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by mlinsey 17y ago
Why are your attacks on Krugman more constructive than the GP's attacks on you? Because Krugman isn't posting here?
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I'm not a climate scientist (though a big problem with this issue is it requires lots of non-climate scientists to formulate opinions about climate science), but this post definitely doesn't deserve to be downvoted for linking scientific re
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Thanks for the link; that talk was brilliant and excellent food for thought to make us think about the "follow your passions" common wisdom around here.
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Amazon Taps its Inner Apple(fastcompany.com)
28 points by mlinsey 17y ago|17 comments
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by mlinsey 17y ago
This can't really be the first time this had been submitted, can it? I was looking for the discussion of this (months old) article, and searchyc.com didn't find it on the first search, so I thought "well, just re-submitting the URL should t
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I think SMS is used heavily by the consumer market, meaning folks who likely got an IPhone as their first smartphone. The businness crowd on blackberries probably send quick emails more often than they use SMS or IM (particularly AIM)
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Heidegger vindicated at last!
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Photosynth aggregates images already known to be of a particular scene and figures out how they fit together. This paper is about taking an image from an unknown place and identifying whether it is of a particular landmark. Both probably m
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by mlinsey 17y ago
It struck me as a backhanded compliment as well. Especially given that part of the Bing marketing push has been focused on relevance so say what is essentially "we're glad that someone is working on improving search in ways that aren't rela
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Err...I would expect that this wouldn't have been implemented this way. It most likely would have worked like Audible: a set monthly subscription fee, and you would get a set amount of "Kindle credits" to spend in the Kindle store every mon
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by mlinsey 17y ago
But if they really were separate, wouldn't I be able to buy e-books from amazon with a different device? And start my own bookshop for kindle users (maybe paying amazon for traffic to the device)? You can definitely do the former. You can
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Either that, or append an additional two years to the end of your current commitment? (Why are most cell phone contracts two years long anyway?) Of course, with a new iPhone every year, continuing to follow such a policy could leave some di
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by mlinsey 17y ago
(And no, I can't just declare myself a resident of a state that has no income tax. That doesn't work.) Curious, why doesn't this work? It was my understanding that was a reason why many folks living abroad, especially military personnel,
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Hope ticketstumbler works out in the long term; if it doesn't or if you have a successful exit, looks like you could consider the PG route of becoming a writer.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I see where they are coming from too, and I often feel the same way; sometimes I have found myself starting on side-projects and not even telling close friends what they are about because I am scared or embarrassed to have anyone see my wor
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Search, threaded conversations, the excellent spam filter, and excellent integration with Google Calendar.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I think this is well-understood by all the players in this space. The problem with utility computing is that, well it's a utility . Ideally, the market becomes completely fungible, with the only differences being price and reliability.
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The Myth of the Genius Programmer(code.google.com)
61 points by mlinsey 17y ago|59 comments
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I think the first two here are pretty clever, even though I'm not sure most people will get it the first time they watch them. The third one just confused me. Apparently, Google's confusing search results caused the economic crisis?
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Bing Ads(youtube.com)
3 points by mlinsey 17y ago|1 comments
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by mlinsey 17y ago
You don't believe that a tax on certain types of energy will incentivize various industries and processes to consume less of that energy?
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Sounds like we'd be much better off with the actual report than with a Reuters article to answer your question. Couldn't find it from just a cursory glance at their site: http://www.ghf-geneva.org/ but maybe someone else would have better
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Tough to say without trying it, but I think this has the potential to be a very flexible format and therefore potentially cover more use cases than you are giving it credit for. As an example, I wouldn't want to turn writing the page of p
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The worst thing about it is that the interface lag problems seem to have gotten significantly worse since launch. I've even tried re-installing the firmware, backing up only my contacts, but it now seems common to wait sometimes as long as
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by mlinsey 17y ago
That's exactly what they are saying. The original point was that you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. Someone ventured Gates as a possible exception, but if you look solely at Gates the businessman, he follows t
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by mlinsey 17y ago
I love mint and would much, much rather pay a monthly fee for it than have them sell information about me, even anonymized information.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
A whole week? Interesting. I didn't know the lag time was that long - I thought the newsstand date was just so the magazine wouldn't look out-of-date until the day the next issue hit. For what it's worth, I posted the original submission a
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by mlinsey 17y ago
The Bay Area is much bigger than the area immediately around Sand Hill Road; there are certainly neighborhoods where you can raise a family on 175K.
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Losing 150 lbs in about a year is roughly 2.88 lbs per week which translates into roughly a 1440 calorie deficit per day. That's huge and someone who is on a 500 calorie deficit per day will have a much different experience than you. Per
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by mlinsey 17y ago
Either people made a mistake or possibly they agree with yef's sentiment above and are taking it out on this comment since they can't downvote the actual submission.

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