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Solar storm could cause a catastrophe, and Earth’s defenses are few(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by fizzbar 13y ago|0 comments
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by fizzbar 13y ago
The technology should enable better outcomes. But the "good" in question here is your personal health -- its "worth" is infinite.
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Re: negotiating your bill: It blows my mind that in America you would approach paying for healthcare the same way you would purchase an expensive car. I don't consider my health to be a luxury good... But in the USA it is priced as suc
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by fizzbar 13y ago
YES. The adjective-overload is too much.
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Nice list, thanks for putting it together & sharing. Slightly OT, for people with email sending experience: I've noticed that some of these lists require you to confirm an email subscription ("double opt-in"), which afaik
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by fizzbar 13y ago
No, but what matters to the photographer (our stand-in for software developer) is that there are many people willing to pay them several thousand dollars for those kinds of photos :)
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, while maybe not the "best" book ever written, is highly entertaining...
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by fizzbar 13y ago
I'd suspect that in more "mature" working environments the probation period is used more as a fail-safe mechanism, as opposed to being integral to the actual hiring process (which is what it sounds like at FB).
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Chris Dixon (and I'm sure many others) talked about it: http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Wow. Leverage all those reams of data about us to freeze out fraudsters... Impressive/scary if they pull it off. Hopefully they don't make too many false-positives that result in innocent bystanders being banished from the Kingdom of the G
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Indeed. I think Youtube's "Hey, you should use your real name!" nag to be a very unsettling sign of things to come. My friends @ the Googleplex also note that there was a large schism internally wrt the whole "real name" push, but that's
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Interesting that Ilya doesn't seem to apprehend why so many people are uneasy about this.
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by fizzbar 13y ago
Way, way too soon to declare G+ a miserable failure. It's the lynchpin to their long term strategy for maintaining their dominance and relevance in Search, which in turn is how their Golden Goose of ad revenue lays its eggs. Whether us schm
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by fizzbar 14y ago
Hates it with the fire of a thousand suns. All those ad impressions, all skipping right over the Google-supplied (and now invisible) OS... Now spending every moment they have with their device basically entirely in Facebook.
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by fizzbar 14y ago
Wild speculation: if you're at the "ballpark" stage, you probably have a very vague feature list / overall plan... I suspect if you tighten up the description and scope you'll have more luck (although given how many offers for quotes you ju
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by fizzbar 14y ago
Slightly OT, but what do you find so bad about the G+ photo experience?
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by fizzbar 14y ago
Chromebooks are just a means to an end: ever more ad impressions.