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by smeatish 15y ago
OK, now add a third hot dog stand. What's the nash equilibrium now? With 3 hot dog stands, they have an incentive to spread out - if you're in the middle of the other two, then you move to the outer side of one of the other two to capture e
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by smeatish 15y ago
Right, but this is a trivial idea that's trivial to implement. Facebook would have created this feature with or without the patent system's existence, so the patent is a net loss for society.
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by smeatish 16y ago
Agreed. This post smacks of hubris too - it's fantastic that your social media investments have a viral loop built in, but good luck selling enterprise software without a customer acquisition cost. Maybe your enterprise software is so aweso
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by smeatish 16y ago
To go one step farther, with autonomous drones leaders don't even need to convince any human soldiers, much less the public.
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by smeatish 16y ago
A big part of a marketer's job is projecting oneself into the role of a consumer. Jargon can become a distraction from understanding your audience, and this site is a healthy reminder of that.
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by smeatish 16y ago
Intel has a VC arm: http://www.intel.com/about/companyinfo/capital/index.htm
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by smeatish 16y ago
No, if everyone acted that way then there would be HUGE arbitrage opportunities. In the process of people arbitraging those inefficiencies, the prices would be corrected.
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by smeatish 16y ago
TIPS currently have negative real yields - you pay for the privilege of hedging against inflation. When inflation is expected, TIPS do not necessarily guarantee positive real returns. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/treasury-draws
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by smeatish 16y ago
I did this last month for $1k (the new mint limit) and it was NOT charged as a cash advance.
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by smeatish 16y ago
Check out twilio's documentation on their REST API: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/2010-04-01/rest/response#hype... Since their core product is an API, they've done a really good job building in all the levels of REST discussed in the a
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by smeatish 16y ago
As a side note, one interesting difference between owning equities from a company that you started versus that you purchased from savings is that your work invested into the company is NOT taxed. If you can create $100k of value a year in y
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by smeatish 16y ago
If "help" came to mean applying tenets from Positive Psychology, then I'm all for it. If "help" means drugs as so often is the case, then I hope not. You can spend a lifetime "fixing" all your problems, or you can get on with your life and
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by smeatish 16y ago
They are allowed to do statistical analysis using such factors as credit score and amount of debt. The difference is that now they can't increase your rate on existing balances. They can still raise your rates, but only if you want to borro
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by smeatish 16y ago
"fly an airplane at supersonic speeds" We consumers actually don't do that anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
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by smeatish 16y ago
Rather than abolish software patents, I'd like to see better precedents be set. A software patent should be held to the same fundamental tests (non-obvious, novel, unique) but the bar should be much higher for software because the domain is
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by smeatish 17y ago
I disagree with portman. Investment is a function of one input - risk OR return. If you follow the diversification strategy of portfolio theory, then you will generally be choosing a multiple of the market beta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by smeatish 17y ago
Some contracts, though, fall under what's called the "statute of frauds" - that means they must be written to become contracts. From the link you provide, it explains that the statue of frauds makes a contract voidable (either party can b
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by smeatish 17y ago
Designers resort to snobbery because they operate in a realm where everyone has an opinion, and thus they need to distinguish their opinions from those of the untrained in order to reinforce their value. It's a rational, albeit unfortunate,
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by smeatish 17y ago
I disagree with the notion that asking for advice somehow shows he "doesn't have what it takes" to do either. If he's looking for someone else to tell him what to do then that's a problem, but if he's seeking information and perspective f
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by smeatish 17y ago
I'm pretty sure a hash, in the ruby context biz2hack has come across it, is best explained as a dictionary. It's an object that maps a set of keys to corresponding values. So you could have a hash that maps fruits to colors {:banana =>
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by smeatish 17y ago
We conducted a research survey of 11,678 users over the weekend across our publisher network (~500+ applications) with sample representative of the US online population. This is blatant selection bias - asking people who opt to take a sur