Sven7

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by Sven7 11y ago
For someone who doesn't know much about the Indian Startup scene, is there tech coming out of India worth keeping an eye on?
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by Sven7 11y ago
Your post made me happy :) So thanks!
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by Sven7 11y ago
Well said. I too would like to see Brick and Mortar models survive and thrive. SV speed and scale of disruption these days, is too quick for anyone's good. If we want more whales in the ocean we need larger oceans. We are getting very
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by Sven7 11y ago
Until we find better ways for journalists to pay their rent that's what we are stuck with.
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by Sven7 11y ago
This is some nice work. Keep it up! I see the code is available but as well ask before taking a look - is there much effort to remap for different geographies and languages?
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by Sven7 11y ago
>> the reality won't change that covert surveillance is not good for a country and its citizens. I don't agree. Surveillance\Censorship is necessary and it has to get better over time. In the era of social networks and viral
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by Sven7 11y ago
The EFF can be a lot more constructive if it didn't spend its time, separating the reasons for censorship from the consequences of censorship, and acting as if the relationship between the two is non-existent. All the EFF ends up doing
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by Sven7 11y ago
I don't know what dreamland you live in, but everyone knows what happened during the 2008 meltdown what laws have been created? Everyone knows how the invasion of Iraq was a complete mistake. Has someone gone to jail? The public is not
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by Sven7 11y ago
If you are a pro athlete it allows you to practice your swing or your serve.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Then Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page are responsible for a lot of things... But as long as they come and cry on stage about how we should trust them and help them make the world more "open and connected" I guess it makes it okay. I
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by Sven7 11y ago
So the time frames for these predictions are "sooner", "later", "drastically sooner" and "within our lifetime". That's nice. You sir are well qualified to work on Wall Street.
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by Sven7 11y ago
...and the same logic can be applied to the decisions made by the corporate overlords. It's why we have the law. People in general are irresponsible. A complex world makes it harder to identify pandora's boxes lying all around. An
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by Sven7 11y ago
I agree. Donald Trump is showing us you don't need a donaldtrump.com to get elected. But it doesn't look like you can be (or become) a public figure anywhere in the world anymore without facebook, twitter etc.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Amazon's threat is Jack Ma. And Jack Ma is bigger than Amazon.
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by Sven7 11y ago
If you were in charge what would you do today if a report came across your desk that a city was going to be attacked next week? Things aren't black and white. Obama shows he understands all the nuances of the complex world we live in a
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by Sven7 11y ago
Keep posting your list. It speaks for itself.
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by Sven7 11y ago
If it's the only half ass solution we have to prevent the next Boston Bombing or Paris Attacks what else can be done? Until we find better solutions its just par for the course along with comments likes yours.
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by Sven7 11y ago
At the end of the story a few people in Silicon Valley will get disproportionately richer than everyone else.
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by Sven7 11y ago
...and there is more pornography, pirated audio and video content on YouTube than there has ever been at any time before. You can add that to your post to complete it.
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by Sven7 11y ago
So just like YouTube.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Russell had no idea nor could anyone have imagined what the modern news media would turn itself into today. Which is why I posted the Taibbi piece.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Great point. It's why the Elon Musk's, Larry Page's and Bill Gates of the tech world retreat into their own private dreamlands as far away from the politics of the real world as possible, cause they know they don't stand
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by Sven7 11y ago
Look at the content world, whether its Disney, the movie studios, Comcast, the news networks, ESPN, HBO etc. why aren't they putting their top quality content on Youtube? Why are they building their own infra? Why are Amazon and Netfli
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by Sven7 11y ago
And you think Facebook doesn't have powerful rivals? You think the content industry or the advertising industry that keeps it running likes the fact they are beholden to one network. This is a matter of using some imagination and prese
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by Sven7 11y ago
This is a common misguided sense of what "winning" is. Mozilla's contribution to the web, is not that they have the most popular browser, but they have a browser with enough users that they get a seat at the table to influenc
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by Sven7 11y ago
Kudos to Mozilla! Mozilla can be more ambitious. Or atleast as bold as they once were, when they took on Microsoft. If they can convince Baidu, Yahoo et al to keep them open, independent and competitive against the likes of Apple, Google or
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by Sven7 11y ago
Media people ruined the internet.
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by Sven7 11y ago
You are saying what I am saying. There are no good answers. Doesn't mean we stop looking for answers. Which is what the focus of these debates should be. It's easy when there are no good answers, to take a dump on the decisions pe
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by Sven7 11y ago
The problem is not awareness of privacy and financial sec issues. The problem is how do you prevent the next Boston Bombing or Paris. Since we don't have a good answer to that, what else do expect them to do?
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by Sven7 11y ago
I don't know about John Le Carre, but man can James Parker write.

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