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by wheels 14y ago
No, mostly not. At least not without help from regional oligarchs or colonialists. There's very little utility to the west in most of Africa being poor. Like, most of sub-saharan Africa isn't especially resource rich, their food producti
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The Return of the Capital Intensive Startup(continuations.com)
8 points by wheels 14y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
This is rather straw-man-ish. He equates having a fun, care-free life as ... working at Starbucks. I don't know anyone who's ever said, "Well, why don't you just work at Starbucks for a decade? It'll be fun and you can get a real job when
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by wheels 14y ago
In this case my mental model of "servers" is "the computers that run the specific small company under discussion, who has already said that they can move them if they want to". We seem to be arguing separate points -- I'm saying that it's n
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by wheels 14y ago
Why would moving the servers be hard? You can fit 100 terabytes of storage in a shoe-box these days. I'd be extremely surprised if you couldn't run all of FogCreek off of a single 10U blade enclosure. That would be up to 128 CPU cores; I
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by wheels 14y ago
> start at the source of the sound, and working your way towards the speakers, turn it up as loud as you can without distorting it In practice that will often be right. In theory it is not. With an analog signal what you actually wan
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by wheels 14y ago
The part about the "others" isn't really true. Paul and Robert had founded two companies together and Paul had been the CEO of a medium sized startup and taken it through the acquisition process. Also, at least in the earlier YC batches be
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by wheels 14y ago
Near my apartment Nokia's 3D maps are markedly better that Google Earth. Google only picks up that some of the buildings are 3D and they appear much taller than others since the perspective changes as you move, whereas Nokia gets things ri
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by wheels 14y ago
Say what you will about the Singularity Institute and its ilk, but at the very least they're geared towards optimistic futurism. In fact, compared to space colonies, the notion of downloading someone's brain into a computer is far more sc
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by wheels 14y ago
Your comment assumes he's actually just on vacation and not that he was forced (or significantly nudged) out. I'd put my money on the latter. That he wrote a mail saying, "Everything's fine, this is totally normal..." in a time of (probab
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by wheels 14y ago
1. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=billnguyen 2. I don't really mind poking fun at projects, but poking fun at people, especially when they're probably feeling shitty about things, in a place that they're likely to read it, just seems
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by wheels 14y ago
Please leave the asinine BS out of this forum. One of the things that sets the conversations here apart from run of the mill news sites is the civil tone. Note that it's very possible that the guy you're making fun of is reading what you
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by wheels 14y ago
There's a more important gamble in play at the moment: Maps are not Siri, they're not a shiny aluminum cover or impressively slim industrial design: they are one of the core features that people own smartphones for. Would you really get a
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by wheels 14y ago
The RAM example is terrible. Accumulating RAM is application-transparent. Processor accumulation is not. Two small shovels aren't the same as one big shovel, but two small bags of dirt are basically the same as one big bag of dirt. If yo
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by wheels 14y ago
Generally a good post, though it's funny that Diego used a Fred Wilson quote right before his point about bi-modal returns, when Fred's one of the (few) VCs that's spoken out against such: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/the-fallacy-of-bim
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Solar power: a case study in exponential growth(theequitykicker.com)
5 points by wheels 14y ago|1 comments
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German Capital Embraces Net Newbies and Leviathans(spiegel.de)
5 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
604 hits for folks with "designer" in their title that currently work at Apple: https://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?title=designer&...
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by wheels 14y ago
I was curious where Rackspace stands with their own portfolio, and it seems they have actually avoided patents, which surprised me somewhat for a large, public company: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassi... The t
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by wheels 14y ago
Your statement goes in the right direction of the truth, but misses pretty badly on context. First, yes, Iranians are skeptical of the US and UK for good reason. The UK was the major imperial power in the middle east. The collapse of the O
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by wheels 14y ago
Such an investment would almost certainly skew the probabilities in the other direction. So far we know of exactly one species that has both taken the initiative to develop weapons that could exterminate humanity and has made threatening g
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by wheels 14y ago
That's nonsense. So long as we're talking about the mechanics of the idea, which is implicit when talking about a business plan , then yes, you most certainly can invalidate an idea. Just because people would like to have something d
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by wheels 14y ago
You can't validate a business idea on paper, but you can invalidate one. If you can't make the numbers add up in your best case , then you can save yourself a lot of time building a product that's destined to flop. What a business plan
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by wheels 14y ago
For such things I invariably use WriteRoom. I find formatting and futzing with a web app to be built in procrastination mechanisms. It's generally trivial to spend a few minutes copying and pasting once the actual text is done. http://www
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by wheels 14y ago
> If something in the road catches you by surprise that's another story. One major problem there: sidewalk construction isn't sign-posted. I ended up in the hospital because a two foot section of the sidewalk on my work-route had be
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George Soros on the Euro Crisis: 'Germany Must Lead or Leave'(spiegel.de)
5 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
They're expensive, but keep in mind that almost by the nature of the product, the customer base is going to be mostly 20-something urban professionals -- i.e. folks that make $1000 in two working days and are less likely to have a family cu
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by wheels 14y ago
That's false. Statutory rape does not apply to married couples, and minors can get married with parental consent and / or a court order. I'd also call bullshit on this anecdote and most of the ones in this thread: the most common age of c
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by wheels 14y ago
You're probably not a scientist. Mathematics mostly traffics in things which are right or wrong; science rarely does. That's one of the criticisms that the peanut gallery often lobs at it: that it's just based on theories . When ideas
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by wheels 14y ago
You might get more schadenfreude that way, but it'd be much more effective to spend that money on lobbyists and organization that worked on changing the law.

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