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by netsp 17y ago
I know virtually nothing about CS, which may be an advantage in seeing the sense in your thinking in abstract. If we assume that humans are conscious & material, without bothering to define either, we at least know it is possible to hav
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by netsp 17y ago
Sure. I agree with everything you say. They have good reason to want their page rank measurement to be accurate. But they are not allowed to do whatever they want to achieve this.
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not sure if I have been downmoded because I have been misunderstood, so I will try again. I think that the policy of enforcing Google's nofollow guideline by removing sites from their index is not directly about keeping their index free
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by netsp 17y ago
> Sure it is, spam makes search less useful for users, keeping it out is most definitely a quality assurance issue. Not exactly. Site X with text links on it is not (necessarily) less useful then a site with declared ads on it. The qual
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by netsp 17y ago
You're right. The way to tell is how much difficulty you are having in explaining how the whole line-up/hierarchy works. I think it goes against one of the Apple-y things that I quite like. Make something people like enough to pay for. Don'
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by netsp 17y ago
It is unreasonable inasmuch as it is bullying site owners in to compliance, forcing them to disclose information. I think that this is the case. The central effect of flagging a site as spam is not a quality assurance issue. It is influenci
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by netsp 17y ago
I agree. It started with the whole nofollow issue. To be fair, the post misquotes Matt Cuts. He didn't say terms of service. He said: "paid links that pass PageRank are absolutely a violation of Google's quality guidelines"
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by netsp 17y ago
I agree with only some of the points in this essay. I think that the assumption of efficiency is overstretched. I think that the demonstration that wealth is created is overstretched. The reaction between these imperfections (people who hav
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by netsp 17y ago
You would expect that any organisation doing this kind of work would attract criticism. There is a taboo against harming a charities ability to raise funds. Do you know of any organisation doing similar but better?
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by netsp 17y ago
There is a difference between taking risks and thinking out of the box even if it seems stupid to outsiders and being purposely stupid.
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by netsp 17y ago
microfinance is an area where this debate is raging Can you show me where?
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by netsp 17y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a charity with demonstrable results in improving the lives of people in a measurable way?
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by netsp 17y ago
"This isn’t to say that we should have companies replace non-profits..." Actually, that is not necessarily a good thing to just sidestep. A lot of things that non profits work on might work better if they were worked on by companies. A lo
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by netsp 17y ago
Bad Aussie!
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by netsp 17y ago
How would you define section of a country.
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by netsp 17y ago
I think that this is more of a result of the way this particular study was structured then anything else. The study doesn't rank challenges, it ranks solutions.
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by netsp 17y ago
Most of the criticism (I think) revolves around the methodology being biased towards unambitious projects. The economists were asked to rank proposals according to how much good they would do in alleviating existing world problems. The pr
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by netsp 17y ago
A way to estimate what jacquesm is referring to might be to keep a record of which participants were marginal applicants and which were clearly in. Since you have limited places the in-out divide should be arbitrary. You can just measure on
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by netsp 17y ago
Is the company with 650x the amount of resources going to have more traffic in the long run? Yes. I think that question should be: Is the company with 650x the amount of resources going to have a better chance at more traffic in the lon
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by netsp 17y ago
Maybe this is what happened: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458947
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by netsp 17y ago
Even if they do, most people don't know that (seemingly) or don't trust that so they go to the 'right' side anyway.
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by netsp 17y ago
Or the cook at Alaysa. I'm surprised at the number of Aussies in here.
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by netsp 17y ago
Crazy John's name was Mustafa.
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by netsp 17y ago
I think the interesting point to look at is the 'traditional' non-university institutions teaching university-like courses (Nursing, IT, etc.). They tend to move faster then anyone else because of size and their economy is more straightforw
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by netsp 17y ago
I can't visualise these institutions.
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by netsp 17y ago
Could you imagine someone with no need for #1 (say she already got it from an online classroom) paying tuition to get 2-5?
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by netsp 17y ago
Every time an article shows up on the (fascinating) topic someone pops up and starts swinging. "Personal growth. Face to face interaction with brilliant professors. Discuss with like minded talented youths. Completely misses the point of c
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by netsp 17y ago
The music complex (labels, bands, roadies..) is likely to make more money in a world where you can sell a cd (the old world) then in a world where you cannot. How the loss is distributed within this complex is not obvious. My point is that
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by netsp 17y ago
I think chat (especially applied in small commercial sites) is nowhere near its potential.
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by netsp 17y ago
I've been reading Joel Spolsky's posts with an Israeli accent for a long time. Now I hear this American accent. I'm not even sure why I thought that now.

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