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by harryf 13y ago
And pay a higher premium as punishment for failing to provide the data to your health insurance
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by harryf 13y ago
They interviewed someone called "Hide" on the subject of hiding at home. Seriously?
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by harryf 13y ago
The closest thing to the reader I always wanted is Hackernews; a selection of significant, educational and relevant articles on topics I'm interested in. Meanwhile RSS readers have done little, if anything, to figure out how not to was
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by harryf 13y ago
A legal system as only as good as those who control it. One way to define what the law is, is that it's the will of the strong imposed upon the weak. In the Middle Ages for example the "strong" were barons who imposed laws up
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by harryf 13y ago
Likewise on an iPhone
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by harryf 13y ago
> His former coworkers are going to be smart, American, and patriotic too. So the NSA needs to offshore that work to China in future
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by harryf 13y ago
That term "direct access" crops up again. > We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers
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by harryf 13y ago
In a culture like that appears to be, it's pointless to be that guy screaming about the upcoming iceberg. No one will listen. Far better to be the guy with solutions once fail happens. Frankly this sounds like the sort of environment where
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by harryf 13y ago
What's that saying? "It's not you that owns your possessions, it's your possessions that owns you" s/possessions/data/
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by harryf 13y ago
Something I've observed on both Reddit and to a lesser extent HN is as popularity grows, the comment UI rewards speed and brevity if you want to get your point of view heard. If you're one of the first posters and manage to say something pr
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by harryf 13y ago
The real issue issue is here; > securely send money to friends and family _in the U.S._ Google Voice it's the same problem - most of the world can't use it. Instead of 80/20 this is 20/80
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by harryf 13y ago
The iOS app appears nicely designed but the server side is struggling. Couldn't create an account, app website is very slow http://buycott.com Looks like Ivan could use some help
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by harryf 13y ago
LinkedIn works best for "networkers" - people who regularly meet a lot of other people as part of their day job; those doing business development, sales, evangelizing products etc. These are not the people that do "real work" - the roles wh
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by harryf 13y ago
I'm not sure this is a bad thing. In your example isn't a good thing to know your new boss did this? Social networks encourage creepy behavior amongst their users. LinkedIn lets you know who viewed your profile while Facebook doesn't. Perso
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by harryf 14y ago
At what point do we call collecting large numbers of user credentials in a central place that can be accessed worldwide a bad idea? To me this is the problem P2P should be solving, not Facebook, Google or Mozilla
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by harryf 14y ago
Doing product management in this space you have two axes to play on - when you deliver and what you deliver. In general I always find it's best to fix one and vary the other i.e. a) you fix deadlines and you vary on what you ship, sacrifici
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by harryf 14y ago
The impression I got from the interview is that Eric Schidt feels there is some common ground between what Google does and what Wikileaks does. Some of his reactions seem like "that's the missing idea we needed". That may also relate to the
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by harryf 14y ago
Suggest a map that shows which dealer and where a car is located. There's a subset of car buyers where the car itself is less important than the garage they bought it from, in case they need to bring it back for repairs / tuning etc. This i
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by harryf 14y ago
To me the author seems to have linear view of productivity; that he seems to think time spent away from the keyboard is wasted time and worse still to waste that time communicating with your colleagues. IMO the hidden goal of standups is to
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by harryf 14y ago
Just picking one of your "sources", here's what the European Food Safety Authority is saying about bees on their website ( http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/beehealth.htm ); > No single cause of declining bee numbers has been
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by harryf 14y ago
Reminds me of reading Flat Earth News http://www.flatearthnews.net/ - the view that journalism is seen as a cost center and has been squeezed to the max
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The library
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by harryf 14y ago
What's more is big data has the potential to do great good. For example Googles flu trends - http://www.google.org/flutrends/ - already helps us plan and use our resources efficiently when it comes to responding to mass illness. As we plo
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by harryf 14y ago
What a huge missed opportunity. Think of the data a government could gather on its citizens with an enlightened app policy! Or the tax app that sends you rude push messages when you're late with your return. And what better way to report yo
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by harryf 14y ago
One of the reasons for exploding numbers is new tests for coelliac disease have become available over the last 20 years which had made it easier to diagnose. Unfortunately I cant provide relevant links; I know this from discussion with doct
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by harryf 14y ago
Also the impact of environmental change and new energy technologies is largely omitted
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by harryf 14y ago
Perhaps skip videos by users who just posted one? Saw "duplicates" a few times where someone uploaded the same video more than once
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Naming designed for a specific use case... "Hey is this phone running Android?" "No it Tizen"
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by harryf 14y ago
Well my point was simply here is someone with a good reputation. Perhaps it's worth understanding exactly what took place crying for revenge.
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by harryf 14y ago
Looking at Carmen Ortiz's [track record]( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz ) of cases prosecuting involving corruption and organized crime, seems like this would be hurting one of the "good guys". No doubt she has enemies that mu

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