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by victoro 14y ago
Agreed, and the two are not mutually exclusive, but I highly doubt that if this was 2006, a company specializing in real-estate sales would use its cash to expand horizontally into rentals before cementing its lead in its main vertical only
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by victoro 14y ago
It would be interesting to look at this as another data point in a macro shift from buying to renting. Other data points would be decreased job security and growing gas prices making it less attractive to buy homes far out in the suburbs.
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by victoro 14y ago
"unfortunately as a social-networking medium Facebook's users will probably be much less receptive or happy to see the paid content than Google users" Google's ad relevance was not always what it is today. As marketers got better and the al
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by victoro 14y ago
I thought I heard about there being a cork shortage as well, after googling around it seems that this may be an urban myth. Even Cork conservation sites say there is no cork shortage [1]. Looks like twist-offs/plastic corks etc. may just
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Sweden's Newest School Has No Class Rooms(edudemic.com)
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by victoro 14y ago
The problems that startups are trying to solve are too small and too uniform, possibly because marketing language used to define those problems sounds good but means little.
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by victoro 14y ago
This is just a great concept. It's surprisingly frustrating to try and find relevant movie quotes on YouTube, download them, convert them, clip them, re-convert and upload back. I tried doing this for a funny tumblr I was putting together i
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Obama proposes $1B for science, math teachers(news.bostonherald.com)
2 points by victoro 14y ago|0 comments
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California Energy Market Still Being Gamed(latimes.com)
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by victoro 14y ago
Assuming what the author says actually ends up being Amazon's strategy, I think bringing in a dirt-cheap smartphone option and thereby accelerating the movement of another class of consumers (many of whom are probably still using feature ph
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by victoro 14y ago
Well considering they are the 9th most visited site in the US and the companies ahead of it are all making revenues in the Billions (except Wikipedia and Twitter), then, ridiculously enough, $100 million sounds pretty modest.
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by victoro 14y ago
I for one, commend Craigslist for their commitment to maintaining a strict, consistent, well-defined UI and moreover, for choosing to maintain a relatively modest operation to the benefit of their core users instead of succumbing to the pro
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Dead Cat Turned Into Remote Controlled Helicopter(nydailynews.com)
1 points by victoro 14y ago|0 comments
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Backing a College Dropout Might Be Your Smartest Investment Strategy (pehub.com)
1 points by victoro 14y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 15y ago
Interesting that people are so up in arms about having prospective employers browse their facebook, but have no problem when asked if their employers can peruse their blood, hair, or urine under the guise of a drug test. Private, recreatio
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Bring Back Boring Banks(nytimes.com)
1 points by victoro 15y ago|0 comments
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Instant hacker Karma(youtu.be)
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by victoro 15y ago
Wonder how long it would take an 8th grader in a beginning web design Middle School course to code this website...
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7 Billion People: World Has A Poop Problem(msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by victoro 15y ago|0 comments
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Accountingville: Zynga bookkeeping change provides a lift(nypost.com)
1 points by victoro 15y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 15y ago
This may be a gross oversimplification, but I don't get it: First the government bails out the large banks to the tune of 600 billion (give or take a few billion), 3 years ago. Now they realize that the banks were perpetrating fraud in th
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by victoro 15y ago
Will facebook take down Obama's page when they are finally hit with a Federal Anti-Trust suit?
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Xunlei IPO on Nasdaq would have US funding Chinese piracy(venturebeat.com)
1 points by victoro 15y ago|0 comments
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The Secret Sharer(newyorker.com)
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Hoaxes Threaten Online Anonymity(washingtonpost.com)
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Mind Reading Company Valued at 200 Million in New Funding Round(singularityhub.com)
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by victoro 15y ago
Reason #347 the Italian justice system should be used as a Model of what NOT to do...
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by victoro 15y ago
Facebook really opened a can of worms by showing other large corporations how much information and rights users are willing to give up (knowingly or unknowingly) for "the privilege" of using products that make their life more convenient/ent
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More Sony Bad News: Sony Online Also Compromised(zdnet.com)
1 points by victoro 15y ago|0 comments
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Nevada Bill Would Pave the Road to Autonomous Cars(cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
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