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by gabemart 14y ago
No, because I don't like the idea of being dependent on some external factor to be able to access my email account. If there's an emergency and I find myself naked with my wallet and phone gone in the middle of a foreign country, I want to
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by gabemart 14y ago
>This summer I learned how to get into, well, everything. With two minutes and $4 to spend at a sketchy foreign website, I could report back with your credit card, phone, and Social Security numbers and your home address. I simply don't
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by gabemart 14y ago
I found the wording of the title ambiguous. I assumed this would be about projects that meet their funding goal but fail to materialize, rather than projects that fail to meet their funding goal in the first place.
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by gabemart 14y ago
I find that really surprising because phone service is now just so damn cheap in the UK. After a cashback offer, I'm effectively paying £5 a month for more minutes, texts and data than I can hope to consume. I guess my needs are relativel
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by gabemart 14y ago
Ah, of course. Thanks.
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by gabemart 14y ago
What is a C2A please? Google was no help without more context.
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by gabemart 14y ago
>97% didn't react to your shameless plug, and probably a good chunk of these were annoyed by it I think that's a pretty bold claim. I can't remember ever being annoyed by a blog post which included a brief "This is me and what I do" plu
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by gabemart 14y ago
For the sake of clarity, I meant: >If a lottery has a total of ten $1 tickets for sale and each ticket has an equal chance of winning, there is an obvious difference between the prize being $11 and $9, but buying a ticket at either pr
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by gabemart 14y ago
I think the real problem (as with so many problems) is definitional. What does "gambling" actually mean? If I tried to kludge together a definition, I might come up with something like: >Risking the loss of something of value in exchang
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by gabemart 14y ago
I find the "motivation to vote" problem a really interesting one from an economics perspective. The marginal effect of one vote in a federal election is statistically indistinguishable from zero. How do you motivate rational agents to under
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by gabemart 14y ago
>I cannot see why people use WordPress over the likes of Concrete5 or a full CMS on any other platform outside of WordPress being accessible for entry-level developers. I run a very modestly profitable website that gets about 1k visitor
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by gabemart 14y ago
Is there a particular reason for contributing this blog article, rather than just linking to the post itself [1]? It doesn't seem to add anything other than "read this comment". [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/interne
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by gabemart 14y ago
>On average they reject 98%. Mensa's cut off is the top 2% of IQs These two statements are not congruent unless the distribution of IQs in people applying to Mensa is equal to the ditribution of IQs in the general population. I doubt th
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by gabemart 14y ago
The current maximum zoom level (I think it's "5" from the url) seems too low for some of the pictures. For example, this shot [1] from the picture "Nick Field" is zoomed to the maximum level but looks like it could zoom quite a bit more whi
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by gabemart 14y ago
I think you're failing to take into account the author's thesis that an idea not put into action within a reasonable time frame "rots". From my reading of the article, this happens either because i) so much navel-gazing, planning and refini
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by gabemart 14y ago
Ah, I see, thank you. I assume my mistake was thinking of assets in an old-world fungible sort of way, where if you buy an asset in one market you can sell it to someone else in a different market, rather than a new-world sort of way with h
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by gabemart 14y ago
>In plain English, arbitrage just means taking advantage of discrepancies when things should have the same price, but don't. The idea is to buy the cheaper one, sell the more expensive one, and then wait for them to converge. The beauty
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by gabemart 14y ago
>There's an even simpler rule: The more convenient currency conversion is, the more you are getting ripped off. That simply isn't true in my experience. For years, I used a debit card from Nationwide in the UK to withdraw currency all o
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by gabemart 14y ago
One thing that I didn't see explicitly mentioned in the article: I really, really hope they don't segment the marketplaces. In other words, I really hope it's possible to log into Kickstarter UK with your Kickstarter US details and use the
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by gabemart 14y ago
>If the market is fair but the price is wrong, the price will change. You're assuming that a price that no-one in a developing country can afford is the same as a price that is "wrong". It's perfectly possible that a price that no-one i
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by gabemart 14y ago
>Pointing out research, or writing, or anything else, ignores the reality that if the production cost warrants a sale price of $x, charging $x * 5 or in some cases $x * 100 and using legal protections to do so is inherently greedy and i
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by gabemart 14y ago
It's a good idea if and only if you believe your personal access to information and ability to perform analysis is greater than the aggregate capability of the market as a whole.
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by gabemart 14y ago
>If you're not willing to honor the license, what possible point would there be to paying for the software in the first place? This practice is actually fairly common. For example, almost all the technical people I know have bought OEM
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by gabemart 14y ago
Upgrade copies of Vista and Win7 can be installed on an empty hard drive with minimal tweaking, but I guess being kosher with the licensing is important for some users.
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by gabemart 14y ago
Look at their review scoring policy[1], I'm a little underwhelmed. A score of 5: >indicates a bland, underwhelming game that's functional but little else. These games might still possess quirks or aspects that appeal to certain players.
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by gabemart 14y ago
When I was young, I would sneak downstairs in the early morning on weekends to watch cartoons. If I was too early, nothing would be on apart from ceefax. I must have listened to that music for hundreds of hours.
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by gabemart 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation. While I have no doubt you're right (because I am completely outside my field of expertise), I have difficulty intuitively accepting the answer. By way of comparison, the wikipedia entry on the infinite monkey the
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by gabemart 14y ago
I don't have a strong mathematics background, but would I be right in thinking that the probability of a normal, infinite number containing a given arbitrary string of digits is "almost sure" rather than "sure"? Or can it actually be proven
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by gabemart 14y ago
While I agree with your point generally, I think it's unfair to say that Dropbox is conditioning users to think the only value proposition is disk space. For me, the Dropbox client, web integration and storage features are streets ahead of
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by gabemart 14y ago
Is there a problem with linking to your own blog?

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