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by jdp23 15y ago
ah okay, got it.
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by jdp23 15y ago
civil libertarians and social justice advocates are complaining very strongly about policies of not being able to record police
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by jdp23 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. I had been thinking of submitting the NYT article but based on your response decided to hold off. Not sure I think that flagging it is the right thing but I don't want to pour gasoline on the flames.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Which of the HN guidelines does this violate?
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by jdp23 15y ago
Congrats! nginx has been such a great success so far, very exciting to see you take it to the next level!
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by jdp23 15y ago
I'm not the author but there is plenty evidence that Quora's traffic has decreased significantly since January (almost certainly by their choice). The results since April depend on who you believe; Google Trends says it's flat, Comscore sa
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by jdp23 15y ago
Aardvark's acquisition by Google for $50M about 18 months, back when the market wasn't as bubblicious as it is now, is one comparable. http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/02/12/aardvark-google/ looks at why that valuation arguably made sense
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by jdp23 15y ago
Still incredibly relevant though. With Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and others confronting the TSA in the House, and last week's court decision requiring the TSA to have a comment period, this issue's going to be heating up again.
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by jdp23 15y ago
I'm also a long-term Quora skeptic -- and have been documenting the reasons why in the comments at http://bit.ly/imitates#comments for the last six months. Agreed about the likely outcome; hard to know about the valuation. And agreed wit
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by jdp23 15y ago
Several people also mentioned the "Quora elite's" attitude as a big problem in a thread that Thomas Hawk started on Google+ a couple of weeks ago: https://plus.google.com/104987932455782713675/posts/XXp28NN4...
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The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America(techcrunch.com)
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Phone hacking, technology and policy(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yes it has; the specific amount isn't known. Back in the early 2000s when they changed the checked baggage search policy, it's estimated that it had a 6-8% affect on travel -- there are some nice papers from profs at Cornell who analyzed i
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And make good use of the commenting period.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Correct. When they did this analysis, only about 12% of the profiles they looked at listed an occupation at all. http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics
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24,000 Pentagon files stolen in major cyber breach(washingtonpost.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
nice paper, thanks for sharing the link
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by jdp23 15y ago
I guess I don't understand your meaning that "she's not clear in her own mind." I took it as you saying that she doesn't really know what she thinks. Did you mean that you thought her argument was intellectually inconsistent ... or someth
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by jdp23 15y ago
She seems pretty clear in her own mind to me. I'm not saying she's right, but it seems to me this is the essence of her argument: "Groupon clone after Groupon clone, yawn… yet another social media dashboard, a cloud-based enterprise soluti
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by jdp23 15y ago
Actually they had. From the video: "One of the major things we use gender information for on Google+ is for picking gender pronouns - her, his, theirs - when we refer to you. Google is committed to building products that people all over th
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by jdp23 15y ago
Google is clearly listening to user feedback on Plus. This is at least the third change so far in where I've seen Google folks engage in the initial discussions, describe their reasoning for why it was initially implemented the way it was,
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by jdp23 15y ago
Thanks for the response, mkjones. I certainly don't think anybody at Facebook is _trying_ to say "screw you, we'll do what we want", and I think the new approach is a very positive step. But the impression it leaves as an app developer is
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by jdp23 15y ago
True. But when you're developing a platform, you want it to be known as a place where developers are treated fairly. Just as with their trigger-happy deletion of apps a while ago, Facebook seems to be sending a message of "screw you, we'l
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In the Google-Facebook race, privacy will determine the winner(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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Oh look, their list of "Hot Topics" includes "Quora".
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Google confirms “real” names a requirement for Profiles/Plus … mostly(dwellonit.taterunino.net)
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by jdp23 15y ago
Indeed. That tends to happen on HN. It seems to me, though, that there are now more posts from people who actually do get it. It's too bad we can't see the voting to know the relative popularity of the various posts...
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by jdp23 15y ago
Agreed, and I don't think you're being pedantic at all. It's a great user experience, and the whimsical fun touches like this (and what happens when you remove them from circles) are the kind of thing we're more used to seeing in games tha
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by jdp23 15y ago
Well said. And plenty of people use avatars rather than photos.
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by jdp23 15y ago
great summary, you nailed both the content and the tone

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