amirmc

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by amirmc 13y ago
Impressed that this issue is recognised and a mechanism created to mitigate it. However, doesn't this merely delay the signal (which is mentioned) so it may simply defer the problem down the line. If after $500k you haven't ha
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by amirmc 13y ago
> I found this to not actually be a very useful approach in practice. Could you expand on this, please? I'm curious to know what the problems were (just so I know what I'm letting myself in for)
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... their actions were what made me aware ..." Point of pedantry: You're aware because someone wrote an article and someone else posted it here. I wonder how many other locations have tried similar tactics but not bee
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by amirmc 13y ago
The problem is with the media and the way things were spun. Correcting that should not involve stifling the workflows scientists use. The GitHub analogy is a good one as what you're suggesting is the equivalent of only pushing perfect
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's evidently not 'expected' behaviour from the point of view of the user. Just because you happen to put an email address in the title of a calendar event doesn't imply that I expect the software to go and send me
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by amirmc 13y ago
You don't know that. There may be many but due to parallel construction, the source of investigations is obfuscated. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's more than just about female founders . I'm sure there are many male founders out there who'd like to ensure that the organisations they're building are places where female employees would be happy. It can be diffi
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "Now they could go and set up somewhere there really is no tax to be paid ..." This is pretty much what they do, with legal entities in different jurisdictions. Then they can move money around such that the 'profit&#x
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by amirmc 13y ago
Presumably, those analysts still need to be trained in the normal way first so that they know what features they're looking for. In addition, you could probably only use people for short durations before you have to allow them to rest,
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "When you can't cover your COGS as an Internet company, your business model is what sucks, not the funding environment." There are plenty of examples of SV companies with no revenue and no business model in sight who a
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by amirmc 13y ago
Perhaps not when it was Nest as opposed to Google . I'd have quite liked the Nest Protect but I don't want to have even more of my life depending on Google. Diversification is a good thing. Of course, I might be wrong and h
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by amirmc 13y ago
That's not really how biases work. For example, I'm sure many of the founders of failed startups were nice people, who got stuff done and moved fast (while responding to emails quickly). I do believe that the people at YC have a
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... there is no history of genuine mutual trust and support." Trust is supposed to work both ways. Before dismissing countries such as these it's worth looking at the history of relations from both sides.
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by amirmc 13y ago
To summarise your comment: "Bah, Humbug." More seriously, I think you're being way too dismissive. The same train of logic could apply to any tech advances we've had. Email? Use letters. Smartphones? Use a proper compute
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by amirmc 13y ago
Another way to achieve the same thing might be to take pictures at the locations you want to remember. The geo-tagging can help you locate where the pic was taken (though you'd probably need a pic of the name of the place for this to
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by amirmc 13y ago
Seems like you're commenting based only on the title. Here's the first sentence of the article: "It might sound weird to accuse Foursquare of collecting location data since that is the whole point of the service, but Foursq
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by amirmc 13y ago
Perfect law enforcement is an interesting idea but probably scary (and unworkable) in practice. There are things people can do today that were once illegal (e.g being homosexual) and if we'd had perfect enforcement, they'd have be
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by amirmc 13y ago
I think you missed the part where they chose not to indict HSBC and the reasons for doing so. There doesn't seem to be much ambiguity about the actual money-laundering. The linked NY Times post has more info. http://mobile
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by amirmc 13y ago
Except if you're a big and important bank, then things like 'zero tolerance' don't really apply. You then just get a slap on the wrist for insufficient controls. Note that they chose not to indict HSBC. it's not t
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by amirmc 13y ago
Interesting. I'd never have thought of this downside without hearing your story so thanks for sharing. You say in the other thread that your wife suggested a Bachelor's/Masters but what about MBA or PhD instead? I know of fol
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "Then you do a Bluetooth transfer, or CIFS/SMB file share, or FTP, or HTTP, or IrDA, or USB, etc. Why would you use a cloud service?" I suppose this is what you say to people who extol the virtues of Dropbox or BitTorr
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by amirmc 13y ago
If I were getting started on FB and social media now, I would also default to 'public' and treat posts accordingly. However, I first got involved when it was private and I treated it very differently (this was before I became awar
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by amirmc 13y ago
Ok, let's start with your points. "Inefficient routing, unstable communication, high latency and low bandwidth" : If I have two devices (phone and laptop) on the same wifi network (e.g. home or work) and I want to send somet
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by amirmc 13y ago
I think Diaspora was an idea ahead of it's time. Market-timing is critical for a new project/startup and I think there weren't enough users in the world who understood both the costs and benefits of Facebook (or social med
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by amirmc 13y ago
I seem to come across this view more often and it saddens me. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. For example, if someone really wants to break into my house they probably will but that doesn't mean I'm not going to bother
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by amirmc 13y ago
I agree and I'm working on a tool that helps with this [1] but based on domain names. Of course that still depends on the registrars (e.g Verisign) but we believe it's easier for folks to remember names rather than numbers and t
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by amirmc 13y ago
A slightly less cynical view: They were in the dark about who else was involved and didn't fancy picking a fight with USG alone (and with an unknown amount of public support). Now that things became public and they know who else is in
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... the internet is already a system of decentralized networks and services. You can just hook in your own services into the network at any point therein and maintain them yourself." Sure, but I'd argue we should be m
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... the number of people working on it will be exactly proportional to the amount of work required to be done … " I strongly disagree. This is a recipe for burnout because it ends up being done by the people who care most

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