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    Comment #6242608

    Since when is Union Square been renamed "Satoshi Square"?

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    Comment #6142541

    Stop spamming this thread with your recruiter garbage!

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    Comment #6142514

    This thread is not for recruiters. Downvote.

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    Comment #5986074

    It doesn't do geographic searches well. "San Francisco" results in just 1 match, whereas there are 5 on the front page alone.

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    Comment #5746617

    While their high level goals (eliminate hunger, reduce stress on agricultural and environmental resources) are laudable, this project suffers from the same arrogance of doctors in …

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    Comment #5627033

    Ha, Bashir got funding from Jack Dorsey because he's her boyfriend (or was, at one time, anyway).

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    Comment #5603302

    Dude... the small, light gray text... are you trying to ruin our eyesight?

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    Comment #5269896

    "Scene is clear. Call unfounded. No threat to public safety in #CambMA #MIT" https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice/status/30533598012521267...

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    Comment #5254498

    That's only part of it. It seems this "affinity data" model is the basis for the high hopes and high valuation: http://gigaom.com/2012/03/24/pinterest-weve-got-a-business-m...

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    Comment #5252633

    A small amount of money for a few months, followed by a demo day in the end, etc. It's not as established, though, and I haven't read or heard much about the startups which come ou…

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    Comment #5252458

    Their site is: http://eranyc.com/ I'd love to hear from anyone with direct experience.

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    Comment #4329768

    Why? You might be far less likely to blow up the way Knight did, but you're hardly immune.

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    Comment #4329756

    " there are no logically possible situations in the code that they haven't programmed a response for " Until they blow up one day themselves... Call me cynical, but no type system,…

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    Comment #3704920

    Can you imagine yourself paying someone to smear others on a forum? I cannot, no. But a large (and dare I say ruthless) organization interested in limiting the PR damage? Sure.

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    Comment #3704908

    He's been on here for years, and so have I. I have often wondered, though, about his alacrity to side with the establishment, in defense of investment bankers, against net neutrali…

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    Comment #3704175

    Maybe, since he was willing to name his employers, who happen to be despised in liberal circles. OTOH, there is a lot of PR spending on social media (e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2…

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    Comment #3703748

    Some of those banks do very well, and it wouldn't be terrible for their PR to hire him. Possible, but unlikely. Smith must have known he'd be attacked personally (as in that ad hom…

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    Comment #3703628

    He effectively blacklists himself from any future job in finance (and therefore ends his career) just because he doesn't like his bonus? So no, it's not Occam's Razor: if he were m…

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    Comment #3171983

    Hence my unusual spelling. I'm not sure the white trash equivalency is really gaining momentum, though. Whites never deeply disliked their poorer and less-educated brethren despite…

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    Comment #3171878

    there really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us." Chris Rock has a famous rant about this: " There are black people and there are n!!!ers, and the n!!!ers have got to …

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    Comment #3159790

    Stripe and Samurai don't work? Recurring is built-in to both of those platforms, and the fee structure is far less. I don't know why you're willing to put up with the credit card p…

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    Comment #3159629

    Established merchant accounts are expensive. Why pay those merchant account fees, and on top of that, pay another set of fees to be able to do recurring billing?