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Big Four investigate their clients’ software use(ft.com)
5 points by AJ007 8y ago|1 comments
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Adding to other snarky comments about The Economist here, if it is published in The Economist it probably is the crowded view. I read the magazine for years and I'm not sure if I gained much unique insight about anything. Certainly Fac
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http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-anoth...
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Encryption by default equals national security(lawfareblog.com)
1 points by AJ007 8y ago|0 comments
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Agree with the other comment, all of the UIs are pretty difficult. Some things are simple once you know exactly what to click on and in what order, but if you don't it can just be brutal. Amazon seems pretty static, but if my experienc
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It definitely could be a problem for Uber’s IPO story. I’m sure Waymo’s progress was foreseen. If driving becomes a commodity, the bigger long term problem is the mobile phone being the gateway to calling a ride. The users may just use Goog
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This isn't a good comparison. Netflix, Twitch, Snapchat, Facebook/Instagram are.
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One thing that could be done is for the aggregators to require a video publisher to post a bond. This could apply not just for the EU copyright rules, but for any other weird country specific laws. If the video publisher posts something tha
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Well at least that’s what companies that are losing lots of money like to tell their investors. I’ve heard it many times and can’t think of any definite examples.
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Politically and regulatorily it is not a good sign when both sides of the political spectrum are peddling the story that your company is a bad actor. The irony is significant that while being hated and vilinized by the left, America’s adtec
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What government can be trusted?
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Well I’m not sure about all of that stuff, but Facebook is definitely going to be able to monetize the ad inventory a lot better than Match Group. Dating app behavior doesn’t look much different to me than people obsessively viewing a Faceb
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If you evaluate companies by free cash flow, the numbers look even worse. Even if a company is not engaging in accounting tricks that make themselves look very profitable, what the paper margins say usually do not reflect the real cash rema
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Deflation is the critical component of human progress. Economic cycles and interest rates can make it difficult to see the long term, underlying trends. This becomes very destructive when governments pursue policies which pretend otherwise.
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When you see a storefront psychic, which appears to have no customers, in a place where it would seem the rent wouldn't support a handful of $20 readings a day, there is a reason why. People don't understand how widespread psychic
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by AJ007 8y ago
You are right about the prices. Expecting a $60 AAA console game for $5 is not going to happen. Free to play AAA games where you end up spending $1000 to do everything means players end up hating the game and paying for fewer games. The alt
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Someone needs to take a page from Facebook's Snapchat playbook: copy it. A bunch of writing is hot air. A working product that users open and immediately understand is what gets users.
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It makes sense with pump and dump schemes, but less so, to me, for investments you need to hold on to for a long time. I think about Warren Buffet's IBM investment. Anyone who talked to IBM engineers or perhaps read Robert Cringely&#x2
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I would add, if you remain in your home country, and you aren’t that confident in that countries’ future, keep your extra earnings in foreign currency and assets. That way, you can hedge against getting screwed in the event of a currency cr
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By passing out a bunch of degrees to unqualified students a school is essentially printing a currency that will eventually be recognized as worthless. One could see this as a tragedy of the commons for everyone but the highest tier schools.
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I think there is plenty of money being spent on AR R&D right now. We are pretty sure Apple is. Michael Abrash discussed it during his Oculus Connect keynote a few weeks ago. Snapchat has certainly been public about what they want to do.
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Taking the writer's statements as truth, 6 out of 17 sources for the original Bloomberg story were government. Presuming the information was classified, each one of those individuals is risking losing their job and going to prison for
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Do you have an adblocker running? I did the same search, I got one result from Panasonic. The rest were nonsense brands I've never heard of: omnigates, mpow, gloue, arrela, otium, actionpie, byz, etc..
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It is an anti-network effect. The early adaptors are cool, the late adaptors are not. In Facebook's case, the early adaptors are now old people posting photos of their children. The users aged to irrelevance. There definitely was a big
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Yes this is correct at least for the US, teen pregnancy rates have been declining http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/29/why-is-the-t...
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Well, the last update to Adwords aka Google Ads is now a clunky piece of shit on Chrome and FF. I don't know if Google has gone too far with the A/B split testing and are picking winners solely on a most ad revenue metric or if th
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A bad employee in a small company (or organization of any type) can do a lot of damage. It is negligent to hire someone who hasn't proven they can do what they claim, and negligent for a manager to not verify they aren't doing the
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There are two sides to this -- AI used a marketing buzzword to attract customers and AI used as a buzzword to attract investors. For the customers, they need to be sure that the company is actually capable of solving the problem they are cl
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Off world cryptocurrency mining and AI computations. A few hundred years from now this may not sound absurd.
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Per the article: "Should they not get paid by the client we don’t go after that money." If the company goes under while you are waiting to be paid, you end up with $0. Someone else is borrowing money, paying you in advance, and ea

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