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by exelius 10y ago
Being on the Internet breaks the advertising model (CPMs are much, much lower online versus TV ads due to the sales channels they use). Moreover, the Internet has conditioned people to think "Subscription = No ads!" Hulu isn'
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by exelius 10y ago
I absolutely agree with his take on this; and I've echoed a similar sentiment in my comment history. The advertisers who advertise on TV are the biggest, slowest, oldest companies. They're largely just interested in "brand ad
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by exelius 10y ago
Maybe if you're talking about an Arduino (which is more of a micro controller than a full-on CPU). Anything resembling a real CPU definitely has the horsepower for SSL.
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by exelius 10y ago
Everyone uses fat JARs because it removes a lot of things that can go wrong operationally (especially when standing up new servers). The approach described in this article is the way Java was designed to work; but then everyone said you nee
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by exelius 10y ago
The price is high, but strategically Microsoft doesn't have a lot of options for new markets, and Microsoft's current markets are in decline so it needs to find new markets in order to grow. This purchase opens a huge market to th
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by exelius 10y ago
> Looking at their buy-sell margins, Twilio has successfully changed the telecom paradigm, or at the least the vanguard of it. That is Big. APIs instead of circuits. Microservices instead of canned products. Telecom had already been head
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by exelius 10y ago
Great move. IMO this is Microsoft making a play for HR managed services -- look for them to sign a big deal with ADP / BenefitsExpress / buy someone like Zenefits to complement this purchase. The power and value of LinkedIn is as
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by exelius 10y ago
Ultimately, history is written by the winner. It's impossible to separate biases from fact when the sources have opposing world views. To many, the US today is an imperialist power that props up strong-man dictators and oppresses peopl
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by exelius 10y ago
> You know what would be even better? Higher interest rates. Higher interest rates have to be supported by inflation. Inflation comes primarily from two sources: productivity gains and raw market growth. Modern economies are hitting dimi
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by exelius 10y ago
There's no reason you can't have general-purpose SoCs that combine traditional pipeline-driven CPU cores, GPGPU cores and FPGA cores with memory, bus chips, storage, etc. We long ago reached the point of diminishing returns for cr
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by exelius 10y ago
Apple approaches R&D a bit differently than Google does. Apple sees R&D as primarily a means to achieve operational efficiency and/or supplier independence. Product development is driven by customer needs and is tightly control
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by exelius 10y ago
It's less about how the world saw Yahoo than how Yahoo saw itself. They felt that Microsoft's position in technology / the browser was too dominant, so they pivoted towards the "discovery" experience. Problem was, G
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by exelius 10y ago
The problem was that someone who was skilled enough to have taken on the job of turning Yahoo around would have just started their own company -- without the baggage of Yahoo's culture. VC is easy enough to get that any tech executive
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by exelius 10y ago
I don't think the failure is on Mayer; Yahoo was a walking zombie before she arrived. They were the last remnant of the dot-com boom -- a media company without a significant role in content, advertising, shopping or computing. They had
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by exelius 10y ago
They weren't even bringing them up to the same level as taxi drivers; they were just requiring a livery license -- which is a rubber-stamp process in Austin and again, is required even of bicycle-taxi drivers who are only allowed to wo
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by exelius 10y ago
How so, by requiring background checks for Uber drivers? When I lived there, they required the same livery license for pedicab drivers as well -- which was basically getting fingerprinted and paying a $25 fee. Uber and Lyft were the ones wh
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by exelius 10y ago
> Now that's fucked up, because we are trading our values, for which people freaking died to win, for short term convenience, also sending the message that it's OK as a country to violate basic human rights, as long as you&#x27
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by exelius 10y ago
> Java and C# are of course equally boring, but I think the fact that Rails is culturally open source provides a huge benefit over them. Java is culturally open source at this point; nearly every widely-used Java library is open source a
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by exelius 10y ago
This is why Firefox is gaining momentum; they seem to be the only browser interested in user privacy. Users are definitely interested.
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by exelius 10y ago
I dunno, I think psychedelics can actually help you accept that fact and rid yourself of any nagging "what if?" questions (i.e. mid-life crisis scenarios, etc). For most people, they're more likely to confirm your sense of id
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by exelius 10y ago
That's why it's a canary study. Sure, it looks good, which means it's worth spending the money on a larger study. And yeah, there are lots of people with severe long-term depression, so find some of them, measure their mood o
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by exelius 10y ago
Yeah, it looks like the study linked in the original article didn't do the measurement on the subjects while they were under the influence, but rather some time after the fact. In my experience, psilocybin can have a lasting psychologi
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by exelius 10y ago
From personal experience in my youth, I can definitely say that psychedelics (mushrooms in particular) can help you think in different ways that make your problems seem trivial and imminently solvable. Those changed patterns of thought seem
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by exelius 10y ago
It's simple: there is so much money in our political system (and there always has been) that unless you're donating to a candidate / party machine, your pet projects don't get done. This means a lot of things that matter
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by exelius 10y ago
Yeah; a legit professional won't even touch a wedding for less than $5k. The bottom 80% of the market is too flooded with students and housewives charging $500 an event to be able to make a sustainable business out of it.
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by exelius 10y ago
Kenyatta is fighting to make sure he stays in office - gentrification would change the skin color of his district, and that puts him at risk. But his district is full of abandoned houses, burned out lots, and general urban blight that'
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by exelius 10y ago
Pittsburgh doesn't have the crime / corruption problems (largely the same IMO - you can't expect citizens to follow the law if the politicians don't) that Baltimore and Philly do.
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by exelius 10y ago
Philadelphia is a much more interesting and hip city to live in, but the crime, high taxes and crumbling infrastructure are a killer. The city government is incredibly corrupt, with a lot of the machinery that empowers city councilmen (I&#x
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Pittsburgh is also dirt cheap; there are entire neighborhoods that are essentially abandoned. You can buy a house in decent structural condition for under $50,000. And it's been so depressed for so long that there's an enormous am
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by exelius 10y ago
"Professional" photography (especially for children / weddings) can be viewed in the same light. I know many professional photographers, and with the exception of one who does a lot of commercial work (that requires probably

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