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by edgefield 5y ago
This was Murdoch's strategy; e.g., launching both Fox, with its salacious shows ("who wants to marry a millionaire," "married with children") and at the same time launching fox news, a conservative news network.
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by edgefield 5y ago
I worked for a big consulting firm and the only time you were in the office at a hot desk was when you were doing CBTs and billing time to professional development. It was not viewed positively by anyone.
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by edgefield 5y ago
The article unfortunately is behind a hard paywall...
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by edgefield 5y ago
Unfortunately, right leaning in the US has come to include views that run counter to science, diversity/inclusivity, and human rights for all (right to vote, right to choose). Are these views welcome in tech companies? Not generally.
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by edgefield 5y ago
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in its current form is environmental lunacy. I don't know what problem digital currency solves when the planet can no longer sustain human life due to climate change.
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by edgefield 5y ago
We desperately need news aggregators and social media services like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, that are NOT run by for profit enterprises. There are a lot of terrific open source platforms out there and saddened that none of them have gaine
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by edgefield 5y ago
True. Just give the planet 1M years to recover.
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by edgefield 5y ago
If we don’t respond to climate change now and aggressively, like we are fighting a war, humanity is toast. Climate change will quickly wipe out most life on earth. The IPCC “code red” report doesn’t even take into account several enormous
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Ask HN: Mechanic on-demand to evaluate a used car
5 points by edgefield 5y ago|5 comments
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How can startups and the HN community respond to the climate crisis?
3 points by edgefield 5y ago|3 comments
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by edgefield 5y ago
The tax code is structured this way by design, by rich people. If rich people wanted a simplified tax code without loopholes, then they would actively lobby for this, and I guarantee congress would act to simplify the tax code.
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Ask HN: Get Magic for Physical Deliveries
2 points by edgefield 6y ago|0 comments
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New tech could make consoles obsolete(videogames.yahoo.com)
20 points by edgefield 18y ago|36 comments
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by edgefield 18y ago
Heh... :-) any thoughts on whether this would be appropriate?
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Ask HN: Market research and HN community norms
3 points by edgefield 18y ago|3 comments
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by edgefield 18y ago
Read the about page for your source, BBspot.com: "Called "the world's greatest tech humour site" by The Register, BBspot creates entertainment for the geekier side of the world. BBspot produces a variety of features like fake news stories s
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Adamo.com - The Importance of a Good Domain(onedegree.ca)
1 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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by edgefield 18y ago
Note the video is interactive and can be manipulated with your mouse pointer and the menu at the bottom of the video. I recommend checking out some of Koblin's other projects as well. Hope you enjoy! :-)
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Radiohead video developed using a Velodyne HD Lidar(aaronkoblin.com)
5 points by edgefield 18y ago|3 comments
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Cookie-sized computers(siftables.com)
41 points by edgefield 18y ago|11 comments
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by edgefield 18y ago
If you look around Silicon Valley, you see a lot of companies that have a culture similar to HP in its heydays, when the "HP Way" was still going strong. HP was one of the early companies to succeed in the Valley. I suspect other early comp
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GOP's top techie calls it quits(arstechnica.com)
2 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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Verizon Customers - Just Say No (readwriteweb.com)
1 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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First Real Photos of the BlackBerry 9630(crackberry.com)
1 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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Ex-Leaders at Countrywide Start Firm to Buy Bad Loans(nytimes.com)
2 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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Atom can't feed fab monster; Intel outsources chips to TSMC(arstechnica.com)
1 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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Should artists get 12% or 50% royalties from iTunes sales?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by edgefield 18y ago|0 comments
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by edgefield 18y ago
I think Twitter might be a complement to Google, but not a substitute. Just curious to hear what others think... I have a Twitter account, but haven't used it much. It's hard to find time in the day to post. The search function in Twitter s
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How Twitter could be a threat to Google(mercurynews.com)
1 points by edgefield 18y ago|2 comments
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by edgefield 18y ago
So you have 200 hours of remaining work? In my opinion it would be unethical to leave the project hanging. Can you establish a specific deadline/deliverable within a 40-80 timeframe (e.g, get the project into beta) and then work out an alte

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