johnvschmitt

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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Someone with better #'s can correct me please, but: With so many emitting bodies in the universe, wouldn't we expect to receive the complete works of shakespeare from ~1 remote body/month? I mean, you could find the "WOW
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
To clarify: No. A businesses costs shouldn't become our costs. I'm just saying that it's a fallacy to think that an online sale is wholly responsible for the sale. They do rely on those huge investments by showrooms/de
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
You are correct, of course. My point was more about how journalists too often spout "PRICES DOUBLED!" to get attention like blood in the water, including here. And, in too many cases, it's over a time period that's 10+
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Calling it a "Magna Carta" is very appropriate from a historical perspective. That said, because of the perverse corruption in each country, I'm afraid it'd look like this: USA Version: People (=companies) have the right
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Here's how we got here: 1) Money buys political influence (duh!) 2) Most cities have small tax bases, where car dealerships are a very large part of the tax base. City managers want a larger tax base to help fund their plans. 3) Thus,
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Correct! But, more fun math: Stocks don't have maintenance costs like houses/rental units. The property tax alone per year on a ~$500k place is ~$8k. (You'd need to get $700/month in rent JUST to cover property tax.)
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
People just don't understand inflation/math: "...$1.4 million; it’s a good time to sell, considering he bought the place for $627,000 in 2002." Wow! Sounds huge right? Well, 12 years to double? That means it's a
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Exactly. Chomsky also pointed this out well many times, that anyone with an agenda for, say, "7 out of 10" on a scale (like, "should we go to war, & if so, how?", can simply present "both sides" as a 5 &am
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
The way it should (& DID) work: 1) First ammendment: Anyone can lie, ok? And, any speech has consequences. 2) THE "COMMONS" / spectrum / FCC: Anyone that uses part of the shared spectrum (broadcasters) & when ca
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
And, older founders* spend vastly less time & energy chasing tail / finding a mate. *(generally speaking, & speaking of myself)
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
That really blows my mind. I mean, how can they say that's any kind of "agreement"? I someone writes a curl/wget script wrapper & points it to the top 10 websites, they don't enter into any kind of written cont
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Yes, this is a much better description of the problem. FB is a really bad ad platform. Yes, you can use it & get good results, but that takes more luck & skill than other platforms. From the article: "FB estimates that ~1% of
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Nope. Not at all. It was about buying USERS, not an app or feature.
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
This looks to be fraud & lies (not just a business failing amidst unrealistic hope.) And, huge waste (not ramen). It's good to see justice to help keep the investment environment clean.
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
ENVIRONMENT He touched on this, but I want to let you know, after 4 years working from home, how important this is. The environment gives you unconscious cues on how to behave. If you goof off (surf the web, stream, eat, play, etc) where y
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
I really like that: "don't allow likes from someone with more than 5+ likes in their account"" The # of likes by the user is a good proxy for how diluted the quality of the "like" is. Probability_to_show_ad = c
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
If you're running the pipes: 1) Charging more/less by VOLUME? = OK. 2) Charging more/less by CONTENT? = NOT OK. The article misses that critical point. And, yes, an even better solution is competition in ISP space. But, we n
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
True, but there will always be tons of "inherently bad" jobs (smelly, sweaty, monotonous). It is unnecessary to make these jobs MORE shitty by bad management. For example, the worst thing IMO that Walmart does (IDK about Amazon),
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Pure novelty. Subs are not energy efficient. Water is 1,000x more dense than air, & moving through it takes far more energy. And, hybrid (land+water) is going to require far more hardware, driving up the price & weight (& thus
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
This is why I'm really hesitant to use popular libraries like Flurry. I'm making a kids game & really want to respect the kids' privacy. I can't hand the keys to all that data & possible backdoors to some "
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
You & the parent comment both offer great points. When looking at them together, along with the OP's article & many others on the "sharing economy", you see there still remains great opportunity & challenges in t
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
And, they are so cute, busily working to help us. (Maxwell's demons were likely inspired by bees). Anyway, I have a big organic wildish garden, & I notice a big variety of pollinators (as large as my thumb almost, in orange or bla
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Great points. Yes, Maslow's Pyramid explains why different rational people will have different priorities. But, we are not all rational all the time. And, studying emotions & psychology are indeed full of answers & puzzles as
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Yes, "Facebook for All" is not the same as "Internet for All". But, it certainly won't end there. I'm sure that many people who are users of any tech, will someday become makers in tech. I was a user first, be
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
The sooner the printer dies, the better. Every company or process that makes me print something in 2013 makes me barf. Ever heard of web forms? Docusign? Email? So, as beautiful as this is, it's solving a problem for 1960-1995. Now,
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Craigslist & Reddit are WORKSAFE. Yes, really. Most internet use is during business hours. Craigslist & Reddit look, from ~10 feet away (by passing coworkers) to look closer to "work", as it's text-based, with very
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Seems fair. It's not because of "tweets" but because of evidence of intentional recklessness that resulted in the death of an innocent. As a society, we tend to lack accountability when a car is involved. If he, for instanc
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
There is no such thing as "Photographic Memory", as we do not even have "Photographic site" All we have for sight is: A few degrees of focus (~3-5) that we quickly jump around to get an idea of a scene, & then we (v
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
As a father, when I had my first kid, & read a few "Parents" magazines, I was so disheartened to see 99% of the references in articles referring to the parent as the "mom" or "She/her". I said, "
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by johnvschmitt 13y ago
Nice. Along similar lines, I believe that individuals can make decisions that go counter to the incentives provided to them. But, when you take an aggregate of thousands or more of individuals, you can often predict accurately that the ag

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