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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Marketing is why. With good marketing investment you can reach people who don't know how to get the no cost version and are willing to pay.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
One of the greatest CGI (and more) companies in history is George Lucas's ILM: Industrial Light and Magic.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
You overlooked the influence of the US State Department, War/Defense Department, and CIA over those nations.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
In a tyrannical country of 20milion people ruled by a dictator, giving the dictator agency doesn't help the 20million suppressed people. Never confuse a nation of people with its (often illegitimate) government
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
IIRC Those are governed by the US; they aren't truly international
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
What's the difference between a bourgeoisie middle class stealing labor from the masses of workers, and one titan of industry? The difference is a rounding error to the mass public.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Of course that helped Jeff Bezos get $100B, but even with sales tax, there's no way small companies can survive as major players in a commodity market at national to global scale.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
It's called a gTLD and anyone can apply for one.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
When people talk about ageism in tech, they aren't talking about great old people getting passed over for mediocre young people. They are talking about mediocre old people getting passed over for unknown young people with "potenti
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
What prevents an ageist company from joining your job board and still being ageist? Vanishingly few companies admit being ageist
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
The core of the article is a claim that physically stronger men are more aggressive, assertive, and individualistic/competitive, which I believe people find to be intuitively true.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
How so? Looks are part of nature.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Parent is saying that the magazine that trnascribed the music can get perhaps the copyright to music they didn't create, due to the OP loopholes .
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
The difference is that the internet happened and it became way too easy for anyone in the world to exfiltrate all your data with a simple free program. This is why we can't have nice things.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Aside from 2006-2008, the ramp up of complex "fun" projects, nearly all the contests were the same optimization style, often maze-solving format. Off the top of my head I remember the ant colony, the Mars Rover, the Pacman type g
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
The spec isn't long. It's accompanied with helpful examples and illustrations to help people understand.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Those are IQ tests (mental quickness on tiny tasks), that don't cover knowledge and wisdom.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
That $240K person is 10x as useful as those $80k people, on average.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
It's used for Assistant
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
What is Google claiming that you think is impossible?
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Take the opportunity to tell them what's wrong: that you want shipping costs up front. Then create a spam filter for the site and be happy to stuck a blow for justice that may help customers in future.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Put in a current retirement style account (60/40 stock/bond) since like a retiree you expect to spend the money soon.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Vandalism, murder, and hacking are already illegal.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
There's nothing to disclose. Tesla and everyone knows their system is vulnerable, and knows that the solution is that the driver of the car is responsible for driving the car, which prevents this attack from succeeding. Also it's
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
PayPal is part of the Facebook Coin consortium.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
That doesn't sound very Googley.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
That study is probably true but does it apply to engineers, people who are paid to be logical and rational as much as possible? Your efficient-because-people-are-irrational reward system is demotivating your best people. I feel happier whe
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Remember "The Internship"?
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
At my company, we trumpet our best metrics, not bugle them.
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by pwodhouse 7y ago
Depends on when. When the book first came out and Amazon did TV ads about moms in the bathtub reading it, I just thought it was a random popular chick lit book.

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