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by ajays 14y ago
Airtime is to Chatroulette what Facebook was to MySpace.
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by ajays 14y ago
Funny anecdote: I wrote a GM script a loong time ago to block the FB ads. And promptly forgot about it. So I was a bit confused when people would mention FB ads, and I was like: where are you people seeing these ads? This confusion reigned
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by ajays 14y ago
My status updates have gone from about 1/day a couple of years ago, to about 1/week now. Even though I've blocked all apps, etc., I find FB to be too noisy. The only thing I like about FB is that I can keep track of friends' events, like ba
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by ajays 14y ago
Agreed. 48 units on Redfin, under a million bucks, listed in the last week alone: http://tinyurl.com/83pknzd
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How scalable is this? I would think it's easy to put together something that serves, say, 100 users simultaneously. But how well does this scale to 100K users?
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by ajays 14y ago
It's the same with spammers. If you are a public email provider, the spammers create accounts and spam them before unleashing their spam. Since they have access to both sides of the wall, they can keep trying till they are successful. Rins
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FTA: " But the biggest step will be to create a car that will let me just sit in the back seat with no-one at all in the driver's seat. . . . If Google can get there before a major automaker beats them to it, I'll be really impressed. " A m
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I just tried them. They said the best quote was Geico, for $410/six months. I went to Geico's site, and it came to more than $600/six months. This much discrepancy doesn't bode well. What I would love to see is a button, so that it'll take
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by ajays 14y ago
Just like number portability, right? I see this working just like Open Auth. You are on site X. You tell them you want to import your data from site Y. You authenticate yourself, and (insert a waiting period here if you like) then site X pu
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by ajays 14y ago
Wait: did we have such problems when number portability became the law? I don't remember that happening.
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There'll probably come a time when the Congress will get involved, and mandate that any personal data that was provided by the user should be transferable to another server upon the user's request. Sorta like number portability.
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I don't think it's legal for an underwriter to short the price of a security that they're bringing to the market.
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On the other hand: MS also spent ~ $3B providing a floor on Friday by buying up FB shares in the open market. Since FB is down 11%, they've already lost about $330M on that. Not chump change even for MS.
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by ajays 14y ago
Something's amiss in the article. First there's this: " Result? Two! €160 quid for two clicks, each of whom looked at two site pages. " Then: " Clearly something is not right, so I decide to view the profiles of all those who clicked the ad
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I've signed it, but I have a general question: has there been any petition on the WH site which has resulted in significant change (like a new law being submitted to Congress by the WH, or a new directive being issued) ?
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Exactly.
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Can we please stop calling them "artists" and start calling them what they really are, vandals? There is nothing creating about what this guy did. People slap the label "art" on crap too quickly. No, not all of it is art. Some of it is; bu
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Discovering each others interests and performing an intersection of the two sets is also a conversation ... :)
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"Contrary to popular American male belief, pretty much everything in life is more important than being able to go to a bar and talk to a woman you don't know." That may as well be; but not being able to initiate a meaningful conversation wi
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by ajays 14y ago
As I read the comments, I see people becoming polarized very quickly. People are comparing shyness to homosexuality, etc. I think we need to calm down. As I read the article, it is saying that if you think you're handicapped (as in, at a di
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by ajays 14y ago
I would love to see these in a city like SF. It's a small city (geographically), but we spend $1B/year on MUNI, which carries about 700K passengers/day. Put together a fleet of, say, 5000 such autonomous vehicles that take you door to door,
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by ajays 14y ago
It may apply in other industries, but medicines are different. You have the whole medical school system to do your "marketing". There are scientific publications galore. For life-saving drugs, customers aren't swayed by "marketing" at all:
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Studies have shown that Big Pharma spends more on advertising than on R&D: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...
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When I started at Yahoo Search (in 2005; it was Inktomi), I quickly learned that "just Google it" was frowned upon, and modified my vocabulary to say "just use web search". To this day, I still use this phrase. Most engineers that I knew in
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Accessing a wi-fi network without permission is definitely against the law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#United...
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Had an individual person done this, the law would have been on him quicker than lightning[1]. But when a company does it, it gets off with a trivial fine. [1]: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/04/State/Wi_Fi_cloaks_a_new_b...
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by ajays 14y ago
Redis is amazing. But I don't see much discussion about its pubsub capabilities. Are there any real-world stories of how well it scales, and how much pubsub traffic a single server can handle?
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How do they know what's under the surface of these asteroids?
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My opposition to illegal immigration boils down to these points: 1. Many illegals die each year making the journey, and many more are brutalized on the way to the border. They have to deal with coyotes, drug gangs, etc. The current situat
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It's about Instagram, and there are people still mulling the "billion dollar" figure about Instagram getting acquired by FB.

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