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by kbutler 15y ago
Hulu has horribly obnoxious ads - repeated multiple times per episode of the show. Voting "not relevant" on an ad doesn't prevent it from appearing. There was an ad my wife found quite disturbing (about exorcism), and it played almost eve
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by kbutler 15y ago
I should clarify: I think the "stimulus not big enough" argument is fallacious. I think that government spending substitutes for private spending, rather than stimulating it. (e.g., dollars the government spends on tanks are not spent on
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by kbutler 15y ago
Free-market austrian school is generally "hands-off, believe the price system". I've generally seen the "not enough" argument in conjunction with Keynesian "government stimulus" (e.g., google "not enough stimulus" and the first half-dozen a
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by kbutler 15y ago
What makes you think that even if you do pay money, the system you love will continue? Or that the system you love will evolve the way you want it? Or that you're not the product?
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by kbutler 15y ago
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
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by kbutler 15y ago
So, who is the congressional staffer who can't spell rogue? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
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by kbutler 15y ago
The best advertising educates the receiver, rather than just trying to persuade to buy one product over another. Advertising can thus be a positive-sum interaction. Unfortunately, it's usually easier to target the other product, rather than
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by kbutler 15y ago
quart rhymes with wart (and not with art, bart, cart, dart, fart, mart, part, or tart) quark rhymes with ark, bark, dark, hark, lark, mark, nark, park, stark. Idaho/Utah, though I developed various pronunciations from early reading rather
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by kbutler 15y ago
But the pink afterimage was always annoying - I much preferred the amber monochrome monitors that came available. I still use a "wheat" on black for night-time reading on my iphone...
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by kbutler 15y ago
Telling typo: > I, on the other hand, have always been very misery with how I used to spend my time. (He meant miserly)
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by kbutler 15y ago
I do wonder about transparent persistence & versioning - bring on the unlimited undo, independent of editor processes. This would require a better interface for navigating the history than undo/redo or git log. Time Machine is an explo
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by kbutler 15y ago
Irony: "Sound will be bigger than video...If you can find the time to _watch_ it, do that and then let's discuss his arguments" (emphasis mine) Why do we have to have video of everything from programming tutorials to "guy walking around a
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by kbutler 15y ago
In Chrome on Mac, I open Preferences, Under the Hood, Languages and Spell-checker Settings..., drag another language to the top of the list, and Google starts giving me whatever language I put on top. I'm a native English speaker, so I only
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by kbutler 15y ago
> Yet iTunes has been a huge success because people either do not realize this or because the few extra steps is not worth the effort. Please be careful attributing the success of iTunes to DRM. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by kbutler 15y ago
Two experiences: - Employee # <125. Exercised options on a vested block of pre-IPO stock before leaving. After IPO and waiting period, sold a chunk for low-mid 5 figures, wanting to spread the sales and capital gains over multiple years
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by kbutler 15y ago
We actually have a couple of goats we'd like to sell, but are having trouble finding a buyer. Goats-as-currency have very poor liquidity, fungibility, and divisibility. Bah. Baaaah.
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by kbutler 15y ago
> In conclusion, TV news should be ended in all forms. Wow. I agree there's a lot of misinformation and poor reporting on TV news, but that's like saying the Internet should be ended because of the poor quality of slashdot comments.
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by kbutler 15y ago
But you are the target demographic for the phone distribution - someone who is actually interested in and developing with the tech is a better development placement for a freebie phone than someone who wants a freebie phone.
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by kbutler 15y ago
There seem to be two approaches when a problem occurs: - Find someone to blame (sue them) - Fix it (myself or pay someone to fix it) I like to use tools that give me the second option (and planet probably does, but I disliked the "maybe eve
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by kbutler 15y ago
Would you actually write the email twice? Your sent folder should let you trivially re-send it with the "urgent" flag if you care. "Keep the email" is fine if almost all of them will need attention in two weeks. What percentage of email he
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by kbutler 15y ago
I'd like to see a longer data set. Judging from the small segment we see, it appears the peaks (U.S. evening and night) hours are sharper than the troughs (U.S. working hours). I expect the peaks on weekends are higher and broader. Fun. :
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by kbutler 15y ago
s/f.ck/smurf/g It illustrates the level of writing skill/vocabulary/maturity quite well.
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by kbutler 15y ago
As my mom taught me a long time ago: Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important. —René Dubos
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by kbutler 15y ago
Moderate growth, yes. Scaling, no. There is a very definite limit on the size of a baby bird. A scaling metaphor from nature would be something like a tree seed becoming a forest. Hope that hat's tasty.
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by kbutler 15y ago
Merriam-Webster disagrees: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/startup 1: the act or an instance of setting in operation or motion 2: a fledgling business enterprise Fledgling also lacks any connotation of scaling. Perhaps the VC/an
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by kbutler 15y ago
> The second hand game market really short changes the publishers, and it's very expensive to make a top title! No, it doesn't. "The second hand car market really short changes the auto manufacturers."
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by kbutler 15y ago
Better check that guess before relying on it.
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by kbutler 15y ago
It's not hyperbole, it's historical prices & rounding. I was on a $4.99 1-DVD at a time plan. Then I was on an $8.99/month unlimited streaming plus 1 DVD (yeah, unlimited streaming is worth the extra $4). Nov 2010 it up $1/month. Then t
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by kbutler 15y ago
We looked at the value: not-deep-enough streaming catalog plus deep DVD catalog was a great service and a good value. Either one alone? Incomplete service. Both? Not enough value at the 2X price. We kept our subscription open until the da
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by kbutler 15y ago
The point is that a clone makes it so people "can" switch, if they want. A "unique to free software" solution makes it so people want and need to switch. Between the two, I think creating incentives is more powerful than removing obstacles.

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