thedaveoflife

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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
In general, most people who are looking at facebook for any length of time are either playing a social game or looking at photos of themselves. It's confusing to me how this is a viable long term business model. Popularity can be a fickle t
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
How do you feel about his claim that we are in an online advertising bubble? I am sympathetic to that claim, because (anecdotally of course) very few people I know actually click on ads.
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Why Start-Ups are bad at creating jobs(economist.com)
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
the obvious answer is he is obfuscating other, more valuable links that legitimate users are suggesting.
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
The lesson from the article isn't that every country should be a net exporter like Germany... it's that Germany has found success by focusing on producing goods and insuring a minimum standard of living for the middle class. While their exa
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
I think this post has important implications for business just as academia. It's about not falling back on the "I'm not smart enough to do that" excuse.
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
That's a bit of an oversimplification. Non-profits are interested in "providing a solution to a difficult problem", but they are also interested in self preservation.
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
It's entirely possible that Google won't renew the deal, which would put about $100 million of Firefox's revenue at stake. It would make no sense for Google to renew this agreement... if Mozilla suddenly changed Firefox's default SE that
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
Andy Rooney led a pretty amazing life and has written a number of books about his experiences. My favorite was his book about his experience in World War II as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes newspaper[1]. My family used to get to
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Are teachers paid too much?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by thedaveoflife 15y ago|0 comments
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Property Value Calculator for the Game of Monopoly(centives.net)
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
Are we marginally worse off? No. We now have access to cheaper and superior classified advertisements and the people who used to work at newspapers are now free to continue on to other jobs.
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Ask HN: Is there a guide to the karma limits on HN?
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
Less popular as a Google search doesn't necessarily mean less popular, in some cases. For instance, I saw text messaging on your down trending list but that is obviously as popular as ever. People probably just don't feel the need to search
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by thedaveoflife 15y ago
Great minds will go on to do great things no matter if they go to college or not, but you should start a business because you are passionate about a product or service, not because a billionaire entrepreneur is bribing you to do so. This pr
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Grouponomics(blogs.reuters.com)
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
Money is fiction. The value of money is derived from trust in the central authority that creates it. Therefore I think an entity like Bitcoin (though not necessarily Bitcoin itself) could conceivably come to replace federal currency because
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
relavent link to his point about domain names: wallgreens buys drugstore.com for 409M. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/walgreens-to-buy-drug...
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
Good question but I think they will always have the 'cool' crowd simply because allowing a weary stanger to stay in your apartment is inherently a cool thing to do. also money talks in this case. As has been brought up elsewhere in this thr
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
Felix Salmon had an interesting take on this topic as well for those interested. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/03/07/the-economi...
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
I agree that there are certainly plenty of opportunities presented by developing a technical skill. However the unemployment rate is only 4.5% for the college educated vs 10.7% for high school only and 8.4% for an associate degree/some coll
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
I do not think it is as simple as you put it; there are situations in urban public schools where student behavior would be beyond the control any teacher or any single person really. That being said I love your point about not blaming an i
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In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism(inc.com)
17 points by thedaveoflife 16y ago|2 comments
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
who said they shouldn't be held accountable? I was just pointing out one possible arguement against video taping police officers. In a job where they are often required to only think once, this may cause them to think twice. Obviously you d
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
police officers have a hard and dangerous job to do and they do it for our safety. if they have to worry about being video taped all the time they will be less effective in this job.
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by thedaveoflife 16y ago
The one problem with this logic is that occasionally leaving it alone, as you put it, can be more costly than taking action. Often when we see the problems that emerge when the government takes action, i.e. with bailouts, we ignore the prob