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by msabalau 11y ago
There are only few ways to monetize a business model. While some people object to any ad supported business, others only to data driven ad business, and others care about specific pragmatic day to day consequences on people's privacy.
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At the same time, much of the value of a smartphone comes from connectivity and software. A first generation iPhone is a 2G device trapped at iOS 3. Fit and finish are nice, but if I had to use either of these two devices, I know which I&#x
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The popular narrative is that what the Harper government did was unusual and unacceptable. People who believe that most Canadian governments (of whatever ideology) will not stoop to willful blindness, probably view the the attitude expresse
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The gaming support is really phenomenal. They've got Google Play and their own streaming offering, but for me the killer app is being able to stream PC games over to a tiny device in my living room (with a mouse and keyboard) connecte
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They were founded in 2006, and their first generation cameras were being unloaded on Woot last year, and the there was a flash sale on their second generation yesterday. It'd be great if they finally recognized that a proprietary form
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SavePoint was to featured "several prominent GamerGate figureheads". The sponsoring organization generally claims to take "a neutral stance" on GamerGate. ( http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sxsw-canc
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O'Reilly is addressing the community of people who are reading his company's books and reading his blog because they intend to create something. He's suggesting that they work on stuff "that matters". I can think o
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Exactly this--the value isn't just Youtube--it's Youtube plus streaming music. If you are paying for a streaming service, switching gives you ad free YouTube "for free". Also, being able to take videos "off line&quo
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It'll be interesting to see what happens when over a million people are prompted to start experiencing VR content.
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The New York Times is shipping Google Cardboard to its print subscribers(theverge.com)
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I'm sure people with Parkinson's and their families really feel bad that this was discovered in a way that doesn't align with your sense of what's fitting.
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Thanks for telling us how you think other people should be spending their lives. That's super valuable! (For the record, work in healthcare, but no doubt am wasting my time saving the wrong lives.)
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Europe, evidently.
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As grandfathered user, I'm looking forward to others being able to get access to this type of information. It should be interesting to see what additional education on interpreting the results are issued. I felt the information they ha
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New ITIF Study on “Privacy Panics”(techliberation.com)
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It's increasingly seems that the powers of prosecutors are deployed in arbitrary and unjust ways: either overreaching (as in the case of Aaron Swartz or Xiaoxing Xi) or non-prosecution of police brutality or corporate crime (just chang
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Of course, one could click through the link to the study, and read the 3 pages that describe the methodology behind their "market basket" of drugs. You don't have to wonder, or at least the curious don't.
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People can decide to drive or not drive. Or at least decide to drive less. Kids with asthma and elderly can't decide not to breathe. Although evidently VW was content to effectively encourage them in the direction of not breathing.
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Generally speaking, we are actually reducing the amount of time people spend suffering, while at the same time extending peoples lives. From the 2013 NBER working paper "Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly
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Given the Sony makes $20 per iPhone 6 sold for providing the cameras to Apple, I would hope that they'd be better quality than the $30 phone!
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Unless you die of kidney failure as the result of your harsh diet, like her two siblings... According to the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, we've seen dramatic improvements in lifespan in just the past few decad
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While the AP Stylebook advises using "anti-abortion" and "abortion rights", it seems unrealistic to expect people to parse their statements that carefully, indeed journalists need a guide to achieve this aim professiona
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From a consumer perspective, it's unclear why a typical person needs a pc or laptop. For video content, a Chromecast is easier than fiddling with plugs and almost as cheap as an HDMI cable. A console provides a vastly superior gaming
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Why Web Pages Suck(stratechery.com)
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To a certain extent, one could imagine a tech conglomerate would be easier to manage than a traditional brick and mortar conglomerate, and least for the digital offerings. It's a lot easier to wind down less successful initiatives, and
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"Did they really have a choice?" Well, yes, sunk costs are sunk, and they'd have been better off not wasting another 7 billion. That being said, for a fraction of that money, they could have gone Nexus route, and paid someon
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The entire thing is worth reading, but the key take away: "Regulatory mistakes and agency issues within banks encouraged poor credit decisions. Spanish banks lent into overpriced real estate, and German banks lent to a state they knew
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The same general sorts of things that are wrong and right with human beings of all types. Hence "romanticizing the goodness of" being observed as the issue.
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I'd have interpreted Valve's move as saying "unlike product management at Apple, we understand the context of gaming enough to know that in war games, it's typical to use flags to represent opposing sides, and that there
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CA <> the addressable market in the world.

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