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JohnnyConatus

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    Comment #18000874

    NYC group?

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    Comment #17918962

    Theoretically you're right. In practice not enough customers think about that risk for it to have a material impact on the startup's financial viability.

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    Comment #17742735

    I met up with a pro TV writer I know and he said he was so happy the season was over because he could finally go to a mattress store and buy a new mattress. He said he didn't have …

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    Comment #17538550

    Going extinct? Typical middle-child attention getting stunt.

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    Comment #17447661

    They should have bought Shine and called it a day. Amazing how poorly their new UI works compared to a Chrome extension.

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    Comment #17424949

    Portugal is popular with the digital nomads because it's cheap. It's a similar situation in the canary islands. But knowing these types well, they tend to focus on lifestyle busine…

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    Comment #17259106

    See this AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar...

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    Comment #17230030

    I.e. the mattress in a box business model.

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    Comment #17220555

    The Atlantic and other sites regularly change A/B test article titles so they likely changed it

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    Comment #17164958

    Probably because complaining isn't allowed at work. They mandated the usage so that's not a good sign especially when OPs complaints are deal breakers for anyone who isn't mandated…

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    Comment #17083223

    SpaldingCoin is the hottest ICO in the archipelago

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    Comment #17067765

    Have you tried integrating home-grown services into their workflows? Curious as otherwise it looks pretty good.

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    Comment #16909932

    Smart lights are the killer app for Alexa. There's no going back once you have it. And the only thing keeping most people from getting smart lights is the cost which will fall.

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    Comment #16903292

    White label exchange providers openly advertise wash trading as a feature. Also many provide liquidity from other exchanges so using aggregate market cap across exchanges is extrem…

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    Comment #16796339

    Also winter. Most of the dense cities in the U.S. also have significant winter weather that makes biking less ideal.

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    Comment #16716302

    IANAL, is this a real risk? This sounds like suing a paper company for a ransom note written on it's paper. You can bring a suit for nearly anything but it feels like there would b…

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    Comment #16685515

    According to sources, Foxconn really didn't want to buy Belkin but that's all they had at the store.

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    Comment #16550418

    He may be a pompous jerk but 400 lbs is still significant.

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    Comment #16526687

    Spotify is an excellent product. They have addressed and solved almost every problem users cited for why they wouldn't pay for music via other means. It's time to admit it: consume…

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    Comment #16524273

    I have FIOS and aside from finally syncing my online backups, I've been struck by how little difference / improvement there is over cable. I'm not a gamer so the latency doesn't ma…

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    Comment #16407746

    Look up B Corporations. There is another way. However most founders really want to be rich and few VCs will invest in this structure.

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    Comment #16378112

    ...and any sizable employer offers healthcare and a 401(k). So at best you could say they're betting on an inflation-adjusted pension? That's not going to sell many candidates.

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    Comment #16358504

    This should be higher. Optimize will eat the low end portion of the market just like Google analytics did.

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    Comment #16330932

    When does it make sense to run Node on docker vs Heroku dynos or something similar? Is it just a cost thing at a certain number? Are these significantly specialized containers? The…