jasonkolb

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by jasonkolb 13y ago
"Founders think of startups as ideas, but investors think of them as markets. If there are x number of customers who'd pay an average of $y per year for what you're making, then the total addressable market, or TAM, of your c
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
If you look at some of the recent demos with the Oculus you'll see that AR is not necessarily mutually exclusive with a full field of vision headset. Some of the most exciting demos in my opinion involve moving around in a real physica
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Things like this are going to force a confrontation at some point. Either the existing programs for monitoring people are going to become progressively more useless as people switch to HTTPS for example, or the government will insist very f
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Your DOB and last 4-5 of your SSN matched someone else? The reason I ask is because rules like this are often used to de-duplicate records. It's not perfect but it is useful, especially when trying to integrate data from more than on
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I can't wait to see this, I'm hoping you can get data about individual visitors. I'd love set up an instance to check out correlations and patterns, but it's much less useful on summarized data.
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Google launches real time Analytics API(techcrunch.com)
8 points by jasonkolb 13y ago|3 comments
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Thanks... I actually hadn't thought about that aspect of it (that real estate court was still not established by Congress ;) I've been reading up on that a bit since your comment, it's a pretty interesting topic because it t
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
When I was doing real estate investing I ran into a kangaroo "court" that the local corrupt city set up to handle property code violations. They would have a cop set up at the front and an appointed "judge" (they had som
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
What's really sickening is that you can tell that programmers or very technical people were involved at some level to design these systems which help people construct rubber-stamp plausible deniability. Whoever these people were knew f
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Well, its CEO refuses to even let rival products in his home, for starters. Talk about a well-insulated bubble, that's a great way to lose touch with customers.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I'm just trying to get random people to respond. I would refer to gknoy's comment about how easy surveys are to manipulate, and question whether the survey you mention was created with a purpose. I've been working with some r
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I agree, that's why we tried to phrase it neutrally: "Does the NSA surveillance of US citizens concern you? " Yes/No/I don't know/No, I don't have anything to hide/No, it's necessary to keep
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I think this could get legs. Are there any other like this issues where the government is blatantly thumbing its nose at its own people? I'm running a survey right now and one of the elements is support for the NSA surveillance, and al
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Actually, how crazy would it be if the documents that Greenwald is sitting on now bring to light that this is already happening... it would overnight throw software best practices into chaos. I hope he's careful.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
If they're not careful they're going to endanger what access they have now. If secure communication as we know it ceases to be actually secure people will start (are now) figuring out how to go around points of failure. Meaning, i
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I think the next Xbox is going to be the thing that finally takes him out. Not one gamer I know wants one, and the 360 works just fine for the family. They managed to derail what was one success story he could actually point to... It's
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I love the fact that physicists are looking at this problem. I really love the way they think--that there are underlying elegant solutions to inherently messy problems. I think it speaks to how much you think the universe makes sense undern
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I would also like to point out that merely taking a video of animals is now--according to utah--an act that transforms you into a terrorist. The abuses have only just begun. Http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865550866&#x2
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
This is economics 101... Monopolies are bad, especially when they're protected by the government. It's absolutely sickening that you can't get rid of this debt even in bankruptcy, and these loans are given our to practically
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Here: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
The Supreme Court is just another political body. If you have any doubt about this just look at the nomination hearings, as well as the huge number of 5-4 rulings. If the law were clear and it wasn't political, most of the rulings woul
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The government isn't collecting your data.(plus.google.com)
6 points by jasonkolb 13y ago|1 comments
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
That's a very interesting take on it, thanks for the explanation. Whether or not is intentional, you're probably right about the effect on the audience.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
What do two women have to do with anything? Your comment confused me...
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Ok so now we can all see why the founders created a union of states, rather than "America". The correct place to address topics that "America" can't agree on (clearly this community doesn't agree with the &quot
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
I've been thinking about the fact that a data-generation machine would be incredibly destructive to the current intelligence system. Spend a little bit of resources on a system that will manage and nurture online personas and you could
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
It does give off the smell that the US thinks it rules the world, doesn't it? (Not that it hasn't been an unspoken idea in everyone's minds for the past 50 years, but it's still weird to see it played out in the open.)
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Exactly. This is the modern-day equivalent of a public crucifixion: a warning that you never, ever want to do something like this yourself. What's interesting--and a little disconcerting IMO--is that the public opinion of Snowden seems
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
Looks pretty cool, but iOS only from what I can tell. Not sure I can seriously look at a technology that doesn't support Android at this point.
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by jasonkolb 13y ago
The reason is that there's no one giving them money to protect our freedoms. There's a line of parties with billions of reasons (annually) to maintain the status quo, and they pay full-time lobbyists to protect their interests.

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