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by s3r3nity 10y ago
I would contend that those equations are a bit more nuanced than you give credit. Let's say I hypothetically give you that the Customer sees ad tracking as "bad" (whatever that means ...let's just accept it for argument.
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
> Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. > If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting down-voted - if the market is set up to incentivize a certain behavior, then someone will do it eventually. People can get mad all they want, but they should be furious that the government has laws in place
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Well the information is not "sold" per se, as much as it's bundled with many other people, decoupled from PII, and is the equivalent of saying "10% of people talked about the football game today." Further, I believe
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
This is probably nitpicky, but I'm not sure I buy this idea that "advertising profits" are "evil" - last I checked I happily use a Facebook account and all its features, built by extremely hard-working and intellige
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Watch Microsoft Ignite 2016 Live(ignite.microsoft.com)
4 points by s3r3nity 10y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
My brother had a similar experience, albeit probably outside the target demo. When he was ~15/16, he hit a point where his grades fell hard in high school, and was very close to dropping out. I noticed he was big into Call of Duty game
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
I was just going to bring this up - $45 BILLION just sounds wild. Funny scenario: If Microsoft bought Yahoo, that would've ALSO been on this list for consideration as the biggest mistake for a big company.
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Is this a fair analysis, though? It's not like Apple or Samsung had monopolies that they leveraged to their advantage to drive mobile share. Unless this is a subtle commentary on Google's use of their search monopolistic power to
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
This is actually where I'm worried Apple is falling behind, _because_ they are a bit private & come late to to the table. Microsoft, Google, and others very openly share and learn from the AI community, but Apple has been known to
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
1) I always recommend to my friends to give Cortana more than a 5 second consideration - especially if they're Windows users. Since Cortana primarily uses Bing, there's always a hesitation - but it's surprisingly fun and an e
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
I used to volunteer teaching coding to youths (teens in highschool, mostly) and I tend to believe this is the case. Though I think it's driven by the fact that it's user-friendly to set-up & use vs. alternatives. Consider the
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Shouldn't this data be a validation of Facebook's/Instagram's/Snapchat's growth model? Maybe you _need_ to iterate and change up the game a bit if you're to continue growing, expanding into new markets, et
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
I find Houston to be ever more appealing as a number of my friend move over there and buy giant condos/houses for what would barely get you a box 2 hours south of San Jose.
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
It seems like a lot of folks don't give Tim Cook enough credit in the post-Steve Jobs world for a lot of the philanthropic work Apple has done for education (as well as for the LGBTQ community.) Kudos to them for this initiative - and
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Check out Workflowy - it has done wonders for me in terms of implementing bullet-journal principles for my work tasks. https://workflowy.com/
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Ooh I worked on this project as an undergrad years ago as a research associate! Awesome to see it get more press! It blows my mind that more economists aren't leveraging big data to address macroeconomic problems & models; the data
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
I LOVE Seattle! Though research and folks I talk to say it's expensive to live there. Maybe I'm getting the wrong info!
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
This is one of the top factors preventing me from moving back to the Bay Area. It's good to know there's at least SOME serious attempt at a solution (even if folks around here are mostly pessimistic.) It still surprises me that an
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
[Disclosure: I'm an ex-FB employee.] This is a bit of a click-bait title, and is somewhat true -- but not in the way you think. When FB was developing hashtags and content features, there was a concern that it is tough to find a middle
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
Citation Needed...?
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
From my review, it looks like Asana tries to "replace" your email, whereas TaskMail punts the problem of trying to get folks to move away from email and just works within the confines of your email inbox. As a user of Asana at my
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Capital One is the first bank to roll out a skill for Alexa devices(cnbc.com)
1 points by s3r3nity 11y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
I may be in the minority here, but I love 1x1's both as a manager AND employee. 1) I think fast, direct, and consistently timed feedback is crucial to developing myself professionally. Rather than waiting until the semi-annual performa
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Alphabet/Google is sinking into an antitrust quagmire(cnbc.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 11y ago|0 comments
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The exodus from Zappos – or why Holacracy doesn't work(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 11y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
This -- I recently switched to Android thinking "iPhones are luxury phones. Surely a bunch of my friends use Android." Was immediately known as "Green Bubbles" guys for a few weeks by family and friends.
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
Skype has always been the gold-standard for me. Pretty tough to beat.
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
When I first read this, I thought "Are they building a Slack competitor?" And then I got excited over having the power of Google and my gmail within a Slack-like tool and interface. Then I was disappointed that it's an app th
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
Avoiding the whole "real-name privilege" rabbit hole, I still stand by the point that nothing compels you to use their service/product -- there are a host of other products that allow the user to go by whatever pseudonym he&#

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