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by curiouscats 12y ago
Ford looks even worse when you see how Tesla and Toyota behave. Ford is trying to take the most hostile to customers action it can get away with under the broken copyright system. Meanwhile Tesla and Toyota are giving away patent rights i
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by curiouscats 12y ago
If you owe debts to other countries you have to pay that money outside the system. So it takes a certain percentage of production (GDP) and pays the benefit of that production to people in other countries. Japan has a much bigger debt pro
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by curiouscats 12y ago
I think too simple a take-away. Partially that, partially new immigrant (or nostalgic immigrant) support - high touch, caring, personal service.
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by curiouscats 12y ago
I would say it is true in most places in human history, those with power consolidate their power and use that power to take advantage of those without power (or very little power). That is the current system in the USA. I would agree in t
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by curiouscats 12y ago
Yes. Many of the problems today have nothing to with capitalism but with government policies that are largely aimed at making those with the gold happy. Capitalism is mainly about having markets that have competition. NO organization is su
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by curiouscats 12y ago
The market would produce privacy TVs if people would not buy spy TVs. I would think there is enough of a market to produce such TVs and advertise them that way. But what matters is if someone that is in a position to actually provide such
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by curiouscats 12y ago
Yes it would be unwise. The authorities let everyone go once they figure out what was going on - they seemed to think the people were employees of the cafe... The policy is fairly straightforward, but letting people do "digital nomad&
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by curiouscats 12y ago
Blog from Pluralsight on "Company culture discussions" http://culture.pluralsight.com/ I find the blog to be worth reading.
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by curiouscats 12y ago
The article provide interesting information on the process for calculating the unemployment rate. But it also misleads in saying "real US unemployment rate." Dr. Deming would say "there is no true value" of any measured
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by curiouscats 12y ago
People tend to complain about problems and ignore things that are fine. While a desire to avoid pointing out any positive of a situation that drives them crazy frequently may be part of the reason it isn't mentioned I think it pales in
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by curiouscats 12y ago
This is potentially a real risk to Google. The odds of such a huge success it decreases Google's profits are tiny (I think). But there is a real risk that the increase in Google's profits going forward are materially affected by
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How Ethiopians are working to improve health outcomes with minimal resources(youtube.com)
1 points by curiouscats 12y ago|0 comments
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by curiouscats 12y ago
This seem counter to other things I have read about eliminating left turns, etc.. Maybe they give directions but not with a phone with map or GPS? It seems crazy to not use GPS enabled mapping for a delivery company.
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Deming Library Video with Dr. Deming Discussing the 14 Points(blog.deming.org)
1 points by curiouscats 12y ago|0 comments
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by curiouscats 12y ago
I think it means something, but I agree with you I wish the patent troll wasn't getting away with it. This seems similar to a house that had an alarm system. The thief opened the door and started to look for good stuff to take then he
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by curiouscats 12y ago
China alone has more people that can afford an expensive phone/tablet than can in the USA (the USA has a higher % that can). India likely has more than the USA, if not they will in 5 years. Indonesia has many people that can… The per
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by curiouscats 12y ago
I don't think you can expect to slap two common words together and prevent anyone from using those words in any way everywhere. If you make up some new word Exxon etc. then maybe. For slapping two common words together there have to be
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by curiouscats 12y ago
It would help if you have a short synopsis of what this is - for example if I want to share with others (like an about page). And if I could copy the text, it seems it is coded in a way that text isn't copyable which is lame (in my op
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by curiouscats 12y ago
And can we look forward to court sanctioned erasing unwanted people from the photos on Google search if a few years down the road we decide it really isn't so great to have a photo showing us next to someone we don't like anymore.
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by curiouscats 12y ago
The one box can be nice but takes up too much room so I have it set to off. It would be better if you gave me a simple click to view one box (I can often guess the small number of cases where viewing it would be useful - such as thinking a
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by curiouscats 12y ago
True, but a good use of the flexibility computers allow for people adjusting settings allows for a great deal of happiness. To the extent I still use Google (various products not just search) one thing is constantly happening is that settin
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by curiouscats 12y ago
I think it is a horrible idea. I would guess they will allow me to adjust the view to always show the url in which case I don't care. It is just one in a super long list of very bad Ux decisions by Google in my opinion. If they actua
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by curiouscats 12y ago
Remember AirBnB is global. Even if we said where it is against the current law it should be stopped there are plenty of places without zoning rules or even say prohibitions due to the rules of the building. It seems to me there are reasona
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by curiouscats 13y ago
It seems to me the truth of corruption versus petition is if the politician sells their vote for cash or actually listens to the merits and makes a decision. Now that is hard to judge from the outside, but that is the real difference. I sus
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by curiouscats 13y ago
I am by no means even competent at network security; I am curious why articles like http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230387360... seem to imply companies will have to physically replace network g
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by curiouscats 13y ago
Another problem is sometimes work requires people to do things they don't like. Sure seek solutions that make everyone happy with what they are tasked to do, because it is nice and also more likely to work. But if part of someone&#x2
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by curiouscats 13y ago
I agree, unsolvable is not what I believe. I agree, what we have to learn is that is a frequent problem with organizational systems we create. I think by thinking about the problems we can create systems that work, but it requires some rea
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by curiouscats 13y ago
If you read the comments she is no computer security expert. And she accepted the comments of others that passwords that "look like nonsense" are not necessarily best. My guess is "turning off" relates to not leaving a
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by curiouscats 13y ago
While there is sense in what you are saying you don't have to create the problem for yourself. Don't create situations where you rely on javascript in the first place. Granted there are some cases where it is an acceptable decisi
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by curiouscats 13y ago
Very true. I can't understand how bad some of their stuff is over non-super fast links (probably super low latency is my guess). It isn't just very slow links, I have problems with their stuff frequently when no other sites I us

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