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by larrys 12y ago
"Stalin killed millions of their own people too and how many films you see about it? Few films about China revolution too. It was not politically correct." To oversimplify things a bit a large reason for the obsessions has to be t
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by larrys 12y ago
Can you explain further what you mean by this: "Working 7 days on extrinsic motivations is soul destroying."
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"Special snowflake" actually describes quite well stories like the OP which totally are not representative of how the world actually works for 99% out there. Most people have to work very hard much of the time and as a general rul
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by larrys 12y ago
It might. But profitability is important as well. Not a comment on any particular company but the idea that a company that has millions in revenue but no profits (and is floated by investors) is successful is not absolute.
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by larrys 12y ago
"Why would they buy a marginal retailer with poor footprint, when you could just lease stores yourself?" Because it's already assembled, at, in theory, lower than market rates and won't take months or a year to assemble.
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I have no need for any of that yet I could walk around a store like that for hours and hours.
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by larrys 12y ago
You are the expert and not me but isn't this really like a scorched earth technique? Essentially regardless of whether or how much of a leg that they have to stand on they come at this full force with all of their resources in order to
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by larrys 12y ago
I agree with you (and upvoted you). The reasons is simple to express emotion and obviously to get attention. A little bit of history. I don't remember exactly when in the 90's it changed but at a certain point there were actually
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by larrys 12y ago
Exactly. Also in a small business all the risk and aggravation falls squarely on the owners shoulders with no way (or reason anyway) to blame anyone. Not anywhere near like simply writing a check and getting a new refrigerator delivered.
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by larrys 12y ago
Wow you are right. I just went there and after clicking on a link had a popup that asked if I wanted to make a regular donation. No screen grab however this link was on the popup: http://www.law.cornell.edu/tmp/popups_a
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by larrys 12y ago
I would imagine that the chance of getting sued is quite small. What individual would sue and what harm would they claim? Government FTC most likely would not care and if they did all they would have to do is change the picture. Likewise if
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by larrys 12y ago
"Aircraft capacity is 5 (maybe 6)." Another issue is if they are flying to JFK the idea is you are taking a flight obviously out of JFK. So given that helis are small and weight sensitive I wonder if the app collects that info and
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by larrys 12y ago
Exactly I've seen a few services like this advertised exactly the same way (WSJ ads some run by former industry execs). Interesting thought that the picture of the heli contradicts that (says "Gotham Air" on the side). That&
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by larrys 12y ago
What bothers me are things like this which appear to be marketing messages aimed at CYA types or to simply lather up grandpa and the media: "The threat of people getting into our systems today is so great that every company in the worl
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This is actually the type of thing (annoys me as well btw) that is pandering to everyday people and gets good publicity for the company which helps in creating star appeal which does in many ways further the companies agenda. (Which will i
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by larrys 12y ago
How is it a glass cliff? She didn't work at Yahoo and was not promoted into that role to take a fall. She was offered a job there and took the job. Her choice. Not the same as being pushed in any way shape or form. At all. Separately i
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by larrys 12y ago
I flew gas powered in the 80's. At that time I remember seeing an electric being demoed or more or less used as a trainer to learn to hover (the first step back in the day). It had a power cord attached to it and could only go within r
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by larrys 12y ago
"lack the emotional development to know these things" Being told things (at any age actually, think of having a conversation with your doctor about a medical problem) allows you to frame and put things in perspective. The perspect
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by larrys 12y ago
"My albeit limited experience suggests to me that there's a U-shaped curve with super-rich / powerful / "effective" people. One end of the curve is "pathological sociopath," and the other is "ext
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by larrys 12y ago
First, thanks for giving your thoughts and responding. I think that when you say this (as you did in the blog post): "here are a couple of rules to follow to ensure a good user experience:" ...particularly using "rules"
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by larrys 12y ago
"most of this advice is too general to be good" I guess what bothers me the most about "advice" like this is what makes the person stating the advice qualified to give the advice? This is not to say it's right or wr
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by larrys 12y ago
As only one example, see this: "Dodging and burning are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the
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by larrys 12y ago
Have you ever done darkroom photography? (I have and have made money doing that). And if so, just to be clear, you are claiming that there is no difference in results from someone with experience and someone "just following a recipe?
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by larrys 12y ago
I don't agree. Have you ever operated a darkroom? It takes skill to develop and print pictures as a manual process on, in particular, old film.
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"such that my donation would be contingent on clarifying the claim" If you contact them and ask about that please post a comment or blog post detailing what they say. It would be interesting to hear their perspective and how stron
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"Maybe his argument is that by buying the film he owns the rights?" As I mentioned in one of my comments they also developed the film which if not done correctly would result in images that wouldn't look the same as they do n
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by larrys 12y ago
"Does their scanning of the photos add such a transformative element" Keep in mind also that they did more than scanning. They took undeveloped film and developed it first. (Which took effort and skill with old film). Without that
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by larrys 12y ago
I think what they are referring to is the presentation of the photos (for lack of a better way to put it). Best way to describe it is that it's similar to the copyright that a company (back in the day) that created what is known as a r
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by larrys 12y ago
Good point but checking kproxy proxy they are coming up 2nd ahead of godaddy for "domains". (Same with zend2.com proxy).
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by larrys 12y ago
Also an issue is what ends up becoming benign neglect after the new shiny ball is no longer fun. That actually is my biggest concern. Example is google voice which is frozen in time.

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