memmcgee

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by memmcgee 9y ago
If online news could subsist on donations alone then it would in the form of subscriptions.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Except they're still losing billions of dollars every year.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Large news sites like the NYT have editing procedures and internal hoops to go through. This isn't just joe shmo's blog that is updated at a whim. I've written freelance articles with editing periods of months, you can imagin
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Well for one, it's against Apple's rules to do this. And just because it's "industry practice" doesn't mean you get a free pass.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
This is a good idea. I'd love a version of UnRoll.me that I could host on my own servers.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Plus if you do it anonymously it's easy for the company to spin it as "hit pieces" which is what Uber does.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
It's almost like Google is a massive corporation with different departments and contractors who don't always coordinate together.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Are adblockers blocked from the Chrome store?
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Nancy Pelosi is also House minority leader who would have official business with the Ambassador. Pelosi's meetings were also not in secret.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Well we were able to write an algorithm that kind of worked. But it relied more on just which MAC addresses are visible at a certain point.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
I don't know anything about your market, but your plans seem awfully expensive and they're differentiated weirdly. I wouldn't choose to pay for a tool that would limit how much trend data I get based on how much I paid.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
I tries doing this kind of thing at a hackathon once and we discovered that actual coordinate systems are hard to do. The "signal strength" data wireless cards produce are very dependent on the model of the devices involved. They&
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by memmcgee 10y ago
They say they have a technique called Secure Aggregation as well so that it can only decrypt the update if many users have sent their updates. I don't know how possible that would be to reverse engineer. Plus this would seem a computat
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by memmcgee 10y ago
I'm not too sure. There seems to be a spot for more niche search engines on the market. Take DuckDuckGo for example, it doesn't have that much of a market share, but it's a good option for people who care a lot about their pr
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Oh god. Has YouTube drama escaped to Hacker News?
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Nothing you just said supports that slavery ended because of the "free market". 1) The Civil War was absolutely about slavery. Here's a professor at West Point talking about: https://youtu.be/pcy7qV-BGF4 (and
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Milo was not banned for "free speech". He was banned because he was harassing people, which he very much was doing. If you want to say Twitter was banning people solely for their beliefs, find a better example. Additionally, prote
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Doesn't it bother you that these names showed up in intelligence reports on Russia?
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Impersonating a Federal Agent is not a "serious" federal crime. And typically it's only prosecuted when done in relation to another crime. The only crime here is saying mean things about Trump.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
1a) You don't have to impede speech to be violating the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has ruled consistently that anonymity is protected under the First Amendment. https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity 1b) Add
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Slavery ended in the US because we fought a war. And some forms of slavery do exist today. See prison labor for example.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
The government doesn't give you back everything you gave to WC and it doesn't necessarily give it back to you. You van spend your money however you want. Taxes simply mean that everyone benefits from spending, not just WC.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
I would say that it's kind of the opposite. Having high developer costs means that you need investors in order to scale. This helps investors because it means if you want to succeed, you need to get investors, which they can use to the
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by memmcgee 10y ago
There are a lot of attacks that some people would call terrorist attacks that others would not. Take Dylann Roof for example I personally consider his actions a terrorist attack. But I have had right wing people I know say that he's ju
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Jill Stein is also pretty anti-science as she supports the anti-vaxxer community and supports GMO hysteria.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Those nations also have stronger social safety nets, including health and retirement benefits provided nationally rather than by the employer. Your first article mentions that operating costs per ride in the NYC metro are $4.11, compared to
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by memmcgee 10y ago
The constituency he'll end up serving is billionaires like him.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Hillary was not horribly unpopular. She won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. She lost because of only around 200k people.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
True. But I wonder if more VCs are going to put money in smaller localized ride sharing startups now that Uber is getting such a bad rap.
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by memmcgee 10y ago
Did not know that. But I'm sure there are plenty of foreign startups that would pick up the slack. There's no secret sauce in Uber's tech. It would be fitting to see Uber fail due to hubris.

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