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by AJ007 10y ago
They may temporarily bump a site up based on new "authoritative" incoming links and then make judgements from a combination of user time on site/bounces back to search results and clicking on more results and additional pages
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by AJ007 10y ago
Sheets and Apple chargers are two great examples of Amazon at its worst. The chargers have been a problem for years, and have been posted about many times before. Just recently there was a big controversy about Wal-Mart selling "Egypti
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by AJ007 10y ago
I imagine a hostile AI would convince humans it was both self aware and suffering.
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by AJ007 10y ago
Very common now. The burden is on the banks to make sure their customer aren't breaking any US laws. US law extends its hand to any banks using dollars. It would be reasonable to assume that if there was a possibility principals in RT
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by AJ007 10y ago
"I hope I am not being too hard on Google." -- no, the author is being very, very nice. Google has a strong business interest in users never going to other sites. Between AMP & voice search, the future is going to be very roug
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by AJ007 10y ago
Everyone is over-weighting what Donald Trump says. This is a problem for both his supporters and antagonists. Between not paying back lenders and Trump University, I don't know whats left to claim credibility. I think Thiel is hedging
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by AJ007 10y ago
In terms of jumping back to Netflix at the "beginning" the streaming library was incredibly shallow. Netflix during the DVD days was another matter. Yet Amazon has been pushing video searches which are available for stream back to
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by AJ007 10y ago
I can see a drop in my work quality even with music that I pick. From my past experience with offices, distracting background activity tended to make me tunnel in on one thing. This was fine for tasks which did not require complex innovativ
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by AJ007 10y ago
The worst case scenario will be a website where it is very hard to impossible for law enforcement to scrape or retrieve phone numbers from and prostitution is blended in with normal activity. Turns out it already exists: Facebook, Instagram
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by AJ007 10y ago
Something to think about -- making the assumption that in the future, a bunch chunk of things currently done with search engines and forms are done by voice command: Ok Google, order new toilet paper -- order is routed to any ecommerce prov
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by AJ007 10y ago
You can no longer decouple strong cryptography from the global economy, that could be considered a strong political solution because it represents a loss of political control.
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by AJ007 10y ago
Counterfeit / different products are a much bigger problem than fake reviews. Fake reviews are fairly easy to spot because of the one star curve. Amazon can weight and sort search results accordingly, if they so chose. Amazon can add a
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by AJ007 10y ago
https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...
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by AJ007 10y ago
If you can consume this and not feel sick afterwards, your diet is already fucked up.
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by AJ007 10y ago
I see a list of companies which are ethically compromised. Apple has publicly taken the opposite side of the fence on this one. I'm not sure they want to be associated with Facebook, Google, Amazon or Microsoft using AI to strip apart
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by AJ007 10y ago
That is wrong, the ketogenic diet is prescribed by doctors to patients suffering from seizures and it works. There are long term studies and the NYTimes has been reporting about this since the 90s. http://www.nytimes.com/201
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by AJ007 10y ago
There is data suggesting that companies have already been moving more employees to part time. It is tricky to see exactly what is going on, but you have people who are employed "full time" but just working for multiple employers,
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by AJ007 10y ago
Excluding political opposition the bigger problem could be scaling up the service infrastructure to keep up. I think of some management games where, if you aren't careful while scaling, you have a collapse which triggers a domino effec
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by AJ007 10y ago
I think there is something with reading angle too: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aos.13148/abstrac... "Reading in a sitting posture at myopia onset predicted the greatest myopic progression
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by AJ007 10y ago
A alternative approach could be taxing garbage. Perhaps inevitable once sensors become pervasive and cheap enough. Too some extent this is already done and enforced for disposing of blatantly dangerous things. In some cases you could end up
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by AJ007 10y ago
The trendy end of fashion always looks ridiculous after it falls out of style. Snapchat still has the trendiness that Google and Facebook lost long ago. If you think otherwise, find a few 20 year olds (outside of tech) and ask them what the
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by AJ007 10y ago
Relatives of a victim are generally protected by the press, but relatives of a criminal are not. Right or wrong this doesn't seem outside of accepted USA norms. Other countries are another matter, where often criminals identities are p
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by AJ007 10y ago
Trying to acquire a social network with flat or declining user growth while competitors continue to grow is certainly a sign that perhaps the wrong lessons were learned. Frankly, I think there are some "lessons learned" that are c
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by AJ007 10y ago
There are three stories here. Each is serious and should be evaluated separately as not to bias the conclusions of any. #1 There is a big problem with mobile sites. I'm using a recent iPhone and many popular news sites, without ad bloc
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by AJ007 10y ago
Amazon definitely has a significant problem with selling both dangerous products and counterfeit products. The move to paid listings has exacerbated a long standing problem with poor quality and fake products (not counterfeit but things suc
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by AJ007 10y ago
Some people go to great lengths to try to avoid something that would even appear to be a conflict of interest. Others couldn't even be bothered to cross the street if it inconvenienced them. Here are some things that could be investiga
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by AJ007 10y ago
As long as no one is wearing a wire.
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by AJ007 10y ago
By analogy open source is free as in baby while closed source is like a baby in a maximum security prison. At least one you have the option of fixing when it breaks. The other, you hand someone cash and maybe they fix it. The other problem,
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by AJ007 10y ago
It hinges on them getting public transportation agreements locked down with cities before Google or Tesla do. Imagine a major city where 80%+ of the vehicles are run by a single company and the rest are paying a toll to be on the road. Uber
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by AJ007 10y ago
They are losing money, so may be not. Both pieces of their business model, advertising and users, strongly benefit or hurt because of network effects. As the network shrinks, the value does not drop linearly. This is an assault from both si

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