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by cubano 11y ago
Well, I won't be using "Nomi" or recommending them to my friends anytime soon, so good luck to them and their business model.
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by cubano 11y ago
I can't help but wonder...how many real-world businesses could benefit from the same type of invasive tracking that online businesses seem to think they have a right to subject us with? For some reason, though, we don't allow that
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by cubano 11y ago
This is an exceptionally insightful and just plain awesome comment...thank you for making me belly-LOL.
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by cubano 11y ago
I've never believed it's about cost, but about distrust and, more importantly, control. IMO, most managers are paid very nicely to babysit employees and use unspoken threats and coercion to make them feel scared and threatened eno
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by cubano 11y ago
Yes interesting...I almost received a degree in computer engineering in 1988 from a highly regarded technical university. Back then, there was absolutely no substitute for the in-house training I got from going to classes and doing my homew
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by cubano 11y ago
I like this a lot, and will do my best to convince my agents to allow me to implement this idea...
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by cubano 11y ago
No I'm not talking about the getting-in part, I'm talking about the once-you-are-there part and the deep social connections that can be made by sharing real-world experiences.
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by cubano 11y ago
I've become more and more convinced over the years that "higher education" is much more about signalling and not-so-much about learning, although of course part of the signal is showing your ability to learn on demand and jus
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by cubano 11y ago
As someone who has built many real estate sites, this is done on purpose as a "fuzzy-logic" search as agents feel anyone willing to spend $750k for a home can be easily induced to spend 5-10% more if the right property catches the
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by cubano 11y ago
I would think being highly competent and good at building political consensus that promoted the good for the people would be the most important things, no matter what gender or profession, no?
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by cubano 11y ago
Something learned in my 30y career as low level felon and spending fairly significant amounts of time (to me at least...a week in jail is no picnic!) locked up in both jail and prisons... 95% of cases are made via informants and not CSI-typ
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by cubano 11y ago
You buy likes and then are surprised that they come from totally fake people?
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by cubano 11y ago
I can't help but think...I got my CP/CS degree with pencil and paper, and the only computer I used was a timeshared VAX and PDP11 at the university lab, so I'm not really sure what the big deal is here. Sure I wrote some code
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by cubano 11y ago
So its a cloud of clouds, correct?
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Big Pharma Goes All in with Big Data(in.reuters.com)
2 points by cubano 11y ago|0 comments
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by cubano 11y ago
I had a very close ex-girlfriend who went on subs but wanted desperately to get out of the whole game. After I went to an inpatient treatment center and learned from the professionals there that kicking subs was way harder then heroin, an
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by cubano 11y ago
I don't know if it still "a thing" or not, but I try to help friends and such who may be going thru rough times or whatever, and I enjoy fixing broken things that people have given up on. Maybe it reminds me of myself and the
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by cubano 11y ago
Sounds like exactly what I go through every time I've fixed a malware-laden computer at whatever house I seem to be hanging out at nowadays. Everyone seems to have a laptop that "won't boot" or something...I've had
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by cubano 11y ago
You know, its not completely out of realm of the possible that these people are lying and really know much more then they are telling police. I am not implying anything about these people, but I am just saying it isn't impossible. I li
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IBM's Watson Chief on Future of AI(forbes.com)
34 points by cubano 11y ago|9 comments
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by cubano 11y ago
I've come to the sad conclusion that ODing on heroin is a rite of passage with that drug and simply...you either survive it or you don't. I was fortunate enough to survive 4 hospital-trip-inducing ODs in my life. I know it may sou
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by cubano 11y ago
As a single late 40-something, I found myself chuckling in agreement with all the main points of this really well written article. The online dating process, to me at least, falls somewhere between setting myself on fire with lighter fluid
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by cubano 11y ago
Very cool...been looking for something like that for a project I am working on right now, as a matter of fact.
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by cubano 11y ago
Right...but a real problem is, or course, moral hazard, ie "if they did it before (bailed us out), they will almost surely do it again, so what incentives do we have to alter our risky behaviors that are currently making all of us rich
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by cubano 11y ago
> Whether or not you like the US stock market, it is fairly transparent and not run by the whims of the government. I wish I could believe this, but after years of federal debt fueled Quantitative Easing and implicit guarantees of "
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by cubano 11y ago
You simply could not be more wrong. In the end, having children is the only thing in life that really makes any sense.
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by cubano 11y ago
So isn't that just really a form of exploitation of someone's low self esteem, background, or career ignorance?
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by cubano 11y ago
There are plenty of places, all over the world, where land is quite cheap, so I don't quite follow your thinking here.
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by cubano 11y ago
Yes this may have been true a few years ago but no longer...we are in the of age of programming-trend warp drive where they may reverse every 6 months or less.
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by cubano 11y ago
Yes I kept reading that angle into it as well. In fact, after a time I started wondering if the whole thing wasn't a remix of a relationship article as so many points it discusses can be easily related to them, too.

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