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by steveplace 13y ago
Here's a fun read from the CIA https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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by steveplace 13y ago
First, the vitriol here can be incredibly helpful here. If HN commentors hate a business idea or a company that is going public or talks about how there is a bubble in something, it is a great tell that the concept or trend will work. What
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by steveplace 13y ago
Here's some back of the envelope numbers... The federal government spends: -878B in Social Security and disability -961B in healthcare -422B in welfare So that's about 2.26T just in these three categories. For a single year. We&#x
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by steveplace 13y ago
Yes. Facebook marketing is dead. You shouldn't even try it and just go to other places. It's literally impossible to get a positive ROI there so just move along, nothing to see here.
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by steveplace 13y ago
Are those points helpful? Sure, why not. Are they absolutely required (as the post proclaims) if you want to start a business? Nope.
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by steveplace 13y ago
Get a paying customer. If you get that, this list doesn't matter. You don't have to give up everything. You don't have to use your own product. You don't have to be the top in your field. You don't have to be a supe
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by steveplace 13y ago
All I want right now is a "traffic jam" button, where driving in congested traffic (speeds under 30 mph) on a straight road are taken care of by an AI. This is a much simpler problem to fix and can help with a transition rather
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by steveplace 13y ago
>Second, you have your employees. They may technically work for you, but let’s be honest, you work for them. If that happens to you, I'd highly recommend reading "Work the System" and "Emyth Revisted." Yes, it&#x
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by steveplace 13y ago
Love the kids, hate the bureaucracy.
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by steveplace 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the textbook was more of a proof of concept or maybe a stunt. Australia is a big place, and it may cost less for a "pony express" to run predator drones across the country instead of trucks.
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by steveplace 13y ago
Do I have to be the token crazy gun nut here?
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by steveplace 13y ago
At what number do we stop saying this is hilariously large? Even if the actual cost was 1/10th of that, it's still 60 million.
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by steveplace 13y ago
A VIX above 20 is pretty significant.
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by steveplace 13y ago
The term for this is heteroskedasticity, which I've never spelled right. Essentially, volatile events are not evenly spaced-- volatility tends to cluster around events.
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by steveplace 13y ago
Departmental budget politics can lead to decisions like that.
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by steveplace 13y ago
Take VitD + Fish Oil, then ZMA before bed.
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by steveplace 13y ago
I think I found their budget plan. Very, very big numbers. http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/BoardMeetings/Documents/CHB...
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by steveplace 13y ago
Did the Spanish government commission a study to place their economic woes on a time zone issue?
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by steveplace 13y ago
I think many of them are stuck with how they can get their message out. The media won't give them any coverage unless they throw out some disaster quotes, but the public has become tired of the same disaster scenarios that have been po
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by steveplace 13y ago
Back in 2012 I figured that the total value of cash + patents got us a share price of around 8 bucks, so I guess that seems about right. http://investingwithoptions.com/blog/2012/05/03/rimm-shake-s...
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by steveplace 13y ago
Can't wait for the airbnb listing.
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by steveplace 13y ago
equity futures are already up 1% during sunday's trade http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ES
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by steveplace 13y ago
The rate of change is pretty constant http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/02/1166704/-CO2-Emissi...
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by steveplace 13y ago
I had a friend that had his company on "Shark Tank." The 5% can be either equity or just based off sales.
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by steveplace 13y ago
If you are tryiing to persuade people to join a particular issue, it doesn't help when you alienate parts of your readerbase. The first paragraph: > I'm not just thinking of the country's dysfunctional Congress, pathologic
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by steveplace 13y ago
This particular hospital is catering to the high-deductible crowd, so that's why I put that one in there.
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by steveplace 13y ago
Basic income on top of everything else doesn't make much sense (cost-wise). But if we could trade B.I. for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and other social progams-- it would probably be more cost efficient as individuals
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by steveplace 13y ago
Some other techniques off the top of my head: -- offer a "price match guarantee" against any procedures versus in-network hospitals -- offer a discount for low-risk patients (non-diabetic non-obese) who need to have surgery done -
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by steveplace 13y ago
I agree, but... ...the author made the choice to display the text at 600px wide with a font size of 18px. There's plenty of markup (design) to point out key ideas on the page. Would this writing have the same impact if the font was at
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by steveplace 13y ago
I believe that parent assumes that food stamps are physical stamps instead of EBT cards.

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