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by gamble 14y ago
Thanks! That was the article I was thinking of.
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by gamble 14y ago
Wasn't their another account of the avalanche, written by one of the survivors? IIRC, he made it sound like one of those instances where - individually - they all had misgivings about the conditions, but because no one was comfortable voici
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by gamble 14y ago
I'm highly skeptical of the claim that it sold out. Both Wii U SKUs are easily available in most of the US right now. Supplies were constrained initially, but that has more to do with scalpers buying up every preorder in anticipation of ano
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by gamble 14y ago
An awful lot of people have new iPads and ancient computers they don't need to replace because the iPad does 95% of what they need day-to-day.
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by gamble 14y ago
Nobody can buy Netflix because the content licensing deals are broken by a change of control. I'm sure they'd have been picked up by someone years ago were that not the case.
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by gamble 14y ago
Politico's article on ORCA today claims that one of the major problems was that they deployed the system in their election night HQ just prior to the election, and the surge of legitimate traffic on election day triggered their DDOS defence
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by gamble 14y ago
It seems like most of the polling organizations that did the worst during this election did poorly because they were way off-base with their likely voter model. No one in the press seemed to notice the scale of the turn-out machine Obama co
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by gamble 14y ago
He mentions in the comments that Wang's website doesn't appear to give the raw numbers he needs to analyze its accuracy.
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by gamble 14y ago
People may value data, but they don't value a datum. Individually, none of the dozen polls that report in every day are newsworthy except insofar as they feed the commentariat's need for something to hang stories on. 538 is newsworthy becau
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by gamble 14y ago
The irony is that 538 can only exist because of gut-based journalism. The polls it aggregates aren't cheap to conduct. Newspapers and television commission them so that they can be the first to run a story alerting the public to some shocki
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by gamble 14y ago
I'm waiting for them to shut Motorola down. It's generating huge losses, yet Google is doing nothing with it. And they've stated the patents are all Google values.
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by gamble 14y ago
The fact that people are willing to wait a couple of days for Amazon when they can buy exactly the same product immediately for slightly more money at the local Best Buy speaks to how much they're willing to put up with for a marginal cost
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by gamble 14y ago
I think it has more to do with getting the cuts out of the way before their Q3 earnings report comes out tomorrow. Facebook just mentioned in their earnings call this afternoon that they've been hit by a 20% YoY drop in revenue from Zynga,
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by gamble 14y ago
The problem with Windows 8 is that Microsoft built a touch-oriented operating system, but none of the OEMs are shipping machines that are notably more touch-oriented than their Windows 7 lineup. And the Metro aspects of Win8 offer no benefi
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by gamble 14y ago
Facebook used HTML5 for a variety of political and technical reasons. On iOS, using HTML5 decoupled deployment of functional changes from the App Store approval process. They could add a new feature on the servers and have it available on p
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by gamble 14y ago
Articles like the Sorkin piece have been appearing since the IPO because public shaming is the only tool disgruntled investors have to influence the company while Zuckerberg retains voting control. The market is looking for a dramatic (if t
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by gamble 14y ago
The JOBS Act will let companies set up Kickstartr-style funding portals for small investors.[1] It was signed in April, but the SEC is still in the process of defining how it will be implemented. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_
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by gamble 14y ago
Back in the 90s, I was a research assistant to a couple of doctors who were working on that kind expert system. The main difficulty is the lack of electronic patient records. Most things in medicine are still done on paper. The other proble
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by gamble 14y ago
Looks like they just used a standard low-end desktop panel.
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by gamble 14y ago
Yeah, my understanding is that the case law was pretty well established with board games. You can steal pretty much the entire mechanics of a game, but not the specific artistic expression. Of course, that doesn't mean a company with deep p
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by gamble 14y ago
Reminds me of a few years ago, when many pundits were still poo-poo'ing criticisms of RIM and Nokia, because - hey, they're still selling tons of product to existing markets! Who cares if they're not considered cool by those weirdo iPhone/A
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by gamble 14y ago
The problem for Craigslist is that the one thing people want is a better interface. If CL provides an API people can use to build an alternative frontend, and users start to go to these frontends instead of CL itself, there's nothing to sto
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by gamble 14y ago
What fee? The only requirements are a 2-year contract, or a $300 upfront fee for the free option. And they give you a free Nexus 7 tablet with the contract. At $70-120/month, the money they're collecting on a 2-year contract isn't remotely
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by gamble 14y ago
Isn't the more obvious conclusion that Google Fiber is just a bargaining chip for Google to use against traditional ISPs and cell phone networks? It won't even serve all of Kansas City for the foreseeable future, much less the rest of the c
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by gamble 14y ago
The first step to beating Craigslist at apartment listings is to get everyone to use a different front-end. (ie. Padmapper) Then you offer a way to create listings entirely within that front-end and bypass Craigslist entirely. CL becomes li
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by gamble 14y ago
RIM is not a technology sector. There are plenty of Canadian technology companies working in areas that aren't considered sexy in Silicon Valley. Modern resource industries are highly technical. For example, most of the R&D required to
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by gamble 14y ago
To add value and broaden the appeal. The first version of Sparrow for Mac only supported Gmail. Even after adding IMAP, there was no reason anyone who didn't use Gmail would buy Sparrow, because everything it did differently from the standa
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by gamble 14y ago
The entire 'mission' of the company was supposed to be providing a decent Mac/iOS client for Gmail. Now they're cancelling the product and working within Google? I don't see any reason to believe Google will find religion and release a dece
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by gamble 14y ago
Amazon's media stores are all but nonexistent outside the US, and the Fire is sold at cost with the expectation they'll recoup on media sales, so it's not surprising they haven't released it elsewhere. Google's non-US media stores are prett
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by gamble 14y ago
How much storage do you really need on a mobile device these days? I had the 64GB iPad 2, but with the new iPad I didn't feel the need to go beyond 32GB. I don't even fill that up. With iTunes Match and so many other streaming services, loc

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