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User8712
13y ago
This is what I was thinking as well. An account isn't even necessary, just have a two step process on Formspree. 1. Enter your e-mail address. Click next. 2. Copy the generated code, //api.formspree.com/Kn2JanlPkZ into
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13y ago
Well, buying WhatsApp for 16B is a guarantee they're no longer a competitor and you have their entire audience. Your plan takes 3.5 yrs longer, and it has a high chance of failure.
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13y ago
How? A scanner proves the ticket is valid and unused. After all, that's the purpose of a ticket. How does the selfie ticket achieve this? Who cares whether or not you match the person in the photo? It doesn't verify anything. This
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13y ago
How is this different than say, walking around your house with your smart phone recording video, and then pushing a button to upload it to your real estate ad? Advantage Tango: The user could manually navigate the virtual house. Advantage S
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13y ago
Speaking of food related ideas, when can a grocery store let me just pick up things, and walk out the door? Why can't I walk in a grocery store, swipe my credit card, then just fill up bags, and walk out? Or pause for a second at the d
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13y ago
Well, based on the video, they're aiming this as entertainment in some ways. This means your kids are going to run around your house playing these games, sending a 3D map of your residence to Google. Or wait, you lock this feature on y
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13y ago
You think the average person is aware of the data companies are collecting on them? I feel like 99% of the world has no idea how their privacy is being invaded. I think it's important to raise some awareness, so people can make an info
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13y ago
That would highly depend on what career you're choosing. I graduated 8 years ago, and since then freelanced full-time for countless individuals, businesses, and fortune 100 companies. I haven't once been asked where I studied.
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13y ago
So, Facebook is going to try and parse your WhatsApp messages to determine your relationship status, instead of using the Facebook relationship status field? When's the last time you messaged a friend for dinner that night, then chec
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13y ago
It's likely most of those users were once on Facebook, so I don't think personal info was a big selling point here. I think they made the purchase because 400,000,000 users outside of their bubble is a little worrying. It's a
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13y ago
It would be interesting to see exactly how intelligent and thought out an AI system could be at destroying us. Would it be barbaric? Would we end up with robots clubbing people and dropping bombs? Would it engineer some type of infectious d
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13y ago
Here's a question for you, what if the AI is perfectly friendly? It still might play us for fools in the long run. For example, let's say we develop a super friendly AI, running on your computer. The AI realizes the human race is
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13y ago
True, if they're going to toss around this kind of money, they should be buying earlier. I mean, if WhatsApp was worth 50 million a few years ago, they could buy 320 similar companies at that stage, totaling 16B. Basically anyone that
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13y ago
Well, if he could identify these accounts as illegitimate, surely Facebook could automatically do the same with their vast amount of data. However, they really have no incentive to do so. The average advertiser just wants to see a higher l
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13y ago
You do realize TOR is going to be unsafe for the average person and their every day browsing, right? Your traffic is going to be visible to any person running an exit node, so if you send any personal information or login credentials over a
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13y ago
Also consider how difficult your added value would be for the competition to implement. If you pose any threat to your competitor, they'll knock-off your features before you get off the ground. Then, you lose your main selling point an
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13y ago
So, were these ads actually appearing evening across the same sites or search results, and in the same locations? If rvmenu.com appeared more frequently in one location than the others, that would skew the entire results. I'm not convi
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13y ago
It also seems rude to be wearing a headset while socializing. People take their headphones out of their ears. If you have a bluetooth headset, I feel like I'm not getting your full attention. Even if you're not on a call, I still
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13y ago
Yes, that's why I said they'd get less traffic, and not likely provide the information. However, you might be able to achieve the opposite. Let's say on the iPhone, you could click a person's name, and attach their Twitt
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13y ago
The article brings up a good point, sometimes it makes more sense to start with the person. For example, let's say I need to get in touch with my friend to quickly inform them of a change to our plans. Open Skype? Not online. Check Fac
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13y ago
No need to let them down gently, just give them an honest answer, and it treat it like any other business proposition.
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13y ago
Same, Firefox 26.0 on Windows 8, I can't enter anything into the input fields aside from name on card .
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13y ago
Not sure if that's a good approach. Why do they need balls or guts to use your software? It's that risky? If your software is at the forefront, why is no one else using it? I think most schools want to see something that's pr
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13y ago
The only Catalans I ever met were extremely open and welcoming. I knew them all for less than an hour, and they were all hugs and kisses, great company, and said their couch is always available if I'm in Barcelona and need a place to s
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13y ago
Agreed. Right now I think it's only catching the attention of hobbyists, that want to play around with the technology for fun in their spare time. The demos don't show any practical examples to get average consumer excited. It als
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13y ago
The lesson is know what a fair price is for your flight, then check a handful of sites often until it comes up for around that price. Try to book at least a few weeks in advance. I can't stress the first point enough. When you buy anyt
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13y ago
Also, keep in mind you're going to get turned down. You can be Brat Pitt, and you'll still get turned down more times than you can count. Don't take it personally, just tweak up your profile, photos, and messages so you get a
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13y ago
Hmm, maybe don't make it sound too formal. Bad. Would you like to get a coffee together sometime? Good. I'm heading into town on Saturday, do you want to grab a quick drink at XYZ cafe early afternoon? They make a mean espresso. A
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13y ago
At first I thought people trying to escape reality would be a negative, then a few moments after, I had a similar reaction to you... why not? I mean, if someone isn't enjoying their real-life, and they can spend all their free time liv
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13y ago
Agreed, I've used other sites, not OkCupid, but ended up with the same result. I keep it dead simple, write a couple of lines, and if they respond with a hint of interest, I just ask them out for something casual. It works really well.
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