JacobJans

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by JacobJans 8y ago
Though, amazingly, their P/E has also tripled since then, so they're not exactly earning more money. Granted, it was low in 2014.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Their stock price has tripled since 2014. I would say that's a topic worth exploring.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Nobody is trying to eliminate all mosquitoes. Just a tiny fraction of mosquito species.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
There are many, many species of mosquitoes. Just a few of the species carry malaria. If you kill those species, they will quickly be replaced by the other species in the ecosystem. There would be no negative effect on the ecosystem and coun
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by JacobJans 8y ago
I don't know whether other people do this, but when using voice recognition software, such as Google's, I "learn" what it is likely to understand, and then modify my statements to be more easily understood by the softwar
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by JacobJans 8y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you. However, you are stating that ads for massage techniques could "break society." That just doesn't add up to me. What is not being stated here? How does this connect? (These are not
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by JacobJans 8y ago
> Something just doesn't add up to me. You're missing a key ingredient. Facebook placed a third-parties between you and your friends. Those third parties are businesses that run pages What percentage of posts on your Facebook
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by JacobJans 8y ago
If there were only friends and family on Facebook, there would be far fewer news articles shared. Get rid of Pages, and Facebook would be pleasant again. Of course, Facebook would also be broke.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Option 3: Strangers you never interact with will decide, based on extremely competent propaganda, and their decisions will determine: -- The outcome of elections -- Whether to commit genocide -- ???
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by JacobJans 8y ago
PDF Full Text : https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/11012018-wyden-privacy...
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Irony!
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by JacobJans 8y ago
That's what they're asking for too: more data.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
You may want to read this year's letter: https://www.gatesnotes.com/2018-Annual-Letter#ALChapter1
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Progress is real. https://www.gatesnotes.com/2017-Annual-Letter?WT.mc_id=02_14... > the number of childhood deaths per year has been cut in half since 1990. > Extreme poverty has been cut in half over the last 25 year
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by JacobJans 8y ago
> Keeps work stuff super focused and clean, for me. That's exactly why I find this setup so appealing; it really works with the natural tendencies of our minds, as opposed to constantly presenting us with a situation where we have
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Device -> Purpose iPhone -> sell apps & subscriptions Android phone -> sell ads / harvest user information
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by JacobJans 8y ago
I think you're confusing purpose with functionality; they're not the same thing. Designing with a single purpose in mind determines the needed functionality; it does not limit it. Instead, the purpose supports the design decisions
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Very interesting. What kind of software do you have on the computers? Is there anything, beyond the physical separation, that supports the purpose of each device? (Maybe something as simple as physical location, color, a "sticker"
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by JacobJans 8y ago
This post reminds me of a running line of thought that's been going on in my head for quite some time: "Single Purpose Devices." The main disadvantage of most computing devices is that they offer too many options; making the
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by JacobJans 8y ago
This company makes food for kid's lunches...A similar market... https://rfrk.com/
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Wouldn't ROA (return on asset) be the appropriate metric? For example, a house worth $500,000, with a 5% ROA, would need to net $25,000 a year. Assuming expenses are 1% of the value, you would need to charge $2,500 monthly rent, to get
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Whether or not that is the case, it seems to me the most interesting conclusion of the study was this: > the bacterial responses were correlated to the results of previous toxicity studies and bacteria may be used as a toxicity evaluatio
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by JacobJans 8y ago
You're arguing that it's OK to steal, as long as you don't steal very much.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Is it obvious to anyone else that this is blatant copyright infringement? Does anyone care?
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by JacobJans 8y ago
It seems to me that it would eventually be possible, to build a relatively cheap system that can both soak up power and transmit/recieve data without any external wiring. You could hook up a raspberry pi to a solar system, weatherproof
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by JacobJans 8y ago
> If a society operated on the types of practices that are considered "appropriate" in computing, we'd be liable to label them as savages. There are many industries with similar, parallel, practices that are directly at od
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by JacobJans 8y ago
Promo code A15173269 No activation fee or any other initial fees.
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by JacobJans 8y ago
I just signed up for Bell Fiber in Toronto 500mbps upload and download. $34.95 CAD a month. (Around $27 USD). Who knew fiber could be this cheap?
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by JacobJans 8y ago
> I don't care to invest I think this gets to the core of it. When we're bombarded headlines from hundreds, if not thousands, of articles in a day, how do you know which ones are worth investing your time in? This is a question
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by JacobJans 8y ago
The same could be argued for any number of companies that don't "do all the work." For example, Apple doesn't manufacture phones; Nike doesn't build their shoes.

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