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by houseabsolute 16y ago
The other alternative is that he may have been talking about getting Facebook's data with its users' authorization.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Meh. People should not feel entitled to sit around and do nothing for the last third of their life.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
It's an interesting thing to wonder, but I don't think Google has the juice to do this right. Recent evidence at least would suggest that it's more likely to fail than succeed.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I dunno, it seems like Zuck is plenty successful and will go on to lead a wealthy and fulfilling life. Maybe the takeaway should be, "Don't worry about how you talk to your friends privately. By the time it can come back to bite you, you wi
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> Who better than the people who built the company can judge the quality of these offers? This assumes that the acquirers have the company's best interests at heart, which I don't believe is always true. No one ever got promoted for put
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Indeed. Although what happens when the organizer is on time and the person they want to meet with is late? Leaving early only frees up the other person's time and does not solve the problem.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
From Adam Smith: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public." - Adam Smith
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
The cabbies are in on it too. The prices are higher than they would probably be in a truly free market for cab fares, and that situation can be maintained more easily when the incumbents can prevent new competitors from entering the market.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I don't think that they are trying to make that implication. One thing can be more than another thing even if that other thing is zero.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Re: cabs, it seems like the price is plenty high from the perspective of a buyer. The real problem I suspect is that the city limits the number of medallions issued to 1,500 per year. There are people who wait years to get a medallion. htt
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Actually that would really not be too bad . . . unless you need to get off the plane early for any reason.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
More to the point, the degree to which any human wants to hurt another depends on their emotional state. Impoliteness tends to destabilize it's recipients' emotional state.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Undoubtedly this is true, but it's also undoubtedly impractical. Check this out, it's even worse than you think: I'm not someone who really hungers for authority. I don't seek it out. Some people do, and I'd guess from my interactions with
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I highly doubt that any speech that's part of a one sentence explanation of your civil rights is going to land up working against you in court. The odds of that are lost in the noise of the odds that the officer will fabricate evidence agai
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
The point is that politeness reminds the officer that you're a human being, like them, not the statistic that the author speaks of. On the other hand, if someone was rude to me and I were a cbp officer, I would certainly go the extra mile
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
You wanted a period at the end of that last sentence, not a colon. When one thing says another, for example, a study says a finding, the sayer goes on the left. For example: HouseAbsolute: That's just how it's done. as in a play, or HouseAb
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
The important thing from my standpoint as an investor is that the CEO "show me the money." Whether that's in terms of profits distributed as dividends, or as a growth in the value of my equity, it doesn't matter, but it has to happen some w
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Or they think Android will be the easier of the two to kill. Or the less interesting of the two. Or the less profitable. Or the less symbolic. Or it's their second milestone. Or . . . well, you get the picture.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
To be fair, merely doubling profits doesn't mean much. It's his performance against the average CEO's that yields a comparison that makes sense. Has the number of personal computers active in the world only doubled since he took the helm? I
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
That's why the clause would be, "If you broadcast publicly . . ." Obviously there'd be no way to enforce this if someone else broadcasted your location.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Corrected, thanks.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Hey, there's actually another reason that's smart too. Apparently having positive emotions toward other people makes it more likely for you yourself to be happy. So maybe having these people call others to tell them how great they are would
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Hijacking this to say that the use of the colon in this title and others like it is deeply offensive. It should be: "Study: Microbes Ate BP Oil Deep-Water Plume" It doesn't make any sense for it to be the other way around! Also, hurray that
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I don't understand how this objection would defeat the clause in question?
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I wonder if this will eventually become a clause in insurance contracts: "If you broadcast publicly the fact that you aren't home, any subsequent robbery will not be covered." Hard to believe, but possible.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> Their strategy for this seems to be to make people jump over a low paperwork barrier, then wait long enough that the payments have all cleared before they pay out. I wonder why they don't just do this by default? Personally I would no
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Jesus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Pffft. I'd farm the work out to mechanical Turk. Then you don't even have to do the work yourself. :) Much more scalable and less annoying too. You could even have them call you occasionally for verification they're really putting their hea
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Over the last month and a half, that does appear to be true.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Kind of deceptive because it shows months of improvements in Firefox against a current snapshot of other browsers. If you looked at the trajectory of other browsers, you'd see that they too are getting faster and more performant in JS, whic

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