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OK, now add a third hot dog stand. What's the nash equilibrium now? With 3 hot dog stands, they have an incentive to spread out - if you're in the middle of the other two, then you…

Right, but this is a trivial idea that's trivial to implement. Facebook would have created this feature with or without the patent system's existence, so the patent is a net loss f…

Agreed. This post smacks of hubris too - it's fantastic that your social media investments have a viral loop built in, but good luck selling enterprise software without a customer …

To go one step farther, with autonomous drones leaders don't even need to convince any human soldiers, much less the public.

A big part of a marketer's job is projecting oneself into the role of a consumer. Jargon can become a distraction from understanding your audience, and this site is a healthy remin…

Intel has a VC arm: http://www.intel.com/about/companyinfo/capital/index.htm

No, if everyone acted that way then there would be HUGE arbitrage opportunities. In the process of people arbitraging those inefficiencies, the prices would be corrected.

TIPS currently have negative real yields - you pay for the privilege of hedging against inflation. When inflation is expected, TIPS do not necessarily guarantee positive real retur…

I did this last month for $1k (the new mint limit) and it was NOT charged as a cash advance.

Check out twilio's documentation on their REST API: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/2010-04-01/rest/response#hype... Since their core product is an API, they've done a really good j…

As a side note, one interesting difference between owning equities from a company that you started versus that you purchased from savings is that your work invested into the compan…

If "help" came to mean applying tenets from Positive Psychology, then I'm all for it. If "help" means drugs as so often is the case, then I hope not. You can spend a lifetime "fixi…

They are allowed to do statistical analysis using such factors as credit score and amount of debt. The difference is that now they can't increase your rate on existing balances. Th…

"fly an airplane at supersonic speeds" We consumers actually don't do that anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

Rather than abolish software patents, I'd like to see better precedents be set. A software patent should be held to the same fundamental tests (non-obvious, novel, unique) but the …

I disagree with portman. Investment is a function of one input - risk OR return. If you follow the diversification strategy of portfolio theory, then you will generally be choosing…

Some contracts, though, fall under what's called the "statute of frauds" - that means they must be written to become contracts. From the link you provide, it explains that the stat…

Designers resort to snobbery because they operate in a realm where everyone has an opinion, and thus they need to distinguish their opinions from those of the untrained in order to…

I disagree with the notion that asking for advice somehow shows he "doesn't have what it takes" to do either. If he's looking for someone else to tell him what to do then that's a …

I'm pretty sure a hash, in the ruby context biz2hack has come across it, is best explained as a dictionary. It's an object that maps a set of keys to corresponding values. So you c…

We conducted a research survey of 11,678 users over the weekend across our publisher network (~500+ applications) with sample representative of the US online population. This is bl…