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by cmapes 10y ago
Restaurants do use the ugly food, there's many grades to choose from when you're a wholesale buyer purchasing from specialty suppliers.
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by cmapes 12y ago
Sure, but restaurants have special needs relating to getting groceries. When they want "avocados" they don't just want any case of avocados. They may want a case of "locally sourced Haas 40's with 4-5 day ripening t
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by cmapes 12y ago
Enforcing quality-standards for services rendered sounds nightmarish for either the end user or for the service provider. It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out for amazon.com.
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by cmapes 12y ago
I was also thinking redbeacon.com, although they've already exited to Home Depot so it's not so much of a concern.
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by cmapes 12y ago
Agreed, food / grocery delivery and transportation services would certainly be interesting, but defining the rates based on some sort of a base-cost-unit like mileage and speed of delivery would be extremely challenging to do smoothly
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by cmapes 12y ago
You're thinking about it incorrectly. Here's what the $200/hr developer does: Identifies business challenges and offers a custom-tailored solution that will generate more money than it costs. Then that said developer will eff
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by cmapes 12y ago
I was checking to see if someone else already wrote this. This is one of the first things I was thinking.
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by cmapes 12y ago
Not realistic if you run a business that actually operates in the real world.
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by cmapes 12y ago
I agree, it was honestly difficult to read this article and to reconcile the thought that I do business banking with Chase. I've been thinking of a few non-profit startup ideas to combat this widespread corruption problem, but its noth
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by cmapes 12y ago
Ah. I understand what you guys are doing now. This is an interesting and challenging concept to execute. I wish you guys success! My only question remaining is how you guys handle shareholder liability since there's no corporate veil f
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by cmapes 12y ago
I'm curious how this works with the legal landscape of US regulation. I'm 99.9% sure the law would consider this equity compensation in exchange for labor performed, since this is being positioned as "getting a share" of
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by cmapes 12y ago
That was my first thought too, I use stevia in almost everything.
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by cmapes 12y ago
I suddenly had a flashback to selecting soundblaster as my audio device..
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by cmapes 12y ago
I thought ransom was supposed to work by making the person whom you have secret information pay you NOT to disclose the info. Especially if this "Jeffrey" knows the the Satoshi's true identity like the hacker says. That'
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by cmapes 12y ago
As a side note, Amazon has the Moto G for $159.99 w/o contract. That's pretty amazing to me and I'm honestly considering it even though I was holding out for an iPhone 6. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GWR36
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by cmapes 12y ago
What you're saying is in essence correct, but I don't think that their fire phone "3d gimic" (which added very much to unit cost) was necessary to achieve that outcome. I think it was detrimental. A phone with comparable
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by cmapes 12y ago
This is what the Amazon fire phone should have been. They would have sold millions. Kudos to Motorola for figuring it out.
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by cmapes 12y ago
I too have personally had the best luck with 1.5 lbs - 2 lbs per week. The proper caloric deficit to achieve those weight loss amounts per week, along with a 25% carbohydrate, 47% protein, and 28% fat diet has allowed me to lose mostly fat
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by cmapes 12y ago
I don't see anything too surprising here. The big problem is the lack of disruption and innovation due to the government sponsored monopolies of internet/cable/network carriers over geographic regions. However, it's norm
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by cmapes 12y ago
I'll chime in here that I witnessed a long time friend who has a family with a history of mental illness go down this road. For him all it took was one LSD trip. My personal position is that psychedelics are the "going nuclear&quo
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by cmapes 12y ago
Startups selling a business product need to focus on a salesforce, direct marketing methods that are profitable, and getting in front of real paying customers. But startups producing social media products, or consumer applications that are
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by cmapes 12y ago
I think like most things in good UI design, the rule is: "Make common user tasks as friction-less as possible." Now, when a common user behavior is to use the main menu to switch between many different places in the app, then yes,
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by cmapes 12y ago
What a letdown, tried to buy two and realized that it was Canadian only. I was trying to hack around and see if I could get the site to accept US address info by forcing it past the JS validation and the item expired while in my cart. Seems
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by cmapes 12y ago
Yeah, you can't. I don't watch cable television, I just use the internet access. So unless I feel like donning a standard cable television package + HBO for $120+/mo I can't get access to HBO Go. It's a shame, I&#x2
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by cmapes 12y ago
This is a nice step in the right direction, but I'd be willing to pay $/mo extra to get the latest episodes of Game of Thrones.
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by cmapes 12y ago
This was my first impression as well. It seems to me that if you're allowed to spend the $37m to officially "own" the property then it would logically follow that you should be allowed to alter it or decide you don't fee
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by cmapes 12y ago
My Dad died from metastatic stage-IV melanoma. The gene therapies (which were extremely expensive) weren't effective beyond adding maybe an extra 6-8 weeks. I'm interested if the tuberculosis actually "killed" the melano
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by cmapes 12y ago
Somehow this is extremely profound. After playing this, I feel like I need to digest my feelings for a while.
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by cmapes 12y ago
Quick correction to the article: Gwynne Shotwell is not the President & CEO, she is the President & COO. It's very well known that Elon Musk is the CEO.
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by cmapes 12y ago
This. I just drafted a stock purchase agreement for my business partner and I on our new startup and one of the basic boilerplate additions to the stock purchase / vesting agreement is a spousal agreement to the terms of the purchase.

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