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by beager 8y ago
But "saving lives" doesn't affect their bottom line, and it's at best an incidental and indirect effect of their business model. And furthermore, it could easily be argued that if their growth model encourages nicotine u
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by beager 8y ago
It's still amusing to me that Juul markets itself, raises money, and structures its ranks like a technology startup, but they're really a tobacco company. Every trope about "growth hacking" from a traditional startup app
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by beager 8y ago
If a company sees you bottling their moat, of course they’re going to come after you. I think this particular thing could have been symbiotic, and maybe valuable enough to be a reasonable acquisition target by Amazon, but it’s hard to threa
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by beager 8y ago
I wonder if the decision comes down to that some people have the ability to be a part of the conversation on Twitter, but not the people that Trump has blocked, and therefore that's considered unequal treatment. To follow your analog
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by beager 8y ago
Or one that doesn't drop 5 seconds of call audio when I open a new tab in Chrome. Yes, really.
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by beager 8y ago
It's a reasonable case to be made that the wide adoption of Slack despite its issues contributes to their perceived valuation. This tells me that: 1. Slack has tapped into an energetic market 2. People will use the product even if it s
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by beager 8y ago
In my late 20s that did help me quite a bit, to carry a medication that could help me if I did have an attack. However, making the decision to not carry it after a while was supremely empowering, and helped cement the notion that I could ma
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by beager 8y ago
It would seem fairly straightforward for Facebook to collect information about whether an advertisement pertains to something that has anti-discriminatory regulations tied to it (housing, employment). I generally agree that FB should not be
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by beager 8y ago
Hindsight is 20/20 though, people may not realize that the people handling important things aren’t actual experts until the bottom falls out of whatever function the purported expert was managing. In such a position I would slightly pr
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by beager 8y ago
I prefer f.lux, with the exception of fullscreen video, specifically YouTube on Chrome, where certain colors "break through" the filtering and appear bright white. Not sure how it works, but it's the only thing Night Shift se
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by beager 8y ago
I mean, that forfeiture looks like "return most of the money you stole from the bank" with no punitive damages other than an officer-and-director bar, so does appear to be a slap on the wrist, unless he also serves time for the wi
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by beager 8y ago
Just want to say thanks for jumping all over this comment thread to explain liquidation topics and scenarios. I'm alarmed how much folks who get into startups don't understand these things, and lament how much I still don't k
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by beager 8y ago
I think personal attitudes toward collection of one’s personal data are orthogonal to the issue here, which is the weaponization of data collected in the aggregate. This is why I believe that personal boycotts of Facebook and the like, whil
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by beager 8y ago
The thing is, they could easily extract participants and require opt-in from all parties.
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by beager 8y ago
Would be much easier and persuasive to the privacy-sensitive to provide an email address to send emails to and process them from there.
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by beager 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I don't have any specific questions but being at the tail end of 2-10 myself, it's good to have reference points for when other people do certain things, like draw down to ~50% code or 0% code, how much ti
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by beager 8y ago
That’s pretty true for me. Deploying one kind of laptop makes life easier for me as the de-facto IT person. I don’t have the time to research what kind of Windows machine would be best to deploy because there are actually hundreds of them.
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by beager 8y ago
The number of people who will receive one of these who know that there are data pins in USB or which pins are the data pins would be exceedingly small. Plus, there does not need to be a data connection for the powering of these devices to p
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by beager 8y ago
The nature of git itself obviates your case. If Github gets tumultuous, your redundancy is on your local machine and on every machine of your org. Replication of issues, wiki, etc to other hosting providers just sounds like a PITA. If the c
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by beager 8y ago
It seems like it should be easy for that API to provide access to take action on tweets beyond the 3200 threshold, by passing it along to a rate-limited task queue. I imagine there’s an incentive to not provide hot access to old activity da
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by beager 8y ago
Twitter's not fixing these issues because they're not issues. Their stock up 100% from the 52 week low. Nothing's broken. How could disinformation running rampant on your platform be bad, if your stock is up 100%? Shareholder
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by beager 8y ago
I think the point TFA was making is that the 9.9% hasn’t experienced a decline in wealth in order to feed the accretion of wealth in the top 0.1%, and that such a situation creates an aristocratic attitude among that 9.9%, dulling any motiv
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by beager 8y ago
It’s the most accessible way to do it. Most people don’t buy their routers, they lease from the ISP. Major ISPs replacing 100k+ devices will take a while and they’ll drag their feet. FBI commandeering the C&C domain and instructing user
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by beager 8y ago
My assessment is that the greatest vulnerability in Bitcoin is its breathless supporters, who will look past the dynamics of Bitcoin in adoration of the mechanics of Bitcoin. To that end, larger, more sophisticated enterprises (banks, hedge
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by beager 8y ago
If you're profitable but desire the growth, could you take on debt instead?
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by beager 8y ago
That may be the larger factor, but I also believe that if you control for the media perspective on the perpetrator and targets of separate incidents, something like Stuxnet and its sophistication will be given less emphasis, because its sop
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by beager 8y ago
Those are indicative of the public’s enduring lack of technology literacy, and the media’s desire to have facts and eyeballs meet halfway. Media reports Russian election interference via digital ad spend, astroturfing, and infiltration atte
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by beager 8y ago
It's a .gov, so US taxpayers are paying for the bandwidth.
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by beager 8y ago
Disagree, the "Red Flags" sections are very simplified and prominent, and there are additional resources that follow for more sophisticated consumers. Unless you're taking a strongly sardonic swipe at ICO investors...
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by beager 8y ago
> I felt [sending marketers to shock sites] was much better than simply removing [UTM tags]. I can understand wanting to tailor your own online experience for speed or privacy. But this is petty, ugly, and vindictive.

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