mschy

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by mschy 17y ago
I doubt he understood that he was doing speculative, risky investing. Mid-bubble, I can't count how many people told me that the market can only go up, or who looked at me like I was insane when I said I was watching month-over-month sales
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by mschy 17y ago
That whole prediction reads like $1,000 satire. I love it.
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by mschy 17y ago
I specifically said 'large-scale piracy' because I agree that a sufficiently dedicated individual will always be able to steal intellectual property. That said, an IP market doesn't need perfect government protection to survive. It just ne
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by mschy 17y ago
Or perhaps copyright is a valid idea, and is not going to be abandoned. Perhaps the government will simply increase the costs and risks associated with breaking that law until they are so extreme, and the risk of getting caught so high, tha
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by mschy 17y ago
I'm not a fan of creating atificial scarcity, as in DRM on bits that cost nothing to duplicate I'm a fan of creating artificial scarcity, if it is what the seller prefers. I'm disturbed by the number of Hackers who would prefer to strip
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by mschy 17y ago
I believe iTunes sells DRM-free 256kb AAC files, except in Japan. They sound great, and play on pretty much everything.
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by mschy 17y ago
Music downloads on the other hand, don't provide that and so.... Amazon MP3s have no DRM, and pretty much everything in the iTunes Music Store is also DRM free these days.
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by mschy 17y ago
The article struck me as anti-intellectualism run amok. I didn't even see a hint of anything indicating that quants were especially to blame.
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by mschy 17y ago
People were confused and annoyed. They expressed that to help wakemate. That said, your rant about money is absurd and misses the point. It's not about money; it's about expectations.
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by mschy 17y ago
It's ridiculously lame. They've turned their fuckup into an attempt to up-sell people to a monthly service, and all without ever really apologizing. One month per month? That's a really bad joke. It's as though they're trying to make su
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by mschy 17y ago
You don't get it. As somebody noted up-thread, real apologies start with "I'm sorry I" not "I'm sorry you."
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by mschy 17y ago
It hadn't occurred to me before, but I refer to myself as a businessman in most contexts, and describe only my unproven activities as 'entrepreneurial'.
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by mschy 17y ago
There isn't that much overlap between burglars and people who are into new web 2.0 mobile data sharing fads on relatively obscure websites. If any of those location-based services was as big as twitter, I'd fully expect some crime.
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by mschy 17y ago
I strongly suggest doing this sooner rather than later. Not only for the reason teuobk noted, but because many schools have a time limit on how long they'll consider a credit valid towards graduation.
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by mschy 17y ago
I once had an easyjet flight where the "overweight" penalty on my bag cost more than my ticket. If memory serves, the penalty was either 7 euro or 12 euro per kilogram.
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by mschy 17y ago
it is certainly fair comment to say that Obama, by appointing industry lawyers, has given tacit endorsement to the industry stance of harsh penalties. No, it isn't. If I know that X laws need reform, I'll hire lawyers who are very familia
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by mschy 17y ago
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html <-- for your reference.
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by mschy 17y ago
It probably just means that the article will be in the Feb 1 issue. Skewed dates might be more accurate, but they'd also be more confusing in a lot of use cases than simply using the print date everywhere.
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by mschy 17y ago
if it was disruptive, if it was the best thing since sliced bread, you wouldn't have to do this. The man who invented sliced bread didn't make it popular. It was initially viewed as a bad idea. Acceptance required the selling efforts of
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by mschy 17y ago
1) I schedule my time rigorously. There's dedicated time allowances for every single thing I want to do. If my time budget doesn't allow something that's important to me, I cancel or reschedule something else. 2) I take formal classes in
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by mschy 17y ago
I thought the error served only to add to the humor :-)
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by mschy 17y ago
Now (s)he's both going to default and uses bad grammar, definitely bad for your rating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
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by mschy 17y ago
The article notes that your credit will be affected (negatively or positively) simply by facebook "friending" the right or wrong people. That's hardly the same as having posted 'I am intending to default on my loan.'
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by mschy 17y ago
1) I'd set aside enough money to live for a year in something that's boring, low-return and dead safe. And I wouldn't touch it. This will give you enormous flexibility when deciding what to do with your life and career. 2) I'd talk to fin
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by mschy 17y ago
you probably had the bad luck to take over a block that had previously been blacklisted. That's exactly what happened. It was apparently dial-up space many years ago. I say many, because the space in question has been under my control si
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by mschy 17y ago
Sadly, there are a lot of people who care more about making money than creating value.
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by mschy 17y ago
That's cruel to gambling. The first (and only) item I checked was a Kindle that had 1066 bids placed on it, before selling for $159.90. At $0.75/bid, that means BigDeal received $959.40 for a $259 item. Even a sucker bet at the casino is f
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by mschy 17y ago
I've had /23s and /22s listed as dynamic incorrectly, and anti-spam organizations wouldn't take them off even when they were either SWIPd through to my company, or were in my ASN. Getting off the lists is an enormous pain in the ass. They
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by mschy 17y ago
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by mschy 17y ago
I agree about voice recognition getting much better. My business partner's wife is visually impaired, and he wired up his house with a whole-house stereo, mics in each room, and a speech recognition daemon, attached to each mic. He then

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