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by neil1 6y ago
This is a pretty cool project
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by neil1 9y ago
I wonder if Travis resigning was contingent on Bill Gurley leaving the board. As Bill seems to be the main anti-Travis actor on the board.
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by neil1 9y ago
It would be great if you could add city as a form field and allow searching by city. I'd love to pay for this/contribute as well. I was just about to build something similar (but less pretty)
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by neil1 9y ago
This has been sort of done with Charter schools that use a lottery based acceptance system. The problem with even random systems is that parents that are willing to fill out the many forms required are usually more involved in their childr
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by neil1 10y ago
Yes, it does: "That same 2012 study by former athletes found that just 6 percent of USOC spending actually goes to athletes as cash payments."
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by neil1 10y ago
Reed is a wonderful example of a school with almost no grade inflation. In the last 30 years only 11 students have had perfect GPAs. See: https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/grades.pdf
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by neil1 10y ago
That's not actually entirely true. Snapchat is known for having only preferences for seed/A round investors.
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by neil1 11y ago
You're forgetting about opportunity cost and the salary plus job advancement that you could achieve in the time you are in college
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by neil1 11y ago
It seems like it would be a much more productive use of human capital to actually do the work below cost so something is actually being accomplished.
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by neil1 11y ago
Great team, huge problem, and a great solution. Congrats
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by neil1 12y ago
How do you code in tub, is there a special case that you use or how do you prevent water from hitting your computer?
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by neil1 12y ago
The app's restaurants messaging comes from a startup path acquired, talkto.
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by neil1 12y ago
It's strange that this article just hit the front page of HN, when it was written 20 days ago.
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by neil1 12y ago
I wouldn't call it "classy", it's a public relations ploy, meant to turn public opinion in Amazon's favor.
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The Revolutionary Quantum Computer(wired.com)
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by neil1 12y ago
I still can't wrap my head around, why they used Android 4.4 instead of just using linux, this does not seem like a new paradigm, just a minor "innovation".
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by neil1 12y ago
It's a solution to a problem, that he faces. I understand that it makes no sense, but sometimes you have to do things that make no sense or switch carriers.
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by neil1 12y ago
You can buy and install a cellphone extender for your house.
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by neil1 12y ago
why does it say > NDA included! NDA's are terrible. They stifle creative thought, put yourself up for lawsuits and someone, has had the "genius" idea before.
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by neil1 12y ago
One mistake, I noticed was > They pretend to resolve the issue in private, hoping to shut you up in public, only to continue the run around in private, offering absolutely no solution I think you meant public instead of private.
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by neil1 12y ago
Exactly, but I think one of the problems is that since government is filled with bureaucrats, who don't understand how easy it is to implement this, they instead listen to the phone company lobbyists, who says "this will be incred
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by neil1 12y ago
Obviously, the problem is not the technology, it's an antiquated government. A government that is run by bureaucrats, that don't know how to properly leverage technology, especially satellite technology.
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by neil1 12y ago
It seems as though a big part of google x is waiting for academies to do a lot of the hard lifting and then when something has all of the part's completed and researched, putting them all together.
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by neil1 12y ago
That is the highest price for ink and not the price that government's or companies who buy in bulk pay.
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by neil1 13y ago
How is that news? It's in their self interest(being large bitcoin investors) to try to raise expectations and make the price go up.