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Comment author: gwern 05 November 2012 04:01:34PM 0 points [-]

Transcripts are fairly expensive; patio11 pays for transcripts to be made for his podcasts (a big factor in why those submissions do well on Hacker News), but IIRC the quoted figure is north of $100. So you would pay... but would you pay enough?

Comment author: TraderJoe 06 November 2012 08:45:36AM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: gwern 06 November 2012 03:27:36PM 0 points [-]

College students would be flaky and unreliable, and you'd want at least 2 for error-checking. You get what you pay for.