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by mos1 16y ago
Most of the wealthier people I know have reasonably nice cars. Maybe not Zonda/Lambo nice, but Audi, BMW, MB, Infiniti, Lexus and Cadillac are the norm.
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by mos1 16y ago
And because of that, there is a healthy market for products and services dedicated to people who want to stop smoking. The door is opening for some form of competition and a possible segmentation of the market.
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by mos1 16y ago
When I've applied for credit, I got the same phone call but said "yes, that's me", and everything went through.
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by mos1 16y ago
I have this on my account, and you don't need to go online to "thaw" it. The bureau calls you and asks "did you just apply for an auto loan at a Hyundai dealership in Florida?" and you reply "no, no I didn't", they say "okay, have a nice d
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by mos1 16y ago
I've only seen one legitimate point from him: that search isn't the root cause of the privacy problem. Unfortunately instead of then admitting that it does exacerbate the issue, he then pretends that there is no issue, asserts that all FB
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by mos1 16y ago
Let's be clear: he threw the first grenade. He mocked a legitimate user concern (FB privacy confusion) with his "How do you sleep at night???" comments, in which he portrayed anybody with this concern as hysterical and irrational. Search d
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by mos1 16y ago
It takes over 100 clicks to make a FB profile completely private, and the settings aren't permanent. That's clearly a business decision. You don't need to be a UX expert to understand the aggregate effects. I can't even fathom how anybody
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by mos1 16y ago
I don't do PR. Clearly not. That said, HN isn't a place for trolling. I don't think anybody appreciates the way you're distorting people's concerns so that you can mock them. You're smart enough to understand that the problem is not that
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by mos1 16y ago
Your argument would be a lot more plausible if Facebook didn't have a habit of resetting peoples privacy settings, and if those settings were clearly, easily and permanently settable. As it stands, I can only presume your defensiveness and
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by mos1 16y ago
I use my iPad differently than I use my laptop, and my desktop. I use it in instances where I wouldn't have used either the laptop or the desktop. I like it. If I didn't like it, I would've sold it. I don't really care whether you want o
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by mos1 16y ago
I played tennis quite well in high school and college. I never tried to go pro. Does that mean the tennis teams failed? I swam competitively in college. I didn't try for the olympics. Does that mean the swim team failed? There are a lot
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by mos1 16y ago
CarWoo doesn't serve my area (I checked recently, since I just bought a new vehicle), but I definitely view dealership filtering as a positive. I don't want to do business with somebody who consistently ranks poorly in satisfaction surveys
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by mos1 16y ago
One low-cost option that sometimes works well -- Creative Commons images that are licensed to allow commercial use (flickr lets you search for them).
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by mos1 16y ago
I have a good friend who has asked me to look for opportunities to work at a startup, preferably in China. He wants to be a founder deeper in the future, but wants to work under a serial entrepreneur first, for the experience.
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by mos1 16y ago
It's on Netflix streaming. I'd say you owe me 3 hours, but I liked it.
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by mos1 16y ago
I never would've thought to use it as a PDF reader. Installing now :-)
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by mos1 16y ago
A design thing that confused me a bit, 'plant more foo' was displayed very differently (lighter and italic) than 'plant foo'. I initially thought that there was nothing for those weeks. I don't want to say "I'd buy this if you made this ch
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by mos1 16y ago
But I suppose there are some people that fetishize the smell of wood pulp and who love signaling how smart they are to the world with shelves of impressive-looking unread books, and who therefore overlook a reading experience that is super
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by mos1 16y ago
But I suppose there are some people that fetishize the smell of wood pulp and who love signaling how smart they are to the world with shelves of impressive-looking unread books, and who therefore overlook a reading experience that is super
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by mos1 16y ago
To quote NetFlix: "Friends is a feature on the Netflix Web site that’s been used by less than two percent of all subscribers since we added the feature in 2004." That strikes me as a wholly adequate explanation.
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by mos1 16y ago
Just checked one vid, it streamed without issue. That said, I've never had an issue with my iPhone's youtube app either, so I don't know if there's something fundamentally different about my network and yours.
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by mos1 16y ago
The #1 problem I have with scribd is that you appear to be unapologetic content thieves. Take, as an example, the [scribd] links that HN generates automatically. That's your earliest investor automatically stealing and rehosting content in
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by mos1 16y ago
FWIW, a 5 year Greek CDS currently sells for $925k/yr, and pays out $10m if the debt defaults in that time period. Not exactly the bargain of the century at this point in time. Edit: for context, that's roughly the same price as Venezuela a
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by mos1 16y ago
http://www.sba.gov/recovery/arcloanprogram/index.html
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by mos1 16y ago
My failed startup didn't get a bailout, but two of my ongoing businesses each got $35k at 0%, with a 6 month deferral, which was a pretty good deal.
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by mos1 16y ago
I absolutely agree that one should, at a minimum, test meaningful statements before resorting to pointless or tautological verbiage. That said, if it turned out that 'Infiniti G37: car.' was split testing better than 'Infiniti G37: the high
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by mos1 16y ago
This is why I wrote that it indicates "on what dimensions it's supposed to excel". Here's a non-abstract example: ---- Mercedes CLS550: the safe luxury car. BMW M5: the sporty luxury sedan. Toyota Camry: the reliable family car. Hyundai So
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by mos1 16y ago
In practice, the screen is completely fine from a glare perspective, when used indoors. Fails completely in direct sunlight, but it's fine indoors. The Bloomberg app is light text on a black background and it's very easy on the eyes.
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by mos1 16y ago
My most common iPad uses to date: - read my RSS feeds and Bloomberg News with my coffee and breakfast, just like I read the newspaper. I never did this with a laptop (too large, too vulnerable) and it's nice to start the day with all my ne
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by mos1 16y ago
"Foo is a fast, easy way to bar." makes it clear what Foo does, and on what dimensions it's supposed to excel. That's clear and useful. Please don't bog me down in details right out of the gate. Give me the 30,000 foot view, with an optio

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