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by curt 12y ago
He's referring to the fact that in the 70's and 80's everyone thought Japan was going to dominate but their economy wasn't (and still isn't) built on the most solid foundation. The Japanese were buying everything on
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by curt 12y ago
Have you thought about placing it on third party gaming sites? Kongregate.com is a great example (disclaimer I work there), they have a built in audience, handle marketing, payments, customer support, etc so you can focus on development. So
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by curt 12y ago
The Commerce Clause was put in place to stop States from taxing each other, not what it's currently being used for.
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by curt 12y ago
I went to Rose-Hulman and almost no one out here in SF has heard of the school. Doesn't matter.
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by curt 13y ago
San Francisco, CA - Kongregate - http://www.kongregate.com/pages/jobs Love games? Kongregate is a flash gaming portal and mobile game publisher. We're expanding the mobile team in both marketing and analytics. * M
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by curt 13y ago
From experience spending extremely large amounts of money: If done right Facebook will win every time. Use targeted mobile app install campaigns, Facebook's bread-and-butter. Your main problem is going to be that the game is sci-fi the
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by curt 13y ago
After I figured out OkCupid I had about a 30%-40% message to date success rate. I've shown friends and while they haven't had quite my success they've drastically increased the number of responses they receive. The key is to
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by curt 13y ago
People seem to forget that democracy and freedom are relatively new to the world. The Soviet Union collapsed 20 years ago, many European countries have been free for less than 40 years. Don't take freedom for granted, it's not the
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by curt 13y ago
China is an oligarchy or crony capitalist country. The wealthy and powerful use the government to get what they want. In a true free-market system you can't use the government to destroy the competition and make yourself money. This is the
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by curt 13y ago
Texas is just plain run well. The state barely had a recession because they had common sense regulations that stop the housing from skyrocketing in the first place. It takes days not months or years to get building permits. Texas is a perfe
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by curt 13y ago
Paul addresses two points. First that corporations and the rich avoid taxes and two that there isn't enough money to fund the public good. The solution to both is very simple. First, completely scrap our current tax code. Start over from sc
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by curt 13y ago
The United States is the most charitable country in the world. On top of that I never said to deny coverage to those that can't afford it. There are other ways. How about the giving them an annual voucher for $X, whatever they don't spend g
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by curt 13y ago
You can still sue a doctor or hospital for malpractice. EDIT (answering the responses): - Overseas you can buy a cheap insurance policy to cover the cost of a lawsuit. The underwriter determines your likelihood of success and charges accord
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by curt 13y ago
Where does it work well? A small country with a homogenous population can pull it off but there isn't a single large country where it works. They keep their costs down by rationing coverage with wait-lists. I know a few people from the UK w
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by curt 13y ago
How is this surprising? We've completely taken the free-market out of health care. The only way it will ever be solve is if we re-introduce market forces back into the mix. The other problem is all the government regulations that tie the ha
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by curt 13y ago
Sweden and Canada are the best two examples where austerity worked. Need to realize that there is no austerity in Europe, every economy is still spending more than they were just 5 years ago.
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by curt 13y ago
You do realize that if the current global temperature trends continue for another 2 years every global warming model will fall outside the 95% confidence interval (ie, wrong).
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by curt 13y ago
Can't recall the study but a researchers analyzed optimal work behavior. They found that the most/best work is produced when an individual works 7-9 hours per day. The more creative the task (ie coding) the more skewed the optimal time is t
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by curt 13y ago
they do a great job at explaining injection molding: http://www.protomold.com/Resources.aspx
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by curt 13y ago
Got a couple emails asking me questions, this is the company I always used in the US for prototyping. They are a little expensive but fast. They also have great resources that will answer all your questions: http://www.protomold.com/Resour
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by curt 13y ago
don't deal with alibaba, contact the manufacturer directly. Most have reps in either Singapore, Hong Kong, or Taiwan that you can talk with, just need to find them.
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by curt 13y ago
Wrote a few articles a couple years ago for HN on physical products here's one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896 elaborated a bit more here: http://curtgeen.com/post/7575880635/expanded-part1-design I've been out of
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by curt 13y ago
you can teach yourself to be confident and comfortable around women. I used to HORRIBLE back in the day.
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by curt 13y ago
The problem with online dating boils down to: guys have no idea what they are doing. I've helped my friends and the secret is to write a three sentence message: an intro about why the message, a funny sentence, and finally a light question.
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by curt 13y ago
Sales Taxes are the least economically destructive of all taxes. If a government's goal to optimize economic growth they should eliminate income, property, capital, etc taxes are replace them with a sales/consumption tax. Bobby Jindal propo
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by curt 13y ago
4-5 hour interviews seem pretty standard for any higher level position. A couple years ago I had an 8 hour interview. Now that was insane.
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by curt 14y ago
This is going to get downvoted but... ...welcome to the liberal utopia. Where the 'experts' tell you how to run your business and your live your life. Public servants now think they have the right to violate our rights and freedoms because
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by curt 14y ago
Why do people keep asking for the old days with the 91% tax rate? Do they realize that today the effective tax rate is nearly the same as it was then. Not only that but today the 'rich' carry a far larger percentage of the overall tax burde
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by curt 14y ago
At the end of the Western Roman Empire in 300AD they became monotheistic. The interesting piece is, what if they had been able to eliminate all the civil wars? In that case their would have been a unified force to resist the rise and spread
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by curt 14y ago
Getting a response from online dating isn't that hard and an actual date only took 2 or 3 messages. I think it's that most people just don't know how to communicate. It took me a bit of experimentation on what works, but once I figured it o

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