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by NoPiece 14y ago
I think the bigger the company the more likely it is to happen. You may have separate teams in separate locations with differing agendas. One building the game, another managing infrastructure, not necessarily on the same page or with the s
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Agreed! But having worked at a company similar to EA, I know the developer may have wanted to implement certain things a certain way, but may not have been able to due to corporate mandates. For example, they may have wanted to deploy using
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Although it is more likely in this case that the EA executives mandated online only to the developers.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
They did announce such a view, and it should make brands, as well is some users, happy. I follow w00t, but only see the actual sales they post once in a while, now I can see the daily deals daily.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The whole point of an opinion piece is to rigorously argue a position. How else can you convince people of something. And note how the author of this piece failed in that task. This is what the NY Times says in their writing guide for high
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by NoPiece 14y ago
At least we've narrowed it down from a policy problem to a people problem. But you are right the inconsistency is really frustrating.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Try this: https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=YVR;t=POX,ORY,XCR,B... Then flip between to the Map and lowest fare icons (top right of map). I find this much better at zeroing in on a good fare, with loose travel requirements.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
http://adioso.com/us/oakland-california-to-maui-hawaii-in-au... Gives me fares of $772, $841, and $940 (expedia is not responding) Checking Google Flights, I see if I leave later in August, I can fly for as low as $443. https://www.googl
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Just to follow up - Alaska did contact me today and apologized. That's good, but I still think they are focused to their own detriment on penny pinching.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Well what do you think the minimum income might be? The labor problem is much more complicated than: there are more people than want jobs than jobs available. The unemployment rate for people with bachelors degrees is now down to 3.7%. My l
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Practically, how would a minimum income even be feasible? There are ~250m adults in the country, and ~150m are employed. If all adults got a minimum salary of $25k, you'd have to tax every employed adult $40,000 to pay for it (in addition t
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Abercrombie isn't going to buy a robot greeter to a replace a human employee, they are just going to close more stores and get rid of the greeter, the folder, the cashier, the manager, the janitor, and the driver. http://investorplace.com/
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I used to like Alaska Airlines. If you are old enough, you'll remember they actually used to be proud of the food they served. These days you could swap the experience with any of the major airlines. They are more focused on squeezing every
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I am rooting for Tesla, but if they are counting on a "solar electric economy," that makes me worry. Let's target something practical, like a nuclear/natural gas/solar electric economy.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
But it isn't natural when the comment is based a misguided moral equivalence. And my point is that they are not comparable. It is as bad as if someone posted a story on Manzanar, and someone replied "Kind of like when my parents made go to
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Curious, if the attacker knows what the encryption algorithm is, does it help them at all in breaking it? I.e., does it potentially delay breaking it by not revealing it?
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Let me ask you an honest question - why do you even feel the need to bring up Japanese internment in the context of and article on the Holocaust? Do you want to lessen the horror of the Holocaust, or do you really think the US behaved moral
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The internment was bad, but magnitude of the holocaust is so much worse that they are not comparable. From your wiki link: "A number of persons died or suffered for lack of medical care, and several were killed by sentries; James Wakasa, fo
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I don't know if the author intended it, but there is a difference between wanting and expecting. Implicit in expecting is that your deserve it. So when you don't get it, it is downgrade. Wanting still allows for aspiration, but with more gr
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by NoPiece 14y ago
One advantage of a dedicated e-ink device is the lack of distraction. I go to bed with my iPad and end up checking email, browsing the web, playing a game. I go to bed with my kindle, and I actually get some reading done. The Paperwhite als
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Those are good points. The confluence of maximally tasty and minimal cost can leads to very unhealthy food. I just don't like the intent that is implied when the article uses inflammatory phrases like science of addiction or designed to add
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Do you live near a Hot Dog on a Stick? I don;t think a robot could compete. And if it did it would be sad for the lemonade stompers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I'm not anti-Facebook. It's a better, more accountable, place to spend money than in a print ad. But, there was a bait and switch where they encouraged businesses to pay to connect to users, then they devalued all those connections by requi
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Some big sit down chain restaurants in the US do a good fresh lemonade. California Pizza Kitchen comes to mind, and I'll often order it. But there is still all that fast food and canned/bottled/vending machine consumption to deal with.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I think if you were selling widgets online (I assume you aren't), then the story would be much different. You can't know what behavior your customer took after seeing a print ad, but I know exactly how much traffic I get from our Facebook p
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Or take the same chicken, cover it in salt, buttermilk, and highly processed white flour, then fry it in duck fat like the New York Times does in this recipe: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/good-techn... Is it conspirac
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Lemonade tastes great fresh, but it very noticeably tastes worse when canned/bottled. I think that disparity keeps it from being able to challenge carbonated sodas on a large scale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_JKz9detM
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Right, and it is not just the cable companies that are fighting the disruption. Television networks are now getting a major chunk of their income from cable companies by increasing the carry and retransmission fees. This revenue source has
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You are right, I meant the big media conglomerates, not necessarily old media.
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News Corp, and old media in general, is the kiss of death for internet companies. News took IGN from $600m to $100m, and MySpace from $580m to $35m. Think about that if your exit strategy involves one of those companies. By all means take t

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