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This is a good idea from a "look, i'm being counter-intuitive" sense. But it will not work.

There's a reason the federal government can borrow at 0% short term and my hypothetical auto parts manufacturing company can't. I am a default risk; the federal government is not.

IRL, banks essentially borrow at 0% from the federal reserve. They do exactly what Cuban is suggesting the federal government do. They have lots of money. Their mission is to lend that money to businesses who will "create jobs" with it. They price those loans at an interest rate which The problem right now is that not enough businesses see good investment opportunities that justify taking out a loan at rate X, and not enough banks see businesses who are not so risky that they can justify making the loan at a price they would pay. We're in equilibrium, but it's a lowish one.

At the margin, we can increase some of that activity by either (a) making the loan cheaper for business or (b) making the risk lower for the bank of (c) both. In this case, the federal government acts as a guaranteeing middleman between a bondholder (the "bank") and a business. Because the bondholder doesn't have to worry about a business default, the lending takes place at essentially 0%. So this plan boils down to having the federal government guarantee loans to businesses, only instead of saying, "I'm guaranteeing a private loan to a business," they're going through the process of actually initiating the loan themselves (with a website?? please.)

The idea of federally guaranteed loans is not new. Organizations like Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac literally do exactly that; subsidize loans to achieve some kind of social good (in that case, home ownership). The problem is that -- unsurprisingly -- people default, and the programs end up going hundreds of billions of dollars in the hole. And then the taxpayer is on the hook. And that's, kind of what we want to avoid here.

More oddly, Cuban is making the assumption that not only should the federal government subsidize the loan, they should originate and (probably) administer it, which only makes sense if you believe the federal government has a better eye for businesses that will actually succeed and "create jobs" (I suppose) than the many thousands of banks that do this professionally. Color me skeptical.

Yes, money is cheap. But disintermediating the entire corporate paper industry is not a solution here.
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Right on with your guess :)
And I agree with "it guarantees good content" part. However, one point we didn't mention is the staleness of the global bucket. For a generic search "funny" on Youtube, most results are 4-5 years old.

We want to focus on upcoming talents, which means we want to bring in new content to the mix, to some people, "fresh + good" is better than "best", and I believe that's why StumbleUpon model is successful.
So I am a programmer of long standing and a hacker and I would rather see better articles than this submitted. The best parts of this thread are going to at best add zero to my ability to build something.
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I consider the no-reply address a courtesy to me to know that I won't end up writing a reply to an address that isn't monitored. Things like bank notifications and alerts are designed to be one-way communications, so the no-reply address makes sense. Usually the body or footer of the message contains the proper contact methods/addresses. It does not hurt my feelings to have to click on an email address within the message vs. clicking the 'reply' button in my client.

That being said, I agree that a no-reply address sends the wrong message for start-ups, welcome messages, signup confirmations, etc. I think they are good for recurring message that are inherently one-way, and when the user knows the preferred contact info for the company.
> The government is literally awash in cheap credit.

--> infrastructure projects!

If it is a given that money can be borrowed for basically zero interest rate, why not invest it at long term low yield infrastructure projects such as: roads/bridges, high speed trains, electrical distribution networks, or my personal favourite: scientific research.
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I'm surprised at some of the remains, especially in the public health section - hospitals and clinics. There are rooms full of medical records, along with drugs, surgical equipment, and (possibly) radioisotopes. Probably not the latter, and they're just old x-ray machines, but the Goiânia accident[1] is what might happen if there are.

It seems almost like a desperate evacuation over hours and days, rather than, as I seem to find, over years. There's strong parallels with the photos from Pripyat in terms of the stuff left behind.

Did the city lose big chunks of population near simultaneously, or was it a constant trickle away? Why didn't the building owners make some sort of planned move? At least that way they could rip out the valuable stuff, and destroy things like medical records.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_...
How do you suggest companies communicate with their users?
Tell that to the folks living in downtown St Louis. We finally got a grocery store downtown last year. Not that it's a major city though.
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I understand that point, and it's valid. I was only saying that the lines I quoted, from the way they are phrased, make the author seem like he doesn't understand the reason why businesses use "no-reply" addresses to begin with. Which I know wasn't the purpose of the article, but I thought it was worth bringing up.

Sorry if I misinterpreted.
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But any email they send out could be set up to reply right to somebody appropriate. Customers don't want a face of the company that only speaks and doesn't listen. Seems like they should be nearly never needed.
I guess IV wants someone else to get all the bad press for patent trolling, but it doesn't seem to be working.
A developer who plants themselves in their chair for a 12-hour hacking run and barely moves in that time objectively needs a more ergonomic environment than the 9-4:30-ers that spend most of their time standing around the water cooler or coffee maker.
I would like to say, it depends. The first question to ask is, how big do you feel comfortable growing? Once you figure that out, then the next part is basically a gigantic art form that you pray that you don't mess up on.

