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by rrggrr 10y ago
Fake news. First the NYT, now The Week, and tomorrow perhaps the Wash Post. Correspondent's dinner is around the corner and much pain is being felt by traditional media. This is Google's competitors crying, whining and hoping to i
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Self-serving. Google news has brought regional, independent and small journalists to the masses... much to the NYT dismay. Digital media by many, including Google, has brought with it digital journalism, journalistic data science, micro-new
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I said it was time to re-think anti-trust. You brought your own issues to the table and assumed I was calling for a breakup.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I can't see how Oracle and IBM can compete long-term against the breadth of IT infrastructure Amazon has built. I can't see how Walmart and Target can compete with the distribution network and frictionless transactional model Amaz
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Results, impact, relationships. If you can create all three working from home great. The first can be done from home easily, the second with some difficulty, and the third is exceedingly difficult.
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Slack's UI and desktop footprint makes me nuts, but we are already on it and forced our vendors to join. I miss the tiny IM clients of old.
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I would like to see a UPS-Walmart or FedEx-Costco merger. And the reason I'd like to see that is to restore some competitive balance to the retail marketplace. I say this as a frequent Amazon customer, concerned about the long term.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
The % of information missing versus the importance of the missing information... between the two I've learned the hard way that you wait for the right information. Perhaps Bezos way works well for capital rich companies, or it could be
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Great reply, until you turned it into an anti-US rant.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
By 2021 over a million positions are expected to be vacant as employable candidates opt for positions in the US and Europe. It appears global plans for Canada's destruction are proceeding satisfactorily.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I don't understand. Apple sits on about 250 billion in cash, invests a fraction of it in GPU's for mobile, while Desktop and Laptop users are chained to last generation's CPUs and Graphics Cards. Apple product team is becomin
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by rrggrr 10y ago
For business automation it's spectacular. Pandas dataframes make database queries and dynamic reporting easy. There are rich API examples for most services. It's free. It's portable between osx, Linux and windows.
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Contributing factor: Point of view by editors and producers of mainstream media. The Podesta emails reveals much dissonance provoking coziness between the media and the political establishment. Audiences want muckrakers and are not getting
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Chromebooks, quizlets, etc. ARE working in my kids schools. There is a lot of time and money spent teaching the teachers, and there is a high % of teachers with specialized training to start with. The tech is hard on the parents who complai
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Donate to the EFF as much as you can. The reason the AARP, NRA and other lobbies are so successful is the amount of money and votes behind them. Dollars speak louder than anything. Donate to the EFF until it hurts and earmark the donations.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Humans aren't good for much. Why expend energy controlling and sustaining what you can replace and outperform.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
(1) Don't bet on many of them understanding their vote. It was billed as a removal of an unfair restraint on the free market. (2) Oddly silent were folks like Google, Microsoft, etc. I fully expect to have to pay for privacy, or to hav
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Panama papers. Pretty good example. UBS tax evasion leak. Another great example. China economic data. A continuous open secret. That's just off the top of my head.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This has potential... but without a lower price point and the ability to run some free testing against it I think user growth will be severely constrained.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Not at all true. Self-determination/Libertarianism is not a hermit's existence or a rejection of society as you characterize it. Its society's reliance on individuals to allocate resources as opposed to government. By way of
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by rrggrr 10y ago
> I think Peter Thiel is a monster Why, pray tell, is he a monster? It can't be his libertarian philosophy that supports individual self-determination. It can't be that's he's a proudly gay, christian role model. I ho
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Here are two machines designed for the task: https://www.alanross.biz/equipment/32778 and https://www.alanross.biz/equipment/33073
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Black box warnings exist in the drug industry because its understood people do not understand complex risks and they don't read the fine print. Facebook IS a threat only because many of its users are sharing information ignorant of the
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by rrggrr 10y ago
If Boaty McBoatface can win a ship naming contest with almost 130,000 votes, certainly Aaron Swarz can be nominated with 2x that number - win or lose.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
How long before some disgruntled geek squadette plants illegal content on an innocent person's hard drive? From time to time analogous incidents occur in food preparation (contaminating food), medicine (injuring patients), and even law
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Seriously diminishing returns may be emerging in bulk collection. The disgruntlement this is creating in the intelligence community work force and the recruiting pool may not be worth the gains. Hard targets must be taking counter-measures
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and.... what alternative could you possibly have? There's a reason the Russians reportedly moved to typewriters. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts... The entire computing
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Is MIT's recent disobedience award a tacit apology to Aaron, unrelated, or a cynical attempt to change perception about MIT? One would expect Aaron to posthumously receive the first award if the intent were sincere. https://
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by rrggrr 10y ago
It appears from the outside that CIA's biggest security vulnerability is gap between its employees values and management's values. I come to conclusion having read The Human Factor, Legacy of Ashes, Snowden's various comments
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CIA Frankfurt “Hacking” Center Probe Begins(voanews.com)
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