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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I must thank you for giving me enough motivation to finally leave hacker news. I was listening to the new import this podcast, with ken reitz, wherein they were discussing the negativity of this community. Now I'm going to try and go
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Philosophically, I disagree: taxes are for the public necessity, not the public good. Roadways, fire/police, civil governance = necessity. Granted, there is a lot of grey area. But the phrase "public good" means different t
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This is easily disprovable, via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Can you elaborate? My understanding is that most merchant accounts are in the 2% + .45 range. Are you suggesting that merchant margins depend on a 1% margin?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I disagree, mostly because you presented your opinion as black and white. Apple has, what, > 10k workers? If it cost them $100 billion to prevent one software worker from getting carpal tunnel, your statement suggests that cost should b
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
What does f2p stand for? Although I'm cynical enough to not expect this, things could be partitioned into "grant access to people with no payment on file" and "need payment on file to download this app".
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'm not sure of your point. Cocaine does have legal uses, especially with ENT doctors/surgeons, who use it as an effective anaesthetic. But the profit margins in the illegal drug market is largely because of the risk involved. F
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I was going to upvote you until I saw your edit about downvoting. I believe you should state your mind without concern for arbitrary internet points. If you express concern over these points, it weakens your perspective, in my opinion, an
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I frequently wonder - is Facebook allowed to say, "bing, you can crawl us. NewCompetitor, you cannot." I feel like once a company allows public access by posting stuff on the web, they can specify terms, but not include/excl
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
IANAL, but that sounds either like you can't do all of those things together (the "and" conjunction), or you can't even read the website. After all, if you can't download it, you can't view it.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I"d like to add that I'm also OK with Facebook/Google/whomever making money off that. I think it's just a spectrum of perspective. One side is privacy concerns, the other is the win/win/win where I see a
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
One final thing - be resourceful. You have to call, email, visit, get referrals to, use linkedin (seriously, linkedin is great for b2b companies because people on Linkedin actually want to talk/connect with you!). Doing the whole land
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
You seem to be on the right path by saying you want to work with 10 of them. However, it doesn't sound like you're ready for your first customers, since you haven't talked with any of them! While you think you have a great i
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
> I don't exercise as I yet have to see data showing me that exercise will increase lifespan by longer than the time invested doing it. Add the opportunity cost of the lost time to the picture as well That's double counting. I
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Referring to their decision to go print-only as "DRM" is inflammatory. It's a book, dude. Not a piece of technology that allows publishers to control your access. It has it's limitations, which are fairly well known at
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
- Fair natural resource utilization (water, petrol, etc.) - Increasing political instability in totalitarian regimes - America will struggle with not having such a high standard of living relative to the rest of the world.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Any idea what the error bars are on that .7% figure?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Side point - it's likely you had many more "visitors" than the <10 / day indicated in the article. On most sites I run, I see about 10% of my traffic as showing up in Google Analytics. I hypothesize this is because
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
How so? I always thought mail in rebates were a good way to experiment with the price-sensitivity of the purchase. Is that the feedback you mean?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I was curious, so I looked at US fertility rates by state. Fortunately, wikipedia has a nice chart. The birth rates do appear to be higher in Western states than in the east. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I am unfamiliar with this history, but it sounds fascinating. Can you elaborate a little more, or point me to an article discussing this?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Yes. Am in San Diego on Cox Cable.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Mind maps don't imply a hierarchy. This change in how a problem is structured can alter how you think about it. (It's basically a different data structure, which makes it easier or harder to perform certain processing on it.)
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
And their focus over the next few years is to be the cloud computing company for businesses. Had a salesforce VP tell me recently that SF wants to dominate non-CRM software (e.g., electronic medical records in the cloud) while Oracle and S
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
San Diego recently removed their cameras because they found that they were put at intersections designed to maximize revenue, regardless of the pre-RLC safety. They also found that accidents were increased. http://www.utsandiego.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I guess I would answer by saying, it depends, and possibly. If 1 user needed 2501 emails and your plan only offered 2500, then chances are they would be at least a little turned off. Pricing is really important. If a 0-3000 person list at
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Great question. This is a perspective that I had when I first founded my company -- how do I convey to my customers that I'm the best solution for their problem? What I have discovered is that it doesn't matter. There's roo
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
My interpretation is best viewed through an example. There are lots of mail newsletter providers (mailchimp, constant contact, etc.) They aren't trying to compete against each other. Rather, they are trying to compete against nothing
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This seems like an immensely useful service (looking up executive level social media accounts). Are there companies out there who provide this service?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This concept really is the holy grail of people who like to talk about startups. I think there are some mis-perceptions about the idea. Here is how I how found the concept useful, in my company. Startups who focus on revenue rather than gr

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