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by pseut 14y ago
> I'm pretty sure this project will not become huge. But it will get a of us thinking about making more open systems. I appreciated this line and found it endearing. Thanks for spending time on this project; I look forward to seeing wh
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by pseut 14y ago
What was more or less your point? It's a discussion of monopolies.
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by pseut 14y ago
Avent's article (which Krugman's is discussing) discusses Google in the context of possibly being a monopoly. Krugman's presenting an analysis that shows that even a monopolist may not be able to make money in some circumstances where th
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by pseut 14y ago
From TFA: "even in a plain-vanilla market, a monopolist with high fixed costs and limited ability to price-discriminate may not be able to make a profit supplying a good even when the potential consumer gains from that good exceed the cost
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by pseut 14y ago
Avent's article is about Google in its entirety, not about Reader alone.
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by pseut 14y ago
You're misinterpreting the title. Put "Evil Google" in scare quotes and it makes more sense.
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by pseut 14y ago
Wasn't that the point of Gwene[1] (also by Lars)? Serious question, because I haven't used either but am interested in what you're describing. edit: [1] http://gwene.org/about.php
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by pseut 14y ago
Not providing an RSS feed is like not providing an API; you're giving up control of how scrapers access your website, but I'm sure that readers will find a way to get automate content aggregation either way. It's just annoying to lose stand
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by pseut 14y ago
Yours is far from a universal opinion. Plenty of people who cheat could probably win a fair fight, but cheating makes it easier. Watch any sport at any level and you'll see "cheaters" win.
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by pseut 14y ago
A free trial version would be useful for people interested in checking it out. I'd rather have it feature limited to the point that it's unsuitable for long term use than have to remember to cancel a "free for one month" trial account.
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by pseut 14y ago
I like the general sentiment, and I generally act the same way, but I can't help but think, "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying." Another analogy: I played tennis in high school and in every match I've played in my life, there are no
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Utilities: Google's Google problem(economist.com)
5 points by pseut 14y ago|0 comments
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm not sure if I agree, but that's a fair point. But, again, it wasn't obvious 8 years ago that reader wasn't part of google's long-term strategy. They had gmail, blogger, sites, picasa, etc; all of which could be part of an "open-web" s
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by pseut 14y ago
Reader is viewed as standalone now. IIRC it was introduced pretty soon after google accounts were and not long after gmail itself, and I remember thinking about it as part of a nebulous "google account package." Now obviously in hindsight
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by pseut 14y ago
There's a difference between "use" and "rely on," and I think one would have to be a fool to not factor in a startup's viability (as best as possible) when deciding whether or not to integrate its product into one's workflow. If you use dr
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by pseut 14y ago
One more thought on this: no one on unemployment is obligated to take the first job they can find. Part of the reason for unemployment insurance is to give people time to find a job that's a good fit. In the broader sense, that's pretty m
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by pseut 14y ago
(I'm an economist, not an ethicist or a lawyer) Morally: you've paid into unemployment while you worked and you're cutting short the safety net you'll get if the startup bombs and you have to look for another job later. You're probably int
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by pseut 14y ago
In case anyone else wants to estimate regression models to fill out their bracket. Enjoy.
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Csv files with game-by-game outcomes for the college basketball season(gist.github.com)
1 points by pseut 14y ago|1 comments
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by pseut 14y ago
Late addition: saying "I'm not really a potential customer" isn't quite right. I'm putting together a hobby-project website with a lot of SVG images and have been thinking of looking into PhantomJS to generate pngs or gifs for browsers whe
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm not really a potential customer, but I'll jump in: $199 and $499 per month shocked me, and the range $29 to $499 completely confused me about your target customer. You should have an option marked "FREE" and in the same text as the p
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by pseut 14y ago
I was thinking almost none of them.
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by pseut 14y ago
Yeah, that's the point of TFA. It's a professional tool for journalists and bloggers , or, even more bluntly, it's a professional tool for people with a platform to share their opinions.
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by pseut 14y ago
The Gmail user could add the account to their contacts without sending an email. Hell, they could send an email to a nonexistent jabber address to whitelist the account (which might be easier than adding the account manually for some people
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by pseut 14y ago
Right now, it could be a list of all invitations that come from non-google domains. I assume they could do better than that over time, but my point is that "decline and log for review" is an option whenever "decline alone" is. On review, y
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by pseut 14y ago
Wrong OTR Edit: that came out a little curt. The OTR protocol is different than what Gmail calls OTR. Gmail's just turns off logging; the protocol is encryption.
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by pseut 14y ago
>I ask: if Google does not block outside requests, what could they do to stop this sort of thing? Have a separate "spam gchat invite" folder that you could review periodically to look for false positives.
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by pseut 14y ago
How many gmail chat users use an external IM client?
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by pseut 14y ago
Sure, but there are plenty of light, "pretty" blogs that I'll browse when I have time to kill, and tumblr wouldn't be bad for that. I'm not arguing in favor of Tumblr necessarily, but specialization. I'd love Twitter to have a separate but
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by pseut 14y ago
I've wanted Tumblr to allow you to subscribe to external rss feeds for a while (I think it did at one point) -- some of he blogs I read are text heavy, some are graphics heavy, etc., and it would be nice to have separate readers optimized f

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