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by swombat 13y ago
It must be parody. I can't imagine it's anything else.
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by swombat 13y ago
I have some friends who got married via an online dating site, but it was a paid one. I get that this problem plagues free sites like OKC or POF - is it also a problem on paid sites?
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by swombat 13y ago
Mac does this even better. It does allow arbitrary scaling - for some definitions of arbitrary. For example, my MBPR 13" is set to the setting between "Best (Retina)" (which is the exact 2x, 1280x800 I think) and "More
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by swombat 13y ago
I don't really have the time to read through this. What are the key points? I know the TPP is an agreement negotiated in secret by (probably non-elected) representatives who have corporate best interests at heart, which probably means
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Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface(sciencedaily.com)
147 points by swombat 13y ago|43 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
Hah. I forgot he wrote one (even though I've quoted him in some of my articles). It does make similar points in his "Money Is Not Wealth" section in there. It's not very surprising that others have said this - it's
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by swombat 13y ago
Ideal situation for growing your money, imho: using your expertise, try and figure out some kind of investment that looks very risky to people who don't have your expertise, but isn't risky to you because you know the market bette
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by swombat 13y ago
The risk is not so high, actually, imho: http://swombat.com/2012/6/18/entrepreneurship-safest-career
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Money and wealth(swombat.com)
268 points by swombat 13y ago|186 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
Are you suggesting that large companies never build products that are useless? Never launch anything that nobody uses? Never waste effort? If they do, then perhaps they should focus their development on waste reduction, rather than prematur
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by swombat 13y ago
People read Valleywag??
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by swombat 13y ago
Unfortunately, this misses the point of the MVP concept, and falls exactly into the trap that Lean Startup is trying to get you to avoid. An MVP isn't a crappy product, it's an answer to a question: should I go to the next step? S
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by swombat 13y ago
So what attack is this responding to? I'm a bit lost here, it looks like someone is stepping in to defend Ben from something, but what? Is it related to http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013
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by swombat 13y ago
Yes and no. I guess you're a long-time T-mobile customer because you like being with them, and find them better than the alternatives. So what you're getting is, hopefully, already the best they can offer in terms of service, cont
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by swombat 13y ago
Anyone actually read that book? Would you recommend it?
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Will Work for Food and Lodging(jacquesmattheij.com)
314 points by swombat 13y ago|124 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
I stopped reading at the useless jab at Apple not being innovative.
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by swombat 13y ago
7000 personally executed over 28 consecutive nights, through a shot in the base of the skull while wearing a leather apron, gloves and hood, 300 a night for 10 hours each night, one every 3 minutes? That's some character... It takes a
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by swombat 13y ago
More like the civil war. Would you like to live in that period? There were 31 million americans then. 600k died during the war - 2%. There are 10 times as many americans, now, it's a fair extrapolation that there could be 10 times as m
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by swombat 13y ago
As others have pointed out, it's not just the master's wealth, but everyone's wealth. If anything, I'd suspect the "masters" would be better at protecting their relative wealth in such a "burn it to the gr
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by swombat 13y ago
It is very dangerous to point to a "great existential problem" like this and not point to a practical solution. My father wrote an excellent article on this here: http://wisdom.tenner.org/1/post/2012&#x2F
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by swombat 13y ago
Reversing is fairly well explained here, if you're looking for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler
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by swombat 13y ago
Burning the system to the ground is not very constructive (duh). In fact, this article - well, it's not clear what it advocates, but it sounds like it advocates some kind of violent "line the bastards against a wall and shoot them
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by swombat 13y ago
I'm not sure where the "place house ads for your paid service" idea is coming from? We haven't paid for advertising.
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by swombat 13y ago
> Would you still write the article if the link was nofollow? Typically I've written the article before passing it on to someone, so in those cases, obviously the question doesn't apply. In the latter case, if someone asks
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by swombat 13y ago
No. People I meet on and offline ask me to write an article for them. I don't approach them. Occasionally I have written a full blown article and suddenly realised it would be better suited for another site (eg techcrunch) and approach
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by swombat 13y ago
If you're running a successful startup and looking for some kind of charity outlet for some of those profits, I highly recommend Kiva loans. Find some entrepreneurs trying to start tough businesses in tough environments, like a tailor
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by swombat 13y ago
> You know all those bloggers/SEOs at MOZ giving webmasters tips and tricks on how to rank higher? Well, they never said: “Guys, you gotta do basic on-page SEO, buy quality links and you will rank higher, that’s all you need to kno
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by swombat 13y ago
SaaS is not the only business model out there...
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by swombat 13y ago
So, there is no way I can be profitable before March or April. Not with this business, for sure. If you have a business idea that requires many months or years to get off the ground, and you don't have the resources to sustain yourse

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