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by vaksel 15y ago
kids are an investment...they are your safety net...worse comes to worst, you can rely on them to support you in your late days if things go terribly wrong. its a good way to avoid ending up on the street...you'll always be able to get room
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by vaksel 15y ago
the layoffs were probably factored in already...and they were probably expecting a higher number...so if the number falls below street expectation the stock price goes up
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by vaksel 15y ago
with cars you can just buy them used and sell them before they depreciate too much. Buy a 3 year old car, keep it for 1-2 years, then sell it. (if that's still too rich for your blood...get a 5 year old car and keep that for 2 years) Just l
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by vaksel 15y ago
why should they want to scale? the point of YC is quality over quantity...if they go after quantity, they are just diluting what they have to offer. If they have 1000 startups, how much support can they really offer?
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by vaksel 15y ago
I gotta ask..what took so long? I remember when they launched people submitted a ton of content...and in all this time, all they came out with is the most basic of languages
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by vaksel 15y ago
100% it'll be the later...it's expected that you have a facebook account..if you don't they'll just think you are lying...and it must be REALLY bad for you to lie about it...you are probably a drug user, or worse
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by vaksel 15y ago
why do employers expect access to your facebook? do they expect access to your email account? no...because that'd be invasion of privacy...so why is facebook different? you are free to snoop on the public facebook page(even though thats not
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by vaksel 15y ago
agreed + with a regular job you are giving up long term stability for short term success. don't think of now...think of when you are 55...and noone will want to hire you because you are too old. Don't think 55 is going to be a problem? How
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by vaksel 15y ago
yeah, the 2nd one was even dumber: What's so interesting about success is the number of failures who try to ride on your back. Shay Pierce is just one of many... since the guy specifically went out of his way not to "ride on
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by vaksel 15y ago
wouldn't they think that Paul = Paul Graham
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by vaksel 15y ago
not really, most dealerships have an internet department with dedicated people that deal with this. and it's much easier to negotiate a price, where they just email you back, instead of making you wait while they go and watch TV in the brea
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by vaksel 15y ago
that seems what most people miss out on not all startups are created equal...not all of them will have an early Google atmosphere...plenty of them are started by corporate drones so you get a bad work environment, paired up with a company t
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by vaksel 15y ago
the key to get a good deal is to just use email..contact 30 dealerships and ask whats the lowest they'd be willing to go on X. then just go back and forth with the lowest #...until you are left with one dealer
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by vaksel 15y ago
not much, the profit margin after they pay their bills is about 3-5%
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by vaksel 15y ago
one is important...the other is not
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by vaksel 15y ago
sometimes there is. i.e. there is an intersection by me that has 3 gas stations on it. They used to have identical pricing. Then one station started charging the same amount for credit card transactions as it did for cash(other stations had
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by vaksel 15y ago
I find it interesting that none of them are technical founders. Were there no women who coded in this batch?
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by vaksel 15y ago
there are hundreds of these...this is just a YC backed one
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by vaksel 15y ago
how about this...let them decide on the yearly value...and enforce licensing costs equal to X% of that value. that way they won't want to set the value high to pay the fees...and not too low since then the licensing costs would be too low
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by vaksel 15y ago
It seems like NYC just seems like a hub, because people are already there and don't want to move. Very few people who decide to uproot to start their startup elsewhere actually choose NYC over SV. Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is,
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by vaksel 15y ago
i wonder if Canada has that bit, where the prices you see in the store are the final prices(i..e with tax already calculated in)
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by vaksel 15y ago
the thing is that noone really cares about you enough for you to worry about your privacy. Hell, even celebrities don't get their Google search histories published in Tmz...so you have nothing to worry about. And if you are planning to do s
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by vaksel 15y ago
of course they are. With Best Buy, you have to go get in your car, drive 7 miles to the store, browse for 20 minutes to find what you are looking for, then drive 7 miles back. So on top of $4 you probably spend on gas, you end up wasting an
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by vaksel 15y ago
Google DDG seems to be the hipster search engine to me...look at me I'm at the forefront of search technology...sure the results suck compared to Google..but at least I'm not a sheep like the rest of the sheep using the internet.
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by vaksel 15y ago
I like Carsabi, but for some reason their name is really forgetful. I don't know why...but I was looking for a car like 2 months after I saw their post...and for the life of me I couldn't remember what they were called
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by vaksel 15y ago
I don't think they are out of woods yet. They are still reliant on the insurance companies for their revenue(essentially they are just an affiliate site)...so they've complied with the letter of the complaint, but not the spirit. They are s
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by vaksel 15y ago
fine then calculate yearly cost...showing 2 completely different spaces with the same price doesn't really make much sense. That'd be in addition to the square foot rate
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by vaksel 15y ago
good idea, but I think this is an industry where you don't win with technology...but with connections in the industry...and it doesn't look like the team has that. and the investors are mostly tech guys, not real estate guys...which means t
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by vaksel 15y ago
fine...why not chat? Not as much pressure on the customer to just have a quick chat online...phone calls are much more pressure intensive
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by vaksel 15y ago
wouldn't that be an easy prior art win?

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