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by awongh 10y ago
Is that really true in practice? I've been reading lots of stories like these: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160314/09374733901/isps-... that talk about how hard it is for any new player to get acc
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by awongh 10y ago
Yeah, and from what I understand the crazy thing is that no one even really makes that much money, or as much money as a 2-300 percent increase in costs over other countries would suggest... It's mostly just an unbelievably inefficient
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by awongh 10y ago
I never realized all this existed! I'm still not clear from the article why the codes used inside the hospital are proprietary. copyrighted information- what kind of legal hoop jumping allows them to claim this? What kind of domain kno
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by awongh 10y ago
whoa it already exists: https://disputebills.com/
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by awongh 10y ago
Wow. Every time I read a story about how the business of health care in america really works, it makes me really angry. It seems to me that one of the central issues is, how all these hospitals and providers can continue to get away with ke
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Crowdfund to buy search history of lawmakers who killed internet privacy(gofundme.com)
5 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments
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Crowdfund to buy search history of lawmakers who killed internet privacy(resistancereport.com)
7 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments
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by awongh 10y ago
I wonder what the actual economics of a business like this are? What are the real rental rates at which these companies make a profit? Because at $0.15 an hour it seems like well below what the cost of running the service might be. (also in
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by awongh 10y ago
The language of science has shifted before; I don't think it's reasonable to assume it won't again. The language of diplomacy used to be french. Some of the cultural remnants of this still remain today, even though the role
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by awongh 10y ago
http://mashable.com/2015/07/29/uber-app-accuracy/#bsS69hn3pg...
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by awongh 10y ago
If you use a cmd + click workflow to open a new tab I built a chrome extension that tracks the parent/child tab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overtab/leceanmnoa... It doesn't track actu
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by awongh 10y ago
sometimes I get to a dead end and want to navigate back to where I was, but have somehow lost the thread of how I got there, either b/c I was doing cmd + click and lost the tab and / or closed it or because it's now buried in
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by awongh 10y ago
I made a chrome tab manager extension that just uses arrows to show which tabs opened which other tabs (specifically that cmd + click workflow) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overtab/leceanmnoa...
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by awongh 10y ago
I've probably read about 9.5/10 of the last books on a kindle. I think the format is perfect because of several factors: 1. for books I read through once and never actively reference again, or very seldomly 2. I don't have to
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by awongh 10y ago
This is a space I wish I knew more about- but it seems like it has it's own sub-culture that to me, is hard to parse. Can someone tell me what some of the things are that he refers to in this article? - dfp, dsp, ssp, gdn, dbm, adx, dc
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by awongh 10y ago
Another interesting wrinkle is that they were obeying the law in the country / nation they were doing business in, but it was the trade/economic/currency group (euro zone) that told them that what they were doing wasn'
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by awongh 10y ago
Vietnam internet can be quite quick. It's also cheap there.
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by awongh 10y ago
This one by Bret Victor (or any of his other talks, really) also come to mind: https://vimeo.com/36579366
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by awongh 10y ago
I wonder which type of programming he's referring to!
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by awongh 10y ago
That's only kind of true. They park it in other places besides China: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-m...
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by awongh 10y ago
it's interesting that there are seemingly so many different kinds of jobs in the field that happen to involve python. is the level of proficiency / familiarity with maya the same as an artist position? (i.e. how crucial is it that
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by awongh 10y ago
this is very cool. what are some of the names of the jobs that are programming based (as opposed to 3d artist based)? I am also very curious about what the breakdown is between people who write the pipeline code and those who write the stuf
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by awongh 10y ago
Are you referring to the divorce or the taxes? In terms of taxes, if you are hiring all those people, banks and lawyers to deal with it for you, I do wonder what the actual amount of hours it takes for this person to manage things. 3 hours
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by awongh 10y ago
ah, interesting. My understanding of central bank practices was that 'government issues debt, which is bought by central bank in exchange for $' == printing money - but they are not synonymous? So if you no longer have the paper t
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by awongh 10y ago
off topic, but is that true about the Flash Crash guy? Do you have a reference? I have only read the headlines about the case's current state.
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by awongh 10y ago
this. I find stuff like brain.fm too minimal, and not engaging enough, personally. Interesting how everyone has a personal threshold of not engaging enough / too engaging. I wish there was some reliable resource I could go to to find 3
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by awongh 10y ago
It says 52 megapixels... And maybe the total area of all 16 sensors > a dslr sensor? The low light example photos on their site look pretty good.
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Hypnotic gifs animate traditional Japanese joinery techniques(dezeen.com)
3 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments
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by awongh 10y ago
Is it possible we already have an entrenched system in place that squashes the possibility of a decentralized internet before it can get off the ground? Not only is no one economically motivated to share traffic towards the edge, no one wil
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Mesmerizing GIFs Illustrate the Art of Japanese Wood Joinery(archdaily.com)
2 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments

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