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by drawkbox 8y ago
This was largely a patent buy, they later sold them to Microsoft for a billion in 2012 [1], which Facebook ended up buying 650 of the 800 they bought from AOL [2]. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-buys-netsca
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Indeed, nearly all FPS/MMO/RTS games are realtime and need UDP, only some messages need to be reliable/ACK'd or ordered and TCP is overkill except for turn based games. Real-time games have to be UDP or more typically a
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Short and distort [1] is big business, sketchy and mostly illegal, but common on the markets biggest shorted stocks, AAPL included. For short and distort to work, the stock/product has to be one in major demand that can be pushed down
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by drawkbox 8y ago
There is probably too much closed mode with your current project, so you seek the open mode. John Cleese has a talk on this [1], that open mode is for creativity and blocked out time for just that, and closed mode is for shipping and stayin
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Exactly, the project managers and management had to hit a date, the game wasn't ready. So we live in the world of ship it broken/incomplete, just so a PM can hit their date, quality of the game be damned. I prefer Valve Time to ma
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> Banks solve a different problem. The reason why banks can be computerized does not apply to voting. I disagree, fraud detection and security is the best we currently have and people trust it due to these areas. > Bank functioning
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by drawkbox 8y ago
It is a very bad precedent to cut people off a needed service to live today, and it needs to be stopped immediately. The problem is ISPs and content providers, or both, are prioritizing their needs over other industries. Say someone does pi
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by drawkbox 8y ago
We trust our financial system and it already has decades of fraud detection. Our voting system should be through something similar with all history, fraud detection, voter verification and more. Our current voting system is already rife wi
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Didn't know that but you can find other sources with the same data [1][2]. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-depa... [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Ok, we can agree to disagree on morality it is more about a broken focus in essentially a scam system with the focus on employers and insurers not paying when time comes, rather than a focus on individuals/consumers and larger more sen
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> pre-ACA options Pre-ACA, I was denied coverage at 30 with a wife and kid, with no pre-existing conditions and from the same companies I had health insurance from when working fulltime. This was in 2011, it was scary and I felt the sys
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Lots of freelancers do it a client at a time, better to have multiple for diversification, but contracting even for a single client is freelancing. The count or length of time doesn't factor into whether you are categorized as a freela
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by drawkbox 8y ago
In the software world it is probably higher than the 1 in 10 full-time freelancers [1][2] vs full/part combined of 35% of the total workforce. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why-the-us-depa..
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by drawkbox 8y ago
According to this study [1][2], the fulltime gig/freelance/contractors are at 10-11% and full and part-time combined are at 35% of the total workforce. [1] https://qz.com/work/1324292/gig-economy-data-why
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Take a look at the people that file W2 (employee) vs 1099-MISC (contractor or freelancer), in 2014 W2s were 234m and 1099-MISC were 91m [1]. That means lots of contractors, lots of part-time and lots of employed but just over a third are co
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by drawkbox 8y ago
True, but that trickle growth over time has led to a large chunk of the US who are freelancing. > "More than one in three (35%) Americans freelanced this year." 1/3 of the country freelancing at some point is massive, es
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by drawkbox 8y ago
With any production/consumer scenario it is usually 1 to 1000 or more ratio. Content producers and people that interact rather than lurk are a 1 to 1000 or more. This here article probably thousands view it, and only a trickle comment
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by drawkbox 8y ago
I misread your statement, sorry about that. I agree though it is nice to have proof, part of the campaign against cannabis and safer decriminalized markets / regulated markets is about harm to kids, which would be better served in a le
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by drawkbox 8y ago
In both the government and private industry, both which are needed, the overlooked ones are the individuals and teams that make these innovations. The big fish are the government and private industry that helps drive forward, but when you b
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> There are plenty of things that kids do not recover from and we now know that moderate marijuana use is not one of them. That is a ridiculous overgeneralization. This article supports the opposite. While it is never good for kids to do
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Naked short selling and pump and dump was in effect which is indisputable by the facts, Lehman was just a trigger point. Making it all about Lehman is disingenuous to the full statement and event. The Great Recession was a value extraction
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> Naked short selling rules went into effect Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 three days after the Sept. 15, 2008 Great Recession cliff How you twisted that into your hate on Musk seems biased. Clearly the facts are short selling and naked sho
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Naked short selling [1] and short and distort [2][3] were also a big part of the pump and dump then the crash, they nearly broke the entire market. > During the takeover of The Bear Stearns Companies by J.P. Morgan Chase in March 2008,
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Canada is leading in personal freedoms and new markets with this move, ending cannabis prohibition that is long overdue and a step in ending the drug wars. The policy change regarding viewing drugs not as criminal but decriminalized and a h
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Engineers are supposed to simplify complexity, taking something complex and making it simple. There are many engineers though that like to over-complicate and add complexity because it makes them look smart or they think they are expected t
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Mac Pro "cheese grater" towers and arguably Apple's best Pro machine or tower ever [1]. Mojave macOS version just recently unfortunately EOL'd my last Mac Pro (Mid 2010 with no Metal capable GPU), such a nice design and
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Paul Allen did enough good for hundreds of lifetimes in one. Allen's skills helped create Microsoft/Windows and allowed him to attain wealth which he also used for good reasons, funding brain, medical research and history as well
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> License everything to everything Nothing more annoying than false supply limitations on content by service, exclusives, country, various availability windows. This is the digital age, we have little time for entertainment and need our
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Couple tricks on getting started: - Use the 15 minute rule to get started, only agree to do 15-20 minutes of work to see if you are flowing in that project, most of the time once you get started and loaded up the project in your mental spac
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Specialization, metrics that don't capture true growth/success, and too large of teams also ends up to skilled workers that care less because they have less power or responsibility/ownership. Small teams with skilled people,

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