many reasons. Although it barely made a bleep on HN, GoDaddy recently acquired Outright.com Once upon a time, Outright had a great visio
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
In high school, I became yearbook editor and was entrusted with keys to certain parts of the school (darkroom, computer lab, etc). In the late 90's, yearbooks were all done manually: film was loaded into cameras with heavy lenses, pictures
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Kansas City is pretty close to the geographic center of the US. ... to reduce the cost of the actual last mile to users’ homes it’s telling people in Kansas City that if they want to be the first to get fiber, they’ll have to convince thei
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Bummer the BalancedPayments option didn't pan out. It's panning out; we're in the process of helping him with the integration. Also, the "once a week" payout period is unique to Gittip's model (maybe because Stripe requires a 7-day wait?)
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The next frontier in desalination? Graphene.(pbs.org)
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Before Facebook became huge, Flickr was probably the most promising social photo-sharing site. But there's definitely still a niche for people who don't want to weave every single aspect of their online identity together in one profile.
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Doug Crockford gave a great keynote address at the HTML5 conf this year titled "What would Crockford do?" It was basically not about HTML5 and all about what he'd do if he were Yahoo CEO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cukFl7gpjE (Crock
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DOE awards Intel, Nvidia, AMD to "research" exascale supercomputing(hpcwire.com)
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I watched the endless poverty scroll by like a demented video game. I had an overwhelming urge to stop at an ATM and withdraw 25,000 Rupees and start handing money out to people at random. "Nothing should be given free. Anything that is
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How discovery of the Higgs Boson could break physics(wired.com)
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Something about Koh's overwhelming bias for Apple seems really suspicious. It's one thing to preeminently ban sales of product A for reason X, but to also ban sales of product B for reason Y where products A and B have the same parent, and
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Theory: Brin demoed Google Glasses @ I/O this year to pre-empt a patent claim from Apple that they invented iGlasses.
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Part of the problem is that when rents are raised in a predatory fashion, the purchasing power of the renter is diminished. Homeownership rate, 2006-2010 in SF County = 37.5% Homeownership rate, 2006-2010 in California = 57.4% Med
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
The team, which was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2011 class, started off originally with the idea of auctioning off apartment rentals. Auctioning rentals? Seriously? Just what the world doesn't need: yet another tool to "help" landlo
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
Hunt still remembers her first impressions of CitiMortgage’s O’Fallon headquarters, a complex of three concrete-and-glass buildings surrounded by manicured lawns and vast parking lots. Inside are endless rows of cubicles where 3,800 employ
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by shawnee_ 14y ago
All I was doing was avoiding doing the work, the real effort of producing the content that actually mattered. I was hiding from honest sharing with the conviction that the tools were not good enough yet. This is a great insight. Building
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V-Pole: Meet the future of complex urban utilities(techland.time.com)
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One year of CEO pay equals 3,489 years of pay for typical worker(seattlepi.com)
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How Cash Keeps Poor People Poor(business.time.com)
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Affordable rent is a relative concept. What's affordable to Silicon Valley software engineers is not affordable to the people who clean the bathrooms in the corporate offices that employ those engineers, or who work at Subway, or who provi
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Every year, it becomes more difficult to find affordable housing, particularly near the mega-employers like Google. The year over year increase in rent in Mountain View is in excess of 10%. Only the privileged amongst the youth can afford
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Other recent guests have included Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen, whose recent movie focuses on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in Spain, and Jason Russell, creator of "Kony 2012," a viral video about the brutal Ugandan rebel lead
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
The publishing industry has been ripe for disruption for quite some time now. The pieces of the puzzle are there. But still it remains very difficult for a talented writer to make a living without some kind of brick and mortar publishing
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by shawnee_ 15y ago
Nice try, but the logic doesn't quite cement. Overvaluations are fueled by hype that's resultant from scarcity. Facebook is so "hot" right now because the average person can't get a piece of the pre-IPO value. Upon the IPO the scarcity i
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Robotic jellyfish may never run out of energy(futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com)
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Lawrence Lessig: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs(cnn.com)
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