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by ddw 15y ago
I was out with some (non-tech) friends this weekend and they were talking about how the new FB is "creepy." Yes, just another anecdote. I don't understand the argument that the non-tech public doesn't care about their privacy, because they
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by ddw 15y ago
> Most of the people Spotify appeals to, such as the college student demographic, all have Facebook and don't really care about their information or privacy, so they won't mind using it to get free music. Is this really true? Or do the
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by ddw 15y ago
Privacy issues aside, the Open Graph is troubling to me because it centralizes innovation in web services to the Facebook network. In the short term is makes sense for a new service like Spotify or turntable.fm to jump on the largest user b
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by ddw 15y ago
Here's a take on the book and movie from Daryl Morey, GM of the Houston Rockets, who's attributed for the most part in bring sabermetrics to the NBA: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7001767/moneyball-housto... Mark Cuban owns the Dall
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by ddw 15y ago
I'm with you. It doesn't seem like people are becoming smarter, not that that's the purpose of Facebook. We're just blurting out interests. It's like Facebook is testing the limits of human values of sharing ourselves and the things we li
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> Knowing what songs my friends are listening to right at this moment isn't very useful information. It's even more useless when it's from six hours ago. I just checked FB this morning to see the news that a friend listened to a certai
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They did. I installed it, saw that no one around me had pictures up (I was in a mall!) and uninstalled it.
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by ddw 15y ago
I agree. Although you can find these discussion elsewhere on the 'net, I appreciate the level of discourse here and like to read the tech take on politics or economics of whatever. That kind of stuff is meaningful in a lot of people's liv
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Williams James Adams Jr., aka will.i.am, joins Google+(plus.google.com)
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Yeah it reminds me of the Google ScanOps story a while back: http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411-workers-l... And Ikea opening a plant in North Carolina for the cheap labor: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/10/business
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by ddw 15y ago
Certainly. But the hope is that if the core keeps some sort of energy going that other people can join in when they can. We'll have to see if it can gain any momentum at all.
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Oh I agree, probably should've stated as such in my post.
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Ironic isn't it that the people that are most effected by financial polices - the working class and poor - usually don't come out to these kind of things. But I wouldn't give up on it yet, a core seems to be prepared for long-term occupatio
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by ddw 15y ago
Are traditional wallets really a problem? What exactly is the problem that is being solved here?
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I found this funny: http://www.eschatonblog.com/2011/09/unauthorized_16.html "I think even I could code the little trading computer with something like "if bet>$1 trillion, deny authorization." Or, ok, these things are complicated, ho
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Idaho has the slowest Internet speeds in the U.S., which ranks 25th in the world(nytimes.com)
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Newspaper company launches its own Android tablet(technicallyphilly.com)
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by ddw 15y ago
Although I haven't read it, Albert Brooks' new novel seems to be about this very thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030_%28novel%29 Cancer has been cured and the younger generations increasingly feel resentment towards the "olds" that t
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by ddw 15y ago
Yes, the goal is to prevent car crashes, particularly fatalities. What else could it be? There's data and facts behind the thought. Crashes are happening because someone was talking or texting while driving. Come on, this isn't a civil li
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The Drupal Crisis(unleashedmind.com)
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Don't get me wrong, I think the snowboard helmet law whatever is ridiculous too. There was probably a highly publicized story about a kid snowboarding and that's no reason to pass a law. But every law should be considered on its impact.
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by ddw 15y ago
I have a problem w/ the cell phone veto though because that involves other people. I've read studies that say that being distracted by your phone while driving can almost be as dangerous as being drunk. So what's the victim of such an acc
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My bad!
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I can't imagine even a lowly temp warrants being fired over the phone. It's just common decency. If there are security or legal concerns then film it and have a lawyer and security guard there. But doing it over the phone doesn't make Ya
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The last three are pretty much in place. The friction and unrest we've seen around the world recently comes from the first two not being calibrated correctly enough.
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Long term, technology can lead to our society being more peaceful and enjoyable than ever before. The short term is the problem though as there are so many people without the skills to work in the future that the transition may be too pain
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Except those people wouldn't be burdened by having a "job" because in Rushkoff's world "food and shelter are basic human rights." That's where people will get tripped up; in our current economic system we don't believe such an idea is true.
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I agree that it's a slow process, but it's happening. At the city level, it's good to have someone within the Mayor's office or City Council that really cares about it. It's starting to happen here in Philly with http://www.opendataphill
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This isn't new by the way: http://donateyouraccount.com I listen to political podcasts that use this service. They give the option of signing up for once a day, week or month so that your timeline isn't overwhelmed. It's sort of like a
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by ddw 15y ago
Why downvoted?

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