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bcohen5055
12y ago
I'd say it's closer to real estate than a parking spot... Think of a book store that has a great business but it is located in the middle of a bar district. At some point the property is more valuable than the business and it make
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12y ago
> The whole renewable energy push is an expensive mess. Peak oil is too. Eventually costs will go up and as they do if your market doesn't have any viable substitutes what will happen?
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12y ago
Amazon, does this and it creates (for me) a better shopping experience. When I go to amazon it knows what things I want to buy and puts them right in front of me. Then it points me to other items that are related. Amazon knows precise,y wha
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12y ago
Why is this so creepy? They know a piece of hardware has been in certain locations for a certain amount of time. This data can help improve your shopping experience and help the store better market to you. (While also increasing their sales
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12y ago
Until they win that fight there is significant risk. If this is the valuation with a huge legal battle factored in then what will it be without it? To me it doesn't make sense until the regulations are figured out.
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12y ago
All I know is don't walk into a Canadian Subway and ask why they still sell sandwiches by the 6" and foot. I made that mistake once and offended everyone in the place
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12y ago
I think you are referring to economics...
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12y ago
I'm all about data being presented with confidence bounds but if even 1 canary is dead I'm getting the hell out of there!
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12y ago
Can someone please clarify this line: "- Tentatively concludes that priority service offered exclusively by a broadband provider to an affiliate should be considered illegal until proven otherwise." the offered exclusively line is
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12y ago
This looks great! My only question is can it be made into an app instead of a web service. A lot of times at work we have confidential info on whiteboards and (it's percieved) as secure if it's an app instead of a web service
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12y ago
Tie the data in with people's lunch calendars and you can start forcasting peak toilet demand!
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12y ago
Any plans for branching this out on the retailer side? I can imagine any business that already has a gift card program in place and wants to impliment bitcoin payments would be interested in this.
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12y ago
But there is still the question of value proposition to the consumer. Is the incrimental marginal cost of including the sensor low enough that the improvements in weather forcasting will be demananded by consumers? I dont believe the target
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12y ago
"At this point, the odds are close to one that every target has had its private keys extracted by multiple intelligence agencies" Any proof of this?
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13y ago
I had one of those... it was installed on a IICI, I think it was manufactured by sonnet tech and it was marketed as a PPC upgrade card for the motorolla 68040 Here is a list of all of the sonnect upgrade cards and how they connected http:&
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13y ago
They may make that in revenue, but actually profiting 5 mill may be bit more challenging
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13y ago
Just currious... Say someone purchased the album and then sold duplicates, would Wu-Tang be able to sue? Technically there are no damages, Wu-Tang isn't out any money from missing album sales and the seller is just trying to make a dec
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13y ago
Looking at the ROI on a college degree is very tricky even if you are just using to to compare schools. I clicked through to the original data set ( http://qz.com/193400/here-are-the-american-colleges-and-majo... ) and i
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13y ago
Bringing back the bold is an interesting strategy... I'd imagine at this point it doesn't cost much to manufacture it and they don't see it canabalizing any BB10 devices. I'm assuming this is a play in markets where BB s
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13y ago
I'm not a finance guy but I took a finance class once... I believe that all banks are required to hold a minimum reserve that is set by the Fed. Each day banks with assets greater than needed "sell" their reserves to banks wi
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CS 101 is one of those foundational classes, learn the basics using nothing fancy or flashy and you will come away with an understanding thats much deeper and more helpfull when working on projects in 300 and 400 level classes with the late
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13y ago
I'd say this depends a lot on what field you are studdying. I don't believe many things have changed with libral arts and humanities because the fields overall are mostly static. On the otherhand fields like computer science, math
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13y ago
Isn't the printer vulnerability completely separate from the phone firmware hack? Theoretically there are a number of different attack vectors that could enable someone to update the firmware on the phone
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13y ago
Be carefull about what you are claiming as facts vs conculusions... most of those points are loosly related facts with fallacious or simplified conclusions. Those facts support a broad range of possible solutions and can equally used to sup
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13y ago
I think I actually prefer the interface to flipboard, my only issue at this point is that I want to curate my feeds better. For instance the tech feed features Gizmodo, the verge, OZY, Techcrunch etc... but I only read 1 of those sites regu
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13y ago
3Billion dollars? Wasn't Lenovo going to pay close to 4.5 Billion for RIM in october? Either RIM was overvalued or this is a steal