msrpotus

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by msrpotus 14y ago
I think the point is just as much that you don't need the best design in the world to be successful. Just get started, even if it's not the most attractive.
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What's their ownership structure like? Do Jeff Bezos and friends control enough of the company that they can just go on, assuming that the profit will work itself out?
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But how many of those people are active users? I would bet very few.
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Because, of course, taxi drivers exist solely to serve you and might not have been going in the opposite direction of the airport.
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The Five NYC Taxi Drivers who Refused My Fare(medium.com)
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Only slightly disgusted.
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You can read the original letter and skip David Brooks' opining. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9686219/I-am-bitterly...
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I'm sorry but the only good password is one that isn't used on other sites (and only using sites you can trust). The issue, by and large, isn't people guessing passwords, it's websites insufficiently protecting passwords.
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Sure they do. Think about all the other search engines people use. With only a few exceptions (Bing, DuckDuckGo), they are niche. If I want to look up a restaurant, I might use Yelp but I'll use a different search engine for a different nic
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I'm curious: what did you find were the predictors of failure? Was it a matter of focusing on problems (with the assumption that the teams with the least problems were, on balance at least, more likely to be successful)? Or did you find tha
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by msrpotus 14y ago
Interesting but very over the top. An iPad might be called a tablet but it's very different than what Babylonians used (except in shape and sometimes purpose), contrary to Taleb's assertion.
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How would they know? Do you really think Google is going to check to make sure that everyone is married (and married by what standard? Do they need a civil marriage or just a ceremony?) Somehow, I doubt it would be an issue.
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To be honest, never really thought about why I select the text before.
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The gold (and silver and other metals) standard. When more gold was discovered, all of the sudden, there was a huge increase in the money supply. When no one discovered any gold for a little while, deflation increased. There are other reaso
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He's specifically mentioned in the article, unsurprisingly.
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It's important to set limits and explicitly say that changes made after approval will cost extra. Otherwise, they'lll just push you to do as much for free as they can get.
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In one way, yes: Evernote provides something that would be much more difficult to otherwise have; at least compared to creating a news source. While I'm a big fan of the NYTimes and read it almost every day (and indirectly pay for it), I co
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Americans, I think, just generally smoke less than people elsewhere in the world.
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by msrpotus 14y ago
There is one big difference between luck and attractiveness, though. Luck is a big unknown except in hindsight. If you knew you were going to be unlucky, there's very little you could do (I hesitate to say nothing but I can't think of anyth
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by msrpotus 14y ago
Yikes. Exactly what we need; more people focused on polls that all say the same thing--the election is close. Knowing that Gallup says it's 51-49 one way or Rasmussen says it's 51-49 the other way contributes exactly nothing to the world.
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But America faces plenty of challenges that technology can help with, especially around health and food issues. Just because we don't face significant challenges due to military technologies doesn't mean that technology can't be useful in o
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Absolutely. This isn't a change from 100% of fans seeing a post to 0% of fans seeing a post, either. Even when Facebook just chronology to organize the Newsfeed, plenty of people would miss a post just because they weren't at the computer a
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by msrpotus 14y ago
He was "unfired"? What a joke. Arrington is overrated and the tech equivalent of Paris Hilton; famous for no good reason. Though, the article TechCrunch wouldn't publish is actually halfway decent.
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Promoted posts are far more useful for businesses, I think, than people. As much as there are some things that I want my friends to know, they aren't generally worth paying to get the word out. Businesses are used to advertising (and often
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But how many people even pay that much attention to the operating system any more? I was talking to a non-techie friend a few days ago and he didn't even realize that he was on Mac OS X 10.6. It's not just something most people really think
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I think the Netherlands tried something similar. Not sure if it really worked.
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Twitter could work as a way to engage in a conversation. For instance, if I tweet about going shopping for clothing, I wouldn't mind if Old Navy tweeted a coupon at me. That's much more complicated but if they could figure something like th
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Also, people need new bikes. Bikes break, people want a new bike, people stop riding and just store their bikes, and people whose bikes are stolen need new bikes. Neither supply nor demand is absolutely fixed.
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Or just buying a cheaper bike on the assumption that you'll need to get a new one sooner or later?
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by msrpotus 14y ago
But there's a world of difference between ADHD and schizophrenia.

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