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by donaldc 16y ago
This is why it will be important as an investor to actually understand the business area that the startup is getting into. The problem with the dotcom bubble wasn't that there was pressure for investors to make a decision; the problem was
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by donaldc 16y ago
Essentially, the article says that the market for search ads is starting to mature, and that the growth of this market is slowing. This is when Google should begin paying out the excess cash it has to shareholders, as dividends and stock bu
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by donaldc 16y ago
If that's the case, why not just pay him $100 million directly and cut out the middlemen?
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by donaldc 16y ago
Whether this is true for a given person depends on when they were 8. For a 48-year-old, this would certainly be true. For an 18-year-old, not so much. The march of technology has more or less solved this one particular issue.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Spelling mistakes are better than nothing, but if I can obtain two copies of the document, I can diff them and fix the mistakes.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Under this scheme, if my laptop with hundreds of paid-for documents is stolen, am I then liable for all the copies of these documents that are illicitly distributed?
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by donaldc 16y ago
Is this normalized by the population density or foot traffic in an area? If not, it's going to be hard to use to estimate personal risk.
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by donaldc 16y ago
I'm going to guess that there are very few patent trolls that target small independent entrepreneurs. Not out of the goodness of their heart, but simply because that isn't where the money is.
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by donaldc 16y ago
When WakeMate is finally released, I'd be interested in reading a retrospective by the founders on what they learned, and on what checks/changes to their development approach they have made for version 2. As they are discovering, developmen
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by donaldc 16y ago
Of course, this will cause every civilized government to fail, because governments depend on tax dollars. If governments find it impossible to tax income as they lose their monopoly on cash, they will still be able to tax tangible propert
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by donaldc 16y ago
It seems to work by restricting the parts of your brain that make you sluggish or sleepy. Since good sleep is needed to solidify learning for the long term, I personally will be unlikely to ever try provigil, at least not for more than a
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by donaldc 16y ago
Part of the success of traditional tv, radio and newspapers is the shared experience with some group you identify with. Perhaps, but most of the reason for the success of traditional tv, radio, and newspapers is that, until the last five
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by donaldc 16y ago
When looking at correlating factors, they should also include diet. I remember reading that some Central Asian countries, as recently as a decade ago, were losing more than 5 IQ points on average just to iodine deficiency.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Generally, physical work is not as rewarded in modern society as intellectual work. Almost anything physically grueling a human can do, a machine can be designed to do it better. If the human in question is expensive, a machine has probably
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by donaldc 16y ago
Status updates among my facebook friends have gone way down since the last facebook privacy flap. Perhaps facebook's reputation is starting to precede it. (Though more people I am acquainted with continue to join. They just don't update muc
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by donaldc 16y ago
In an ideal world, I'd be both a morning and an evening person. I've found this works best for me. Unfortunately, this can be challenging to pull off, because it requires taking a long nap in the middle of the day, and this practice is held
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by donaldc 16y ago
except for algorithmic problems - which over came up very rarely I'd say that depends on what problem one is working on. I see algorithmic problems come up all the time, and I occasionally see a total failure on an algorithmic issue among
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by donaldc 16y ago
Assuming I was the general who decided when we'd attack, I'd send n messengers each with a c chance of getting captured, yielding a (1 - c^n) chance of the other general attacking at the same time. By adjusting for n, I could have whatever
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by donaldc 16y ago
The real question to me is not whether it's slow or fast, but whether those parts of Perl 6 that are included in Rakudo Star are stable, in terms of the language itself. I see no point in looking at any of this until I can feel secure that
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by donaldc 16y ago
There is no indication of what qualifies the author, Alison Green, to make statements about what hiring managers want. Presumably, she's a hiring manager of sorts, but the article doesn't actually state this. It is therefore impossible to k
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by donaldc 16y ago
You may find that infantile but if the great things in life are taken away (or substituted with tofu), what remains? I gave up refined sugar four months ago and have found that, after a couple months of adjustment, most fruit tastes much
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by donaldc 16y ago
Better yet if they also released the corpus over bittorrent instead of requiring one spend $100+ for the cds. Let everyone play with it, not just full-time researchers.
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by donaldc 16y ago
I think the benefit of people being able to record police officers in action far outweighs any disadvantages. Beyond this, I am rather offended that it seems to be ok for any number of local governments, businesses, and who knows who else t
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by donaldc 16y ago
I wonder how many decades it will be before the laws concerning copyright, patents, and all things related are updated to reflect the realities of the information age. I don't see things getting better anytime soon.
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by donaldc 16y ago
Without knowing more details it's impossible to know what this means. If this is the same paper the article we are commenting on talked about, then the article appears to have misrepresented the conclusions of the study. In any case, not al
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by donaldc 16y ago
Saturated fat is bad for you beyond the number of calories you get from it. This appears to be an unsubstantiated claim, one that the study cited by the article is trying to dispel.
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by donaldc 16y ago
The basic problem in both instances is that he's talking about the privacy setting issues using the language of fixing a technical problem. This allows him to sidestep addressing the much more important issue of trustworthiness.
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by donaldc 16y ago
So it sounds like I'll once again be able to keep the entire world from seeing my education, interest, and work history data. I deleted those after the last policy changes. Sounds good, but for how long will this remain true? I'm not going
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by donaldc 16y ago
At the rate facebook is currently going, in a couple years all data on facebook will be world-readable. At that point it should be easy for anyone to download their facebook to another site. One could then clone facebook, and at an agreed-u
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by donaldc 16y ago
If facebook, with its more than 400 million users, and all the time its users spend on the site, can't figure out a way to make money on that without breaking privacy, then it deserves to fail.

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