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by chaz 12y ago
> a gimmick that's valuable only because of a government imposed monopoly is a sound investment City streets are a limited public good. Aside from ensuring quality and consumer protection, regulation & limiting the number of tax
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by chaz 12y ago
Is the consumer market for second-hand drives large for them to be concerned about it? I always thought that >99% of people keep the drive their desktop/laptop came with and junk/sell/donate the whole thing without ever tu
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by chaz 12y ago
> glowing recommendations and ridiculous endorsement counts I don't know anyone that takes these seriously as a signal for hiring someone. You just do what you usually do -- call people you know that have worked with them before to
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by chaz 12y ago
On weekdays, lots of people using Gmail and Google Apps to send work emails to each other which are more likely to accept encryption. But on weekends, inbound commercial, non-work related emails (such as newsletters and promotions) drops of
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by chaz 12y ago
"Critical?" No. But it was built by a publicly traded media company, so they're probably interested in promoting it and making money with it.
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by chaz 12y ago
> Hill liked the concept, of course, but Fox thought that the price, $25,000 per game, was too steep. [...] Our last stop was ESPN and the reception was decidedly different. So interesting to see that FOX balked at the seemingly low $25k
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by chaz 12y ago
Amazon's revenue is only 7% books, or about $5B. Then again, Hachette is just a part of a conglomerate and is not itself a $10B company and may be way smaller than that. Regardless of the nitpicking of who is the bigger fish, both comp
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by chaz 12y ago
I used to work on buying keywords at eBay 10 years ago, and one of the first features we built was a suppression list to prevent exactly this, so I'm a little surprised to see this. These ads can be costly, embarrassing, or carry a leg
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by chaz 12y ago
It's great for design ideas of almost any kind. For example, I wanted to see how people were setting up their stacked washer and dryer units: http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=stacked%20washer%20d... An
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by chaz 12y ago
That's the best situation, since they know the content and can segment their content very effectively. YouTube Partners and VEVO can get premium pre-roll ads because it's considered to be premium content. Content that gets flagged
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by chaz 12y ago
If you have lots of UGC, then AdSense is probably not for you. A lot of companies shy away from UGC specifically because it can risk advertising revenue from higher end brands that will pay more. Fortunately, there are many different ad net
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by chaz 12y ago
Sure ... mind the pennies, but don't risk your dollars to do so (aka penny wise and pound foolish). Ads are a trust business, and a lack of trust erodes their entire business away.
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by chaz 12y ago
The problem is that advertisers don't want their brands associated with that kind of content. In order to keep advertisers happy, Google needs to police for content wrt to ads. It's a different set of rules than things like search
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by chaz 12y ago
I don't believe there actually is an UPSERT command and that it's just a nickname for the activity. MERGE is a part of the standard, so I think any implementation would use that as the actual command.
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by chaz 12y ago
These bets are easy because it's hard to figure out if you've won or lost. Among the challenges is that acquisitions like WhatsApp and Motorola can be more about stopping threats. WhatsApp had been adding ~1 million people a day,
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by chaz 12y ago
In these situations, I believe there are two types people: A: "Wow, things are really messed up. I'm out of here." B: "Wow, things are really messed up. There's opportunity everywhere ." Either can be right, d
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by chaz 12y ago
It's worth noting that this ~$40B is just for broadcast TV ads. This excludes cable TV ads (~$30B) and subscription TV fees (~$80B). There is an ongoing non-zero sum shift in attention and dollars to online, but TV is far from dead.
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by chaz 13y ago
Indeed. It's an organizational relief valve that doesn't rock the boat much from a UI or product perspective. This is less of a problem at a small company, but a big problem at large companies. Standardizing the creative unit also
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by chaz 13y ago
FTE = Full Time Equivalent = "a unit that indicates the workload of an employed person" (Wikipedia). Perhaps you were thinking E = employee?
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by chaz 13y ago
SwissAir 111 impacted at an estimated 350g.
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by chaz 13y ago
I think it's worth having the discussion of having a permanent locator on aircraft that can't be disabled, remotely-triggered hot mikes, and longer CVRs. But I downvoted you for falling into the "if we can send a man to the m
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by chaz 13y ago
This reminds me of an article I read about the Space Shuttle's flight control system. Five computers on board, with 4 running redundantly and the fifth on backup. > Q. How are actuators controlled? > A. For the aerosurface actuat
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by chaz 13y ago
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6080
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by chaz 13y ago
Related, wrt to romanticization of long rail journeys -- NPR reporter traveled from Moscow to Vladivostok: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/143016679/russia-by-rai... Also, this guy documented his trip fr
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by chaz 13y ago
It's satire. 12. People’s names are case sensitive. 13. People’s names are case insensitive. Edit: Let me explain ... I was responding to the parent post, and that it wasn't meant to be a logic list of rules. Individual p
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by chaz 13y ago
Relevant here: "I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s." By throwing out a "wrong answer," better suggestions are made. https:&#
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by chaz 13y ago
All companies expect to get more value from the employee than what they are paying the employee. Knowledge workers tend to have high -- sometimes very high -- switching costs. I have no bakery experience, but I bet I can hire a replacement
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Paging Bradley Cooper's Lawyers: He Might Own Ellen's Famous Oscar Selfie(thewire.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
I think that's true at smaller organizations where the head of IT isn't on the exec team. But at large companies, the head of IT is a pretty serious role (Jacob was CIO/EVP), with a very large budget, mission-critical systems
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by chaz 13y ago
> Are they actually talking to me? Unbelievable. I can’t talk, Dan; can’t you see? I’m hanging to this idea by a thread as it is My problem with this story is that it makes it sounds like it's Dan's fault for walking up to the

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