lalos

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by lalos 10y ago
Privacy through noise? through obfuscation? I need a word for this
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by lalos 10y ago
High school students will start using Facebook once they realize they can't keep "connected" with their high school friends that are studying in a bunch of different universities.
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by lalos 10y ago
Boils down to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633517
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by lalos 11y ago
Reminded me of this long but worth it piece: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine... "I can’t tell you how often I’ve been approached since the publication of my book by Sili
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by lalos 11y ago
Uber drivers usually have a car loan so their hands are tied and they are convinced to start Uber-ing after being seduced by the 500 dollar signing bonus. At least this is what they mention when we talk about why they still do it if they do
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by lalos 11y ago
Just like Postmates
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by lalos 11y ago
could Twitter theoretically be a public benefit corporation? I would argue that they provide enough value to society yet they are having issues with pressure from the market
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by lalos 11y ago
A smarter strategy would be to invest more conservatively after a risky yet big one paid off
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by lalos 11y ago
True. Like Sunrise ( http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/11/microsoft-acquire... ) and Acompli ( http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/01/microsoft-acquire... )
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by lalos 11y ago
Wouldn't Apple keep a record of your transactions? They even send a push notif with the receipt so they are aware of the location and store.
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by lalos 11y ago
Pseudoanonymous or unilateral anonymity, since I'm almost certain that Yik Yak keeps track of post and users and with the current state of machine learning it is trivial to later pinpoint a person with said posts. Don't like the w
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by lalos 11y ago
Somewhat complimentary read: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni...
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by lalos 12y ago
Also Tor Project is available on http://smile.amazon.com and almost every purchase you make they will receive 0.5% of the total as long as you make it through the smile subdomain.
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by lalos 12y ago
Love the comparison between getting home at 8-9pm rather than 14+ hour days, both look the same to me.
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by lalos 12y ago
The parasite is the DB company, the ants are the users and the bovine is Apple
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by lalos 12y ago
Any thoughts on SafeMonk, which they claim end to end encryption and piggyback on dropbox?
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by lalos 12y ago
That's a problem I notice when lawmakers don't have a the domain knowledge and this leads to all kinds of loopholes, the good thing is that it's a start.
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by lalos 12y ago
I have a theory that it is on purpose, they want the home screen to be filled with well-known movies and if you only have a handful of them at any given time it shows the same ones all over the place. Instead of seeing random not so popular
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by lalos 12y ago
I don't use them but I've seen them before https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazonsmile-1butto...
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by lalos 12y ago
Also EFF is available on http://smile.amazon.com and almost every purchase you make they will receive like 0.5% as long as you make it through the smile subdomain.
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by lalos 12y ago
How many meals worth do you eat once? Do you eat the equivalent calories of three meals in one?
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by lalos 12y ago
Alternative spotify link http://open.spotify.com/track/5YxfZTUX7sZ5JyYvEsesxB
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by lalos 12y ago
hack -> buzz, hacking -> buzzing
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by lalos 12y ago
The questions provided cover everything in a business plan so it's interesting to see the overlap with a plain old business plan and an agile question-answer based template.
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by lalos 12y ago
Basically, don't enter over saturated markets unless you offer something that makes you different. Google did it offering relevant results for search, Apple did with an iPhone that just works. The key of Thiel's reasoning is &#x27
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by lalos 12y ago
@lalo http://twitter.com/lalo Mostly funny stuff and funny programming stuff
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by lalos 12y ago
How did you get the 67% white info of attendees?
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by lalos 12y ago
Fun fact, if you can build a NAND gate or a NOR gate, you can derive all other functions. This is called functional completeness.
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by lalos 12y ago
Good and short intro to genetic algorithms by coding a tetris ai player http://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/coding-a-tetris-...
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by lalos 12y ago
Also a good way to find out if the don't like camping or if it's their first time. Interesting but I don't like the idea of 'testing' people.

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