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by ggg9990 9y ago
Yes, that’s what the OP is saying. Consumers fought against DRM so the business model became “never give them the software and you’ll never need to force DRM on them.”
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Remove and delete are distinct actions in shared file systems. “Remove” gets it out of your Google Drive. But if it’s a shared file, it’s not yours to delete, or if your company has a retention policy, you may not have the permission to del
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Musk definitely goes too far with his response to any criticism of Tesla. It makes him sound a little like Trump — “I’m so amazing”
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Damn, I’m already imagining them like the climate change movies where a 800-foot tsunami hits Manhattan. 200 million self driving cars have become hostile and are trying to kill the humans. The problem is that they have commandeered a group
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by ggg9990 9y ago
China has been developing its manufacturing expertise at the highest levels (they built the Bay Bridge) and their control of industrial resources (they have bought a big percentage of Africa). China is to the rest of the world as Apple is t
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Uber did not get unlucky -- they are simply an evil company. Their cars need human intervention every 13 miles as opposed to Google's every 5,600 miles -- they were not fit for the road but Uber let them out anyways. Uber should be shu
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Ugh, that stuff destroys the fourth wall. Save it for the DVD extras or put it on YouTube.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Windows users have long waited a year to install new versions. If Mac users did the same they would have fewer such problems.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I don't see evidence here of anything more than the application of techniques long-used by advertisers like General Motors and Unilever to the political arena. It may be odious, and may make the world a worse place, but it is not parti
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Distribution is even more important in a long tall world. There is so much great stuff on YouTube now that I rely on blogs and other intermediaries to tell me what’s worth watching. Similarly for movies I look to places that tell me what is
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by ggg9990 9y ago
“I dance with a traffic cone on my head and so do a dozen people I know. In fact in the last three months our numbers have quadrupled. The world has definitely taken notice of traffic-cone dancing.”
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Facebook doesn’t need to predict — they can buy when it’s already big. They are able to monetize users much better than random startup social network so they are able to pay much more per engaged user than the company could get from VCs or
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by ggg9990 9y ago
They have no relation. Cannes Lions (successfully) used the non-protectable Cannes name to imply some connection.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The entire purpose of Cannes is to showcase films which need distribution. It’s pointless to show films there which have already secured distribution. It’s worth noting that the films shown there can be and are purchased for distribution by
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Anyone selling political ads is selling the ability to influence elections. Why else would a campaign buy any?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Android phones are the PCs of smartphones -- you can configure them to do anything you want, but get one piece of hostile software on there and you're fucked.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Excel is the best tool in the world for quantitative exploration because the data flow and logic are incredibly easy to change. This makes Excel spreadsheets extremely versatile but also extremely easy to fuck up.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Probably >50% of YC companies vanish unceremoniously.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Crime might go back to the street corners from whence it came.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The thing is that once you get to criminal charges, everyone is looking out just for his own head. The IT guy who will be asked to delete files couldn’t be gotten on election tampering, so he’s not going to commit obstruction of justice. An
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by ggg9990 9y ago
a,b) A dream job can be a dream job solely for paying $14/hr when every other job you could get paid $9.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Answer: Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon all use their cheap file hosting offering to push whatever other bullshit they are selling today. Dropbox doesn’t and thus works as well in every situation as it does with every other.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I’d rather sit at a desk for 280 days than do backbreaking work in plague-ridden medieval Europe for 150 days.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I don’t know how hard it is to not run over a human autonomously but I do know that it’s easy to refuse to let your cars on the road until they’re capable of it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Uber is poison and everyone knows it. Everyone in the ecosystem is trying to throw them under the bus because they deserve it. The world will be a better place if Uber (not ride”sharing”) is destroyed.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
And #deleteFacebook is Facebook’s fault. MZ could have phrased his statement more charitably — if he had, Musk may have responded differently.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I didn’t say it’s arbitrary. But it is specific — “ask me about daily life but not about the long term” and frankly it is too easy for flawed people like myself to think “too complicated” and just avoid the situation altogether.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I don’t have any data... but I suspect that music piracy was more widespread and displacing more sales of music. Anecdotally, I do not recall the publishing industry crying “the sky is falling” over ebook piracy while the music industry cer
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What if Uber’s first self-driving car killed a cyclist in its very first mile of operation? Would you find it equally hard to draw conclusions?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The specificity of what this author wants is what keeps me from even interacting — the fear of saying the “wrong” thing in one direction or the other.

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