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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
As opposed to how VC's drain competitor's adwords budgets? Meaning, this is too often how I see competitive bids going over time: 1) You sell a widget for $100, and it costs you $50, so you spend $10 on the ad, & make $40 marg
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
If this gets too hairy, just shave with Occum's Razor. The premise is just so unnecessarily complicated, and assumes too much about the particular character of the malevolent AI. Must the AI be benevolent or malevolent? Or, can it be
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
They didn't launch any protocol. They launched a site to get (paying) members to come up with a protocol. Big difference. I'm not too hopeful yet. Maybe it's just their ".aspx" website that has a proprietary flav
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
A welcome change. But, for this to work, the violators (even past) can't be allowed to bypass the rules. For example, how many of the top apps that explicitly allow kids, violate some or all of the COPPA standards? Clash of Clans is j
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
With millions of games released, we've essentially been conducting a wide experiment into what methods (free, IAP, free/pro) is effective (at getting in the top categories for revenue & downloads). Now, we see that the top cha
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
"Phone" Such an anachronism. When the device is used for phone calls <1% of the time, can we now call this something else? Maybe: "Pocket Internet System"? PIS? If you use your phone for actual phone calls more tha
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
That's the most valid perspective IMO, but it's going to be useless to the audience, when they can't even understand what a "median" is, much less a centile.
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
The lack of transparency explains most of this. Investors expect the Hedge Funds to have some inside info. For example, I've heard some hedge funds have "friends" who are staffers for congressmen. It's quite profitable
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Since the article was short on answers, here's one possible answer as to "why we don't eat swans": Their numbers are too small to get into volume "manufacturing" (CAFO's). 15,000 swans. That's cute.
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
In their defense, when the SnapChat founders were on Colbert awhile back, they were emphatic about saying, "There are many ways it can be saved!" And, were warning users that it's just a convenient thing, not any true protec
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Has anyone A/B tested the different language choices around Net Neutrality? Or focus groups? For example, Frank Luntz did lots of focus group studies to figure out how to persuade people, simply by choosing the right words. "Est
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Great results. If only we could somehow rephrase other critical issues into something the SCOTUS could 9-0 agree with. This one got 9-0 because it phrased it as: 1) Trolls lose 2) Whoever wins, wins bigger. Some of the Supremes are known fo
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Good point. Yes, let's prioritize personal things on a personal platform. However, ~30% of the "top stories" in my newsfeed (anecdotal of course) are public URL's that my friends share. And, those don't look like
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Facebook Ads are a real shakedown scam, & getting worse. After reading up on other's experience, I ran an experiment last week: I started a stupid comic blog ( http://omgcmon.com ). I made a facebook "page" for
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Before I choose to build using a new feature, I'd love to see a clean breakdown of which features "cost" more (performance) on devices. For instance, does "real time global illumination" kill the framerate on iPhon
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Sorry, that just still looks like glossing it over. I mean, when the NSA & other actors do NOT submit their data to this guy, they can say, it's complete now? It just stinks to me like it's complacency. Just change your passw
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
Really? If there are caveats or disclaimers, they are very well hidden. For most people reading this actual article, I think they will come away with the impression that it's a complete account.
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
There are many hackers who do not reveal their exploits. This is an overly optimistic account of who knew what when. And, how can we protect? Patch? Yes, that's necessary, but not sufficient. We have so many other protocols we rely o
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by johnvschmitt 12y ago
"Trust us". Yes, I trust that you revealed your real position. Gaining marketshare is more important to you than user data privacy. Got it!
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Yes, the "social contract" is a very vague term indeed, & has been applied in bad ways in the past. Here, I'm applying that there is social give & take & expectations/norms throughout our society. Yes, any s
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Yes, it's not new, & yes Uber is doing well in connecting supply & demand with a great UX. For Uber to be worth its high hype & valuation, it's going to essentially expand these types non-employee situations. That&#x2
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Mixed feelings on this. It tends to expand the recent meme of "Everyone's a contractor, nobody's an employee". There's no minimum wage or other worker protections if you sign contracts for services. The social cont
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
I always thought the best random number generator was: Take a large Pseudo random #, & add that (in hours) to your current time. Pick a large enough pseudo space to cover 10+ years. Then, read that combined time in microseconds. This
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
It's not really a big deal. I mean, if you have a LinkedIn account, you likely get a bit of spam already. And, if someone really wanted to get in contact with you, they can. (Phone directories still exist.) And, of course, just sen
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Rather than attempt to get millions of people to manually change fonts, just make "Skimpy Print" a layer that fits in between the print button & the printer driver? http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Skimpy_20
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
This is just ridiculous on so many levels. So, should we start debating whether UPS should pay for roads directly in each city? Are our roads going to start being "content aware" & extorting delivery service vendors?
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
TL;DR: For those asking, "WHY?" : It's about control. Background: Every time there's a new forum site, people often ask, "why not just create a subreddit or facebook group, etc". That would save much code, deb
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Yup. And, it can't be "idea to demo day" in 3 months for those hardware issues where iterations take weeks (or at least days) compared to hours/minutes for compile-time on software. I love the change in focus to be more
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
I think you nailed it. Yes, the algorithms can't figure out all the proper tuning yet. For instance, the lowest frequency (among the strongest amplitude candidates) is often the bass line, & thus the chord. However, those type of
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
It really varies widely depending on how you use fonts: Fonts for PRINTING: You need tons of sizes, really high definitions, as it can be printed 4" high at 300dpi. 3MB for a TTF? OK. Fonts for iPad Games: You need TINY file size.

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