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by Drbble 15y ago
But Facebook is gunning for that X+Y. There are only 12 billion * 24 eyeball hours in each day.
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by Drbble 15y ago
It's good to see a Google manager hold that point of view. Do you have any influence in the organization? Or are mchurch's nightmare demons really running the show?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Yeah, but, there is a better solution, right? Like, Google choosing to not actively break the Web?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Which is funny, because Google product developers are intensively trained to believe compute resources (BigTable, etc) are free (in stark contrast to Amazonians who are constantly shopping for TCO effective virtual machines) right up to the
575.
by Drbble 15y ago
Google phones aren't very customizable by the users. They are customizable by carriers. Rooting is a pain and buggy, so that is no defense. Heck, Google won't even let me remove Facebook and Twitter from my unlocked Nexus One!
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by Drbble 15y ago
Prioritizing G+ over an open API (and a "Chinese wall" between the apps and the platform) is still preferential treatment, and is the sort of thing that got Microsoft consent-decreed. I am not saying Facebook is better, but you can't say Go
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by Drbble 15y ago
Being able to leave once an for all is different from open interoperability with other systems. Both are a form of lock in protection, and Picasa only supports the former.
578.
by Drbble 15y ago
Can facebook or flickr or whatever poll the pictures directory to support auto upload, if they (app writers) want too?
579.
by Drbble 15y ago
And for sorting clean dishes you have the Google kitchen staff. (But you still have to sort your own dirty dishes for some reason... )
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by Drbble 15y ago
Haha! I told Vic Gundotra to do exactly what you say (and I am surely not the only one), he said "maybe later". Google used to be about the open web, but with Chrome. Experiments and now the way they built G+ (need a Google account to view
581.
by Drbble 15y ago
Google needs to pick Picasa of the gutter where it dropped and make it a good photo app before shoving it down everyone's throat as a social app. And online editing from that startup they bought is not the answer. Similar for Market/Pla
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by Drbble 15y ago
Google developing Go as a research project, and Google using Go in a non-trivial number of production systems, are two very different scenarios.
583.
by Drbble 15y ago
The problem you describe infects all public corporations, not just in the finance industry. It is why management of big public companies tend to pillage, not produce.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Licensing almost always includes a legal commitment to specific ethical behaviors, fiduciary duty and the like. That is one of the main differences between licensed professionals and flea market vendors. Doctors, lawyers, and engineers all
585.
by Drbble 15y ago
You are right, the article's definition of tragedy of the commons was poorly and bizarrely written, but you were downvoted because your criticism wasn't clearly expressed. You complained about the article but didn't specifically cite or cor
586.
by Drbble 15y ago
The common mistake people make on game theory is the assumption that people will always use a hill climbing algorithm to find equibrilium, instead of considering the global optima. Hofstadter discusses this with regard to the "hyperrational
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by Drbble 15y ago
Hence the executive summary industry for biz books.
588.
by Drbble 15y ago
You seem to be assuming a gargantuan preference in this case. I thought just 1x to 2x was the max these days.
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by Drbble 15y ago
0.1% of Google's capitalization just to knock out 15 people is not a sustainable strategy.
590.
by Drbble 15y ago
Milk was a rather quick flip, but if you consider a more average 4 year run to acquisition, and also consider the risk factor, isn't so much obviously better than just getting a job with Google salary and stock from the start.
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by Drbble 15y ago
That was one of few acquisitions were Google actually wanted the product, and needed it badly. Mobile was Google's main growth area for years, until the social black hole opened last year or so.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Some would say Facebook won. I am convinced that Facebook has a quiet strategy of driving up Google payroll costs.
593.
by Drbble 15y ago
"oh god oh god oh god" is frequently heard in porn movies...
594.
by Drbble 15y ago
Porn is already dirt cheap to produce and readily available for free. People pay for porn because they are lazy or stupid or look at ads for scams that abuse their stupidity. Also, your solution doesn't solve the "problem" of watching porn,
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by Drbble 15y ago
When you bring money and power dynamics into the equation, he notion of consent gets complicated. Consent means free engagement in activity not due to pressure, economic, social, or otherwise. A parent and child or student and teacher havin
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by Drbble 15y ago
And from DA to DA, since in practice all that matters is whether a DA wants to ruin someone's life by pushing a case, example a teenager who sends a picture of themself to a friend.
597.
by Drbble 15y ago
I don't see how Ron Paul losing more publicly than ever will help Rand's career.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Believing that the GOP that exists today is more libertarian in ways that actually affect your life, and what libertarianism means to you, regarding how government operates than the Democratic party is a mistake. Politics is not about gr
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by Drbble 15y ago
But Limbaugh is a rather active activist (via his show) for the causes he champions. Jon Stewart doesn't give off a vibe of promoting a certain course of action among his audience.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Average google employees have a lot of freedom too. It is a blessing and also a curse that leads to DOA product launches.

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