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by fnid2 16y ago
There's not really any other option within the current environment of quarterly reports. We have to think with more vision. The best solution would be to stop using oil as an energy source now with any purpose except to get us over the hum
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by fnid2 16y ago
Until Facebook negotiates plans with the cell phone providers that sneak apps onto your phone which relay your location to facebook even without your approval...
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by fnid2 16y ago
It's basically a commercial for the water repellent shoes. Of course it is, those shoes are SOOO water repellent, you can actually walk on water with them!
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by fnid2 16y ago
We store oil and we find more places to extract it. Furthermore, as consumption leads to higher prices, we will produce more efficient and productive ways to extract it.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I think it's bubble-nomics. People sign up for services for the same irrational reasons they buy stocks -- they perceive a future value.
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by fnid2 16y ago
Two largest populations and growing. Shared land mass. Declining resources -- many of which are only in China. Water is running out. Energy. There's a possibility it may be contained to an economic war, let's hope. They are more advanced
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by fnid2 16y ago
Production is declining, but consumption is increasing, so it could be less than 30 years. I also believe that oil will be come more valuable as a pharmaceutical base, for fertilizer, and plastics than for energy. We'll have other sources
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by fnid2 16y ago
Could it be possible, that a collaboration between two organizations, one entering the bid or ask at 0.01 and another quickly buying it or selling it could be arranged such that the particular trade could go through and could trigger lots o
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by fnid2 16y ago
Yeah, I thought about that, or what if HN isn't around. There is http://www.longbets.org This is the perfect bet for there. If alexa isn't around, we can substitute the most popular website ranking website.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I'll take the top 5 metric charity bet. I bet that by May 7, 2015, Facebook will not be in the top 5 sites as ranked by Alexa. I think it's an easy metric free of dispute. In 5 years, we may argue, "What is a social network?" But I highl
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by fnid2 16y ago
No, now... You're putting words into my mouth. I have known for years that people would complain about facebook's privacy violations and their pressure to make money would cause a user revolt. I've also said they will change their privacy
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by fnid2 16y ago
It's much easier to predict what will happen than it is to predict when. For example, I can make the following predictions: Facebook will collapse India and China will erupt into violent war We will experience a water crisis Oil w
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by fnid2 16y ago
I don't believe it is and here's why. It's easy to link to your facebook profile. If you create an orkut profile, you can add a link to your facebook profile there and simply stop using facebook. Eventually, it'll get too costly to mainta
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by fnid2 16y ago
Looks like we are pretty much on the same page then.
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by fnid2 16y ago
You gotta understand, for hackers, most things are binary: black or white. Either facebook is great, or they are evil and the switch just got flipped. Hackers are trend setters on the web. Watch them.
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by fnid2 16y ago
As a consultant to the dot-com industry around the turn of the century, I traveled a lot. I took a lot of long cab rides from airports to downtowns. I talked to lots of cabbies. At some point, I knew the end was near. I knew the end was
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by fnid2 16y ago
Perhaps, but I've always been a little ahead of the curve. ;) Seriously though, it'd be impossible for anyone outside facebook to provide any hard proof of their utilization. From the outside, it's all speculation. What is your estimate on
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by fnid2 16y ago
Just a gut feeling. I've... we've known something like this was coming for a long time. Remember, MarkZ is a bit of an egomaniac. Have you seen what happens to egomaniacs when their world starts to crumble around them? Not to get over
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by fnid2 16y ago
In this case, Google is even worse because you don't even have to use google to be tracked by their systems. You can avoid facebook's privacy violations by not using facebook, but you can't avoid google's privacy violations even if you do
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by fnid2 16y ago
They will keep it forever and ever. It takes a long time to make millions of dollars off an address list.
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by fnid2 16y ago
That's exactly right, except the investors are also the customer and they have to be satisfied as well.
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by fnid2 16y ago
Facebook's usage is starting to decline, so they have to do everything they can -- while they still have users -- to maximize the value of their graph for the investors who are going to do whatever they have to with that graph to salvage wh
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by fnid2 16y ago
It amazes me that you ever had faith in facebook. Why did you think facebook would be different than other social networks? Did you think facebook would be around forever? Did you think all the work, energy, and time you put into facebook
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by fnid2 16y ago
The font in that document is really hard to read at times. Pixelated and blurry. And the little tool bar at the bottom popping up all the the time is annoying. That said, I applaud the effort and see it as a HUGE step forward from the ol
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by fnid2 16y ago
No need to pay for the API, just the trades you make with it -- which could get expensive. Interactive brokers has an API for their software. It's fairly easy to use. http://interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=programInterface&#3... They
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by fnid2 16y ago
In many cases, you are breaking your contract with the ISP. Read almost any residential contract and it says the subscriber agrees not to run servers for example. My ISP in california even blocked port 80 upstream. Limiting the ability to
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by fnid2 16y ago
I can't imagine where you got that I was saying that. The goal of patents is to allow innovators to share their ideas, while still protecting their ability to profit from the idea. The goal of patents is to reduce the risk of competitors t
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by fnid2 16y ago
You'll have to provide a reference, because this one disagrees, saying (on page 3): Shipping rates vary by type of commodity Each cargo owner pays a different rate http://www.cunninghamreport.com/uploads/backup_docs/585-Port...
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Beyond Liberalization II: The Impending Doom of Common Carriage (1994)(columbia.edu)
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by fnid2 16y ago
I don't know if it is clearly positive for the system as a whole, because if telecoms can charge more, and generate more revenue from existing infrastructure, then they can get on to newer, fatter, and longer pipes. Right now, they are basi

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