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by jljljl 12y ago
1. It also, many times, does not mean more fraud, waste, and abuse. And if the government is providing a set of services, and their revenue is reduced, they will struggle to continue providing those services. 2. It is naive to assume that e
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by jljljl 12y ago
>> Less government revenue is not inherently good or bad for the economy. Government revenue from non-distortionary sources are good for the economy, since they allow the government to provide public goods and services (those which th
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by jljljl 12y ago
Here's the source I think you are citing: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pd... 20-25% is a pretty high number, especially when you compare it to the 6% of Americans with a severe mental
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by jljljl 12y ago
There is also a "Delete All" option. Which is frustrating, I wish I could set it to just keep the last 3 months of data, instead of having all or nothing.
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by jljljl 12y ago
For people without stable incomes or a large starting balance to serve as a buffer, bank accounts can be incredibly expensive, and confusing. If you can easily maintain a few thousand dollars in positive balance, the weird rules around NSF
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by jljljl 12y ago
Yes, but not in the form of an endorsement.
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by jljljl 12y ago
To be fair, if you promise a diamond but then deceive about it's origin, you probably aren't worth their time either.
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by jljljl 12y ago
I didn't say new mines and mining companies are impossible. I said new diamond mining companies are probably a very tough sell, for the reasons I gave. A new mineral without a highly concentrated competitive landscape, or which is ex
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by jljljl 12y ago
I agree. One more time: You asked: "Why didn't anyone just enter the market and undercut De Beers?". The answer for a long time was: "Barriers to entry, and low probability of success given the risks involved". This
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by jljljl 12y ago
There is really no need for the rudeness. I don't really see how your first point follows at all. The capital required to fund the first 1.5 years of WhatsApp's existence was a mere 250K. Getting it to a $14B company took only $58
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by jljljl 12y ago
The point is that there are significant barriers that prevent someone from just coming in and executing a "undercut the leader" pricing strategy. Especially if you are trying to "eliminate De Beers overnight", like you s
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by jljljl 12y ago
A chat app was acquired for billions of dollars, but as far as I can see they only raised ~$58M in capital. http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp EDIT: number was slightly off
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by jljljl 12y ago
To have the supply and resources to do this would take years. You can't just code up a diamond business overnight. Since the fixed costs and barriers to entry are so high, you would take on a ton of debt or issue shares just to get to
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by jljljl 12y ago
>> human beings evolved to associate certain senses of grime or uncleanliness with something that could hurt them. Given that bathing habits and frequency have varied widely by time period and region, I doubt this gut level response i
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by jljljl 12y ago
Man, the use of Vine in this article is awful. It made the point he was trying to make so much more confusing vs. just posting the diagrams.
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by jljljl 12y ago
Pretty brilliant move on Google's part. By launching Google Fiber, they have a huge wedge for any "Fast Lane" negotiations with the ISPs. If ISPs try to charge content providers too much, and start to impact Google's bot
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by jljljl 12y ago
I love the idea of doing this. I wonder if publishing them somewhere public is also a good idea, as a sort of reminder to stay humble and admit your own faults and lessons learned.
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by jljljl 12y ago
This is not how inequality has developed, however. If you look at the changes of real in come between the top percentile income brackets vs. the median percentile income bracket, top incomes have grown dramatically while median to lower inc
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by jljljl 12y ago
Speaking of controlling distribution channels, does anyone know how I can share this post outside of Google+, or add it to Pocket so that I can reread in more detail later?
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by jljljl 12y ago
I wonder how many of these major changes were decided on while Ballmer was still in charge, and simply didn't take effect until Nadella's turn at CEO began. I also wonder how many of them were strategically delayed until a new CEO
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by jljljl 12y ago
Apple also did this for performance and usability reasons. And when Apple did it, there were no smartphone alternatives that provided a sufficiently good Flash experience. And before you say Android had Flash, I had an Android device that c
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by jljljl 12y ago
Responding to the response inline: I'm not sure denying an app permission to use your data is the same as explicitly choosing to provide that app with randomized data. If you want to ensure that the system is only doing what the user
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by jljljl 12y ago
It's not constraining the behavior of the user's device, it's constraining the functionality of the app. If an app needs certain permissions to function, and the user denies those permissions, why should the app be forced to
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by jljljl 12y ago
Think about the experience for a second: 1. An app asks for permission to access my contacts 2. I decline to give permission 3. The app churns for a few seconds, then suddenly returns a list of names that i have never seen before, including
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by jljljl 12y ago
How do you provide random dummy data for a Contact List permission without a) running the risk of crashing the app, or b) making it obvious to the app that it's receiving dummy data? Is android supposed to return a well structured list
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by jljljl 12y ago
Is there any way to do the reverse? e.g., pipe or cat the output from stash into a file? Cool tool by the way, I've been browsing the source and playing around with it.
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by jljljl 12y ago
Turns out this was a fake account
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by jljljl 13y ago
I really don't know why you are being down voted for this comment, which seems like a reasonable interpretation of the data...can someone provide some explanation for their disagreement?
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by jljljl 13y ago
Nobody automatically knows why they need most products. That's why even Apple's advertising is built around demonstrating use cases for products like iPad and iPhone. Marketing for Glass probably shouldn't try to sell Glass i
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by jljljl 13y ago
Sure, but I also remember paying for Sunday Papers

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