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by guimarin 15y ago
disclaimer I work at blekko. What you are describing is like saying that wikipedia is useless because not everyone edits articles. As it turns out, a very small number of people can curate an enormous amount of content on the web, and you
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by guimarin 15y ago
try the search engine blekko. see 'slastags' this is exactly what you propose. User curated vertical search engines...
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by guimarin 15y ago
For me the state of 'liquidity' events is a biproduct of our unsustainable consumption culture. Until people start 'thinking differently' about the type of people, and the type of world they want to be/create, we will continue to see liqui
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by guimarin 15y ago
I honestly had that thought as well going into this piece. But now that I've visited the site, I can say that I disagree. This is not a clone or a competitor, this is the same business idea executed in a different market, with a ( slightly
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by guimarin 15y ago
This argument fell flat for me as soon as I read that newspapers are the only ones left to hold the gov't and wall street accountable. Newspapers are corporate for-profit entities, and like all media companies they are owned by the people
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by guimarin 15y ago
The first benefit of global warming? "Until now it has been impossible to lay cables in the Arctic Ocean, but the retreat of the Arctic sea ice means that the Northwest Passage is now generally ice-free from August to October..."
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by guimarin 15y ago
whether or not a submission makes it to front page of HN is largely dependent on the time of day it was submitted, not necessarily on the strength of its content. Obviously, making it to the front page is a strong indication of underlying q
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by guimarin 15y ago
sounds like it's time for you to give blekko.com a try. they block spam sites like ehow, about.com, and wikihow.
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by guimarin 15y ago
The most chilling quotation from the article: "Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. 'We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.'" In the Future, you will be tried for crimes you committed in the past. Even if
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by guimarin 15y ago
I'm curious what will happen to queries like, 'Thai'. Will they show me local Thai Restaurants? Will they show me travel deals to Thailand? Will these 'attributes' tell me something of Thai culture. God I would hate to have to be working
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by guimarin 15y ago
My original intent was to point out with sarcasm how taking what this CEO said as anything more than a publicity stunt/icebreaker for employees looking to leave yahoo, is absolutely absurd. OP is a result of way too much naval gazing on a p
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by guimarin 15y ago
It can be done. Look at the US. Ever had to fill out, 'Not a member of the Nazi Party between 1933-1945? The US Citizenship test in no way makes the US look like a 'serious jerkwad.'
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by guimarin 15y ago
I felt that linking this to HN was in poor taste, and does nothing to further the discussion about 'quality talent' in the Financial Services industry.
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by guimarin 15y ago
I don't understand why google or microsoft even doesn't distribute a list of their IP addresses for their online properties with Chrome/Windows respectively. That way you could get a pop-up that said, 'google.com is no longer resolving, fa
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by guimarin 15y ago
i agree the outlooks on facebook are pretty good under your points. I should point out that Facebook, specifically zuckerburg has not shown interest in search, and has even said he does not want it in the past. It is also incredibly diffi
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by guimarin 15y ago
Pay-wall business model is broken and thus I don't think this site in this form will ever be successful. The thing to do would be to compile all the publicly available information pulling out relevant information via filter for particular
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by guimarin 15y ago
I think an interesting follow-up to this since it's now 8 years old, would be an article on setting up DHTs in the cloud, like on Amazon's EC2. As demand for the database/application goes up, rolling additional nodes in real-time would be
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by guimarin 15y ago
The thing that bothers me most about gov't using outside contractors for Security, Analysis, and Intelligence is not the incompetence of many of these companies or the degree to which our rights get trampled by them. It is that these compa
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by guimarin 15y ago
you're joking right?
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by guimarin 15y ago
this is more about thin-thread than it is about echelon. echelon and 'echelon II' haven't been used since before 9.11.2001.
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by guimarin 15y ago
I've found that people new to start-ups haven't heard of Utah Based Start-ups because their community is so isolated. Utah based start-ups are in the Valley as well, but they are a very self-segregated group. Nevertheless they make valuab
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by guimarin 15y ago
One thing that strikes me as interesting is that Facebook repeatedly states that they do not sell personal information to third parties. Yet, I've never read or heard it stated plainly that this behavior is forbidden by applications runnin
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by guimarin 15y ago
tl,dr; No new information about spectrum allocation just an overview of an observer's perspective on the industry. Loosely conforms to the status quo belief that there is a 'lack of available spectrum' and that this is and will drive highe
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by guimarin 15y ago
I wonder whether the stock is still overpriced, even at $70? seems to have rebounded a few bucks since the article. This might even be a good time to buy, if you think the company went down too much.
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by guimarin 15y ago
well i'm also talking about how the battery swap stations being built in israel and other places, are being built by Better Place. Which in turn was started by Shai Agassi, who was never approached by my former company about being an inve
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by guimarin 15y ago
You don't say? they have washing machines that they plug and unplug every single day? 2 lines, why didn't I think of that. Brilliant! It's so cheap to build a 3-phase charger at 400V at 32 amps so you can charge a 20kWh pack in 2 hours (6
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by guimarin 15y ago
lol. it's like you're trying to troll me. #5,612,606.
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by guimarin 15y ago
I still don't understand why people think this will do anything for electric cars. The bottleneck is how long it takes to charge your car. If you have a 60KW/hr pack, you can only charge it so fast with a 110v/20amp jack (for the sake of
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by guimarin 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong here. But why is this company valuable long-term? Sure short-term there is a lot of 'magic' that goes into SEO. That said, a lot of people in search are slowly coming to the realization that SEO data is a lot like
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by guimarin 15y ago
this so called 'new hypothesis' has been around for more than 50 years. It was just not written about because people couldn't accept the consequences have accepting that it was a possibility.

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