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by mfringel 15y ago
See my comment above. IANAL, but "fraud" looks like it would be a very hard case to prove.
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by mfringel 15y ago
[IANAL] Technically, there was no fraud. They made a job offer, he accepted, and they (most likely) properly compensated him within the bounds of the offer. So, in terms of that specific business transaction, there was no intentional de
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by mfringel 15y ago
To what end? This is a bet on a third-order effect. Action: Wikipedia goes into blackout. First-order effect: People get angry because they can't look up something. Second-order effect: They internalize that they should be angry about S
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by mfringel 15y ago
What if "NO CODE" is the name of a band? You're asking someone to make a quick life-or-death decision on ambiguous data when there is a clearly known and socially agreed upon way to express the sentiment. Having it on an annoying bracelet t
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by mfringel 15y ago
I'm going to guess that the parent is calling out one of the standard geek fallacies, that being "Well, I made/found/installed a workaround for my device, and everyone else could do it. Problem solved." It's a fallacy because not everyon
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by mfringel 15y ago
No, not exactly. "Exactly" would be if CarrierIQ sold a boxed piece of software that was fire & forget. As it stands, CarrierIQ was a business partner with each of these companies in the implementation of the software, and so they are t
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by mfringel 15y ago
Q: "What's the difference between an amateur photographer and a pro photographer?" A: "An amateur shows you every shot they took."
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by mfringel 15y ago
I place this mostly at the feet of social media. Since your past now never fades, you have a few choices: 1) Don't put/do anything dubious online. (Theoretically easy, harder in practice.) 2) Don't put/do anything that could be de-contex
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by mfringel 15y ago
The term "Job Creator" is a clever-as-in-clever-bastard way of re-framing the discussion. "Job Creators" become their own privileged class of people who have the secret knowledge of how to Create Jobs. Also, the term "Creator" implies a
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by mfringel 15y ago
[IANAL] He was invited for what was effectively a performance. Stanford probably has a standard copyright agreement for performances at the venue (i.e. the stadium), much like a football game.
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by mfringel 15y ago
The title is misleading. They acquired a long-ish (10 year) lease. They did not buy the building.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Paypal is a finely-tuned fraud detection system that has a inter-personal payment application bolted onto the side. Samurai's friendliness to all comers will determine how quickly it must necessarily turn into Paypal, as well.
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Create web sequence diagrams from plain text(websequencediagrams.com)
2 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
The good news about PowerPoint is that you start from nothing and have a slide presentation in five minutes. The bad news is roughly the same.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Chobani has plain yogurt, as well.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Okay, so once in 1,000 years isn't enough. I'll buy that, especially where an accident's effect can last for up to a century. So, how about once in 10,000 years? Once in 100,000 years? That's on the level of meteor strikes, and I can't
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Insert Coin (3D animation rendered with coins)(youtube.com)
2 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
Web apps sacrifice offline operation. I can't say I'd be totally sanguine about that, specifically with content providers.
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Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (Google's leadership transition)(businessinsider.com)
1 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
I'm somewhat concerned that "find a way to use pseudonyms" is some implementation of "multiple pseudonyms, as long as you have your real name on an umbrella account", which completely misses the point.
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Nothing New Under the Sun: An Introduction to Operations Management(cuddletech.com)
1 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
You call it whining from entitled commenters, I call it feedback from customers who are: a) Having their subscription prices raised by up to 60%. b) Being told so in a blog posting where that info is buried so far down it needs a snorkel to
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by mfringel 15y ago
So.... the paranoid part of me thinks this sounds like: "Upload all of your mp3/aac files for free with any paid cloud drive plan... until we start charging for the 'mp3/aac files don't count towards your quota' option, which is $9.99/mo."
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The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else's Dream(cenedella.com)
3 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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Government Test Shows Nothing Prevents Idiocy(bloomberg.com)
4 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
The lord of the manor defends the serfs. That has always been the deal. Good to see Apple stepping up into the role they've defined for themselves.
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by mfringel 15y ago
You never know how much authority you have until you exceed it.
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by mfringel 15y ago
_70% of the poor own a car, 25% own two cars._ Those particular numbers don't tell the whole story. There are many ways to "not have a car", including "the car has broken down and they don't have the $300 to get it fixed, just like what hap
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by mfringel 15y ago
As a fellow Bostonian, I completely agree. I mostly came to the same conclusions (three straight weeks of snow with no melt days), but it's good to see it written out in numbers.
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Why was Boston's winter so horrible this year?(jon22.net)
72 points by mfringel 15y ago|27 comments

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