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by alexqgb 14y ago
When reading NYT comment sections, I always sort, but never by the editor's picks. I rely solely on reader's most recommended. This is the best bullshit filter I've found, and I can see why lazy, dishonest, poorly informed, or otherwise sub
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Not exactly. When the Western Empire fell, the Eastern Empire retained Constantinople as its capital, from which it engaged in a protracted series of increasingly expensive wars with the Sassanid Empire (modern-day Iran). These conflicts p
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One advantage of platforms like KS is that they allow originators to validate their concepts far earlier in the process, giving them more leverage in negotiating with financiers who can no longer demand exorbitant returns from highly specul
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This is why opening the portion of the spectrum no longer use for television brodcasting (known as White Space) is such a big deal. Thanks to the accelerating bananafication of our republic, there's a very good chance that the most valuable
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by alexqgb 14y ago
I don't think you know what saber rattling actually means.
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Your hypothetical Martian appeares to be an instinctive egalitarian, for whom conspicuous displays of disposable income provide no socially-differentiating benefit.
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It's a good thing.
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The flaw (and it is a very major flaw) is in the reporting system, which is unable to give drivers planning their drives reliable information with which to plan their drives. That is flawed almost by definition. The reasons why are utterly
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Your approach depends on a very simplistic idea about investors. In reality, the fall on a spectrum. Some demand low returns but insist on a high level of confidence about the outcome. Others are investors in name only; what they really do
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by alexqgb 14y ago
OP here; the site worked on my iPhone, didn't realize it would cause so much grief elsewhere. I've sent the post's author a link to this thread. I'm sure he'll get it to the right people. tl;dr/cr: Elon Musk called Boeing to say "I've got a
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Elon Musk may be right about his simple solution for Boeing(qz.com)
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This is wrong. And that's because safety deals with probabilities, not absolutes. In the absence of absolutes, people who are also responding to contrary pressures (time, money, etc.) can find themselves shifting the lines between likely, u
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"There are two ways to be wrong about the Internet" says Evgany Morozov(newrepublic.com)
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It's true that websites and sofas have different refresh rates, but I'm guessing you didn't read the OP, check out the site in question, or click through to any of the examples he provided. If you do, you'll see that we're not talking about
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The similarities are superficial at best. Fashion, almost by definition, is ephemeral. Design, on the other hand, strives for permanence. "Constantly reinvention" is just total bullshit when you start talking about salt and pepper shakers.
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I'd like to stress that this is by no means a fair characterization of all the people who work in media. There are a awful lot who push against this current every day. Some of them (on occasion) win. But it tends to be a fight, and the vict
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Bingo. Also, there's a legal concept called trade dress, which protects the signature elements of a product. Mitusibusi copies Mercedes, but only to point. And that point is defined by law. This law explains why the imitations are so pale,
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Really? They can "evolve" their site? At what cost? Specifically, do you think it's a cost that's equal to or lower than the cost of simply waiting for others to do the hard work, then copying their advances? If you do, I can understand why
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by alexqgb 14y ago
"Selfish, desperate, and cheap." Yes, exactly. As someone who knows the media world better than he'd like to, I cannot think of a more succinct or generally applicable characterization. You, sir, have nailed it.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
So let me get this straight, you say you've got a problem with ad hominem attacks, but that doesn't stop you from personally attacking others. And when you do, the term of abuse you employ is...(wait for it)...hypocrite. Unbelievable. Just
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If they never feel the need to incorporate, then this framework doesn't stop them from getting as big as they can. But if the money they're making is enough to live on well, they're going to find themselves under more and more pressure to i
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"But if they also have a legal option to buy it for free" Oh my.
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Um, we're talking about one click shopping. ONE. CLICK. And that's still too much? It is? Right, you've just crossed into the asshole zone. And by the way, people like you are the reason that stores have those anti-theft tag readers by thei
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I'm sorry, but what? You think iTunes is "too hard" to use? You have a problem figuring our Netflix? Is Amazon more than your tiny brain can take? This isn't 2002. Online commerce isn't some repellent hellscape of overpriced goods and faile
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Sorry, but you're wrong on both counts. For one, it's just not true that movie studios make their money from individuals. Theme parks aside, they are almost entirely B2B. Think about it, have you ever bought a film directly from Universal S
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Actually, there is another way of dealing with this. Specifically you can drop any attempt to enforce copyright among private individuals, avoiding any entanglements with their moral rights, and restrict the application of the law to incorp
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"yummyfajitas" may have been a quant, but if he's at all sincere about the questions he's asking, he's still a blithering idiot, and deeply dishonest to boot - with himself, if no one else. Here's more on the massive criminal fraud that he
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Extending this theory to the world of software it would make it foolish to update or iterate or anything, because thanks to the passage of time, you're just going to have to update and iterate all over again again. On the other hand, reject
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Knowing the limits of my own knowledge, I was careful to say "appears". But honestly, that only makes him even more dishonest. After all, he was saying that there was no real difference between banks involved in the subprime crisis and any
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I made the mistake of assuming that labor camps were found in State systems only. I have since found out about Unicor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries

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