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SUMMARY: "we were shocked, SHOCKED, to discover that an ad with a nice picture performs better than an ad with a bad picture."

i called and asked. they keep 100% of the purchase fee.

because a startup has structured its business model to keep the vast majority of the profit it extracts from a virtual work force of independently contracted peons

ive sinced learned that ebay now would have brought me my chromebook for no additional fee. wun wun also apparently caps the transaction fee at $2.

actually they don't disclose this fee when you arrange for the original transaction. They list everything as "TBD"

I used Postmates to buy and deliver a $199 Chromebook for me from Best Buy. The delivery fee was $5, 80% of which went to the delivery guy. Postmates added a 10% "purchase fee" whi…

so happy for elias and his team. this is a huge win for the queens tech community!

The only reason Big Tech is against the NSA now is because their most valuable customers are eyeing foreign competitors based in countries with actual privacy laws. I talk to clien…

Just imagine that you had more than one choice of high speed Internet provider (unlike 95% of Americans who are stuck with the one cable company that happened to successfully bribe…

Awesome! The for profit hacker schools will HATE this.

Tuition is $850. Many paid less. Some paid nothing.

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#ComcastTax

it's more customizable, more secure, and free. really hard decision.

so theyre university of phoenix now? btw, if anyone wants to pay me $10,000 to read php.net aloud, i will do so.

Now how about a Chromecast w/ dual-band networking or, even better, an ethernet port? The 2.4ghz band is next to useless in high density environments like my Brooklyn apartment.

I wager the % of the YC companies that raise $500k within three weeks of demo day is <10% making this rule effectively meaningless.

I just went to viclone.com on my Nexus 5 via Tmobile LTE and it connected fine.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5s5pw4ydohhr4g/Screenshot_2014-01...

NSA deserves an award for accomplishing this for just $10 million.

Really love how it sends me a push if my numbers hit. No need to check my tickets at the bodega scanner which never works.

This would be like selling car insurance to demolition derby drivers. It would never, ever be profitable.

"So I was intrigued when Yahoo invited me to help build a new consumer-tech site." should read "So I was intrigued when Yahoo showed me how zeroes can fit on a check.

I wonder if requiring applicants to "form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money" had anything to do with their succes…

Dental coverage is a scam. I priced dental insurance for my startups for three years. The only plans available to companies with less than 50 employees have benefit caps that were …

am I missing something or is this not just typical TOS boilerplate to give Google power to ban bandwidth hogs? Are there any Google Fiber customers who have been banned for setting…