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by marciovm123 17y ago
Great area to work on =)
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by marciovm123 17y ago
To add my twitter stream, the site wants read/write access: #Fail. I don't want flavors.me (or any other aggregating service) pitching itself on twitter under my name without my control. The default should be read, not read/write.
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BuddyPress: Turn your WordPress site into a social network(wordpress.org)
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I think that criticism is just too easy to make, and suggests a lack of empathy for the realities of the gaming marketplace. Everyone thinks pirates are fun and romantic until it's their stuff that gets robbed.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Agreed - I don't care at all and would buy this game if it was my style. Am I going to give up on having an internet connection at my place, ever? No. So how would this negatively affect me? A little bit of downtime? We all need bathroo
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Very interesting. I went to school at UC Berkeley in 2001 and my impression was that the school that spawned the free speech movement had in many ways morphed into a school that limited speech the most, much in the way the author suggests.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
He does; go to amazon.com and search for paul graham and you'll get a bunch of premium-consumption options for his work.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
yea but this is a very concentrated list of extremely private information - for your whole life, a list of people you were interested in hooking up with could cause all kinds of harm.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I think this is more a "commoditize the complement" thing. Chris Dixon had a good post on this recently: http://cdixon.org/2009/12/30/whats-strategic-for-google/ Friendfeeds are complements to doing things online - it's better for Google
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I think you have to think of this utility in terms of how the two social graphs are different. The Facebook social graph is established by people you meet in person and who decide later to send you a friend invite, or people you knew at som
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by marciovm123 17y ago
they don't roll out to everyone simultaneously. think A/B testing.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Andrew Warner: "how does a talk start a revolution?" (re: pg's talk at harvard that led to YC) pg: "hmmmmmm (laughs)" That would have been an awesome talk to have attended...
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by marciovm123 17y ago
This is some awesome data - I bet we'll be seeing a bunch of social science PhDs based on data sets like these in the next 1-5 years. It will be really interesting to see how this social graph evolves with time, and what it can predict abo
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by marciovm123 17y ago
We need rankings to prioritize our activities online - there's too much choice online, and not enough time to evaluate all those choices. So we let google and techcrunch and hacker news do the evaluation for us (by link-graphs, editors, or
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by marciovm123 17y ago
No matter what the decision is, there is an army of patent lawyers whose livelihoods depend on the existing system. They will fight the only way they know how (filling lots of lawsuits) for years before business practices change.
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by marciovm123 17y ago
touche
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I see these situations as people being forced to confront the trade-offs between Equality and Freedom. The prevailing sense in America is that Freedom is the most important value, and that Equality is pretty important too. However, attain
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by marciovm123 17y ago
You'd figure he would convince the interviewer to sign up for DisQus for the interview page?
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Your point might be correct for the majority of the world's population but certainly not for the US...You don't think technology equals wealth, really? I'm surprised to find people who think that at HN. Think about how much would you pay
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by marciovm123 17y ago
This is correct if you consider "better standard of living" to mean "better standard of living relative to rest of the world". In terms of actual consumption and productivity, young people in America will have far richer lives then their
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Root cause of problems in Africa: land and productivity(csmonitor.com)
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by marciovm123 17y ago
you mean it's not a series of tubes???
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by marciovm123 17y ago
It seems every new open web community tries desperately to stave off its own Endless September. I think a scalable answer will probably look more like multiple layers of authentication. Only some actions can be completely public; you have
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by marciovm123 17y ago
the other reason is that this community started out as extremely self-selected - people who got through a pg essay or applied to yc, and appreciated the quality that was here already w/o being turned off by the sparse visuals. As more peop
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by marciovm123 17y ago
1) Those studies are very hard to do, because you can't set up control conditions. "A Farewell to Alms" by Clark has historical data which might be the closest thing to. For example, per capita income in Europe went way up after the Plagu
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by marciovm123 17y ago
What happened here is that person lost their job because we (the US) can way out-compete them with our superior technology and global military might. Then they tried to go steal some food because they didn't have any money, and lost the fi
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by marciovm123 17y ago
I'm not saying we don't need $3 or $30 or $300 life saving treatments. If the treatment is worth it - if a living person generates enough wealth to cover the treatment - then of course it's good for the economy. The fact that the polio va
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by marciovm123 17y ago
Ok, I guess I deserve ad hominem if I hinted at it. I grew up in Brazil and that makes you more cynical then growing up in California. When you live in a place like that, you learn that just because something sounds good doesn't mean it is
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by marciovm123 17y ago
That is such a paternalistic thought. Their lives are their own, they are not ours to protect or to give up on. If we want to help those societies, the best thing we can do is to help their economies, which indirectly is the best possible
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by marciovm123 17y ago
"The vast majority of workers in poor countries are agriculture workers" I think that's not true, and population trends are strongly against it, largely because of improved sanitation. For example, Nigeria is the most populous country in Af

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