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   by basseq 9y ago

   Newsvine was great during its heyday. I never partook in the citizen journalism side of the equation, but took great pride in curating interesting submissions and the discussions that ensued. For at least one period at the end of 2008, when
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   An Epitaph for Newsvine(medium.mikeindustries.com)

   1 points by basseq 9y ago|1 comments
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   by basseq 9y ago

   Newsvine was great during its heyday. I never partook in the citizen journalism side of the equation, but took great pride in curating interesting submissions and the discussions that ensued. For at least one period at the end of 2008, when
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   by basseq 9y ago

   They absolutely help the middle class, too. The issue with being middle class is that you don't qualify for the "social safety net" deductions, but the other loopholes don't net you much in the way of absolute dollars—pa
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   by basseq 9y ago

   This easiest is to tax things that cannot move away, like real estate instead of giving giant deductions. States and localities absolutely do. "The federal government is generally prohibited from imposing direct taxes unless
6. 246.▲
   by basseq 9y ago

   Anecdotally, I feel like there are interrogations where the police kept asking questions even after the subject refused to answer or exercised their right to silence. E.g., you have the right not to answer questions, not the right to sile
7. 247.▲
   by basseq 9y ago

   I do like inductive charging, but I often find myself futzing about on my phone in bed at the end of the day, and my phone's on 5%. So I plug it in and keep using it. Hard to do that with inductive charging. Granted, my current iPhone
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   by basseq 9y ago

   Real answer: the X (5.65" x 2.79") is a little bigger than the 8 (5.45" x 2.65"), but smaller than the 8 Plus (6.24" x 3.07").
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   by basseq 9y ago

   A lot of people out there have been asking me who the iPhone 8 is for, other than people who can’t or don’t want to spend $999 or more on an iPhone X. Well... Jesus. "Only cheapskates buy the 8", apparently. I pre-or
10. 250.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    The website makes no mention of the "complaint" promised in the OP. Is this just litigation finance, or litigation support as well?
11. 251.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    A translation of the open letter from advertising companies to Apple: September 14, 2017 We're just now realizing what this means. An Open Letter from the Digital Advertising Community "Community" means we'
12. 252.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    The article focuses on stealing vs. copying, but both of those terms imply awareness of the source material. There's a grey area of "copying" where you design something while being unintentionally influenced by something else
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    by basseq 9y ago

    I hope this one goes to the Supreme Court, as that's the only place this will be resolved. Otherwise, U.S. Criminal Law is clear: searches and seizures at the border are exempt from requirements for warrants or probable cause. Multiple
14. 254.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    True, but a secondary issue, unrelated to the matter at hand, and frankly much less egregious. While Federal law allows certain agencies to conduct search and seizure operations within 100 miles of the border, the Supreme Court has been cle
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    by basseq 9y ago

    I hope this one goes to the Supreme Court, as that's the only place this will be resolved. Otherwise, U.S. Criminal Law is clear: searches and seizures at the border are exempt from requirements for warrants or probable cause. Multiple
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    by basseq 9y ago

    So define "blockchain" as "crypto-backed distributed ledger". The "distributed ledger" part of that isn't new. Crypto doesn't imply bitcoin. But yes, right now the two are inseparable, which IMO is pa
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    by basseq 9y ago

    I wasn't thinking in terms of investment strategy, but fair point given the original article. My real answer would channel Buffett and be to not invest in something I don't fully understand (or, more precisely, not invest in somet
18. 258.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    I probably will. I don't use Venmo very much, and when I do, it's to pay (or receive money from) people who also use Venmo. So it's convincing not just myself, but those with whom I transact, to use the same network.
19. 259.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    The contrarian view is that the blockchain can make transactions and transfers cheaper, faster, and easier to validate in any currency. I don't need bitcoin to do any of that.
20. 260.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    "Sales is the highest paying hard work and the lowest paying easy work."[1] With sales, you want to pay for performance and pay for outcomes. And with sales, it's easy to measure quantitatively and simply. Good sales people l
21. 261.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    I use and prefer Venmo. I dislike PayPal. I have not used Square Cash. I would refuse to use FB Messenger if anyone asked (which no one has). I have no interest in using an app that by default broadcasts my transactions to everyone
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    by basseq 9y ago

    Two immediate thoughts: This is going to be for the hitherto-unavailable third tier of new iPhone: we'll have iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. I expect this is referring to the X. Which may well only be offered in a 256GB confi
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    by basseq 9y ago

    They do. It's a $5k upgrade.
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    Tesla extends range of vehicles for free to help owners evacuate hurricane(electrek.co)

    9 points by basseq 9y ago|5 comments
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    by basseq 9y ago

    1. Go to a mental health professional and talk about what's going on. Do so for several months. My wife and I were talking about this last night. (She's a researcher in a field of psychology.) It is common to see lists
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    by basseq 9y ago

    But supply is meeting demand at that point, right? It implies a shortage, because of the price point. Because demand far outstrips supply, which drives price up.
27. 267.▲
    by basseq 9y ago

    "Conveyor-belt sushi" has such a terrible connotation. The worst of fast food, cardboard cuisine, mindless automation, and glassy-eyed consumers. That said, the concept of what is effectively an automatic rice-forming machine seem
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    Travis Kalanick Still Wants Back in at Uber(vanityfair.com)

    13 points by basseq 9y ago|1 comments
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    by basseq 9y ago

    Scale-able business economics hold that if $unit_profit > 0, growth is good. It sounds like $unit_profit is negative―at least in some markets. Which would be a concern for long-term growth a profitability: the old "we lose money on
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    by basseq 9y ago

    Yes, Oreo is trademarked, and Google has licensed it from Nabisco. http://www.androidauthority.com/android-8-0-oreo-announced-7...