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by gist 7y ago
Nobody is 'expected to' it's what you sign up for. It's like saying you decide to be a policeman or firefighter (not something I would do) and then that they shouldn't be 'expected' to do what the job requ
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by gist 7y ago
Nothing like having what should be a world class company falling prey to the same type of screw-ups that plaque 'the local guy maintaining some wordpress site on a shared server'. Separately there is nothing that says that a compa
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For a young person 60 hours should not be a big deal. If it is don't work for a hard charging company. Go do something easier. Or don't work for a company 'like that'. Believe it or not some people are not impacted by th
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You are wrong. All .org domains will be priced the same as will .info domains. They can't decide a particular .org domain is worth more than another (that has already been registered and is being used). They can charge what they want b
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by gist 7y ago
> I'm slowly starting to suspect that maybe having human-readable names for domains is a mistake. Not sure given how successful busineses have been with their web identities how you can say that. > There would be some awful chall
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by gist 7y ago
All .org and .info domains will be priced the same. Not more valuable ones can be at a higher cost.
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Bruce Submaximal Treadmill Exercise Test [pdf](acefitness.org)
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It suggests that there are not enough people to make it worth the while of someone to be in that business. In that sense it is not like the market for horses (for specifically) transportation. For that your statement would be true. For stoc
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This is to broad a question to answer. There are really to many different uses of the Internet to try and fashion a solution that works in all areas. Not to mention the fact that it's to academic to begin with. How do you get such a la
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> A discount brokerage is not a full-service brokerage, which used to charge several hundred 1970s dollars to place a single stock trade and which used to call you to convince you of the desirability of paying them several hundred dollar
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by gist 7y ago
> This is also how trademarks work in the US -- you can't sell a trademark. You can do that (as you are pointing out) so I am not sure why you are even saying that. > They could then do the same thing here -- transfer a domain al
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by gist 7y ago
> either for fun or for a purpose So if for example the name you wanted 'for fun' was grabbed years ago by someone else who wanted it 'for fun' that would bother you less? Or you would then think (honestly) 'wow
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No the idea that there is something wrong with that is what I challenge. Why? Because it assumes that there is either a practical solution to preventing that behavior or that that behavior is in some way bad. For whatever the reason even th
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by gist 7y ago
> Plus there were the squatters, of course, since no one was looking after the namespace anymore. Explain how ideally you think this should have been handled then? Specifically someone wants to register a domain name and how should they
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by gist 7y ago
Let me give another perspective on this from "the school of 'old school'" Back in the day of yellow page advertising one of the barriers to getting business was placing an expensive advertisement in the yellow pages (for
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I think says it all about how worthless (in a corrective sense) this report and investigation was: From "Recommendations (1)": > Congress should pass legislation that establishes a national uniform standard requiring private en
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> about hedge funds buying new cars only to sell them immediately after To get this data you wouldn't need to buy the cars. So it sounds like they did something that sounded like that as opposed to what you remember. Even w/o s
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by gist 7y ago
What's interesting is that in a buyers mind (or a users mind) there is often something that outweighs many practical concerns which a committee would say 'a deal braker'. One example of this is the very first Porsche 911 that
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by gist 7y ago
> Google has been worse at naming products than they have a right to be. Driven by engineers and not creatives. And even if you have creatives driving the product (naming or otherwise) it still won't make sense to the engineers who
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by gist 7y ago
The saying 'camel is a horse made by a committee' applies to this situation. There was almost certainly no base creative drive when creating the actual product. Most things that end up being good are driven by someone who is viewe
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Record breaker: Voice.com domain name sells for staggering $30M(domainnamewire.com)
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by gist 7y ago
It's business. Not only that it's stated almost certainly when you get involved with the app store. Wouldn't make sense for Apple to do it any differently. Apple did this in the 90's with peripherals such as video boards
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by gist 7y ago
Off topic question for gamers (I know zero about gaming literally). Is the natural rise and fall of a game an artifact of the result of experience players getting so good that anyone starting can't make their mark easily against them?
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by gist 7y ago
This really says it all: >It is still not entirely clear, even to some members of the consortium, how the coin will work or what their roles will be, people familiar with the project said. Regulatory hurdles in the U.S. and elsewhere are
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by gist 7y ago
> In hindsight would have rather closed up shop than taken their money. Very idealistic and not the way I think at all. What are you going to do? Stop using any product associated with China? Where do you draw the line exactly? And who i
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> and adequately train and support career teachers I always love the 'teachers' pay discussions and argument. While there are many teachers that are dedicated and do a great job there are also many who go into it for the (at on
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> forbidding dangerous hobbies like mountain climbing? Well not that it would ever happen but why should I pay for someone's dangerous and/or foolish risky activity? (Rescue, health care and so on). People often act as if the
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> But on the other hand, consuming sugar mainly only harms yourself. See my comment re: health care costs (which everyone pays for).
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> Also alcohol only kills 80k or so Americans per year Important to point out that the negative health impact of any 'vice' (and you can consider sugar a vice given this discussion) go way beyond just 'death'. There a
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> You need thousands of smart people going through every machine, all the software, all the systems. These people are never going to work for Baltimore or for Maersk, not in a million years. I love this assumption that anyone smart or an

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