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by rqebmm 12y ago
I'm not a fan of Uber's tactics, but it's not "clear they aren't doing anything". Just because they're offering a safer alternative doesn't mean that nothing bad could ever happen. There's someth
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by rqebmm 12y ago
>Republicrats and Demicans My boss goes with the phrase "Republi-cons and Demo-rats" which I was always a fan of.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Stop it. He asked a fairly simple question, while you're jumping down his throat and appealing to authority. At least he's trying to help.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
This is true, but there's a bigger problem than the mere fact that a lot of data is being collected. It's how transparent companies are about the data that's collected, along with how long it's stored and who has access
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Agreed. I'm unclear what this service provides that a Will doesn't, and in addition a Will both more reliable and legally binding.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
>Would the country be better off if a new company could take GM's place? Theoretically this is what happened with the bailout. Everyone made fun of Mary Barra for her "this all happened at the 'old GM', so the 'n
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by rqebmm 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a result of a victim mentality. It's very possible they look around them and see themselves as the ones placed in dire situations because other people weren't kind, trustworthy, or honest wi
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by rqebmm 12y ago
They're trying to then store and commecercialize the captured C02. This approach will, ideally, create a marketable product out of reducing emissions, while those greedy plants just steal it to feed themselves
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Encryption Makes Us All Safer(goldenfrog.com)
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The "problem" here is the globalization of the economy. I like to think of it as an icecube in a pitcher. If you pour water in, it starts to melt the icecube, so the tip will go down a bit, before it's carried up by the water
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by rqebmm 12y ago
This is a very good crystallization of my thoughts when I first heard Thiel's argument. At the end of the day, it's always been about incremental steps, we just look back and see the leaps and bounds that they enabled.
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>A "golden key" only makes sense to me if it is exchanged for transparency of when it is used. This is a very interesting point. Sadly it's just as impossible to guarantee transparency when using the key as it is to guaran
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by rqebmm 12y ago
I don't think we disagree. My point is very much in line with "any such key can't be kept from the bad guys, whoever they may be". Even if you give it to only the "good guys" and somehow ensure that nobody else
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by rqebmm 12y ago
As it becomes bigger and more important, it will eventually become vulnerable: http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Based on the thesis "perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key” so that the good guys could get to it if necessary." The bottom line is: Sadly, there's no way to tell who the "good guys" are.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
>What if Buyer D isn't willing to spend $11? If Buyer D isn't willing to spend $11, then he simply doesn't buy the item. The HFT took on risk by buying the item and needs to either find someone else willing to buy it for &
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by rqebmm 12y ago
If Buyer D is still willing to spend $11, how is that perverting the market? All HFT does arbitrage, which has been around forever and only serves to make a market more efficient.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
isn't the typical benefit of a middle-man that they have the money, resources, and geographic location to help facilitate transactions?
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Either way, they're not doing market-making. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of market perverting going on, but HFT isn't party to it.
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The difference is that as a web developer you don't have to drop roughly ~$2k on devices to test the older versions of browsers, you just fire up a VM. Apple developers can't roll back the OS version, and need to have at least one
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Yeah, learned this one the hard way :)
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by rqebmm 12y ago
This was only true up until recently. In the last year B of A and JP Morgan settled for $17b[1] and $13b[2] respectively. Each settlement was more than their net income for the preceding year. That hurts. A lot. Furthermore, the settlements
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by rqebmm 12y ago
How does High Frequency Trading pervert the market? They are acting as middle-men.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
This is only true if your _device_ does not support the latest iOS version. i.e. if I have version 1.0 that supported iOS 7, and just released version 2.0 that only supports iOS 8: User on an iPhone 4/iOS 7 will see 1.0 in the App Stor
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by rqebmm 12y ago
I think this is exactly Thiel's point though. We're spending lots of time, effort, and money on incrementally improving things like Engines and Personal Computers and Social Media. Instead, we as a society would be better served f
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Agreed! That's exactly the "tiny thing" we ask people to build.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
I agree, but the OP does raise a good point that employers need to manage how long it will take to answer the questions for a qualified applicant.
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Speaking as an iOS developer who's had a hand in hiring, it's the same as the "slightly broken Apache and Tomcat" scenario someone posted for sysadmins. We ship people a slightly broken app with a few common-yet-googleab
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by rqebmm 12y ago
Google has one: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/
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by rqebmm 12y ago
you might be thinking of the Transmetropolitan issue "Another Cold Morning" http://www.comicvine.com/transmetropolitan-8-another-cold-mo...

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