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by jmm 15y ago
I'm doing a project looking at startup hubs, and some of the related factors. Here's a map of LA startups with some neighborhood outlines: http://imgur.com/hiG3Y . The data is a crawl from crunchbase, so it's not perfect, but it provides
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by jmm 15y ago
Nice. Thanks!
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by jmm 15y ago
You can enter a zipcode anonymously into the Google doc. I'm not trying to locate or map specific HN users, just trying to create an anonymous index via the HN userbase. If that offends your sense of privacy, my apologies.
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by jmm 15y ago
I'm a grad student in City and Regional Planning, and taking a Geographic Information Systems class. I need to submit a proposal for a final project, and was thinking of doing some kind of analysis relating to startup hubs. I'd probably b
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by jmm 15y ago
Call me insensitive, but I think the drama here is overblown. Renting out your room to strangers comes with risks. Theft is an obvious one. Could have been a one or two paragraph post, but maybe this is part of the catharsis in getting o
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by jmm 15y ago
I went to go see the dude from Catch Me if You Can speak a few years ago and one of the takeaways was that a cross cut shredder isn't very secure (pages are easy to reconstruct). Gor for a micro shredder.
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by jmm 15y ago
Disruptive criticism? :)
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by jmm 15y ago
Kickstarter campaign, anyone? (to produce an iPad + Square dongle enclosure)
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by jmm 15y ago
My uncle owns a few elder care franchises and had me look into monitoring services as a funemployment project. So I've spent a bit more time with this than I'd like to admit... The company I was most impressed with was http://www.halomonit
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by jmm 15y ago
Thanks. The relationship to the housing bubble is interesting, no doubt. In my mind, no two things have been more connected to class aspirations/freedoms over the last 50 years than home ownership and higher ed. There are class and race
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by jmm 15y ago
What gets me about many of these articles is how broad a brush they often use when describing "the education bubble." And so I appreciate that this article at least gestures at different types of grad school, and how student/consumer deman
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by jmm 15y ago
Just as Cornell U uses the water from Cayuga Lake. Pretty cool :)
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by jmm 15y ago
I think there are different facets to the bubble that need to be separated out to talk coherently about its implications... You can look at the bubble from the vantage point of the schools that are competing to keep up with the spending of
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by jmm 15y ago
Right. Tho the pop up restaurants that I've heard of have been set up by chefs with some sort of following via a previous venture... this thing here ain't that.
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by jmm 16y ago
I like this retort, fourply. Fred is basically complaining into the void here if he's not willing to put real pressure on the shiny law firms by considering going elsewhere if they don't shape up. Kinda weird actually that he showed his h
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by jmm 16y ago
I wonder if missed investments like this have the senior guys listening to the junior members a bit more, or whether the young guys are wrong enough to keep it biz as usual.
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by jmm 16y ago
He had what could be considered a rough week with one of his other pet ideas... why Silicon Valley reigns supreme: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/03/wh...
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by jmm 16y ago
The article is a basically a video re-cap, without much added insight. If you're gonna get to the bottom of the article and watch the videos anyway, just skip right to it and watch the videos from the git-go.
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How the Internet is Making Us Less Creative(lrb.co.uk)
35 points by jmm 16y ago|7 comments
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by jmm 16y ago
I hope you realize that the Cardpool marketplace requires sellers who aren't happy (or aren't wanting to redeem) the gift cards they have in hand. And they take a loss, of sorts, for you to get your discount. That doesn't happen with cash
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by jmm 16y ago
Agreed. Ever go to a farmers market and run out of cash? That sucks. And Square is helping to fix that problem. Sure, some farmers might still prefer cash only (since the market entity usually already takes a cut off the top), but at le
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by jmm 16y ago
Nice domain name... got me thinking. I wish there existed a community I respected that curated books on all topics. Like, I'd love to have fivegoodbooks extend from topics like Ruby and Python to Russian History and Urban Planning. Anot
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What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness(city-journal.org)
3 points by jmm 16y ago|0 comments
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by jmm 16y ago
This is hilarious. And fits nicely with the expression, "girls are like parking spots; the good ones are always taken."
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by jmm 16y ago
That might be a sad state of affairs but I didn't see the author making it out to be the result of an immoral decision. Just a bad decision.
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by jmm 16y ago
Kind of unfortunate that this is the top comment here since the article has nothing to do with the immorality of outsourcing. I took his mention to be a throwaway nod of the head to the typical discussion of outsourcing. Then he moved on.
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by jmm 16y ago
So, pray tell, what would you do as a troublesome young bloke hanging out in Harlem or Kansas City today? I'll submit that some aspect of keeping kids in school is an attempt to keep those kids out of small trouble now and big trouble later
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by jmm 16y ago
Just because the line is fuzzy doesn't mean there isn't one. (I'm not sure if you're trying to weaken my argument by challenging the idea of childhood altogether (which would be weird), or if you're just curious. If it's the former, we're
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by jmm 16y ago
A false dichotomy and a broken analogy walk into a bar... The choice isn't between universal access to education and easier expulsion. We need to find a better way to deal with the problem kids, and to improve our education system in gener
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by jmm 16y ago
Ha. The pickle here is that we (the government, the bleeding hearts, those capable of compassion) have to acknowledge that these kids were dealt a pretty bad hand, and that they are, after all, still kids. So we owe them a fair shot and so

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