There's like 9,000 questions you must ask but all them really boils down to this - can the person do (or figure out what to do) what you want the site to grow into and does this person get along with you that you get things done?

Since this is your first technical employee, you better get along with him/her/it because you'll be spending a whole bunch of your life communicating with them. After that, you have to make sure they have some competence in the technology field. Language specification and stuff doesn't matter as long as they understand how the web (HTTP) really works. The rest of the guys here can probably give some decent advice on that and how to find them.

Just my two cents.
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I'm 100% with you. I'd quibble with the phrasing of "create a better world for us", since I think that lends itself to very mushy, subjective notions of "good" rather than "economic good", but you're absolutely right.

The problem is not, "how do we create more GDP" (forever and ever and ever) it's "is there demand which is not being met by supply." At the core, that's what a recession is. The answer is clearly yes in some industries (health care comes to mind) and is clearly no in other industries (real estate and retail comes to mind).

You can't just will an economy of 300m people to a certain state. If people spent more time thinking about optimal long term outcomes and then spent their time removing impediments to those outcomes, instead of pretending like there's some magic incantation that is simply being _blocked_, we'd be having a much more productive national conversation right now.
Would be better if they didn't go to that trouble and just forwarded it on.
Also useful is the `-s` option to make the notification sticky

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I get and send dozens of important emails a day. Why is email irrelevant?

"A May 2011 Pew Internet survey finds that 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, including 59% who do so on a typical day. This places search at the top of the list of most popular online activities among U.S. adults. But it is not alone at the top. Among online adults, 92% use email, with 61% using it on an average day."

Source:
Search and email still top the list of most popular online activities
(http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Search-and-email/Report....)
Given what they did to my browser (I followed the stupid link, in part b/c of who it came from) I'm guessing you hit a booby trapped page while you were logged into twitter.

But that's a theory for which I don't have direct evidence, merely the unreasonable effectiveness of their browser hijacking.
Some people would be wrong.

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No. The email subscribers are Groupon's customers - if you define "customer" as "where the money comes from".

Every day Groupon sends out a daily deal to their email subscribers. Some percent of those subscribers opt to purchase the deal and go to Groupon's website and pay with a credit card. That's where the money comes from. Groupon then distributes some of that money at a later date to the merchant offering the deal.

So their success is very much dependent on the size of their email list, because that is the maximum number of potential customers (payers). Zero subscribers means zero money. If all the merchants dropped out that subscriber list could still make money via affiliate or other partner revenue.
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I dont mean to hijack this post but I think granting citizenship to non citizens living here for sometime, provided they buy a house, would be a great way to raise real cash instead of printing and borrowing and cash for clunkers. There would be a lot of people willing to spend some serious money to get a citizenship in the US. And giving it to only a certain category of people who have stable jobs for a certain period of time here can address the immigration and job killing issue.
> If you care about email, you've already lost.

[citation needed]
Just be aware it may not execute the command you think. man bash for HISTIGNORE. Personally I never use it with sudo; it's too dangerous.
Beware of that line of though. Just because we don't like email anymore does not mean that this is the case for everybody.
How does that fix employment?

It might be a highly efficient way of developing new technology, but prizes don't immediately generate large amounts of new employment.

Think about it: most X-Prize-type competitions rely on the intelligence of a few highly skilled people, and even then only a few of them will actually win. The other teams generally make a loss, and so have to rely on "investors" to pay the bills.

To fix employment you need to employ 10,000 ex-auto workers, who at best have some machinist skills if you are lucky. Then you need to do it ten more times. Then ten more. Then you need to do the same for the construction industry, for hospitality and for agricultural workers[1][2]. What's more, you need to do this fast - in months, not years. I cannot imagine anyway to structure a X-Prize to do that.

[1] See the unemployment rates by sector: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm

[2] To be fair, the hospitality industry will probably pick itself up once employment improves in other sectors so you might only need to generate a few 100K jobs instead of a million.
OP said "I don't think anyone would ever use loose in that manner without preceding it with 'let'". I provided a counterexample, so the OP's statement is refuted. Now, granted anyone could write a nonsense sentence to refute any rule of grammar. But this is a very important poem by a prominent poet.
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Totally. The "loose" thing drives me nuts for some reason. Other types of misspellings don't really bother me unless there's a ton of them, but for some reason I always hear that one out loud in my head and it destroys my opinion of the writer every time.
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The interesting thing is, that Delicious is actually better now, because it's so much faster.

As far as I can tell, it does all the same stuff it used to, just quicker.
I thought sending notifications from help@atomiccontacts.com and ending them with 'Any problems, just reply to this email!' was a good idea too.

However, I've had to introduce noreply for a lot of transactional emails for a reason I didn't expect.

