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by adventureful 14y ago
Absolutely agree. Digg should be run by 3 to 5 people tops at its current size. It'll still cost more than $500k to transition the service to whatever it is they have in mind. It'll probably cost more than $500k just to trim Digg down to si
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by adventureful 14y ago
I'd wager they spent it. Crunchbase reports they had 60 employees at some update in the past, so it was probably higher than that at the peak. 60 employees alone probably cost them $6 to $8 million per year depending on all the perks. You c
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by adventureful 14y ago
The only reason it's $500k and not $0 is to save a small amount of face. Digg is losing money, and has never made money in its entire history, so it's going to cost Betaworks a lot more than $500k to take it over.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Reggie Jackson has his place. He has a big mouth (attention), hits monster homeruns (fans go wild), and is Mr. October for a reason (big time in big games).
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by adventureful 14y ago
I thought Walmart already destroyed traditional local retail? This one goes in the scaremonger bag.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Given ideas have approximately zero value, they didn't make off with much.
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by adventureful 14y ago
A $45 billion kickstarter for 2013 should do the trick for the US market.
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Samsung wins court case against Apple because it's "not as cool"(reuters.com)
2 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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by adventureful 14y ago
I find it fascinating how little attention this huge branding mistake has gotten. It was extraordinarily amateurish on the part of Apple, the kind of mistake I would have expected from Microsoft a few years ago. Except had Microsoft made th
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by adventureful 14y ago
The real economy part is absurd. America has a very real economy. It's the world's largest manufacturer (yes, larger than China). There are more people working REAL jobs in America than the total number of people in Germany. And you just in
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by adventureful 14y ago
Major corporations like Google? That's laughable. Reddit users did about 100 times more than Google all by themselves.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Clearly the Banana iHole is the superior name to go with. Maybe call it a Banana Macinhole instead.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Worse, people exchange mouth bacteria regularly. Provides the perfect rapid evolution landscape to build super bacteria. So even if perhaps a few % start using it, it might be enough to set off a situation where people that didn't use it ge
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by adventureful 14y ago
They mention a lot of options like transporting hydrocarbons from Titan or Ammonia from the outer solar system (as methods for atmosphere formation). Clearly the best source of CO2 is to export it from Earth. A space railway from Earth to M
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by adventureful 14y ago
People tend to over-estimate change in the short term and under-estimate it in the long term. They're going to miss by 20 to 30 years, at least.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Going to have to start by proclaiming that several other things are human rights before you get to Internet access. Access devices are a human right. Electricity is a human right. Access to telecom lines (of some sort) is a human right. Acc
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by adventureful 14y ago
I intentionally left out WW2 because only one nation on earth had nukes, and only at the end of the war. It's not a valid reference in a discussion about multiple countries having nukes and that acting as a form of peaceful standoff. The po
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by adventureful 14y ago
Only until the first one is let loose in a conventional war. And or only if we're talking about at least modestly rational nation states (all bets off in the hands of 'rogue groups' or terrorists). It's not amazing at all that Israel has re
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by adventureful 14y ago
He's right that the Web belongs to no one, but the politicians of the world, for the most part, clearly still don't agree nor believe that. It's too big of a single target to not constantly be the object of power grabs. So much of what we d
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by adventureful 14y ago
I'm already disappointed. I went to saalty.com and there was no deer. Iterate faster! MVP this sucker and get it launched! Get that deer into the cloud! And be sure to count the salt licks with a nosql store.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Google is attempting to build new brand value around design, so they can better compete with Apple directly in hardware. That's the entire point of the magic eight ball. It's intentionally unusual. They want props for design, not for functi
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by adventureful 14y ago
The slate logo is every bit as 'visually uncomfortable' as the Windows logo on that tablet. And the kinda-sorta-connecting office logo style is just plain terrible.
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Video from Space Shows Army Creating an Island Off the Coast of the US(gizmodo.com)
4 points by adventureful 14y ago|0 comments
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by adventureful 14y ago
I'm going to make a prediction that this will get massive hype and pomp surrounding it, and three or four (or whatever) years from now when the first big result sets roll in, it'll be discovered that it turns out it's not much more (perhaps
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by adventureful 14y ago
The only way to make what viable long term?
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by adventureful 14y ago
The law of big numbers is harder to climb than the projectors would ever like to admit. Which is why the Japanese and German 'miracle' economies of the mid 1960s-1980s didn't lead to either of them becoming super powers. China and India wil
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by adventureful 14y ago
A strong China would be the best thing to happen to America in decades. What America has lacked, really since the Soviets of the 1960s, is a strong competitor (another super power). America would be greatly strengthened by a stronger China.
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by adventureful 14y ago
"Can go on promoting," should be changed to: "get back to living by." Our government is currently busy abusing and or destroying all of the things that made it a great country. We don't need to shovel those ideas on other people as much as
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by adventureful 14y ago
So are you saying that Samsung sued Apple first when it comes to smart phones and tablets? I would be very interested to see that case history.
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by adventureful 14y ago
No, that only works if the US can't keep coming at you. In that case, you have to be able to sustain massive damage to your economy and military and keep fighting indefinitely (which then guarantees a shift to guerrilla tactics).

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