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by stingrae 10y ago
When such a large percentage of your sales as a company come from kickstarter, where you seemingly have to give a heavy discount to the real price. My guess is that it becomes hard to succeed in retail/other channels at a real price wi
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by stingrae 10y ago
I think this is an example of an issue that some companies that do kickstarter/preorder campaigns have. They try to do a Hardware project that pushes boundaries and try to collect money to early during the development process at a time
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by stingrae 10y ago
When I think of a commute, I think of a daily activity that takes someone back and forth to work. Given that definition it seems totally unreasonable for someone to spend 4 hours going one way.
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ReMarkable EInk Notepad and EReader(getremarkable.com)
2 points by stingrae 10y ago|1 comments
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Tony Fadell discusses the future of the car business(youtube.com)
1 points by stingrae 10y ago|0 comments
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by stingrae 10y ago
The point of the service is not for people who drive for a living. It is for people already headed in the same direction to carpool. So the benefit of getting paid is just a bonus as long as it isn't far out of the driver's way.
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by stingrae 11y ago
When I have heard YC partners talk about judging companies, they put a heavy emphasis on the founding team. (Their background, how long they have known each other, and why they are the right person to build this product.) So I think it is a
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by stingrae 11y ago
I have a small anecdotal experience with yelp manipulations. In my case as a user trying to search for a restaurants reviews by the exact name of the place. The search resulted in a competing restaurant blocks away of the same ethnicity tha
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by stingrae 11y ago
Are you basing this argument off of the movie? It is well know to have many known inaccuracies. Where is the source of all these details.
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Google Acquires Jibe Mobile(jibemobile.com)
38 points by stingrae 11y ago|5 comments
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Google Acquires Jibe Mobile(jibemobile.com)
2 points by stingrae 11y ago|0 comments
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by stingrae 11y ago
How do you explain YC investing in Non-profits like Watsi? There is more to YC than the payout. There is definitely a core goal to help good people build better products. Money just usually follows.
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by stingrae 12y ago
I have not run into this issue in China, perhaps this has changed since.
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by stingrae 12y ago
search for the article title on google and you'll get a free link to view it, https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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by stingrae 12y ago
>The idea that YC would choose african founders in africa after systematically excluding african founders in the US is this true? I was unaware of this.
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by stingrae 12y ago
I think this statement is just a matter of probability. 95% of the worlds population isn't American.
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by stingrae 12y ago
I attended the last startup school. I can say it is much more valuable than those investment seminars. I got some interesting/inspirational stories that may push me to become more entrepreneurial than I might otherwise have been. The t
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by stingrae 12y ago
This happens quite a bit, the top result on google is a closed ("duplicate") SO thread. SO should be modifying their robots.txt to try to prevent this.
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by stingrae 13y ago
I completely agree. I didn't like that the table of contents disappeared. The page also made me feel like scrolling but that isn't supported. Awesome work!
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by stingrae 13y ago
Coinbase said that creating a username is optional.
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by stingrae 13y ago
I would summarize it more as, the main vulnerability is the user's choice of password, the security of their email account(including phishing emails), or the possibility that a tesla employee could fall for social engineering. None of
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by stingrae 13y ago
This becomes especially clear when you look at the prices of international editions of the textbook, which are often 1/10th of the price of the us equivalent book. Such a price difference isn't caused by a publisher worried about
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by stingrae 13y ago
This is exactly the point. University presidents are not hired primarily to manage an institutions education, but to fundraise. I recall a specific example in which the regents of the University of Virginia attempted to remove their preside
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Darpa puzzle games to help detect flaws in computer programming(pando.com)
1 points by stingrae 13y ago|0 comments
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by stingrae 13y ago
Everything is speculation. I am not sure why "finance experts" bother stating their opinion on bitcoin. It is still too early to tell whether it will succeed or fail. If it ever stabliizes it opens huge possibilities to dramatical
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by stingrae 13y ago
Seems like HN is causing them problems. I saved the articles text at: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s360/sh/4e19f93c-8425-440c-b9...
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by stingrae 13y ago
I don't think I would drive that with any other cars on the road. Hopefully there is a safety package.
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by stingrae 13y ago
This doesn't seem to be a very fair comparison. You cant compare a search for "maps" with a search for an actual company in this case "Southwest Airlines." I would expect that a search for a company even earlier in
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Researchers Grow 3-D Human Brain Tissues(technologyreview.com)
1 points by stingrae 13y ago|0 comments
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We Must Make Math like Reading(dougwoodonstem.blogspot.com)
1 points by stingrae 13y ago|0 comments

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