aaronchriscohen

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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
SUMMARY: "we were shocked, SHOCKED, to discover that an ad with a nice picture performs better than an ad with a bad picture."
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
i called and asked. they keep 100% of the purchase fee.
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
because a startup has structured its business model to keep the vast majority of the profit it extracts from a virtual work force of independently contracted peons
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
ive sinced learned that ebay now would have brought me my chromebook for no additional fee. wun wun also apparently caps the transaction fee at $2.
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
actually they don't disclose this fee when you arrange for the original transaction. They list everything as "TBD"
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Postmates earned 400% more on a delivery than the delivery guy
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
so happy for elias and his team. this is a huge win for the queens tech community!
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
The only reason Big Tech is against the NSA now is because their most valuable customers are eyeing foreign competitors based in countries with actual privacy laws. I talk to clients all the time who want their data stored in Luxembourg or
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
Just imagine that you had more than one choice of high speed Internet provider (unlike 95% of Americans who are stuck with the one cable company that happened to successfully bribe their local municipality) and think about what would happen
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
Awesome! The for profit hacker schools will HATE this.
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
Tuition is $850. Many paid less. Some paid nothing.
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
If you want to support Coalition for Queens and the next Access Code program, donate now through Crowdtilt: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/donating-my-31st-help-c4...
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
#ComcastTax
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by aaronchriscohen 12y ago
it's more customizable, more secure, and free. really hard decision.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
so theyre university of phoenix now? btw, if anyone wants to pay me $10,000 to read php.net aloud, i will do so.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
Now how about a Chromecast w/ dual-band networking or, even better, an ethernet port? The 2.4ghz band is next to useless in high density environments like my Brooklyn apartment.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
I wager the % of the YC companies that raise $500k within three weeks of demo day is <10% making this rule effectively meaningless.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
I just went to viclone.com on my Nexus 5 via Tmobile LTE and it connected fine.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5s5pw4ydohhr4g/Screenshot_2014-01...
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
NSA deserves an award for accomplishing this for just $10 million.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
Really love how it sends me a push if my numbers hit. No need to check my tickets at the bodega scanner which never works.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
This would be like selling car insurance to demolition derby drivers. It would never, ever be profitable.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
"So I was intrigued when Yahoo invited me to help build a new consumer-tech site." should read "So I was intrigued when Yahoo showed me how zeroes can fit on a check.
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
I wonder if requiring applicants to "form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money" had anything to do with their success. It's not like they just dropped money out
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
Dental coverage is a scam. I priced dental insurance for my startups for three years. The only plans available to companies with less than 50 employees have benefit caps that were less than the cost of the yearly premiums! You get "fre
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
am I missing something or is this not just typical TOS boilerplate to give Google power to ban bandwidth hogs? Are there any Google Fiber customers who have been banned for setting up servers that did not also involve moving tremendous amou
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
awesome!
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by aaronchriscohen 13y ago
the fisa court DID issue a warrant. it was just obscenely broad.