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i thought vice versa, we pay taxes to operate/regulate anything that is in public domain ("ours" already), not that we buy it with our taxes from someone.

so when leasing airwaves Mr Murdoch is paying the OP? or i missed smth

'Lean Startup'

this cloning work could bring only moderate rewards, and it's sad. russian investors are too risk averse.

> 5: The Nigerian courts and legal system are too hard/expensive/slow for Mocality and Google to navigate, so Mocality have turned to PR to motivate Google to change. ... > 3: Has Mocality retained a lawyer in Nigeria, have they formally asked Google to Cease and Desist and requested compensation?

Kenya is sorta different country.. :)

if vcs don't risk (avoid failure[by all means]), they wouldn't be rewarded. anyway they sometimes say 90% of startups fail... moderate income may be better than complete failure

http://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/78553...

i heard people say that the Valley beats other places of the world in creating Suns, Googles and Facebooks because [one of the reasons] it risks more and considers failure as experience

(harm too, but not that deadly)

I didn't quite get form the article, she was a non-technical partner, then what was her role? just a designer?

wasn't it her job to make a business from the technology her partner was making?

when the car wasn't available, i slept, i am sorry, in a toilet. (later i noticed that not only me was who did that, so i've nothing to be ashamed of)

i wanted to share my experience how i napped at work in a big company but found this far more interesting. i just went outside and slept in a car. in a big company noone notices you if everything works, and it did because i was good worker ;)

Plus one. I am a fan of Unicode since 2000 and wanted to read the discussion, by it's impossible to read on mobile

so, that's why first time entrepreneurs need interested advisors / investors! they will provide some lacking experience / skills.

the article is really not that pessimistic! :)

programming skills - yes, i still can't compare, namely, communication skills with the scientist's knowledge. i believe first come with practice, the latter come with learning and understanding.

> Contrast that to a recipe for cookies, which will just work if you follow it to the letter.

oh, not in my case! :)

actually i got what you're saying

being non-native english speaker i can't distinguish skills and experience in this article, but i do know the difference between experience and knowledge. the scientist will not try to build the perpetuum mobile because he knows the law of conservation of energy, not because he tried to build the perpetuum mobile for 5 years in academics, failed, thus gained this experience and can move on.

but the skills do really come with experience, many of them, like communication and management.

i missed how lean startup method falls into the same category of methods as scientific method. if we really want to compare them, they really have more in common then contradict: you make theory/MVP, then check it with experiment, then amend the theory | pivot etc...

> He would have built Birchbox rather than Pinterest and Airbnb rather than TripAdvisor. He would have found product market fit and a viable business model before spending money on development resources.

i understand they have enough physical risk so they avoid spreading money in hope that some unclear possibility will succeed.

i wouldn't like non-criminal investors be that (financial) risk averse, otherwise we won't get many new interesting businesses. let 9 of 10 startups fail, but the 10th would be google. (and the 9 wouldn't wear cement shoes)

> Simpler solution. Let people make arrangements they want.

for example, in hard times, or to pay debts, allow to sell oneself into lifetime slavery.

she states that the russian administrative code lets you visit the site if it is not surrounded by a fence (which had beed partially ruined before by someone).

i am not sure that that will help her against the prosecution, she must have revealed some secrets of a rocket engine factory.

check the wikileaks case, the guy published the information he didn't steal himself, he had the right to do so but it didn't help much.

i thought i suggested something new for them to patent :(

you mean it's already invented? than it should. (i just never met this function in programs i used)

seo pages can't be found by google.

meta!

In 1917 Lenin said that every cook should be able to run a state.

In 2012 a mayor would write code. That's what the mankind achieved.

they'd better invent 'minimize number of left turns', novice drivers would thank them

I liked the word technology. (and the world)

I am extremely bad at this kind of talk. I like it when it's clear. But I am in a middle of preparing a presentation for some employer whom I want to offer some consultancy. What should I do not to give him an impression that hhe can move on without me because the topic is so clear and simple?

It was another layer of a joke...

atheists generally don't give a damn to books or symbols otherwise they are idealists in fact

which demonstrated that the West gradually moves to satanism for a long time!

(joke! joke-joke-joke! show tolerance before downvoting)

i guess he's talking about people who seriously compare a violent regime that killed people with magazines with images of colourful trucks in india decorated with kali, swastikas, skulls etc

seems like the poll divides the world into SF(&NY), English speaking areas, China, and the rest of the world! :)

the division could also be based on the population density. in the west it's higher -> the east-west boundary is to the west..

i like the notion of 'increasing risk'. maybe this would lead to less fast websites prototypes, and to more projects that are not just small innovative features, but projects that are making some big innovative things (like the one i used to have :)