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by _audakel 10y ago
With bezos in charge, all the people responsible for publishing the articles are probably long gone. No way for the post to give them up
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The short reviews also have another benifit, they seem more factual and reliable. A long emotional rant nearly always looses all credibility with me, even if they had justifiable complaint.
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by _audakel 10y ago
Good point - on Should I Invest In Crowdfunding? "Crowdfunding has a bit of an adverse selection problem, where only companies which are insufficiently attractive to more professional angels .... go"
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"The best way to attack a competitor is to find their soft underbelly and tear it to shreds with tooth and claw. Ideally, it’s something they are not able to change in response to your attack. Slack’s soft underbelly is their pricing m
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"Marketing is war. You are fighting for your company’s life, by way of attention and sales. If you aren’t willing to go to war, you might as well surrender and go home and knit cat stuff for Etsy."
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Garry Johnson will be doing a reddit_AMA on Sept 6 at 9pm ET(twitter.com)
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I would like an Amazon Prime Air to deliver my new car plz.
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double upvote
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"DFAS also could not make accurate year-end Army financial statements because more than 16,000 financial data files had vanished from its computer system." I am impressed. I did an internship at a financial company and helped do e
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by _audakel 10y ago
this is a great point. currently millions of individual errors are made by people that cause accidents. the future is 1 software exploited bug can cause millions of accidents. I am assuming overall software will have less fatalities but it
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this is true, however he wrote in his personal blog that: "Never in that process did I experience any pressure to “fill beds” in the private prisons we built. And if I had, it wouldn’t have worked. It might happen elsewhere, but it abs
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this just makes me glad that Garry Johnson is campaigning on criminal justice reform. From his website "How is it that the United States, the land of the free, has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world? The answer is simp
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> They do a little more than "root for war" that is so sad all the stats in the link you posted. hopefully with the rise of the internet and everyone becoming connected we can raise awareness and not let things like that happen
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that is any interesting connection. the for profit prisons seem to be worse than the govt run counterparts, but for profit schools seem to vary on the effectiveness with their govt counterparts. i would guess there would be some inverse cor
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>end to mass violence and cruelty would be infinitely more valuable than any of those things (except for clean energy). clean energy is infinitely more valuable than end to mass violence? That seems like a bit of an overstatement.
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by _audakel 10y ago
move to a developing nation. i spent 2 yrs on a service mission for mexico. really opened my eyes to how different life is for people outside the US. simple things like mobile phone banking are huge game changers in these countries. go and
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key point - "spacex has yet to actually reuse any of its vehicles"
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bad choice of ads - at the end of the article there was a little date widget to "find a hotel near lake Nyos" and choose your departure date and return date.
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by _audakel 10y ago
if police are about to shoot, and have good cause to, then it would seem reasonable that they be allowed to use sleep gas or tranquilizer, similar to what doctors use during operation. Seems better than killing them. Downside could be lawsu
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Do you have periscope installed on your phone? You can live broadcast video to twitter at the press of a button. If you truly believe your life is in danger, and since you already have your phone out it would provide some level of protectio
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by _audakel 10y ago
do a startup
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any cost they would save on cooling would be lost on the incredibly expensive repairs process of getting the pods out of water or getting someone down there to fix it.
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The most profound defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen(audakel.github.io)
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"But Markov chains aren't just useful for automatically generating Paul Graham essay parodies. They're also quite practical. You might even say Markov chains are a large part of what powers today's internet. Most remarka
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Markov chains. paul graham's secret revealed(blog.codinghorror.com)
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1) you left the domain in 2005 and are "waiting for the right opportunity to get back in" because it became "relevant" 2) meanwhile some other company has been working on a similar product and wants to buy your domain 3)
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by _audakel 10y ago
"Some, such as Yorgen Edholm, CEO of cloud company Accellion, insist Clinton's policy proposals — especially on cybersecurity and data privacy — offer "platitudes" that are "thin on specifics.""
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"Although there have been some recent minor steps in a positive direction concerning copyright in the EU, politicians have been trying to undermine them with really terrible ideas. We already covered the push to effectively outlaw outd
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"and a legacy of British exceptionalism that dates back to the British Empire -- contributed to the vote's outcome. "The idea that they were just another European country was a blow to their pride," he said. "They c
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On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is gettin

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