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by ignostic 12y ago
I don't pretend to be a statistician, but I don't think the distribution is nearly as mysterious as the article is trying to make it sound. At least it's not any more mysterious than the normal distribution that we're al
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by ignostic 12y ago
The person you're responding was clearly just saying that it's funny how uncomfortable people were about being recorded by Google Glass, while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about. Take it easy -
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by ignostic 12y ago
What we need here is a more nuanced approach. Anonymity can solve some problems in research, but it will make other worse. When people are anonymous, they ARE more likely to be truthful in their criticism. They have less incentive to hold b
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by ignostic 12y ago
There was this: http://highspeedinternet.com/blog/technology/states-with-fas... Really interesting, even if "smarter" and "higher ACT" scores are not necessarily the same thing.
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by ignostic 12y ago
I think that's well-stated by the author. > Nevertheless, I’ll be paying attention to the Series A market, because if the trend continues, and the Series A replaces the B, we can finally state with confidence that the Series Seed is
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by ignostic 12y ago
While I agree with the author that we're probably headed towards another bubble, I don't think any of the signs mentioned are illustrative of a tech bubble. Twitter growth slowing down? That's just a company maturing. WhatsAp
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by ignostic 12y ago
It is common on third-party sites, but not on the same domain. It's often just PR and marketing people who don't know they have better options for tracking. Some do know better, but can't get access to the data they need (for
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by ignostic 12y ago
It's an interesting world we live in where Reddit and Hacker News users are the ones doing investigation into the truth of claims journalists publish. With real-time feedback and real-time coverage, it's almost inevitable that our
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by ignostic 12y ago
I wonder what this would look like adjusted for income. The same author wrote about how much income matters in online dating, especially when over 23 and making less than 100k.[1]. Other studies have shown that income is unequal by race, es
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by ignostic 12y ago
> The U.S. Gov has gone mad with power. Agreed. Hopefully this encourages more people to stand up to unreasonable violations of privacy from our government. > And for perhaps the first time ever: bravo Microsoft! I don't even car
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by ignostic 12y ago
Good question. I'd say they're barely distinguishable. If MS relents, they're allowing a breach of trust that will make current and potential customers shop for non-US-based competitors.
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by ignostic 12y ago
>[Running windows apps on Linux is] like vegetarians who crave meat and eat meat-"flavored" tofu burgers instead. Again, what's the point? That's a better analogy than the author apparently realized. People sometimes
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The Top 50 Universities Producing VC-Backed Entrepreneurs(blog.pitchbook.com)
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by ignostic 12y ago
That's one thing people have argued as the cause behind the Flynn Effect - basically our IQs have gone up in the last 20 or so years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect Of course it could be any number of t
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by ignostic 12y ago
Yeah, Google got this one wrong. Just read up on the Google Penguin penalty. Google used to change the value of "bad" links to 0 rather than negative. The problem was that there was no risk to spamming. You might waste time, but y
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by ignostic 12y ago
Yeah, even coffee shops shouldn't rush to embrace Amazon. Sure, I still get brewed coffee at my local coffee shop, but I might not buy a bag of coffee while I'm there because I bought a 2 lb bag of beans on Amazon. Amazon is almos
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by ignostic 12y ago
Amazon competes with small stores, too. Sure, they compete more often and usually more directly with larger stores, but looking at my purchase history shows dozens of products that I probably would have bought at smaller stores if not for A
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by ignostic 12y ago
What the article pointed out that I think a lot of people are missing here is the potential value of being perceived as unique. To use an analogy that a lot of people here might understand, unique design works. Whether you're designing
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by ignostic 12y ago
This is hardly the first case of distributed liability. It's just not that complicated, and certainly not an obstacle to such a beneficial technology.
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by ignostic 12y ago
You always voice the same concerns, I always hear the same concerns. It's crazy to me that people get hung up on the liability issue. 1) Liability is assessed exactly as it is now. We use the same system to determine which car was at f
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by ignostic 12y ago
I do hope everyone realizes this is silly. Everything in this comparison relies on the quality of data. The "number of innovations" data comes exclusively from a book by Isaac Asimov with under 1500 entries. To make some sort of g
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by ignostic 12y ago
Reddit wants to be a big company using a site where big companies are the enemy. They could do it, but they need to overhaul the ad system. Having purchased more than a few ads, I can tell you that their platform needs serious help. They&#x
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by ignostic 12y ago
.... source?
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by ignostic 12y ago
Looks like it wasn't ready for the load. It was working when it was new.
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by ignostic 12y ago
Sure we do. Plenty of top comments are funny, but they're just topical, relevant, and - most importantly - include some actual original thought. Posting the same old tired references just isn't funny to this crowd.
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by ignostic 12y ago
The link to "silliest Kickstarter campaign ever" currently points incorrectly to the human-powered helicopter (again). The correct link is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad
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by ignostic 12y ago
-Design quality is good, but you should re-evaluate that top image. Does a tar-covered hand say "High quality leather" to most people? Not to me, especially because I can't see the object. -Headline #1 should tell me what you
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by ignostic 12y ago
Wow, I learned something valuable here: that it would be illegal to use negotiation solely to harvest ideas. I remember the story of a script writer who pitched his script, but then the studios rejected him. One studio just had their own si
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by ignostic 12y ago
Everyone thought Amazon would undercut, but it makes sense that Amazon is targeting high-end flagship phones with the device. They're definitely not messing around. The 3d features are obviously unique, and the camera makes it a seriou
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by ignostic 12y ago
Agreed, most people follow the money. To me it's just a matter of understanding that their interests are not necessarily aligned with yours. Recruiters want to fill the position quickly. Those smart enough to want your repeat business

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