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by davidu 14y ago
People who come into money should think the importance of things, but to be a bit cynical, let's not forget: This is an article about the virtues of living in small homes written by a man who is in the business of selling small homes. And I
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by davidu 14y ago
Collective action problems imply a lack of consequences. QED. To your point that all the effort to combat fraud implies there is a problem, you've created a fallacious point. To your point on unproductive exercise, I believe it is wasted ef
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by davidu 14y ago
Economic consequences aren't the same as your personal inconvenience.
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by davidu 14y ago
You say it's obviously untrue, so what are the obvious consequences of credit card fraud? I believe that anything you suggest worth addressing costs more than the fraud itself. The only way to eliminate fraud is to show that doing so increa
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by davidu 14y ago
I used the term consequences deliberately. The merchant may have losses, but they have no leverage. The option to not take credit cards is not available to most sellers of goods. On a large scale the cost of fraud simply becomes a cost of
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by davidu 14y ago
I've thought about this "problem" and decided there's no problem. You're solving a non-problem if you try to solve credit card fraud. The reason we don't deal with credit card fraud is that there are no consequences for being a victim, for
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by davidu 14y ago
How did I spell gouging wrong? :)
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by davidu 14y ago
This is impressive: https://crocodoc.com/see-it-in-action/ I'm glad there is someone who wakes up every morning really excited about taking some of the worst, most broken, least documented, and eye-gauging binary yet immensely popular fil
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by davidu 14y ago
You're entitled to this view, but if you are an entrepreneur running a free service, I'd caution you from believing it. I run a free service with 50 Million daily end users and if I made such a drastic change, users would (rightfully) be up
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by davidu 14y ago
That's not the real problem with BangWithFriends. That's just a symptom or side-effect of the real problem. As the idiom goes, if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
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by davidu 14y ago
Incorporation and a TIN takes ~24 hours these days.
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Unattached: A subtle change in email attachments(blog.david.ulevitch.com)
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by davidu 14y ago
The author, Marvin Ammori has been an amazing friend to issues that matter in keeping the Internet free and open and transparent. Really lucky to have people like him on "our team." He also works behind the scenes on a tremendous number of
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by davidu 14y ago
I wonder if your ISP has a very broken proxy? (should be irrelevant due to HTTPS, but still)
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by davidu 14y ago
Worth adding, that "yoshimi battles the pink robots" is an amazing album by the same band about a woman's battle with cancer, and love, and loss. It was just turned into an amazing play (technically an opera (rock opera!) since it's just th
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by davidu 14y ago
I want my DM archive.
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by davidu 14y ago
All I can offer is my personal experience. Having gone wheat free about 5 months ago, my life has changed dramatically. Energy, weight, hunger, depression, happiness, vitality, vigor, stamina and comprehension have all improved dramaticall
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by davidu 14y ago
On the flip side, when Google does find a malicious URL being used in their redirector they are able to disable the URL and make the link invalid. They might not do this today, but Bitly now does, and so there's that.
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by davidu 14y ago
Same here.
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by davidu 14y ago
Companies fight, users lose. Same story, different day.
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by davidu 14y ago
Battery is an issue for now. Data limits will be resolved but the reality is, most folks are far under their plan.
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by davidu 14y ago
I prefer the OpenGarden model for this, which is entirely software based, and thus only needs an Android (and hopefully soon iOS) phone to accomplish the exact same. And as speeds and phones get faster and more pervasive, their distributio
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by davidu 14y ago
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by davidu 14y ago
Actually, ZoneEdit is owned by Dotster.
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by davidu 14y ago
We at OpenDNS have believed BlinkX to have something less than above board going on based on some VERY UNUSUAL traffic patterns that we started to notice a couple years ago related to ad clicks. Ad clicks that we couldn't explain in any le
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by davidu 14y ago
This is why we ship bits, not boxes. The changes are fundamental.
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by davidu 14y ago
Your first paragraph might have changed my life.
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by davidu 14y ago
None of your points has anything to do with "worth." Worth as we are using it is almost universally defined as the price an arms-length buyer is willing to pay for the total sum of an entity. So Twitter is worth far more than $100mm. It's
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by davidu 14y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Not at all surprised to see Parse continuing to kill it.
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by davidu 14y ago
Good catch. You'll be fine. For what it's worth, a little bit of fraud is a good thing. It means people are using your system and it's growing. Too much fraud and people will lose confidence and your payment processors will punish you.

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