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by bsgreenb 12y ago
I thought this post was going to be about the "Restart or Details" update dialogue on Macs
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by bsgreenb 12y ago
Hey, just here to recommend that you use or otherwise build a CRM interface around the SMS conversations. This will allow you to scale the number of messages without being overwhelmed by operator costs.
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by bsgreenb 12y ago
Technology could be used to solve the problems that it's causing. E.g. better utilization of existing resources (self-driving cars), alternative sources of energy, and perhaps even space colonization.
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by bsgreenb 12y ago
Question: how would this impact music piracy and the ability of every day people to rip audio off the web?
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Lyft Launches In 24 New Markets, Cuts Fares By Another 10%(techcrunch.com)
2 points by bsgreenb 12y ago|0 comments
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
The law was called the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the bookstores responded to it mainly by offering seperate, inconvenient search forms. If you found your way there, you you'd then have to copy and paste the ISBN. The law w
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
The author left out one major reason textbooks are so expensive-- course adoption lists (i.e. which books go with which courses) are kept private or disorganized so that students or businesses can't offer rival "Search by Course&q
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
This post is almost as good as your previous hits "Or", "Not, and "Xor"
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
oof, worst of both worlds
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
If anything, shouldn't apps that involve ratings and profiles reduce racism, because they allow you to judge the person by their behavior as opposed to just their appearance? Compare Lyft to taxis, for example. In the case of taxis th
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
I just realized how you could generate thousands of points of Hacker News karma without ever manually writing a post or comment: Watch all major status pages (e.g. Google, Facebook, Heroku, etc.) and immediately auto-post the link to that p
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
Nerds' general inability to sell isn't because they don't understand marketing lingo, but because they lack an intuitive sense of people/markets. Inconsistent and vague buzzwords do nothing to bridge that chasm.
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
Almost every term in marketing/sales is imprecisely defined and most writing in the field seems to be around making things more complex and vague than they need to be. Kind of like the postmodernists, it's as if they want to conv
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
Asked on #startups as well and discovered two more from them: Google Helpouts and Airpair.
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Ask HN: Is there an app for live screensharing help from expert developers?
4 points by bsgreenb 13y ago|2 comments
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
The need to label everything as right and left betrays a primitive binary mentality. A more accurate designation here would be distributed vs non-distributed systems. Then we can have an intelligent conversation about the relative advantage
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
Haha, that's Ryan Singer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ryansinger
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
Trying to identify the motivations of an action from the perspective of the perpetrator doesn't mean that one agrees with their actions. Rather, it's a way of getting a better understanding of the problem For example, it's u
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
I prefer taking Lyft to Uber because with the former the default mode is friendly conversation. When you take an Uber the assumption is that neither of you will talk to each other, like in a Taxi or Limo. In this sense Lyft is more revolu
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by bsgreenb 13y ago
Would love to try this on Android. You should setup a mailing list to keep people up to date if that's ever released.
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by bsgreenb 14y ago
Yep, that's something that I definitely found. I think people are scared by Google/FB more because of their size/power than because their privacy policies are below industry par.
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I’ve Read Every Privacy Policy on the Internet— This is What I’ve Learned(blog.safeshepherd.com)
35 points by bsgreenb 14y ago|10 comments
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Web developers unleash code in hopes that students will take on bookstores(ecampusnews.com)
3 points by bsgreenb 15y ago|0 comments
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by bsgreenb 15y ago
Good point-- I've updated the post to give an inline link to textyard.com. I'm not trying to promote TextYard anymore, but if this helps clarify to people what you can do with the data then it's definitely beneficial.
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Show HN: An Open-Source Solution to Expensive Textbooks(textyard.com)
24 points by bsgreenb 15y ago|5 comments
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Craigslist claims eBay stole confidential information to start competing site(nytimes.com)
2 points by bsgreenb 15y ago|0 comments
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by bsgreenb 15y ago
A twin study is just one form of (natural) experiment. It's common in medicine/epidemiology to perform double-blind trials with placebos, etc. Good medical research utilizes experiments rather than assuming causation from correlation like
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by bsgreenb 15y ago
Even controlling for exercize wouldn't save this study.. Genetic and environmental factors will correlate with a sit-down lifestyle, confounding any possible conclusions. You could rule out genetic and family environment factors by comparin