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110,934karma·51,752submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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Spot pricing I hope! =)
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Came to leave this comment, not disappointed someone beat me to it.
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Drive? All you have to do is put it in a Pelican case, mark it as "video equipment", and ship it on a cross country flight in the cargo hold. GPS receivers are already designed for signals from satell…
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Already replied to this comment, but what the heck, I thought about what you said and had some more to add (since my original posts were "ha ha" funny, or at least I thought so). I don't have startup …
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I'm being vetted as an "investor" on the HN comment board. Forgive me for thinking this situation is hilarious.
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Pretty certain I'm going to drink too much Angry Orchard tonight and try to do this with the Camera app and Picplum on Android.
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Very Inception-ish. "We've got to go 3 funding rounds deep."
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Instagram Clone: check
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I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC-2, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $500 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC-…
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I always thought just letting flyers pick out their cold beverage at the gate before takeoff would replace flight attendants (domestic; international still serves food).
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You can jam GPS within 20-100 feet with less than $50 in electronics (how far is the rear-most seat from the GPS antenna on a 747?). The only time this would cause a great deal of concern is on final …
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"Carbon tax is already law, you're just paying to help them with their taxes." Like the landing fees, 9/11 "security fees" per flight leg, etc? I'm helping them pay for everything already, including t…
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This isn't copyright law, and turning their head isn't going to remove liability (a la Craigslist sex workers debacle). Good luck arguing financial safe harbor provisions ("we're just a marketplace! I…
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Perhaps Kickstarter needs a project liaison for projects over a certain dollar threshold; people who ask "How is it going? What are you doing?". Kiva does this for the people I lend money to (even tho…
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Yes. https://my.personalgenomes.org/profile/hu840B0B My brother: https://my.personalgenomes.org/profile/hu6A0E65 Also, feel free to ask me to share my full 23andme profile (ancestry and health) to…
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So they're like Google, just with less infrastructure and cash. Note: This is not meant to be snarky. Its just an observation that even "small", nimble startups can suck at support.
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God damn it Illinois, can't we get our shit together? /Illinois resident
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Many a night I stayed up transcribing games into my 800XL :)
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"I am so thankful for my parents paying an arm and a leg to get me a computer at a young age." Myself as well. My first computer was an Atari 800XL, tape drive (cassette no less!), floppy drives, etc.…
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During my time at Fermilab working on an LHC sensor team, I forwarded my Fermilab email to my personal gmail account because their mail servers were so antiquated (100MB quota, no web interface, etc).…
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One of the companies specifically migrated to avoid MS licensing costs (i.e. moving from Outlook to Chrome for the mail interface, Docs on the web/LibreOffice on the desktop).
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We have a Google Apps account at my day gig with 79 users; I pay it monthly on a credit card, at $5/month, so right around $400/month. That is incredible value for what we get with Google Apps, as t…
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I'll take "Google downtime" (a damn small amount) over any other sort of downtime (Rackspace, AWS US-EAST-1, the hardware on my desk ) any day of the week.
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I just helped several companies move to Google Apps from Rackspace over the weekend; their web interface is horrible and Google provides a much better experience on mobile (both iOS and Android) tha…
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UDP all the things (in space)
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Temporal row-level locking.
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Do you have a way yet to charge on a recurring basis? #shutUpTakeMyCreditCardAndChargeItMonthly
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Morality is a human concept that should serve human ends--individually and socially. As such, performing experiments on a dog to gain more knowledge is moral. If life arrives on Earth from elsewhere…