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by rewrew 10y ago
College costs so much, in part (and I'd argue in large part), because we flooded the market with money: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
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by rewrew 10y ago
Writing is a craft, and it's a freaking hard one that takes combining a lot of skills plus a lot of discipline and hard work. If you don't have the patience to sit through something as simple as as a semester-long grammar class at
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by rewrew 10y ago
I've never absolutely needed Paypal. What situations have you run across where you have to use them? Just curious.
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by rewrew 10y ago
Yup -- it's missing the word "landlords" after the word suing
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by rewrew 10y ago
If it was it wasn't labeled correctly. That said, it appears that many of the examples even six or seven years old; before even the FTC suggested labeling guidelines came out (and the actual rules only came out in December). Reading
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by rewrew 10y ago
So the peer reviewers usually aren't paid? I thought many were.
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by rewrew 10y ago
I'm skeptical because I mainly loan to the same people again and again, and they pay it back again and again. So there's something going on there.
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by rewrew 10y ago
I regularly do low-interest loans to African entrepreneurs via Zidisha -- that's money that's helpful in a concentrated way, vs. bulk money that I'm skeptical won't have negative consequences.
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by rewrew 10y ago
Good federal defense attorneys will tell you NEVER to talk to the government. EVER. Once you talk to them you're open to a wide litany of charges that they basically can make up if they don't like your answers (e.g., lying to a fe
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by rewrew 10y ago
Moments is a prime example of how out of touch Twitter is. I've clicked on it three times to see, and each time the stories are celebrities or sports. They know enough about who I follow, what I tweet about and the hashtags that come
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by rewrew 10y ago
Ha! Well done.
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by rewrew 10y ago
But none of that matters if the publishers can't make money off the distribution -- and most of these deals simply don't allow for that. Apple made some changes recently but it's still not enough, and considering that many B2
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by rewrew 10y ago
It gets worse the deeper you get into the article -- they're paying "Christmas Bonuses" instead of their bond payments-- they know they can't pay for any of this and they appear not to care.
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by rewrew 11y ago
That is interesting. What about languages other than English? Any idea about the avg. word count needed to learn them? (Used on TV does seem like a good benchmark for "learned). Or is it roughly the same for every language, do you thin
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by rewrew 11y ago
Or no one in Microsoft feels free to speak up when they see a bad idea coming down the road so something like this just sails through instead of getting flagged. I've seen it -- not this big of scale, but I've seen it.
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by rewrew 11y ago
Yeah, I think them calling it a "vulnerability" makes the entire post seem disingenuous.
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by rewrew 11y ago
Yup, and they've been called out on it, too, by others in the government even: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/former-cyber-czar...
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by rewrew 11y ago
Last week the former US "cyber czar" Richard Clarke called the FBI out directly for doing it solely for legal precedent, and stated that virtually no one even in the gov't were on their side: http://arstechnica.com
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US gov't sets record for failures to find files when asked(bigstory.ap.org)
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by rewrew 11y ago
A lot of this has to do with these sites using ad networks instead of/along with selling ads directly. Ad networks are very common with consumer sites, but many B2B sites don't use any at all. When you work directly with the agenc
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by rewrew 11y ago
And they were ready months in advance, too.