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by Nutella2 14y ago
According to the article, one of the main advantages of Thiel's program is the contacts they make. So how different is it from the Ivy League?
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by Nutella2 14y ago
And more important, a significant financial incentive to correct their own obviously inadequate procedures.
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by Nutella2 14y ago
Amazon does this. If you look at a product and then come back later to buy it the price will be higher than it is if you bought it immediately after looking. If you want to get the best prices and look up things whenever you want, use one
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by Nutella2 14y ago
He's suing the charities along with Inman and IndiGoGo on his own behalf, not for FunnyJunk. He's acting as his own lawyer and demanding his legal fees be paid by the defendants. That's some amazing chutzpah.
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by Nutella2 14y ago
We appreciate the uniformity of men's clothes sizes, too. One of the reasons women have to think about clothing and shop for clothing a lot more than men do is that we can't just look at the jeans in our closet, note the size, and walk out
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by Nutella2 14y ago
No, because Craigslist is not a broker. They're an advertiser. AirBnB is a broker because all the financial transactions go through them so their legal and tax responsibilities are different.
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by Nutella2 14y ago
Most languages were proprietary and expensive through the 80s. When C took off it wiped out (or much reduced) the use of expensive proprietary languages. C was free so a lot of people learned it in university and wanted to use it on the j
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by Nutella2 14y ago
Agreed that tutorials on 'how to program' are and should be different from tutorials about a new language for experienced programmers, but one thing that both should do early on is a complete 'Hello World' example to show the minimum of cod
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by Nutella2 14y ago
Affirmative action has and continues to be a problem, though. The vast majority of affirmative action has favored and continues to favor rich, connected white men. Famous example: "I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, a
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by Nutella2 15y ago
I think I still have the box somewhere at home. I should donate it to the Computer History Museum.
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by Nutella2 15y ago
Perhaps economics and game theory will in the long run but here and now the Department of Justice and the class-action plaintiffs are doing a good job taking down the cartel.
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by Nutella2 15y ago
Whenever someone moans about not being able to hire when other companies can do it, the solution is obvious. Offer better jobs! Better working conditions, better projects, better benefits, better salaries. The fact that this did not occu
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by Nutella2 15y ago
What Stallman's for is free as in 'free speech'. Free as in 'free beer' is something completely different.
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by Nutella2 15y ago
I keep thing separate by doing only Google things in Chrome and everything else in Firefox. I will continue to shun Google+ because of the stories about people being shut out of it over the 'looks like a real name' rules because I have an A
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by Nutella2 15y ago
In practice the two kinds of leave are treated differently even if they're from the same pool since vacation has to be requested in advance and sick time usually cannot be requested in advance. Unless you can schedule your accidents, injur
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by Nutella2 15y ago
It is extremely expensive in the US for small companies to provide health insurance for employees. Not as horribly expensive as individual insurance, but still outrageously high.
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by Nutella2 15y ago
This is a great example of a launch page, not an MVP. It's not 'a version of a new product', it's marketing information about a proposed product. One reason it's a good example of a launch page is that it tells you before you enter your ad
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by Nutella2 15y ago
I just looked at the Amazon sale page and saw it had one review from the author saying that he is the copyright holder, then refreshed the page and the review was gone. So it seems that Amazon is aware of the problem and is deliberately con
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by Nutella2 15y ago
"a business model threatening crisis that everyone should have seen coming" Airbnb did see it coming and were careful to cover it in their TOS section 1.2 and 1.4. They have, however, been marketing their service very differently. They've
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by Nutella2 15y ago
No, it doesn't cover illegal transactions. In many places the Airbnb rentals are violations of local or state hotel laws. Even in places not covered by those kinds of laws, it's unlikely that insurance for owners and renters of a private
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by Nutella2 15y ago
In many places the business facilitated by Airbnb is illegal. New York state, Chicago, and many other places have strict hotel laws that forbid these kinds of informal apartment rentals. It is extremely unlikely that any one can buy an in
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by Nutella2 15y ago
Yes, I got this e-mail today and was most impressed that it went on for so long without providing any information useful to me, the customer. None of the links in it go to anything that is useful to me, either. It's nice that they agonize
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by Nutella2 16y ago
Savvy businessmen know the difference between discounted nonrefundable tickets and full-fare refundable tickets. I think he should leave this in his blog since it's very helpful information for prospective vendors and customers. They shoul