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Trolling Facebook polls for science (or "Facebook and the falsely viral UI")(hung-truong.com)
1 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
It's reasonably standard. The last money in gets to be the first money out. It solves the problem of a startup taking money from a new investor and then immediately disbursing it to the old investors (or other similar shenanigans). The ex
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by slapshot 16y ago
This is not new. Visa and MC have, for many years, decided what times of content they will and will not fund. By the same logic, they are also the enforcers for the anti-online-gambling lobby, the anti-hate-crime lobby, etc. Saying that V
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by slapshot 16y ago
Sitting around a conference table with physical files is a far traditional way to collaborate than doing it all electronically. At most schools, the admissions office staff all works in the same office, and could easily discuss face-to-fac
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by slapshot 16y ago
"Cash" to return to investors, not to take from new investors. Taking new investors (especially at such a crazy valuation) just raises the expectations even further and makes Groupon have to take ever bigger risks. I mean, seriously, a $6
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by slapshot 16y ago
> Google needed Groupon's local advertising smarts more than Groupon needed anything from Google. Except cash. This was by far the best possible hope of returning money to the investors and shareholders. Their fiduciary duty is to retu
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by slapshot 16y ago
It would be cool to display the excerpts where the links occur. I'm confused by several of them and too lazy to read through each entry to find out why they are linked.
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by slapshot 16y ago
Goes from moderate to "whoa, this is gonna take a little while" too fast. Level 1 looks like a nice casual game, Level 2 looks like I need to get a cup of coffee before I start it. It might increase stickiness to make the perceived difficu
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by slapshot 16y ago
Possibly a good project, but seems odd to come from FTT. This seems like more than just freedom to tinker with devices you own and extend into outright security vulnerability scanning. I'm not sure that there is an exact overlap between th
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No Net Neutrality: Congress Adjourns Without Passing Legislation(crunchgear.com)
2 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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No 'net neutrality bill this year; bill shelved before recess(apnews.myway.com)
1 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
This. People should be dense, farms should be sparse. Taking city land to grow crops is NOT carbon-efficient. The far more carbon-efficient method would be to use city land for more housing, and use suburbia for farms. Think of it this wa
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Ingenuity vs. Inefficiency: A Tale from Tianjin(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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Scribd puts your old documents behind a paywall, no permanent opt-out(support.scribd.com)
5 points by slapshot 16y ago|2 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
For the record, I disagree with some parts of the analysis. In this case, Craigslist was more than a common carrier: it created a special section just for adult advertisements and charged money only for those advertisements. You could pos
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The Short-Sighted Campaign against Craigslist(blogs.forbes.com)
19 points by slapshot 16y ago|22 comments
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Hyper-Practical Tips on Starting Your Own Company(blogs.hbr.org)
61 points by slapshot 16y ago|17 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
Large-scale targeted cybercrime can cause chaos even without a "Die Hard"-style "fire sale" that relies on bringing down infrastructure. If random military families had their identities stolen, their bank accounts drained, and their homes f
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by slapshot 16y ago
Mid-tier universities do this all the time too by rejecting students they know won't matriculate (or will matriculate and transfer in 2 years).
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by slapshot 16y ago
It's not that he doesn't like buybacks as opposed to dividends. It's that he doesn't like growth companies returning capital to investors through any means. All of his criticisms would apply equally to dividends, with the extra criticism t
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Youtube adds vuvuzela button(youtube.com)
53 points by slapshot 16y ago|18 comments
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A new Social Networking Bill of Rights(reputationdefenderblog.com)
3 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
Ironically, the organization recognizes the importance of presentation because it offers speaker training to CS majors. Can they get some PR training too? The document reflects very poorly on them.
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by slapshot 16y ago
It sounds like the group is not part of the official Stanford bureaucracy -- as shown by the fact that the B-school allegedly banned students from joining (that's unclear to me, other than as evidence that it's not official).
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Google changed reputation and privacy forever(volokh.com)
3 points by slapshot 16y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
Pay us (doctors) for vaccinations or pay us more later for treatment? Pay us (construction workers) for high quality materials now, or pay us later for repairs? Pay us (clothing manufacturers) for high quality clothes now, or pay us again l
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by slapshot 16y ago
Strangely, it has no answer for "What is textrunner?" (does not appear to be linkable, but I'm serious).
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by slapshot 16y ago
On the flip side of that, a few hours of lawyer time in the first year of Facebook might have saved the IP ownership dispute that has now cost about $100 million dollars in settlements, and might still go higher. There are a lot of stories
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by slapshot 16y ago
You incorporated in Illinois? I don't know Illinois law well, but there are good reasons why most corporations are Delaware (with a few in Nevada and a couple other states), including tax and governance issues. Did you ask an attorney if I
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IPhone 4 stats and details(engadget.com)
5 points by slapshot 16y ago|2 comments

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