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by chaz 13y ago
I find it hard to believe that a huge amount of money can be quietly booked by a publicly traded company without it raising all kinds of hard-to-answer questions from employees in many departments, as well as the outside auditors. Even more
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by chaz 13y ago
They weren't disappeared -- the American population was aware that it was happening, and there was a mix of support and opposition. The US Supreme Court in 1944 -- during the war -- voted 6 v 3 in Korematsu vs United States that it was
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by chaz 13y ago
I wouldn't rule it out. According to the reports from early this year, China appears to be very interested in finding sources and dissidents, which is why US journalists have been hacked.
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by chaz 13y ago
The WashPo has backed away [1] from the key claim of tech companies "knowingly" participating in PRISM. In addition, there's this paragraph that was added to the article after publication on page 2: It is possible that th
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by chaz 13y ago
This article seems to make the most sense. As a hypothetical example, Google might have been manually fulfilling thousands of FISA requests. It sucked up time, took engineering resources, was error-prone, and lacked the legal paper trail to
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Facebook Finally Ditching Those “Sponsored Stories” We All Love So Very Much(consumerist.com)
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Apple Says It Never Heard of PRISM(online.wsj.com)
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Sean Parker Responds to Redwoods Wedding Criticism(theatlantic.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
The NSA's charter is to monitor foreign communications and intelligence, so yes, the whole point of what they're doing is because the internet exists outside of the US.
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by chaz 13y ago
Net new search terms aren't being added at the rate you think. Try searching for highly generic terms such as "food" or "blue" and it's pretty much flat. While many new terms are being added, old terms are getting obsoleted almost as fast.
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by chaz 13y ago
RSS peaked in 2006 and has been dying since. I suspect it was from the rise of social networks. Though not a replacement feature-wise, social networks have been competing for time and attention from users since day 1, and RSS readers lost.
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by chaz 13y ago
If the OP said, "Facebook _helps_ keep me connected to folks I care deeply about who aren’t nearby," would that address your concerns? Because I think you're over-reading this specific sentence and assuming that it means that it's the prima
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by chaz 13y ago
RSS was already on its way out -- on a steady decline since 2006. Google Reader peaked in 2011 and was on a decline since then, too. Though I generally stopped using RSS a few years ago, I do think it's the best reader out there. But the pe
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Facebook Sees Record Gaming Numbers In 1Q(allfacebook.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
I don't think your acquaintances are a good representation. Social games are still doing well. Maybe not the Zynga-style games, but check out http://www.appdata.com/ . #1 is Candy Crush Saga, which is kinda like a social Bejeweled. I'm get
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by chaz 13y ago
OMGPOP was only about Draw Something, which faded as fast as it grew. Zynga's mobile focus needs to be around making its most popular games more mobile, or building new "mobile-first" games. Aside from Words with Friends, their most popular
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by chaz 13y ago
They have a few dozen games of varying popularity. The bigger ones need a non-stop flow of new content to be created. Zynga was very good at creating new tasks and items constantly, so there was always something to do and something new to c
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by chaz 13y ago
Great! I was looking for a mobile-first version of YouTwitFace.com.
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by chaz 13y ago
My frustration with these types of rants is that no solutions are proposed. In this case, the author ends with a vague reference to smaller communities, but I don't see how using a smaller community would solve any of the problems that he m
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by chaz 13y ago
Not really. I think marketers like the concept of being able to close the loop on display advertising, like posters and store shelves, but it's pretty infrequently used. The friction of it not being native to any OS is pretty high. I was in
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by chaz 13y ago
From a different source: "In reality, though, and contrary to some big-name publications, this graphene sensor isn’t going to replace the silicon sensor in your camera. Graphene is still incredibly hard to work with on a commercial scale (h
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by chaz 13y ago
Glyde sends you a box. It comes with a shipping label that goes directly to the buyer. http://glyde.com/sell?via=welcome_page
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by chaz 13y ago
Keep in mind that this blog post was written by a company builds a product that sits on top of PostgreSQL. So for the intended audience, it's completely relevant. A good use case is exploring external APIs, many of which come back as JSON.
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by chaz 13y ago
The problem is that it's 7 feet long, 4 feet wide, and weighs 1,000 lbs. It's also sealed into the chassis and makes up the floor of the car.
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by chaz 13y ago
Aren't these stations just connected to the grid and any power is just put back into it to help offset charging costs? I don't think there's any actual storage. Not every Supercharger station has solar panels.
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by chaz 13y ago
It's a good thought, but I think it makes more sense to add Superchargers to existing service stations. I wouldn't be surprised if that's their plan going forward. Here are two of the three on the East Coast right now: http://goo.gl/oWSbW
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by chaz 13y ago
There was an interesting article in the WSJ that talks about "contingency anxiety," and explains why car manufacturers like Land Rover add ridiculous capabilities, like fording waters 35.4" inches deep, in their Range Rover. Car makers
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by chaz 13y ago
I'm not convinced that Access is automatically the wrong tool for every job. I worked with a team that had remote salespeople that were all over the place, with laptops and a custom VB custom configuration tool that would allow them to asse
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by chaz 13y ago
At a high level, the teams are largely their own companies that get money through sponsorships, and spend their money on developing cars. For companies like Mercedes-Benz and Red Bull Racing, it's a big advertising opportunity (and obviousl
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by chaz 13y ago
Aesthetics have a lot to do with building a successful car. A simple example? The VW New Beetle shares the same platform as the Jetta, but ask 100 men if they would own one.

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