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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
You apparently haven't read up on the history of Paypal...?
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
> Activists would do quite a lot more good by demanding better from their own government. I mean better management and governance. I think this is something most people agree on, but disagree on how to get there. One thing not often di
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
My start in marketing was as a professional actor - where you spend 98% of your time doing marketing. If you do that well, you get to go to an audition. If you do that well, you get to go do your real job and get paid. (Eventually I moved i
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Yep. & at least in this case, the FDA involvement may have good reason. Fluoride is a poison, and detrimental effects manifest themselves in much lower dosages than caffeine. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
>>When a backlash began, the app vendors and smartphone companies had a rebuttal ready: ‘‘You agreed to let us do this. We gave you notice of our privacy practices, and you consented.’’ This ‘‘notice and consent’’ model is absurd on
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Yep. The trademark litmus test is whether or not there is a "likelihood of confusion" with the business that owns/claims said trademark. So if I was to create and sell a t-shirt with, say, a photo of Mickey Mouse on it, Disne
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Was just about to come on here and post this. I've got 5 jumps out of the Perris jet (while it was still flying). Interestingly, all the DB Cooper stuff was one reason Perris shut it down. It cost them an inordinate amount of money to
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
> The one does not follow from the other. Just because it's predictable does not mean it's stable: you can modulate demand by, for example, making people jump through bureaucratic hoops or wait in long queues to get care. ...as
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Agreed. A good example - the iPod and iPhone were both "Me, too" products. Apple just engineered, designed, produced, and delivered exponentially better versions of products everyone else was trying to build at the time.
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Indeed, one could make the argument that an authoritative news module from Facebook would actually be a civil benefit: at least we would all be starting from a common set of facts. What is far more damaging — and far more engaging, and thu
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Voted this up not for the article, but for the discussion. Lots of stimulating thought here about what the role of police, individuals, and corporations in society should be - and almost all of it very civil (in comparison to the normal Hac
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by lloyddobbler 10y ago
Agreed. As someone with Type 1 diabetes (look up the difference if you don't know), I'm always interested in this distinction. Sugary foods neither "give people" nor cause Type 2 diabetes. A person consistently consumin
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
...if only the reality of Cuba was as positive as so many bloggers think it is. https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuban-agents-brutalize-democracy-...
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
As it should be. It's none of our "right" to visit any particular site. The person who sets up the site gets to identify the terms of use - since they're the one footing the bill for it. If you don't like it, that&#
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
"Remember: Any time you introduce an access point for a trusted third party, you inevitably end up allowing access to anybody." See also: http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ :)
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
An interesting parallel is to look at the advent of the tablet. The Tablet PC was launched in 2001, whereas the Apple iPad was released in April, 2010. By 2003, it was easy to look at Microsoft's Tablet PC and describe it as an "a
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
That is precisely why the Constitution includes a specific means to change it. If that's what is deemed necessary, then there's a process to accomplish it. Sidestepping the Constitution, or ignoring its enumerated rights and restr
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
Writing (and reading) letters. Email brings speed - and brevity. But letters forced writers to be more...deliberate with their words. I'm currently reading a collection of letters from Richard Feynman - curated by his daughter, who wee
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
It's just a philosophical difference in opinion about who should decide what to do with the billionaires' money - elected officials or billionaires. Fixed that for you.
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
If the money always belonged to the state, and the state simply allows its constituents to keep some of the money they earn, your logic stands. But if the money ever belonged to the individual, then the public cannot "subsidize" t
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
> I find the US initiative highly problematic. You can write donations off in your taxes to a large degree in the USA. So the rich make a choice: Would I rather donate or pay taxes? The donors are taking the place of the state. That&#x2
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
> Personally, I think the work a person does to earn that kind of money, assuming of course it's from legitimate commercial activity, is plenty enough, one shouldn't feel morally compelled to donate it back. Agreed. And not t
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
So you're telling me that as someone who comes from a historical power structure, I'm not allowed to have feelings? That I cannot be offended by a book about "Stuff White People Like," because of the "context of his
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
> We are supposed to feel encouraged to go to our Master and Associate Master with our concerns and feel that our opinions will be respected and heard. What's missing: "Respected and heard" does not necessarily equate to &
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Brewster Contacts Team Gets Acqui-Hired by Burger King Owner RBI(techcrunch.com)
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Haunted by hackers: A suburban family’s digital ghost story(fusion.net)
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
Hey, gleb - Kipp from FullContact here. Sorry if our support team wasn't able to address your needs - that's something we never want to hear. Mind dropping me a line at kipp@fullcontact.com and letting me know what the issue is? I
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
True story. Rather than speed, I'd say independence is the goal. Warren & Charlie (BRK) have proven that this model works - purchase great companies, then let them continue to do their thing (albeit with more resources). All roads
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
A very good point. Didn't look like Sundar Pichai was going to oust Larry Page as CEO anytime soon. This gives everyone the ability to continue their upward mobility (and responsibility), with increased independence from aligned (but s
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by lloyddobbler 11y ago
I was thinking this, too. I can't imagine anyone--even those from out of town--thinking that walking 3-4 blocks to a subway station in NYC is too far to handle. Re: another comment, the Paris Metro _is_ dense enough to work in the city

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