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by gaius 8y ago
Waco happened Waco was the cops wasn’t it? Who are always happy to shoot random civilians.
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by gaius 8y ago
In Europe, the Venezuelan crisis is largely ignored Venezuela is still considered the ideal role model by certain British politicians...
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by gaius 8y ago
Google isn't trying to control or limit what people think. They are merely trying to allow advertisers to target audiences Do you see the juxtaposition here?
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes and no. There’s no ongoing relationship between people on Uber, drivers don’t have passengers as “followers” or “friends” or vice versa. There’s no network effect really. And many users and many drivers have multiple apps anyway. The st
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by gaius 8y ago
We (SWMBO and I) used to use a similar service, the meals were supposed to take 30 mins to prepare. I cook alot so I am no slouch in the kitchen but the reality was 45 minutes to an hour. I can’t always be bothered with that after a day at
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by gaius 8y ago
If Uber disappeared tomorrow, everyone would download another app and do the same journey in the same car with the same driver and the day after tomorrow would forget that Uber ever existed.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes and no. I’ve had the opportunity to try some state of the art telepresence/teleconferencing kit. Stuff that they visit your office before they decide if they’ll sell it to you and then do a custom fit-out of a suite. Imagine the sw
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by gaius 8y ago
Investors won’t subsidize them forever, so it’s probably not the best place to work. They are counting on an acquisition. The question is who. Microsoft has Github so, Atlassian (and merge with Bitbucket), IBM or Oracle are the most likel
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by gaius 8y ago
until the new CEO called me in for a chat. Maybe that CEO was infallible... or maybe he just wanted to give the job to one of his b-skool buddies. Who can say?
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by gaius 8y ago
Ditto for the RU Russia is only 55 miles from the US.
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by gaius 8y ago
Russia invaded Afghanistan for the same reason the US invaded Vietnam - an imperative to spread their ideology. Both failed for the same reason too. But natural resources weren’t even in the frame.
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by gaius 8y ago
It seems so obvious to everyone who isn’t a Silly Valley bro. Total monoculture.
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by gaius 8y ago
My point is - they are demonstrably perfectly able to control what content is played and choose to ignore copyright to make more money.
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by gaius 8y ago
Traditionally in the newspaper business advertising revenue paid for paper, ink, printing and distribution, and sales of the paper itself paid for journalism. Cut off the latter and what’s left? I recently cancelled my sub to the NYT after
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by gaius 8y ago
that puts the responsibility on the platform instead of the user What did they think would happen when they started making editorial decisions about what content to show and what to ban or at least bury? They made their bed, let them lie
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by gaius 8y ago
What really hurt was knowing people thought I was the sort of guy who would be interested in blatantly fake Raybans and suchlike...
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by gaius 8y ago
You see this alot on FB, “tag 10 friends in this ad to enter a draw” kind of thing. It is one of the reasons that social media is poisonous to genuine human relationships.
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by gaius 8y ago
What's $1/year to a $265bn/year company? Maybe Apple converts a few hundred million of them to iMessage. 0.1% revenue bump in return for devaluing a USP of their product and increased ongoing development and operating costs.
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by gaius 8y ago
Why would users pay when they can send messages sent for free? A combination of awareness that TANSTAAFL and network effects - RIM sold plenty of BB hardware to people who just wanted access to BBM because that’s where all their friends w
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by gaius 8y ago
Good for them. It is baffling why others don’t do this. It doesn’t make sense on any level.
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by gaius 8y ago
Do you have any examples?
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by gaius 8y ago
I wonder if this will prompt Apple to open up group iMessage, such as BlackBerry (belatedly) attempting to go cross-platform with an app. Charge Android users $1/year or /month for access to the ecosystem or something. Bye-bye Wha
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by gaius 8y ago
If all your competitors are down too, the equation changes, no?
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by gaius 8y ago
This was a systematic attempt by all three parties to defraud the Inland Revenue, Upwork is generally pretty sleazy but they blinked first this time.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes of course www. We should resist all attempts to deprecate URLs so the entire web will be hidden behind Google's search box. SEO is a plague.
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by gaius 8y ago
“The sum of zeros is zero” — Nietzsche on the Nazi movement
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by gaius 8y ago
Off-topic question: India does not accept dual citizenship. So when the Kosuris became naturalized citizens, they must have given up their India citizenship. Given that, why should India accept them back after they were deemed criminals in
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by gaius 8y ago
But try losing your card overseas and see how you feel then... Depends on the card. With Amex or Diners Club it’s not a problem.
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by gaius 8y ago
not with the idea of digital money. If every single actual implementation of an idea is bad then maybe the idea wasn’t such a great one either. Contactless payments with a regular credit card are as far as this idea needed to go, everythi
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by gaius 8y ago
Right. It’s no big deal for anyone if there’s no mobile signal but no dial tone is shocking. Even when there’s a power cut the landlines still work. I have probably only experienced an outage of POTS a couple of times in my life.

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