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by ballard 13y ago
The Wikipedia page on prediction markets storied history and interesting bit. Curious that USM had a prototype that was shutdown for being a "terrorism futures market." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction
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by ballard 13y ago
VICE is amazing. That's real journalism. Getting out there getting to the front lines and asking uncomfortable questions.
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by ballard 13y ago
The interesting bit would be reconstructing the right face memory rather than one of the interviewers. Actually, there's an obvious scifi plot: investigator is a serial killer but excluded from memory extraction because the witness jus
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. Consider it a cheap lesson in trust and that their reputations are blown. It's a small valley and word will get around.
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by ballard 13y ago
Another example of Google building whatever they want today instead of building what customers need right now. Same thing happens on Googles other product lines, so it's no shock.
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by ballard 13y ago
Plus switching stacks would be risky and costly. Google would have to give away an enormous amount of credits for shops to consider it.
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by ballard 13y ago
Google is about 2 years too late. Many startups switched to AWS in droves and never looked back. The failure is that Google would have to give away GAE, GCE and friends in order for folks to switch because the work to change stack tooling
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by ballard 13y ago
DVD players.
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by ballard 13y ago
If you paid for a license to something and they provide the source with purchase, but don't want the source shared or modifications to it shared either. In reality, if redistribution of source is forbidden, restricting unreleased modif
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. I had the beta source of win 2k when it was refered to as NT 5.
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Exo – efficient post-disaster temp housing(reactionhousing.com)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Never said their was. The wrong cofounder/s is like the wrong spouse. The right cofounder/s is like the right spouse. Best to know them previously, it helps a lot. Further, the biggest point of having other people around is killin
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by ballard 13y ago
That would be a funny contest: most desperate tweet.
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. I think OAuth calls it scope, and it's a list of requested permissions.
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by ballard 13y ago
Wow cool! Would really like to see related tags, built in the usual big data algorithms / search UX way.
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by ballard 13y ago
One thing is to keep ongoing tech (servers etc) costs low so it can simmer. Shutting apps down just destroys value.
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by ballard 13y ago
Anything but folks arguing sex politics. Did anyone even bother to look to see how this site compares in their market? Who's their closest competitors even?
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by ballard 13y ago
It's minus half a credibility point for being a lone wolf founder. The reasons to have founders plural are countless.
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by ballard 13y ago
So they're employees. Paid / unpaid, stock?
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. 'sama tweeted something similar about users not really caring about underlying tech. None of it matters if users don't love the net result. JFS - just fucking ship. Worry about delivering a compelling product, why you are
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by ballard 13y ago
It's ever since the pg incident and reinforced by the github gate, the valley is in a "see we welcome women, women are great and we've always loved them" mode. Folks are already calling it "gender washing."
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by ballard 13y ago
And she takes credit for it personally. Gotta promote the team members or it looks like they're replaceable cutouts.
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by ballard 13y ago
Look up their stats on quantcast and compete, tells a different story.
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John Perry Barlow(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ballard 13y ago
Or 50 years. R.I.P. A.S.
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by ballard 13y ago
Not to come off as green ink, but this narrows the implicit incentive to find news (eg mostly gossip) and perhaps even incite a little drama to make quota now and then. It's like the investment timescale of a stockbroker vs Warren Buf
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by ballard 13y ago
Smart and wisdom of experience together are as kids say... gangster. It's only when a person gives up either learning or trying and accept status quo that their ability to make a big impact can be questioned, and that can happen at an
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by ballard 13y ago
Universities these days are sitting on huge cash reserves. And then also look at how much cash is being spent on new buildings. Buildings at Stanford were torn down are less than 8 years old.
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by ballard 13y ago
So a guy I know took his Yale scholarship, bought a boat and sails around the world and made the diff by working summers. Can't do that anymore.
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by ballard 13y ago
The client needs to actively manage the projects for risk so that the do succeed and don't pretend to "succeed." In other words, doing a good job making sure a good job is being actually done.

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