kudos200

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by kudos200 3y ago
They did https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-g... Some integration happened, but there are still separate parts, so they're not one and the same at the moment.
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by kudos200 4y ago
HBO is removing many: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/westworld-hbo-max-the-never... Apparently to make them available on other ad supported networks: https://www.polygon.com/platform/am
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by kudos200 4y ago
It could be spurious correlation like https://xkcd.com/882/
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by kudos200 4y ago
I think they’re probably referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by kudos200 12y ago
You could wait to collect the email address until after users have searched for a product and found something they want an alert on. That way people know what they're getting into and it makes more sense why you need their email addres
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by kudos200 12y ago
The way I have heard it described is that governments have a monopoly on the "legitimate use of force." That is, if someone commits a crime, or doesn't pay taxes, or doesn't hold up their end of a contract, the governmen
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by kudos200 12y ago
My favorite by far (or, well, the other one that comes to mind) is No Evidence of Disease. I've recommended it to all my friends. http://idlewords.com/2012/09/no_evidence_of_disease.htm
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by kudos200 12y ago
You make a fair point, given what was in the article. I think one interesting thing that the article left out is that the situation has actually changed a fair amount in the last decade. Around, say, 2002-2006, second year banking associa
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Smartphone industry commits to antitheft measures amid calls for 'kill switch'(cnet.com)
2 points by kudos200 12y ago|1 comments
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by kudos200 12y ago
They said: "when they're culled we lower the temperature so that there's no violent death or change in state (because insects are exothermic their metabolism slows until they go into a coma-like sleep without any pain)."
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by kudos200 13y ago
Well, I got curious and found an answer: "In 1982, 60 percent of the people on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans came from wealthy families, compared with 32 percent in 2011." http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/
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by kudos200 13y ago
What proportion of the richest 1% (or 0.1%, or the top 1000 richest people) do you think came from families that were already in the top 1%? How do you define "out of reach"?
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by kudos200 14y ago
It's fairly common in acquisitions for one or both sides to agree to a "break-up" fee to protect against one side getting cold feet, regulatory risks, financing risks, and more. http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/04/25/facebook-ipo-whats-wit.