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by ckastner 8y ago
> Amazon cannot afford not to fix their supply chain legitimacy issues. If they can't run a legitimate business properly, then that's their problem. Take a look around -- plenty of other profitable retailers don't have thi
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by ckastner 8y ago
> If you don't have an idea of how to solve the review problem, I'm not convinced you've thought through the "received X complaints about a counterfeit product" problem With "complaint", I meant a forma
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by ckastner 8y ago
> How would you solve the counterfeit goods and preventing people from gaming the review system problems? No idea what do to about the reviews, but the first step to the counterfeit goods problem is simple: once you've received X co
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by ckastner 8y ago
I mostly meant upper management, where strategic and policy decisions are made; where the direction a company is going is determined. Not that non-management is irrelevant. It's just less relevant. Because what is OK or not OK is ultim
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Bezos is out to make an empire, everything else comes second. I share this sentiment. For comparison, I believe the amount of and methods with which Google collects data to be wrong, but I also believe that they don't believe they
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by ckastner 8y ago
> He's telling the OP to go and read up on various books with the implication that they haven't read anything on the topic. It is possible that OP hasn't read a sufficient amount of books, or read the wrong books, or misun
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by ckastner 8y ago
> But TBH I think Twitter is underrated as a publishing medium. For example, I've had probably 10x the number of responses from other people as I would have gotten in the form of blog comments. What was your impression of the qualit
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by ckastner 8y ago
I'm beginning to think that when you said by "not signing anything" earlier, you actually meant "not agreeing to anything", is that correct? > And not using the product makes you not bound to the terms of use, un
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by ckastner 8y ago
"Terms of Use" are part of the agreement between you and a service provider with regards to the service being provided. That's a civil law contract like any other.
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by ckastner 8y ago
This is absolutely false. Regardless of where you are, the majority of the agreements you enter into are not only not signed, they are not even explicit (but rather implied). Case in point: practically everytime you buy something and pay wi
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by ckastner 8y ago
Those are two separate issues. Altavista's index certainly got updated over time, so changes in the search results aren't that surprising. I believe the issue OP is addressing is that even given an identical index, two different u
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by ckastner 8y ago
I still almost can't believe that he'd be that reckless. He must have known how such a move -- and especially the "funding secured" tweet (where he doubled down with the going private certain pending shareholder vote)
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by ckastner 8y ago
That argument is very poor because it assumes that (1) pacification has so far failed for lack of proper motivation of service members, and (2) bringing their families in possible harm's way will properly motivate them. You haven'
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by ckastner 8y ago
It's the weirdest thing -- Tesla has actually been falling since the announcement. There's a takeover offer from the largest shareholder who claims that the "only reason why this is not certain is that it’s contingent on a
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by ckastner 8y ago
There's basically nothing in this article, and whatever there is, is confusing. For example: they keep referring to "sensitive data", by which they probably mean Article 9 data [1], ie: data revealing racial or ethnic origin,
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Why don't you like the guy? Maybe I've just become weary of him, but it feels like his personality has devolved into something so narcissistic that his primary motive is no longer the technological advancement itself, but t
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by ckastner 8y ago
I don't like the guy (and it's obvious from my comments), but this move is brilliant on so many levels. The short sellers just got taken to the cleaners, badly . By taking the company private, he's under less public and regu
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by ckastner 8y ago
That's quite a bit of hyperbole. Intel enjoys a near-monopoly in that market; when Krzanich recently stated [1] that it was "Intel's job to not let AMD capture 15-20% market share", Intel took a dive. Their worst-case sc
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by ckastner 8y ago
> There is nothing wrong with implementing something someone else has already done! Well, the phrase "re-inventing the wheel" exists for a reason. > Usage of a library has more to do with it’s community than it’s codebase
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by ckastner 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. The post references a StackExchange question [1] which has a simple analysis, and four helpful suggestions (similar to yours), as to which the author states: "I tried the first suggestion, but the results weren&#x
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by ckastner 8y ago
> The fact that cryptocoin exchanges decide to offer leveraged trading options that mirror other popular financial instruments doesn't change bitcoin's core values. It's indicative of a change, and it can be reasonably arg
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by ckastner 8y ago
> That said, Apple's business model doesn't require them to violate your privacy -- to derive value, they only need to hold the data you give them, not really do anything with it. Facebook's and Google's business mode
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by ckastner 8y ago
Sure, Apple isn't spotless. But their main business model, as far as I can tell, is making money by selling premium hardware. Facebook et al. make money by collecting and selling other people's data.
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by ckastner 8y ago
Megacompany sounds intimidating, but I perceive Apple to be quite tame. They mostly just make hardware. It's Facebook, Google and all the others sitting on mounds of personal and extremely detailed data (including geopositioning) that
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by ckastner 8y ago
> At least they have stopped claiming that their current hardware is powerful enough for full self driving already The Autopilot page [1] still states the following: "All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3,
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by ckastner 8y ago
> What I've always found odd is when a company advertises something like "we have 50% women on the programming team" when only 20% of the programming workforce is female. > That's not really fair is it? The comp
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by ckastner 8y ago
> These valuations don’t come unwarranted, with the report from Tou Tiao also noting that the firm had sold $2.3 billion worth of ASIC chips in 2017, raking in $1.25 billion in net profit from last year’s operations. $1.25bn in net pro
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by ckastner 8y ago
Off-topic rant: I really hate how Twitter has popularized this devolved style of communicating by a flurry of fragments so much that we now have services like Thread reader (which I appreciate!) to undo that mess, and to make communicatio
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Mixing and matching, for the vast majority of users, is neither practical or expected, and absolutely negatively impacts the brand. Firefox has over a 100 million downloads according to the Play Store, so that argument at least doesn&
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by ckastner 8y ago
> It looks like the EU has created a piggy bank with these regulations on hostage tech corporation Or is it the tech corporations holding consumers hostage, and are regulators trying to fight that.

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