> Meaning that over the long term no large pot of money goes unlooted. Actually, if you look at average fees charged by financial institution, and the divertion of returns on capital to hedge funds and…
I currently pay for two Netflix accounts, and I use neither of them. I have a collection of about 2,300 movies and TV episodes, some ripped from DVDs I own, others from less licit sources. I pay for two Netflix accounts…
The ratings agencies were pricing in the risk that Apple lobbyists would not be able to bribe the US Congress to allow overseas profits to be returned tax-free.
He's cheating, he doesn't have a dealership network that subsidizes their sales operations with overpriced repair services.
> Opening line of the elevator pitch - 'It's like Google, but for goo'. Uh, we just pivoted to a Facebook for homogeneous omniscient beings of pure energy.
> PC users may have to justify themselves > Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? Yes, this is exactly what you should feel like if you compete for a limited pool of hipster developers in San Francisco. I…
If aliens aren't coming to this planet, clearly this is a market ripe for disruption! I'm now looking for a cofounder who will shake up the L2L (lifeform to lifeform) market with a new disruptive social media platform…
> I'm pretty sure that the only reason you need to keep adding and adding ever more capacity is to prevent someone else coming along and doing the 51% attack, right?Other than that, adding capability doesn't benefit…
Usually I'd say pirate it, put 10 hours into it, and buy it to support the authors if you like it. But right now, you can't play the new Simcity without shovelling dollars into EA's pocket, and reward them for producing…
> I strongly believe that errors are a much more pervasive problem in science and related fields than malice is. The problem is that economics is not a field related to science. The vast majority of public policy…
> Can it mine BitCoin competitively? Prior to the popularity of mining using GPUs, it would have been the shizzle. Today's ASIC-based systems will hash circles around it.
> The Corporate System is actually collapsing. [Citation needed] I agree that there exists a hypothetical future where corporations collapse and all creative work is done by brilliant unpaid individuals who have…
> stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error > I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. So... first time you two have used a Microsoft product…
Selling your property involves paying a 5% cut to the agent, buying a property involves paying 5% in fees as points, closing costs, inspections, legal fees, etc. I would hate to do that every year or two as I moved…
How unfortunate, another "app" that would be more useful implemented as a web page and text messaging service. I realize web pages have discovery problems, but so do apps at this point. But if the goal is an aquihire, I…
Neat, I really like the idea of being able to sync local storage with a Couch backend. > Hoodie currently only runs on OS X Oh, a hipster framework.
> Because online wallets are not less secure than an E-Banking account at a conventional bank. Nope. Look at everything you can do with your online bank account. Transfers to other accounts, wires, bill pay, stop…
> If the IRS helps you save $5000 [via a tax deduction] that you would have otherwise paid, then the IRS loses $5000 Many Americans have a (one-sided) adversarial relationship with the IRS, thinking it is some kind…
> How is this not gaming? It is "gaming", in the same sense that every decision you make to optimize toward a desirable outcome is "gaming". 40 years he had a choice; go work at the mill for $25/hr, and come home…
So they have created an mechanism that allows replacing a small subset of what execptions can do (communicate errors to the callers of a function). The downside is they need to write all code in a non-standard idiom,…
People are more likely to carry a smartphone than a sharpie. Other than that, I really like your idea.
The best example of a working and fun open-source routing/pathfinding engine is http://www.openttd.org It's optimized for gameplay rather than perfect efficiency, but parts of it are quite hackable, including the…
If you're the guy that builds agent-based models for fun, why not build an open-source citiy simulation engine? Grafting your simulator with an open-source tile-based graphics engine such as the one used in OpenTTD…
I can see your reasoning behing making people sign up, even if that will significantly retard your growth rate multiplier. But there's NO reason to make people create a new account. Everyone hates making new accounts,…
NYC has mandated that calories be printed on the menu in the same font size as the name of the product. So here's a better idea for software sales: For software licencing/sales, the terms and conditions of the purchase…
> Meaning that over the long term no large pot of money goes unlooted. Actually, if you look at average fees charged by financial institution, and the divertion of returns on capital to hedge funds and…
I currently pay for two Netflix accounts, and I use neither of them. I have a collection of about 2,300 movies and TV episodes, some ripped from DVDs I own, others from less licit sources. I pay for two Netflix accounts…
The ratings agencies were pricing in the risk that Apple lobbyists would not be able to bribe the US Congress to allow overseas profits to be returned tax-free.
