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Even kids who go to law school don't learn how to practice until they arrive at a firm, so this is not an obviously inferior method of training. If you aspire to BigLaw this will n…

I don't think the holding turned on the number of antennae at all. Nor is oral argument very important in appellate practice.

This thread has turned me off HN for st least six months.

1957: Future NBA superstars are unlikely to be black.

Sometimes I wonder if we should all just take a walk outside.

We laugh at people "on the lower half of the bell curve" who use the "length equals strength" heuristic to evaluate long-form letters, but the same thing happens in these comments …

Three months into my own (exhilarating) journey, I think the best answer may be to become one yourself.

I wrote about a grubwith.us-esque dating site in an Ask HN submission a little over a year ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878657 The challenge with this model is that ext…

Sure, I was just curious if paid traffic could have been profitable for you. With $8 in profit per shirt and a conversion rate of 0.5%, it looks like anything over $0.04 per click …

I seem to remember you saying you had a new visitor every 4.5 seconds for 48 hours (can't find it again though). That works out to about 38,000 visitors. So the conversion rate was…

I've seen it mentioned here a few times, but if you haven't heard of the permanent portfolio, check it out here: http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-...

Thanks for being open. I think the most interesting part will be about how many hits you got and what kind of conversion rate you were seeing. Some of my personal curiosities: How …

Groupon's real "dirty secret" is that they've brilliantly navigated the seedy world of affiliate marketing. As far as I know, Groupon uses the same affiliate networks as Acai scam …

Maybe not, but those things may still wield pretty heavy influence. Advertising is a strange world of subconscious desires and difficult-to-rationalize preferences (colors and shap…

Obligatory exercise your cat with a laser pointer patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5443036.html This was always included on the first day of any patent class in law school.…

I'm going to memorize the winning numbers from tonight's Mega Millions draw after they are announced.

My unused CA S-Corp has been the bane of my existence lately. From the $800 fee to the documentation required to stay in good standing (small, but easy to forget when the company d…

Grellas, any idea how a "SLAPP-back" suit would fare for any of these defendants?

One curse of gifted children is that their work life is significantly more "regular" than their academic achievements. Even if they become doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. there w…

In their early days, they were paying affiliates $2 per email submit.

Those first three paragraphs make up one of the best explanations of entrepreneurship I've ever read.

I thought the same thing, but not having a lot of experience hiring designers, I am curious what type of numbers we are actually talking. 1-5k? 5-10k? More?

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