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by pbateman 14y ago
Not wanting to be negative or anything but I'm a bit puzzled why this post is here. There's only six books, the descriptions are sourced from Amazon and there's no comment as to whether the books are good or not. At the very least some rev
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by pbateman 14y ago
Given the general negativity (often deserved) towards government by entrepreneurs it's important to acknowledge when they do positive things. It's important to also realize they aren't doing this because they're motivated to disrupt the m
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by pbateman 14y ago
We're going to be stuck at workstations for a while yet. Tablets are great devices for consuming media, but they suck for typing and suck for creating. Laptops are a lot better for creating but I still haven't found anything that can mat
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by pbateman 14y ago
When I first saw this ad series I was stunned by the hollow, almost cynical reasoning on display, only to then be even more stunned by the lack of reaction in others. There's a substantial cohort of the population[1] that thinks If somet
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by pbateman 14y ago
“You can thrift on cost. You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, when you start pulling a lot of costs out of a rocket, your quality and your probability of success in delivering a payload to orbit di
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by pbateman 14y ago
Myers-Briggs is the corporate equivalent of those "Is He Right For You? - Take Our 10 Question Soulmate Quiz" things that have done a brisk trade in magazines since time immemorial.
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by pbateman 14y ago
However wasteful it's still a pleasant change from warrantless wiretapping and other NSA malfeasance.
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by pbateman 14y ago
This strikes me as a much better idea than the standard process of awarding a cost-plus contract to a military contractor and then watching as costs blow out.
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by pbateman 14y ago
The problem is the world isn't shrinking. It's just the wealthy educated bits of it that are. So we're going to have a shrinking number of first world citizens surrounded by ever increasing numbers of the global poor. Now, if you wipe out
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by pbateman 14y ago
I'm just amazed someone is a sad enough individual to take time out of their day to write a nasty email to someone they don't know. Don't sane people just close the browser window and move on?
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by pbateman 14y ago
This reminds me of pg's Relentlessly Resourceful essay. http://paulgraham.com/relres.html
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by pbateman 14y ago
On the other hand we are already implementing geo-engineering by default. Humanity is already impacting a complex system and we have to do something or face the consequences. Of course I don't mean to downplay the risks, more research is v
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by pbateman 14y ago
Not yet. Europe (and Japan) gives us a taste of things to come.
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by pbateman 14y ago
Actually they're both symptoms of the same problem which is the more facebook tries to monetize the sleazier it feels. LinkedIn probably has the advantage here because it was started explicitly as a resume/business/hustling platform, wherea
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by pbateman 14y ago
The internet, for better or worse, is a winner takes all game within each vertical. The corollary of this is that if you can't compete in your current vertical you choose a more restricted vertical and try to be one of the fat cats within t
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by pbateman 14y ago
Sure. But do you really want to be contacted by "business professionals" on a site that was supposedly about staying in touch with friends?
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by pbateman 14y ago
This was a great idea. I think you could expand this to arbitrary times just by piggy backing on whatever meme is capturing the internet's attention at the current moment[1]. [1] "Rebecca Black's Friday" Inspired Sale - unlike her music,
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by pbateman 14y ago
The only thing stopping this from being really funny is how awful the life of the average North Korean is.
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by pbateman 14y ago
Because it's a promotional tool made by the travel agency Koryo. As a foreigner you can travel through North Korea and see a truly strange country. It's probably going to do the job quite well just because it will pique the curiosity of a
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by pbateman 14y ago
Interesting idea but I suspect that the people who would be most willing to pay to contact would also be the least desirable to be contacted by.
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by pbateman 14y ago
My flagrant hedonism is largely dependent on charts so you can see why I'm keen to arrive at some manner of deal. How about "buy one get one free"?
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by pbateman 14y ago
Well of course. Defending due process is a hard sell politically, beating up on an unpopular boogeyman to "keep america safe" isn't.
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by pbateman 14y ago
To be fair most of these articles could be kept current simply by updating the date and the outrage to latest version. Sure, facebook is creepy and annoying and provides little value to me but until average people start deleting their accou
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by pbateman 14y ago
Would you be willing to offer a larger discount if I bought multiple seats? I want to roll this out across my company before our fiery doom arrives tomorrow.
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by pbateman 14y ago
"No, this isn't like ACTA at all, it has an entirely different acronym"
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by pbateman 14y ago
We publish bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview The financial crisis that recently engulfed much of the world wasn’t just a cyclical decline or a correction or even a bubble bursting. It was a breaking poi
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by pbateman 14y ago
It's legit, it's been around for ages and it's DRM free. If I have to choose between Steam and GOG, and it is available on the both[1] I go with the latter and have not been disappointed. [1] Generally yes in my case because I'm a crotchety