He's cheating, he doesn't have a dealership network that subsidizes their sales operations with overpriced repair services.
> Opening line of the elevator pitch - 'It's like Google, but for goo'. Uh, we just pivoted to a Facebook for homogeneous omniscient beings of pure energy.
> PC users may have to justify themselves > Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? Yes, this is exactly what you should feel like if you compete for a limited pool of hipster developers in San Francisco. I…
If aliens aren't coming to this planet, clearly this is a market ripe for disruption! I'm now looking for a cofounder who will shake up the L2L (lifeform to lifeform) market with a new disruptive social media platform…
> I'm pretty sure that the only reason you need to keep adding and adding ever more capacity is to prevent someone else coming along and doing the 51% attack, right?Other than that, adding capability doesn't benefit…
Usually I'd say pirate it, put 10 hours into it, and buy it to support the authors if you like it. But right now, you can't play the new Simcity without shovelling dollars into EA's pocket, and reward them for producing…
> I strongly believe that errors are a much more pervasive problem in science and related fields than malice is. The problem is that economics is not a field related to science. The vast majority of public policy…
> Can it mine BitCoin competitively? Prior to the popularity of mining using GPUs, it would have been the shizzle. Today's ASIC-based systems will hash circles around it.
> The Corporate System is actually collapsing. [Citation needed] I agree that there exists a hypothetical future where corporations collapse and all creative work is done by brilliant unpaid individuals who have…
> stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error > I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. So... first time you two have used a Microsoft product…
Selling your property involves paying a 5% cut to the agent, buying a property involves paying 5% in fees as points, closing costs, inspections, legal fees, etc. I would hate to do that every year or two as I moved…
How unfortunate, another "app" that would be more useful implemented as a web page and text messaging service. I realize web pages have discovery problems, but so do apps at this point. But if the goal is an aquihire, I…
Neat, I really like the idea of being able to sync local storage with a Couch backend. > Hoodie currently only runs on OS X Oh, a hipster framework.
> Because online wallets are not less secure than an E-Banking account at a conventional bank. Nope. Look at everything you can do with your online bank account. Transfers to other accounts, wires, bill pay, stop…
> If the IRS helps you save $5000 [via a tax deduction] that you would have otherwise paid, then the IRS loses $5000 Many Americans have a (one-sided) adversarial relationship with the IRS, thinking it is some kind…
> How is this not gaming? It is "gaming", in the same sense that every decision you make to optimize toward a desirable outcome is "gaming". 40 years he had a choice; go work at the mill for $25/hr, and come home…
So they have created an mechanism that allows replacing a small subset of what execptions can do (communicate errors to the callers of a function). The downside is they need to write all code in a non-standard idiom,…
People are more likely to carry a smartphone than a sharpie. Other than that, I really like your idea.
The best example of a working and fun open-source routing/pathfinding engine is http://www.openttd.org It's optimized for gameplay rather than perfect efficiency, but parts of it are quite hackable, including the…
If you're the guy that builds agent-based models for fun, why not build an open-source citiy simulation engine? Grafting your simulator with an open-source tile-based graphics engine such as the one used in OpenTTD…
I can see your reasoning behing making people sign up, even if that will significantly retard your growth rate multiplier. But there's NO reason to make people create a new account. Everyone hates making new accounts,…
NYC has mandated that calories be printed on the menu in the same font size as the name of the product. So here's a better idea for software sales: For software licencing/sales, the terms and conditions of the purchase…