If you send an email like:

Subject: X has requested you become friends/posted a photo/tagged you/sent you a message

...even if you mention that replying to the email will come to you, not X, many users will instinctively reply. E.g.,

Hey X, So glad you got in touch. Love the picture. Want to grab a coffee soon?

Then you feel bad that you're intercepting personal emails.

I switched to noreply and put a help email link in the signature (which is ridiculed as the height of too muchery in the article).

If anyone's got a better solution, I'd love to hear it.
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I generally read 'noreply' as, "Here is something useful. And, we're not asking you for anything in return."

'noreply's are usually something you chose to receive. They're a service.

That's not to say that feedback should be discouraged. Just that, unlike the great majority of startup email, something is being given instead of requested.
...But me and all my (hipster|geeky|20-something) friends only communicate using a combination of Facebook, Twitter, and SMS! If it's not relevant within my inner circle of friends, then 'anyone who's anyone' doesn't care about it!
This would send inflation skyrocketing.

Wasn't cheap money from the Fed supposed to do this a couple of years ago?

I think it's time for people to start to accept that money supply alone doesn't cause inflation.
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There are 2 things I'm curious about ever since I heard the NPR podcast on patents.

1. It almost seems like IV is involved in a lot, if not all, "patent troll lawsuits" over the past few weeks. Is this a coincidence, or is IV one of the "biggest players" in this "market"?

2. I wonder if some sort of patent reform is on the horizon cf the popularity of the NPR programme and various articles it has spawned, the Google v. Nortel "drama", the series of Righthaven lawsuits, the Lodsys v. iOS developers "fight" that is emerging?
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Exactly, some content might not be globally popular, but will be very viral locally - and good examples!
If you're talking about the search.cpan.org links to source, I'm right there with you.

The only thing I wish they had was a way to pipe it through a highlighter like perltidy with html out. That'd probably just lead to holy wars on formatting/colours though.
True, if it is a relatively small support operation. This would be harder to do with larger companies that had separate addresses for billing questions, service problems, troubleshooting, etc. If every outbound message had a singular live reply-to email address, then you'd need someone to sift through all those and route to the appropriate department.
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You tell them that the devs are all pretty pretty princesses who can feel a pea through a pile of blankets.

Seriously, I think you've got to buy everyone fancy chairs if you buy them for devs. Otherwise it breeds resentment. If I were a secretary sitting in a shitty chair while all the devs sat in $1000 chairs (including the intern who's only there for the summer and gets paid less than his equipment costs), I'd feel pretty unappreciated.
Personally one of my favorite responses is in http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-str....

I particularly like the line, Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.
Great he wants to make it even more difficult for small businesses to compete.

Anyway the reason to cut taxes isn't to create jobs, but because taxing anymore than what is required to fund basic government services is immoral.
I can't recall which service, it's right on the tip of my tongue, but I've seen it done before that such a reply would end up being routed to the correct user. In the simplest case you get "X Commented on your Post!" sent from your service's account but with reply-to set to X's address. If you wanted to obscure X's address, you could process replies to your service's address and route them accordingly.
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Do as Facebook (or GitHub) does - make replying to the e-mail reply to the person.
The difference is, with "Eating Out" the restaurant came first, the slang second. With this, it's the other way around.
I think this is the case on Facebook. You can reply to emails about, for example, someone posting on your wall, and it will show up as a comment.
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That explanation only partially works.

a[5]

evaluates to something like:

*(a + (sizeof(a) * 5))

so shouldn't

5[a]

evaluate to

*(5 + (sizeof(5) * a))

Those don't seem equivalent, unless I'm missing something.
Interesting concept! It would be really useful with this design to be able to click on a label and have the page jump to that section. Simple #hash and anchor should do it.
The break up fee was to protect against the gov't blocking the acquisition due to antitrust concerns as far as I know. Pretty sure the business diligence was already complete by that time.
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There are various premade dating site systems that can be found by googling (mostly non-free). Similarly, a search for "ruby on rails dating site" turns up an open source social network, http://lovdbyless.com/ , which might be a good place to start.

However, the important question isn't how to get the code for the site working, it's how to get a community established. No one wants to be one of the first people using a dating site, because then they can't find anyone else on it. The value of a dating site increases with the size of the community, because that makes it more likely that a user will find someone who is compatible with them. The market is pretty saturated right now, and it would be hard to compete with the larger players unless you have a very compelling secret sauce (which it doesn't sound like you do). There's probably still room for very niche sites, but if you're not a member of a niche it might be hard to get adoption.

If you don't have a compelling answer for how you're going to get users - and nothing with the words "viral marketing" in it counts - stop until you do.
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Interesting is that all they did was take down the website where all company anouncements are made - a simple DDOS would do this. As a result, the exchange suspended the shares of companies that were due to release price-sensitive information. It is a huge impact for a relatively simple and low-tech attack.

This could be mitigated by placing all announcement docs on two large CDNs as a backup and switch over if the main system fails.
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