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by shingen 15y ago
That last paragraph is a doozy. Completely addresses privacy concerns; is completely safe; oh and hey, it's completely optional, assuming you don't prefer molestation and possibly randomly missing your flight.
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by shingen 15y ago
I knew Rob back when he was running BusinessPundit. He's a great guy, classic entrepreneur. He was about ready to give up on starting businesses - penning a sad blog entry about failing and not being sure where he was going next - when he c
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by shingen 15y ago
A lot of this comes down to how badly the Feds want you. Another domain might buy you a thin buffer of protection, but if you're doing anything that really irks the US Government they'll go to great lengths to get you. They got the Swiss to
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm always fascinated by the extremely long term horizon concerns that people bring up in discussions about the future of humanity. 200 to 300 years out there is no humanity as we know it today. Whatever we are at that juncture, it won't be
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by shingen 15y ago
Short answer: provide both, user choice
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by shingen 15y ago
The endless parade of fragmentation discussions regarding Android all prove one thing: a lot of people don't understand what wins a market. Customers lacking in technological savvy make up the radical majority of Android owners, they are ne
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by shingen 15y ago
You mean a country with 100 billionaires, the second largest economy, and 500 million people (40%) living on less than $2 per day? 130x million people living on $1 per day (both courtesy of the world bank)? 50% of the population without ind
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by shingen 15y ago
Don't be ridiculous. Billion is the new million.
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by shingen 15y ago
It's why Legalzoom is doing so well.
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by shingen 15y ago
Per capita GDP is one thing, a lot more important is per capita income. Those are two very different things, particularly when you're talking about China - a country with a billion extremely poor people, and a lot of mega corporations that
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by shingen 15y ago
He's describing the euphoria that always accompanies a bubble atmosphere. In this case, it's a start-up bubble. The same exact atmosphere went on in the late 1990s, just with bigger rounds and fewer micro companies. Money is sloshing around
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by shingen 15y ago
Here's what's logically wrong with that line of argument: Smart / dumb are relative scales, so there will always be smarter, and dumber, no matter what you do. If you filled a society with what we currently define as genius level intellects
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by shingen 15y ago
Anytime someone lays out an argument by stating that some other group of people isn't intelligent enough to self govern, you should be suspicious of the character and intentions of the person making that argument. Whether that applies to Th
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by shingen 15y ago
Che? He was a genocidal psychopath that hated gays and people that were religious. He personally oversaw the execution - murder - of thousands of innocent people that he regarded as undesirable or conflicting with his beliefs. Bloodthirsty,
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by shingen 15y ago
Constitutional Republic yes, Democracy no. Democracy isn't desirable. Mob rule is a terrible system of government. Democracy != voting; Democracy != freedom. America and many other systems have long since proven that freedom through constit
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by shingen 15y ago
Myhrvold is basically an arms dealer, more than happy to kill both sides. The guy couldn't create anything useful by himself, so he put his intellect to use as a merchant of destruction.
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by shingen 15y ago
I like how Python is considered a 'next new thing'. It merely predates the web.
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by shingen 15y ago
It's a profit center whether you like it or not, with or without the government. With the government the profit goes into the bureaucracy. The medicare + medicaid system has shown itself to be an extreme profit center for government employe
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by shingen 15y ago
Because we're also the fattest and least healthy (diet & exercise) of the nations with high per capita income and moderately high life expectancy.
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by shingen 15y ago
It wasn't meant to be flippant (or insensitive), just matter of fact. My grandmother extended her life by about eight months by having breast cancer surgery at 87 or so. Was that ok? Personally I loved my grandmother. However, it was paid f
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by shingen 15y ago
Your 50 years is a radical exaggeration. America had a budget surplus and stable dollar 12 / 13 years ago. Which is why gold was $270x / ounce, and oil was $12 to $20 and gasoline was still $1. Trade deficits are mostly irrelevant so long a
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by shingen 15y ago
Want to get our costs down to competitive levels? 85% of all healthcare costs in America are for those over the age of 65. America has the leading health care system for the elderly. We pay for 80 year olds to have surgeries that they can't
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by shingen 15y ago
Americans have known for a very long time that we were getting ripped off in the health care system. It has been a growing problem for decades. I don't think there is any assumption at all that our health care system works as it stands toda
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by shingen 15y ago
It's not difficult to figure out what happens to a marketplace when you remove the competition with government mandate. America's health care system has been hyper regulated for decades. You can't even shop across state lines effectively. W
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by shingen 15y ago
Same reason why lasik became so cheap so quickly. The free market actually at work. Especially effective on technological product based innovation and pricing. If they'd really get out of the way, MRIs could perhaps cost $200 in the USA due
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by shingen 15y ago
Google does a stellar job correlating click through and click back actions + times to determine what people were most likely looking for with each query, and then raising or lowering results accordingly (Panda amplified this metric in their
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by shingen 15y ago
No such thing as a random result when you have static selection boxes defining specific input. The results are obviously restrained by what letter combinations you pick (ie finite). You could make an argument that caching all the possible c
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by shingen 15y ago
I agree. A quick glance at the top 5,000 domains in terms of traffic more than demonstrates the sheer dominance of the .com brand for domains. It's beyond overwhelming. There are very few relevant .me or .io (etc) domains. That will continu
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by shingen 15y ago
I don't mean to be speculative, but I think it's always the "but" in the opening sentence that is really interesting.
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by shingen 15y ago
In my late teens and early 20's I had a lot of book & observation based business information contained in my brain. The most jarring thing about running a real business early on was all the ... bullshit. Most of which is unavoidable. Th

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