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by jobposter1234 12y ago
In the several startups I've worked at / with, the technical debates were not an input to whether or not the company would succeed. A culture where everyone worked to the maximum of their ability and where the sum was greater than
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By this logic, 'The argument isn't "Instagram is publishing people's locations," it's "People are allowing lots of services, Instagram among them, to publish their location, and it's harder to partici
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I know nothing about this particular topic, but my first reaction was to find this statement highly suspect and at best full of exaggeration: "The historical nucleus of the Metropolitan Police is the force organized by Henry Fielding,
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I have been told by multiple cabbies in different cities that most personal revenue ("salary") they make is eliminated by absurd cc processing fees. A recent driver in a SoCal city told me that his processing rates were 20-30%, an
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
hey! everybody! over here! this guy doesn't watch tv! huzzah, we must use him as a sining beacon of leatherbound mahagony book-readership!
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Love what you guys are doing! In a similar space in terms of structuring the web (although I'm not doing general purpose tools like you are). Can you comment on why I'd use your API instead of writing my own stuff? I'm very
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Agreed, a $100 RPM is insane! That means a few years ago, they pushed a $300 RPM. For that kind of revenue, it sure seems like there's a viable business there... What am I missing?
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Unrelated to your point, but undercutting your conclusion is the fact that the "27 year old rock god" cliche came about in large part due to the # of rock stars who died at 27. Check out the wiki article on "the 27 club&quot
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>Isn't my issue obvious ? Not touching that with a 10 foot pole... (just teasing, just teasing...) But seriously, it sounds like what you want is a keyword matching engine. Google, for better or worse, has decided they know enough
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Isn't google doing that because it detected the semantic information was on the page, even if the exact term wasn't? Is your issue with the fact that they're doing more than just a keyword retrieval, or is your issue with th
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Regarding copyright issues, I believe you can still use copyrighted data as long as it's transformed. E.g., building language models, or doing a search engine like Google. In fact, I can think of more computational uses for copyright
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People don't rubberneck an open road because there's nothing human happening there. People certainly rubberneck when wedding processionals go past. Parades are another example.
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Nationwide, how big was this program compared to the size of a police force's asset budget?
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Can you really not think of reasons why they'd want to maximize revenue? Here are a few thoughts, off the top of my head: * room to drop prices at the right moment, when it would most affect competitors * more money in the bank means
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Do you think content creators should not be able to control access based on their own criteria? Are you somehow "owed" access rights to free content?
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Excellent points, from an abstract perspective. However, if 99% of the world's population died and the remainder had to scratch out a difficult living, I think it would be difficult to distance myself from the reality that my existence
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> Most police departments don't pay for their weapons systems, they're gifts from the DoD. Needs some evidence for a claim this strong. Yes, the DoD sold excess hardcore equipment to police forces. This still required money t
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I hear what you're saying. I had the first thought just after making my comment, and explored it a little more. I hope you'll indulge me, because I'm genuinely curious what you think. It's really only in the last 120 y
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
So many cynical comments in here. I can't disagree with the substance, because the past track record has been mixed, and because of the issues with NASA's political structure have been well documented. I also can't disagree
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How would competition prevent ratings agencies from poorly aligned incentives? The "fitness function" of how good an agency is will be determined by the customer, who only wants to receive the highest ratings. AFAIK, to rate a co
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Agreed, they should throw it out, but they're also throwing out a paycheck. FWIW, I was just parroting Nate Silver's section on the financial crisis. He identifies the ratings agencies as one of the several groups responsible f
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
This model sounds a lot like the Moody's/S&P ratings-agency game. The failure of the ratings system is one of the critical components identified as causing the 2008 financial crisis. I strongly dislike the mis-alignment of in
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Do you consider Reader, Buzz, Wave, and iGoogle all part of one service? How about the APIs they've shut down / blocked / deprecated? I agree that this site is sensationalistic. But your comment is just as bad on the other
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
Is that really not the case? Do you have inside information, do you work on gmail? You speak with much certainty, like you work on the product. If so, I apologize. If not, then please defend your statements with supporting evidence. You
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No, he is saying this: 'No, his shirt wont keep women away from science. The entire fiasco is not about science, it is LITERALLY the thing that I would want to avoid if I had planned going into this field, and I assume that women also
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by jobposter1234 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious, although a bit naive WRT containers. Outside of an aesthetic preference (for being able to remove 80% unnecessary cruft), what is the advantage of containers? I was under the impression that VM overhead was mar
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I'm in agreement that the NSA shares certain characteristics with the Stasi - spying on its own populace is one of them. I also get it if you don't differentiate between citizen/non-citizen in terms of targeting. Heck, I&#x
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Are you sure that it's a massive pay cut for Taylor Swift, or is it just less money going to the point-of-purchase and the labels? Further, I wonder what time frame this would no longer be true. Seemingly+, the $12.99 album on iTunes
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Then how do you explain how the Stasi kidnapped and killed lots of German citizens, while the NSA has yet to do the like? I can understand if you're saying you fear the NSA's power grab because of similarities with the Stasi. I h
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This looks really cool. Whenever I open up my Networks textbook, I get nostalgic about this stuff. It'd be fun to easily create my own packets to test out different stuff I've learned. ... any idea on a Mac version?

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