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by lukasb 13y ago
You realize that makes it sound more likely that your workers (sorry, contractors, whatever) are poorly paid, right?
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by lukasb 13y ago
I really wish there was a way to say "I want to see less from this person" that would just surface their most popular content.
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by lukasb 13y ago
Why they push for five stars: apparently you get fired if your star rating falls below 4.6 or 4.7 (can't remember which.) Source: Uber drivers, so biased, but have you ever seen a driver with a 4.5 rating?
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by lukasb 13y ago
The effect that you're ignoring is that insurance premiums have a hefty amount of margin built into them, and the ACA produces a collective bargaining effect that gives insurers an incentive to offer a competitive price on the exchange
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by lukasb 13y ago
Assuming something like this actually works some day, I wonder if you could avoid it by having your secret be something that can't be encoded visually - eg haptic feedback/gesture rather than passwords.
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by lukasb 13y ago
Crazy. Why would they prevent Adult-flagged Tumblrs from being indexed by 3rd-party search engines? http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw
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by lukasb 13y ago
Large-scale industrial farming operations. That was the case in Kenya, anyway.
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by lukasb 13y ago
They don't have access to other, cheaper staples. These are geographically isolated farmers in countries with poor infrastructure.
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by lukasb 13y ago
Well, in western Kenya anyway: 1. Farmers used to have 100-200 acres apiece. At that point you can feed a family even with very low yields. There were few (if any) large-scale farming operations for them to buy from, anyway. 2. Each generat
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by lukasb 13y ago
More typically, farmers produce 10 units, sell 3, and buy another 10 later in the year. Hence any rise in price is a net loss for them.
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by lukasb 13y ago
"If they are net consumers of the staple, they must be net producers of some other crops." Again, those other crops are likely more expensive per calorie. That means there is no mix of consumption that will get them the same amoun
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by lukasb 13y ago
The reason staples are staples is because they're cheapest per calorie. There probably are not replacements that are as cheap per calorie. Remember that subsistence farmers tend to be geographically isolated so you can't assume th
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by lukasb 13y ago
I remember seeing a headline in Thailand "rise in rice prices hits small farmers hard". I've seen similar things in Kenya: "high maize prices devastate small farmers." It turns out many subsistence farmers (of which
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by lukasb 13y ago
"Ignore today; just think about it in terms of his goals." reminds me of "Do not follow in the footsteps of the masters; seek what they sought."
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by lukasb 13y ago
In my dreams, there's an organization pushing for interoperability, open standards, data freedom etc over the long term. If there were such an organization, this would make an excellent case study in failure. Are there any strategic in
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by lukasb 13y ago
What you say about rent control is true - if there are not restrictions on building new housing . This is almost never true.
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by lukasb 14y ago
Can you say more about what frustrated you about Evernote and Notational Velocity?
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by lukasb 14y ago
Anonymity isn't the only value of Bitcoin. There's also the matter of exchanging money electronically without paying fees to banks, Visa, or Mastercard. Regulation might make transacting Bitcoin more expensive but still leave it cheaper tha
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by lukasb 14y ago
Set caps on spam and auction the space, then. If the price of getting to your inbox is $10 people will have to have a really good reason for getting in touch. I'm usually anti-FB but I'm curious to see where this goes.
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by lukasb 14y ago
congratulations (no snark) - you're Clay Christensen http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Chang...
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Apple Maps: 3x as likely as Google Maps to get you lost(blog.crowdflower.com)
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by lukasb 14y ago
My reading is that those restrictions are only for games off Facebook, not all applications. Interesting that they would make that distinction.
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by lukasb 14y ago
"Not looking dumb is not an option." I'm going to be quoting you forever, thanks.
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by lukasb 14y ago
Those seem valid though, no? The intent of the RT is to say "I voted for Obama"
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by lukasb 14y ago
We use emotions to help us pick the ends to which logical effort should be directed. Try as you might, you will not be able to logically select the axioms by which you reason.
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by lukasb 14y ago
This is why app developers need really well-thought out sharing features - preferably based on URIs.
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by lukasb 14y ago
Also, even if it's safe for human use, there will be problems with diagnosing early enough and making sure vulnerable populations have access to the drug at a price they can afford. Still, I hope the drug proves out as safe and effective.
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by lukasb 14y ago
Can't native apps be smarter about caching assets than UIWebViews?
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by lukasb 14y ago
I had a summer internship in high school that foundered when we realized that we needed a grid tool to display and edit data in a web browser. The rest of the summer was spent trying to build this tool in Java. Where were you guys 16 years
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by lukasb 14y ago
I brought this up with a couple Facebook PMs last week; they seemed nonplussed. One of them brought up the fact that the average user has fewer than 150 friends; he gently suggested that I was an edge case. I disagree, even someone with 10

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