I mean I get that Groupon is a huge business. I guess the question is are domain name prices relative? If, for instance, this was a public company, and this was disclosed, I would be a pissed off shareholder. Is it better than taking the corporate jet on a family vacation? Yes. Does that make it a good business investment? Don't know. Obviously Groupon is not a public company, but it seems like you could get a much higher ROI on a quarter of million dollars invested in the primary product as opposed to domain name. Maybe not, just my 2 cents.
A long time ago, in a land far away, I wanted to develop a p2p betting network without a vig. This would have made that chore a million times easier. Very cool stuff. What other applications might this be useful for?
You may be thinking of the Washington Post or the New York Times. The Washington Times is well known for its right leaning coverage as well as its ownership (former?) by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
To be more technical, a patent is the right to exclude people from using your idea (which includes making using selling etc. etc.) Thus, you have a right to sue if someone is using it, but that is not the purpose of the patent on its face.
As an aside, a recent case ('03) is pretty on point regarding this issue (also topical, considering the terrible Jonah Hex movie just came out). Here is a decent summary of what went down:
I think we are open to everything and anything under the gaming label. As huge gamers ourselves, we have done quite a bit of playing in many (if not all) of these scenarios.
Yeah, we're not so much game developers but instead more web developers. That being said we are certainly open to all ideas. So anything that comes to mind is certainly worth a post.
I would be interested to hear more about how you plan to monetize this. Assuming you are using Twilio or something similar, there is some outlay on your part. Will people who want to advertise have their own account or will it just be a 1 dollar charge to their number or some such?
On a human note, I'm taking a class with Blaze this semester. A surprisingly good and interesting teacher, and a genuinely bright guy. He oozes cryptography (he wore a shirt with RSA algorithm on it last week) and clearly cares about spreading the knowledge. His work on the voting machines is also really interesting and would suggest anyone curious, take a quick google for more info.
I've spent a bunch of years in the sport, and I do indeed try my hardest every second. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm trying to neck crank a dude from the guard, but it does mean that I am always working. If you watch some of the great practitioners of our sport, Marcelinho comes to mind, they are almost always moving, always improving. Although he's not brute forcing his way into a position, I guarantee he is trying his hardest every second.
Maybe this is purely a semantic argument, but I hate when people say that as you advance you work less hard. You work just as hard, you just work in different ways.
I would put in a call to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. They are often on the bleeding edge of treatments, and might be able to refer you to someone in your own hood who can help you out.
I have a family member with colitis. In the US, there are treatments available that use hookworms and are regulated, and hopefully safer than the option described above. So before you going tramping off to some African open-air latrine (assuming you don't live in Africa already), I would ask a doctor specifically about helminthic therapy and see what s/he can do for you.
I feel like the response has been fairly lukewarm, but to me this is some really nice (dare I say game-changing) stuff. Mindmap + IDE = great. Why? I have written in a variety of languages, and my number one complaint, whether it be with eclipse, textmate, vim, emacs, whatever, is the clumsiness of going from one file to another and then back to the original. Further, outside of actual development, when debugging, I really like to have all the different pieces open at once. This is a nice way for this to happen and is pretty slick with the different gui movement options. I, like other posters, would be really psyched if you could have some kind of MVC opener which would automagically open all the code files using a certain view. That would save a lot of time shuffling, and then save a lot of time by having them all displayed simultaneously. Anyway, I'm probably over reacting, but after years of having to go back to the mouse everytime i need to look at a new file or struggling to figure out in which square i put which file, this is definitely, in my opinion, a step in right direction.
This may be off topic, and may not. I think it has hacker content in that it is about hacking our own bodies, but I will happily submit to flagging. It is, no matter what, a very interesting look into the US armed forces, and to be honest, into the capabilities of the human body.
Agreed. Further, as a law student in the US, it is quite common for people to keep up with the reading, and then study for a day or so for many of the exams. Granted there are harder exams (and harder teachers) that demand more, but it is fairly trivial in some classes to get an A without too much studying. I would however, be very surprised to find a student who had done no prep, studying for an hour and getting an A. In the law especially, there are some basic ideas, but in many cases, you must have an extremely nuanced understanding to correctly analyze some problems (see, for instance, problems relating to conflicts of laws) and even then might end up missing something. I think this guy is british or a citizen of some british colony, so they may do things differently, but all in all, I think we are not getting the whole story here.
