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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Facebook launched at schools not called Harvard the Summer preceding my freshman year of college. It went live at my school a few weeks into that first semester. I enjoyed it immensely and observed it carefully, but sometime in 2007 it real
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
As they transition into their first act as handset hired guns, Nokia produce a sexy piece of industrial design featuring the OS which caused them to finally throw in the towel , in a form so simple they couldn't screw it up. And they didn'
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
1. Take this problem (with working-age Americans/First-world westerners): 2. Add 600 million Indians, 500 MM Chinese, 110 MM Americans, 100 MM Indonesians, 80+ MM Brazilians, and 40+ MM Russians under the age of 25 [1]. 3. Mix thoroughly in
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Zuckerberg doesn't misunderstand privacy, he misunderstands people. <long_story... It was the summer of 2004 and I was anxiously awaiting my freshman year of college. Facebook had just been opened to schools beyond the Ivy League, and I
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
My apologies. If I've assumed at least one thing correctly and by "it" you mean producers and studio heads artificially inflating budgets in order to ultimately line their own pockets and the pockets of their friends, I would find it hard t
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
I, for one, would love to know where those hundreds of millions to produce Avatar went, for instance. I wonder what slice of that pie was attributed to "Marketing Expense." Turns out it's free to upload a video (like, a trailer, let's s
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Noted. I'm willing to rescind that bit, unnecessary hyperbole intended to drive home the point that most of the scarcities which have driven up the real costs of media production over the years have recently evaporated, yet the "budgets" an
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by Ryanmf 15y ago
Try again. The argument is not that copyright is unnecessary. The argument is that "honoring copyright" and "taking legal action and attempting to secure government oversight to prop up an obsolete, commodity-based business model" are nowh
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by Ryanmf 16y ago
That all seems sensible to me. Although having established that: 1. the penalty for performing an illegal u-turn in Singapore isn't as harsh as penalties for the same act in America, and perhaps other western nations as well, 2. that penalt
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by Ryanmf 16y ago
Given Singapore's reputation of exacting harsh penalties for what many would consider minor offenses, I expected to find that performing an illegal U-Turn there would result in some outrageous fine or even jail time, which would account for
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The Oxymoronic Citizen Journalism(mondaynote.com)
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