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by rmrm 15y ago
The USPS (or Fedex or UPS or DHL or anyone else) were not conceived to be whitelisted services - they just deliver stuff. USPS does it cheaply, so bulk mailers use them. I don't know the rules and regs, I'm not actually sure the USPS has
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by rmrm 15y ago
I think USPS would have been in a great position to be an online identity depository and payment platform for consumer to business dealings. They should have done it 10 years ago. Imagine an email like system where you and the companies yo
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by rmrm 15y ago
netflix down on my PC and their app is down on my TV.
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by rmrm 15y ago
It seems to me like we have an issue around creating jobs that bring wealth into a community. I don't know economics so I don't know the correct phrases and probably am butchering the ideas. But.. If you draw a circle around an area, mone
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by rmrm 15y ago
You could devise a means tested welfare for elderly people. There are a lot of perfectly wealthy, perfectly capable people who retire at 60 whatever for no apparent reason other than ss and tax advantaged accounts make it seem like its tim
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by rmrm 15y ago
WWII and the rampup was still a public works project. What really turned the economy for good imo was not WWII but the result of WWII -- all of our competitors on the international stage having large parts of their population and infrastr
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by rmrm 15y ago
I think at least one of the issues is that other AAA countries/entities simply don't produce enough debt. It' not just that we're AAA, it's that we produce so much AAA paper. The AAA bond market gets so much smaller is the issue. That's
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by rmrm 15y ago
"Offering a web service and ignoring the pleas of those who know a minefield when they see one is evil. Launching it anyway despite unprecedented pushback is evil. Pretending it's somehow new and unexpected, like wow, we didn't think anyone
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by rmrm 15y ago
so offering a web service, any web service -- that requires using real names is evil . Now and forever. Is that right? Are you sure it's not just a service that some people won't want to use, because of this design decision? Or is it funda
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Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents(seobythesea.com)
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by rmrm 15y ago
I'm guessing a lot of people haven't worked in other industries. Like on a mfg floor, or at a lumber mill, or on a fishing boat. Or as part of a custodial staff. The sexist creep ratio in the SW industry is lower than most. The SW Indust
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by rmrm 15y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of notifications, they behave as you describe. I am talking about my stream, or someone elses stream of posts, or a post as a unit. The comments ride along with all of them, in their entirety. They may be in som
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by rmrm 15y ago
I don't know what a common complaint is against Twitter. But Google+ shares Buzzes stream/comment structure exactly -- in that comments on a post are heavily highlighted and constantly thrust in front of you. I don't just follow X, I fo
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by rmrm 15y ago
Every single thread I read at G+ would be filled with their names, its not my public posts I'm worried about -- it quite possibly destroys the value of everyone elses public posts for me. There would be no escape from it, I am not going to
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by rmrm 15y ago
or, for these particular people -- just use a fake name. Not starpony76, but Mike Jones or Jane Smith. Google does not need to allow starpony76 to allow you to be Mike Jones or Jane Smith. They will happily allow you to be perfectly safe
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by rmrm 15y ago
"If the situation was different, Google was successful, and released Android before the original iPhone, they would be the one holding the patents to fight off competition." I believe (some of) the patents HTC got dinged with were granted b
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by rmrm 15y ago
That is not lock-in, in and of itself. It is valuable data (for both Google and yourself), but it isn't lock in. Getting your data back out in a way that is useful to someone else, making my history portable is what mitigates lock-in. La
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by rmrm 15y ago
of course not -- but the subject was Joe the Plumber. He certainly framed his question as one of self-interest rather than one of principle, so the question of misunderstanding ones self interest is applicable. ""I'm getting ready to buy a
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by rmrm 15y ago
Apple released before Android, and obliterated the market. Apple attacked the incumbents in the phone market at that time, Nokia, rim, palm, Windows. Android then entered the market, and "attacked" all of the incumbents again, which at th
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by rmrm 15y ago
unfortunately I get car sick. A robot car means either extreme boredom or sickness, I cant look away from the road. But I will be happy to be the last human driver, surrounded by safe robot cars.
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by rmrm 15y ago
If I am by myself, I agree -- I always have a laptop nearby and use it quite often for this sort of thing. Except in the case of video -- I much prefer to watch any video of any sort on my TV and having full Youtube on my TV in such an acc
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by rmrm 15y ago
I am one of those people that didnt want a box or a keyboard, Google TV integrated into the TV nicely worked as the solution. Pretty much every normal person who sees it in action, pause live tv, bring up wikipedia to look something up to a
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by rmrm 15y ago
I have the Sony TV and in general have no problems with either the price or the remote/keyboard. I have been displeased with the state of the SW, and the lack of bug fixes. I anxiously await 3.1 and a more modern version of Chrome.
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by rmrm 15y ago
"they're selling other people's products" -- as every reseller does. And who do they sell them to? Their customers. Customers pay you. You pay producer. That makes you a merchant. You get a really, really good price from the producer?
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by rmrm 15y ago
I basically agree with this thought, although the perks at Google are great PR and appear to be genuinely adored by the employees. At a certain scale of income (enough) perks probably can make a positive enhancement above what they actuall
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by rmrm 15y ago
its ridiculous to even entertain the "seperate building where people of color work". The Googleplex itself is filled with "non-Anglos". Lets all be honest with what we're talking about, and in America what "people of color" really means (i
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by rmrm 15y ago
Seems to me there are two issues: 1.) Yellow badge worker treatment -- most of the comments here seem to accept his description of their work life (right or wrong) as fact, it is unsubstantiated to me. I see a video of people getting in the
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by rmrm 15y ago
I have spent a fair amount of time over the past 15 years both removing and installing different IC and discrete bits within hardware lab environments. I am not an expert solderer, and I would not want to work in a production environment,
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by rmrm 16y ago
in the bubble years of the late 90's there was a startup that received $500 million in seed funding. I only bring them up because even with all the discussion around color I haven't seen them referenced (there might be others like them as
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by rmrm 16y ago
it's fairly standard terminology...you've doubled the amount of data that can be sent over a given chunk of spectrum per unit time, without changing the modulation/encoding scheme (bits/hz). A normal full duplex FDD system takes twice the

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