That being said, I do like some of these techniques, and I imagine that if one were to become good at them, they could save time. Would the overhead be worth for most folks? I'm not sure, and I would say, likely not due to dropouts, giver-uppers, and those that already had decent self-developed ways to absorb material.
In essence, you were studying by doing the assignments. I don't see this as that much different than actually "studying", i.e. sitting in front of the book and learning the material. You just did it an earlier stage in a piecemeal way. Most classes are designed so that if you do the work (or whatever prep) during the course of the semester, you will need little review by the time the exam comes around. Maybe you are better at not forgetting, but it doesn't seem like your learning was any better than anyone elses (except maybe about going to lecture, although I assume many people dont go to lecture if it was anything like my school).
Oh, I definitely wasn't passing judgment on financial firms. By "problems", I meant reducing transaction costs by bundling and/or securitizing. I was more referring to the general problem being that capital markets are not perfect (in the economic sense).
The real question is how one would actually perform a hedge in a gambling market. I guess, what it comes down to, is 1) are there hedging opportunities and 2) if not, why not?
Ha. The disaster alarms were ringing loudly in my head. Josh-
I assume MS means Morgan Stanley, not Microsoft. If so, do you think all the sorts of problems we see financial organizations taking advantage of could be applied to gambling markets. That is, does Miller's contention that finance would not exist without transaction costs apply equally to gambling? If so, is gambling just another form of an options market? And finally, should gambling be treated like any other market with buy and sell prices (like commodities or bonds)?
Apropos of this, are there any decent sms payment services out there? What about sms payment api's? I know they are pretty popular in europe, but seemingly have not caught on in the states. thoughts?
I'm sorry I got to this so late. I realize noone will probably read this, and I only stumbled upon because I have had a few beers and was browsing old posts. In any case, I have a couple qualms. First, political philosophy does matter. Patents is about maximizing "progress" in the useful arts and sciences. Thus, depending on what you believe politically, you will have different views about how to accomplish this.
Further, in reality, most patent reform does take place in courts. For instance, the Supreme Court mandated the processing of patent appeals in the federal circuit. Why? Because this way we could have a fairly uniform set of decisions from a fairly specialized court about what the law means. Much like corporate law in DE, one could consider a "common law" approach, whereby the courts would attempt to find a set of laws that would best promote the goals described above. In Federal Circuit jurisprudence, there have been many attempts to reconcile and improve the patent system but they have been reluctant to make broad changes like those described in the article. The reasoning goes that the courts are afraid (I think with good reason) about what might happen. I believe this is one contributing reason. Another might be that the court is fairly conservative (not a lot of free market easterbrook-posner type guys).
I do agree however that large scale reform would necessitate legislative action, and perhaps some of the authors points would require this. Nonetheless, I think there is about 0% chance that many of these changes happen via the legislature. Examining the past, much, if not all the change, after the patent act (which was passed in I think 1952), has been judicially mandated and described. Legislators dont want to touch this for the same reason. The system works ok (not great), other countries copy us, and if we change it, who knows whats going to happen. Maybe this is a little bit of a rant, and I apologize for being terse in my initial description. I do believe though, that the author does himself a disservice by taking describing himself in the way he does, because if he was proposing a unique and passable patent reform, it would be hard for 1) politicians, 2) academics, and 3) legal professionals to take him seriously.
Thanks for reading, assuming anyone makes it this far!
Hard to take someone who calls himself an "Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theor[ist]" and went to a law school I've never heard of (note: I am a law student now) seriously. From a legal perspective, this guy's political biases show through. Editor of the liberatarian papers? Check. In the end, I thought it was a long article that is 1) fanciful and 2) a rehash of prior ideas.
So what extra does this provide outside of the numerous other startup/how to rule world video sites (Mixergy comes to mind), and will whatever that extra is make it monetizable? For instance, are you guys producing your own content, and if so, are the people saying different things than they have already said elsewhere? So in short, what value does meettheboss add to the already crowded "how to run a good business" market.
I had not. This is a little different from what I had mind. Also, seeing how many people view my invites and how many people request invites doesn't really live up to the "powerful analytics" they promise. I was thinking more along the lines of a product in which first-adopters sign up generally, and list their interests. Then as sites sign up, beta sign up pages are produced (ie. everything that is going on at prefinery) as well as bringing in some ringers who might be interested. Then you can gather feedback from participating members, and if they give feedback, we give them more betas to try.