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by bduerst 7y ago
That hurts investments and tech advancement because it removes acquisitions as an exit strategy. It also favors the larger incumbents because they can afford the tax, thus moving markets more towards a tech oligopoly.
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by bduerst 7y ago
So is every other SEO practice, by definition. Why is AMP any different than other usability pushes?
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by bduerst 7y ago
Do you leave your phone on when you're in your home too?
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yep, predictive decision making is the next steps. An example of this is on the newer versions of Android, where when you pull up the app tray, it predicts and shows which apps it thinks you're most likely to want to use based on date
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by bduerst 7y ago
By that logic, a TV remote control is "luxury tech". VUI is just another new interface for devices that provides convenience.
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by bduerst 7y ago
One of the things I learned in my behavioral finance class during grad school was that there are people who would invest into ponzi schemes knowing it was a scam. They are betting the returns on getting out before the scam collapses and
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by bduerst 7y ago
So the Slate article is a summary - I didn't pretend it was a published peer reviewed journal article or anything else. I also upvoted your question so I'm not sure why both your question and my answer were downvoted. If you ar
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by bduerst 7y ago
It comes from the federal indictment of the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency in February 2016, in which the IRA would “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them.)
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by bduerst 7y ago
Hey, Thomas Jefferson also said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Like many of Jefferson's quotes, this one and yours are both out of context, with yours being in referen
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by bduerst 7y ago
>Or the retro seo trick where you ask a question on yahoo questions so you can answer it with another account to backlink "relevant" website. So, Quora?
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by bduerst 7y ago
I'm not sure when you're referencing, but Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites.
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by bduerst 7y ago
This seems like a great app idea. Kind of like haveibeenpwned but for checking out what data vendors have on you. It would be pretty expensive though considering a lot of this info needs to be purchased.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Check out the difference between the new Facebook company and app logos: https://facebook.design/companybrand One is going for authoritative, while the other is going for nonsensical. I agree that it's strange to go fo
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by bduerst 7y ago
Sure, ticket prices go up accordingly and demand for their sales drops off consequentially.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which games?
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by bduerst 7y ago
That goose-version of the comic is (almost) in the loss format.
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by bduerst 7y ago
No way is it simple - there are over a dozen OEMs each competing and advertising their Android phones with the co-branded messaging that they see fit. The whole strategy behind the Pixel phone was to change the perception of the android bra
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by bduerst 7y ago
They also acquired Fossil. It's just as likely they want to use fitbit brand to set the bar for android wearable portfolio, like they do with the Pixel for phones, than harvesting your daily steps for targeted advertising.
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by bduerst 7y ago
I also enjoy the seasons, especially as a way to subconciously tick off the years, but I also understand the appeal of SF. SF's weather is a steady climate without much variance, where it typically only rains two weeks of the year. No
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by bduerst 7y ago
Surprisingly, according to the CDC, the rate drug overdose deaths in MS didn't grow between 2006 and 2016. While terrible, the base rate isn't even that high compared to other states, so imagine what it's like elsewhere in t
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which is still to my point: Softbanks Vision Fund model is not proven yet. It is just as probable it is more a vehicle to find a place for Middle Eastern money to sit than a true 10x fund strategy, which is becoming more evident since they
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by bduerst 7y ago
Also makes the sale possibility much more likely for the brand and whatever it is they call all that IP that they have.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Softbanks model isn't proven yet. They overinvest and create unicorns in the expectation that the 10x extra cash will cement market leadership for the startup. That doesn't mean much if the market does not materialize, which is p
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by bduerst 7y ago
>It will likely stifle my salary, and the salaries of a lot of high earning swes. Yeah, this sounds like more anti-Union FUD than being based in actual data. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though if this can be substantiated throu
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by bduerst 7y ago
And that's also my point - you don't accidentally leave an API open. It was purposefully built this way. What CA did with Facebooks API was by design .
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by bduerst 7y ago
IT decisions that get people fired are usually not well known to the public anyways.
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by bduerst 7y ago
"Medicare for all" is redefining medicare. You can argue semantics that it's not the same as before but that is the point of the term, that it's a new and improved iteration.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yes and no. Disabling javascript is like wearing a ski mask in a crowded mall. It makes you much more obvious and easier to track, but harder to identify on the outset.
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by bduerst 7y ago
CA scraped Facebook APIs. It's only "closed" in the sense that you needed an account and token to access the open API.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Huh. I've been playing Factorio this week on a rail-world and cheesing the biter bases with artillery, the way they're describing. Some of the bugs manage to make it around the lakes from pollution spread, but cleaning them out

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