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by msabalau 11y ago
That only means that products with more social awkwardness would need to deliver even more value. It doesn't change the cost/benefit calculation for the Apple Watch
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by msabalau 11y ago
Don't engage in price fixing?
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by msabalau 11y ago
Someone looking to build an ARG based around control of security cameras. What's interesting is that: "The outcome of playing CCTV Nation will be a map with all security cams and mobile networks on it. All CCTV data will be avail
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CCTV NATION – Location Based Augmented MMO Game(kickstarter.com)
1 points by msabalau 11y ago|1 comments
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by msabalau 11y ago
Cynically, and hypocritically. Just checked, the Facebook app is still in the store. Apple has been happy to take the search payments from Google from the first iPhone. Astonishing how Cook's "morality" has no practical imp
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by msabalau 11y ago
Downvote if you want, but billions of people get value every day out of Facebook, Google, and Amazon knowing them. Saying scary words about advertising isn't going to keep people from abandoning Apple's premium priced lower qualit
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by msabalau 11y ago
In other words, Apple is incapable of competing at delivering valuable user experiences on the basis of machine learning, so they are trashing the concept.
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by msabalau 11y ago
Given that there are more doctors per capita in each of the Nordic countries than there are in the US, the holding onto a mental model that can't make sense of this would seem to be problematic.
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by msabalau 11y ago
So, Apple had the ability to leverage AT&T's weakness to deliver a phone focused what consumers actually wanted, access to the internet. Blackberry in response, is pressured by the other carriers to focus on delivering a hard to e
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by msabalau 11y ago
So, if one believes that Varoufakis is right, but also believe that the European Commission and the European Central Bank are idiots, empowered by the EU democratic deficit, does anyone have any ideas how to best invest to bet against the E
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by msabalau 11y ago
The actual purpose of Harvard is to mix the children of the elite (regardless of their ability) with talented children of a broad cross section of the rest of society. One can observe this directly by searching "harvard" on wikile
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by msabalau 11y ago
How narcissistic does one have to be to think that an important characteristic of being for or against "the war" is how alienated and edgy it makes you feel? And while a sense of "not being a part of the crowd" does impa
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by msabalau 11y ago
Austin and Toronto are both desirable world class cities that allow homes to be built for people. Neither of them seem to have been "destroyed". Having affordable housing allows community and culture to be preserved and built on.
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by msabalau 11y ago
The harm is coming from Second Floor Music chasing the wrong metric: advertising to get followers as if having more likes was valuable in and of itself. Over the long term, Facebook advertising is only useful if it builds a brand or prompts
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by msabalau 11y ago
Links to low quality blogspam threatened the quality of Google's results. Do inflated "likes" for brands or celebrities harm the core value prop for consumers or Facebook's business model with advertisers? If not, why
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by msabalau 12y ago
The author may have a dog in this fight, but it would be incorrect to claim they have a beef with MakerBot's founders , given that Zach “Hoeken” Smith, one of the founders, has been openly critical of the move to closed source, and al
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Europe v Google: Nothing to stand on(economist.com)
68 points by msabalau 12y ago|58 comments
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Why Europe's Regulatory War Against Silicon Valley Will Backfire(eweek.com)
5 points by msabalau 12y ago|1 comments
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by msabalau 12y ago
As it happens, despite the parent comment's hypothesis, it's clear from their website that most insurance companies (and also Caremark) do cover Pillpack for the standard co-pay. Oddly enough, risk bearing entities like insurance
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by msabalau 12y ago
This product does have the major players involved. From their website: "We accept most major insurance plans, including most forms of Medicare Part D." And CVS Caremark. As you note: medication non-compliance is a huge issue--a 30
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by msabalau 12y ago
The trend overall in society has been that people are both living longer lives, and also have shorter periods of morbidity at the end of life. Moderate exercise would seem to be helpful for both length and quality of life. Have your cake an
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by msabalau 12y ago
Do this and someone with a different set of tastes for the "straight and narrow" will attack you for commodifying things, or beating up on the less privileged by charging for stuff that ought to be free, or for having lousy produc
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by msabalau 12y ago
I own three smart watches, notifications are fine. And because Apple is Apple, millions more people will line up and get to see how somewhat useful they are. It does seem in this case that a large amount of the value Apple is delivering wit
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by msabalau 12y ago
The people who most need to do this don't know what a "browser" is, much less an "extension".
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by msabalau 12y ago
Given that Amazon managed to "disappear" Orwell e-books that people bought from Amazon , before backpedaling, in the face of outrage and the overwhelming irony, I'm not certain I'd view them as an exemplary actor. Rega
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by msabalau 12y ago
Do you have evidence to present that Google Fiber is using the deep packet inspection referenced in the article? Because they make it clear that they don't here: https://fiber.google.com/legal/network.html Also, y
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by msabalau 12y ago
It's amusing that Bilton writes that "we still don’t know definitively the causes of cellphones and cancer". Knowing what causes cell phones is such a mystery...
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by msabalau 12y ago
I'm sure the Greeks will be so happy to learn that "official bullying" is considered ridiculous.
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And such sellers and their customers can leverage the well designed e-readers that exist because Kobu and Amazon have business models supported mostly by the sales of DRM'd books.
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by msabalau 12y ago
While it would be nice if Twitter addressed the abuse issue, in addition to acknowledging it, Randi Harper's efforts have provided some respite. Hopefully this organization can build on that work.

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