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by malchow 11y ago
It doesn't seem that Fixed was doing anything that contravenes the law. We still are a nation of laws, and not of men. One would think that, in the interest of justice, governments couldn't ban an automatic appeals system like Fix
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by malchow 11y ago
Exactly. Computing Ph Ds are not very attractive to commercially oriented U.S. citizens, because the content can be learned in situ, in books, online, through practice projects, with friends, &c. But computing Ph Ds are great for 1) the
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by malchow 11y ago
And it harvests data under the hood, too. The team (ex-McKinsey) also evidently plan to eventually introduce 'safe' data harvesting and 'safe' ads. Much like ABP. Is anyone else getting the feeling that advertising is, m
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Drug Price Surge Is a Side Effect of FDA Safety Program(bloomberg.com)
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by malchow 11y ago
The conceit of the article -- borne out by economic history -- is exactly that: it's the reduction of efforts to centrally plan, and the rise of entrepreneurial, capitalistic efforts to advance, that has reduced poverty. [1] [2] [1] h
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by malchow 11y ago
Wow; that's quite malicious. Question for HN: back in the Napster days, were there likewise Napster clones ("napster"?) that purported to allow peer to peer music downloads but in fact had malware properties?
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by malchow 11y ago
I was trying to be polite, not weasly. https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2014/09/googles... http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/247982/google-... http:&#x
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by malchow 11y ago
Some would say that there are a number of auto-playing audio and app store redirect ads on Doubleclick AdExchange.
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by malchow 11y ago
Like most people here, I know nothing about trains. But I do know that Caltrain trains are enormous, monstrous, loud machines that, on every departure and arrival, seem to portend the end of the universe. I grew up in New Jersey, whose trai
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by malchow 11y ago
I wonder if anyone sees Apple News as anything more than One More Aggregator? I would be curious for thoughts/articles on that subject.
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by malchow 11y ago
Yes, that is fair. But I suppose I took it as an unstated assumption that there's really only one type of ad that we will never be able to programmatically block: ads that are woven seamlessly into editorial content. If the ad blockers
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by malchow 11y ago
"If you ask any website without a paywall, they will almost ALL tell you their content is free. " Come on. No they don't, vlucas. They say "welcome, enjoy, support our sponsors." They do not say "it's fr
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by malchow 11y ago
Wait: paid messaging, articles stealthily written by PR flacks, "native" ads, in-feed hortatory messages masquerading as intelligent editorial content ---- this stuff is better than traditional ads? Because they impact you less? S
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by malchow 11y ago
One of the dot plots from a FOMC member released today -- they are anonymous, so we do not know which one -- specifically forecast (i.e., advocated for) negative real interest rates. EDIT: Here it is: http://fm.cnbc.com/appl
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by malchow 11y ago
It is truly shocking the quotient going to fees, taxes, and duties. Almost any flight I take between SFO and Western Europe ends up being >50% fees, taxes, duties. It makes one wonder what marginal meetings are _not_ taking place because
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by malchow 11y ago
Will the new Apple TV be able to play arbitrary files over a network? That would be simply fantastic -- but unlikely.
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Do you know what their architecture is? It is fast.
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I suppose that's right. But it's also kind of a short term worry. I mean, don't you think mobile networks are going to keep getting relatively faster and relatively cheaper and will therefore be more relatively OK with a few
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by malchow 11y ago
I quite agree. There's no excuse for that. Although most of the time it isn't the fault of the website or publisher, but rather of an adtech partner.
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In reality, people want a page that becomes usable as quickly as possible. Specifically, people use hovers and scrolling to test that a given page is 'ready.' That is very different from a page that fires DOMContentLoaded as qui
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by malchow 11y ago
I suspect you fall prey to a question of scope. I imagine you spend more time with statisticians than, say, paleoceanographers and geologists. They might say, and reasonably so, that my reference to the ten year "break" in alleged
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by malchow 11y ago
"A little sliver" indeed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png
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by malchow 11y ago
Do out of band "aftcasts" correctly show the decade-long global warming hiatus from 1998 to 2008? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_hiatus
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by malchow 11y ago
"retaliation is illegal" I'm not sure what world you think we inhabit. Are we humanoid automatons? The whole welter of human emotion more or less always outweighs a programmatic injunction like "retaliation is illegal.&q
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Because SV generally allows for creative destruction (viz. failure).
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"I would prefer to have option in uBlock that notified me if I was about to enter a site that didn't want me viewing their content if I had adblock enabled, so I could avoid those sites." I suspect such a feature would do ser
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by malchow 11y ago
No, the alkaline battery companies decades ago figured out how to do controlled quantum discharge! It goes instantly from 1.5v to 1.4v to 1.3v!
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Any theories on when TVs will use USB-C over HDMI?
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I disagree -- undergrads at Stanford are smart -- smarter than my coevals when I was an undergrad -- and indeed more world-smart. But they are not really brilliant at identifying markets, and are not brilliant at knowing their own weaknesse
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by malchow 11y ago
The best investors actively do this all day long. I know one who hosts his/her own 'career sessions' for selected Stanford students -- mostly to identify and build new teams after seeing interactions.

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