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How hard was Felipe Massa hit, exactly?(f1fanatic.co.uk)
41 points by karzeem 17y ago|20 comments
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but under U.S. law, libel generally means that you've written something you knew to be false, or should have known to be false, and that you had malicious intent in doing so. There are some exceptions (e.g. food libel),
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by karzeem 17y ago
Relatedly, how is it that cell phone companies screw their customers at every turn and still have single-digit profit margins? Given the amount of malice we perceive in them (and they make me as angry as the next guy), you'd think they wer
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm surprised that they only spend one sentence on the site's technical problems. In late 2003 and early 2004, just about all my friends and I were on Friendster, and speaking just for us, the crippling slowness was by far our biggest prob
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by karzeem 17y ago
This isn't exactly what he was going for, but I'd reduce his point to "No player on the internet is more powerful than the internet itself, and therefore no player is immune to upset."
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by karzeem 17y ago
When you buy seeds, they require you to agree not to use seeds from the resultant plants in the next crop cycle. So if you want to use the seeds again in the next cycle, you have to buy more. They have people who go to farms and test plan
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by karzeem 17y ago
A couple years ago I picked up The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain ( http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Short-Stories-Bantam-Classics... ), and since then I've recommended it to people at every opportunity. Twain's a master of a lot of t
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by karzeem 17y ago
Another interesting demonstration of the fact that behind a lot of crappy companies are teams of talented individuals. I've had the personal displeasure of booking tickets on AA.com many times in the past year or so. It was so bad, in fact
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by karzeem 17y ago
As sort of a related tip, one thing that I like to do (and which usually works) is to treat the person like someone I've known for a while. In other words, say some things that most people would only say with a friend. There's a limit to
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by karzeem 17y ago
It would be interesting to see whether the same correlation holds when you look at individuals. These numbers would make perfect sense if food prep time is included in the "time spent eating" measure (the page summarizing the study doesn't
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by karzeem 17y ago
A related problem with CAFOs is that the conditions weaken animals' immune systems such that the animals have to be given prophylactic antibiotics, otherwise they'd all get sick just from the sort of common pathogens that are always aroun
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by karzeem 18y ago
My anecdotal impression is that one of two things happens. Either they build up enough that they'd rather retire than continue building it, or they run into an up-or-out policy at the company.
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by karzeem 18y ago
In fairness, the author did say that Apple needs Yahoo because iTunes search needs improvement. That doesn't exactly make the piece more persuasive, though.
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by karzeem 18y ago
As someone who doesn't know much about military strategy, I find it surprising that officers are more likely to die in combat (or were in WWII, at least). Isn't it enlisted guys who ride at the tip of a dangerous advance?
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by karzeem 18y ago
Robert Wright wrote a book called Nonzero a few years back that goes into this in more depth. The idea is that civilization's advance is defined by finding ways to turn zero-sum games (e.g. we kill you and take your resources for ourselv
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by karzeem 18y ago
In a Q&A at UNC in 1996 (part 1 of which is linked below), Warren Buffett noted that doing the math from the Wright brothers all the way through 1996, the airline industry overall had yet to make a dime of profit. The silver lining is t
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by karzeem 18y ago
They'd certainly be on most people's list of the top five restaurants in NYC. I'd be interested to see if it would work at the Waverly Inn, whose hype is based more than anything else, and more than any other restaurant in the city, around
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by karzeem 18y ago
From the title, this seemed like it was going to be an homage to Lorne Michaels' offer to pay the Beatles $3000 to perform on SNL.
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by karzeem 18y ago
We did it in 2 ;).
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by karzeem 18y ago
We decided to keep ads off the site because they're not as interesting as people writing things they genuinely want to say. The vibe is like Best of Craigslist. Since there are only 10 messages that go up, we can screen manually.
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by karzeem 18y ago
We make people check out at PayPal when they bid, so that we can automatically charge them later. If there are less than 11 bids when midnight ET rolls around, we never send that charge. I take it that we should word that more clearly on
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by karzeem 18y ago
Indeed, that's the little experiment. People want to post a message in a place it'll be seen, which is why they propose at baseball games or write on bathroom walls. The question is finding a high-visibility forum. The incentive here, at
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Feedback on our new site (users bid to put one of ten messages a day on the front page)(psthisispublic.com)
10 points by karzeem 18y ago|18 comments
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If someone built this, it would be interesting to see where the ticket prices tend to settle. My guess was going to be that people won't get away with selling them for more than pennies over EV, but then I remembered the existence of casin
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by karzeem 18y ago
Tidbit along the same lines from the article below: the combined market cap of American, United, Delta, Continental, Northwest, and US Airways is $5.7 billion. http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/news/2008/07/portf...
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by karzeem 18y ago
I know they're well-funded, but that seems absurd. Would I accept it if I were working there? With extreme pleasure.
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by karzeem 18y ago
Adding multi-touch to PC screens without reinventing the form factor is one of those visions of the future that our grandchildren will chuckle about. It reminds me of a cartoon I saw from 1900, depicting a classroom of the year 2000. Pres
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by karzeem 18y ago
One thing that will help regardless is hanging out with technical people. Go to where they hang out. If you're in college, take some technical classes and get to know your classmates. Go to meetups, and depending on where you work, figur
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by karzeem 18y ago
I tend to prefer variable width in my own work, but there are plenty of fixed-width sites whose designs I respect (apple.com, for one). Setting aside mobile interfaces, you can safely go 1000 pixels wide. Of course, your lines of text sho
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by karzeem 19y ago
Barry Schwartz has a great book on this subject called The Paradox of Choice .

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