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by anbop 8y ago
I’ve heard very few people arguing to expand the list of capital crimes. After all, California hasn’t even executed more than 700 people on death row, let alone all the other first degree murderers who could be executed without any expansio
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by anbop 8y ago
Source? Bugged by ownership or rogue actors who book the room?
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Jon Ronson’s book “So you’ve been Internet shamed.”
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Twitter is simple only at the UI level. It’s still very easy to make a seemingly simple move on Twitter which results in ending your career, signing up for a life of harassment, etc. In a way, Twitter hides too much of the complexity of the
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by anbop 8y ago
I think this is what happened to Amazon. A series of locally optimized decisions like commingled inventory and 3rd party sellers that has turned the site into a used car dealership in some categories.
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It’s usually more fruitful to look for individual incentives rather than organizational motives. The individual incentives are clear — the professor gets publicity and name recognition, the administrator gets to inflate their staff and budg
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by anbop 8y ago
The Supreme Court decision wasn't at all a failure to understand technology... their ruling basically said "the technology here doesn't matter, it's what the technology does that we are ruling on." Aereo brought arg
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Why not? It’s economically rational even for the company now. It used to be rational just for the executives.
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YC’s own Sam Altman finagled a “single-digit millions” package when selling his startup, Loopt, for barely more money than it raised.
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Yes, but “just works” is because Apple allows itself preferential Siri integration, which would be an antitrust case if the Justice Department was worth a shit.
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The alternative is they do that and don’t give you the T-shirt.
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I wouldn’t sign any political petition in my company. That doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion, or that I wouldn’t act on that opinion, such as by leaving my company if I didn’t like it and had another alternative.
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It’s a townhome, so pretty much market price.
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Linus doesn’t have any uniquely informed point of view here. Internet giants are much more like media companies than technology companies in the way they interact with society. Linus’ opinion is like a famous actor’s opinion on climate chan
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If you have no use case for this product, consider the ways in which you have been fortunate.