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by sah2ed 8y ago
Are direct-to-DVD types of content dead and buried in developed countries? Lots of middle-class families in developing countries still buy (pirated) DVDs of Barney & Friends and similar family friendly shows for playback on their home t
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The Highest Jump(airspacemag.com)
1 points by sah2ed 8y ago|0 comments
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Here’s a StackOverflow answer [0] from years ago, that came up with a workaround that could mute the camera shutter sound. Pretty clever! 0: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23758876
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Dang! The was a very even-handed correction. You are exceedingly good at your job :)!
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> And it's not about greed really - you actually have an obligation to shareholders to maximise profit. Not an obligation, but an incentive, as preached by Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling in their widely-cited 1976 paper
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by sah2ed 8y ago
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand/#grants Not exactly what you asked for, but should get you started down that path if you desire funding for your open source project.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Wrt meta search engines, I can only recollect Vivisimo, though there were quite a number of them at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisimo
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Kahneman did in fact personally respond to some of the criticisms in a blog comment [0] at https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-... HN discussion at the time https://news.yco
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by sah2ed 8y ago
iTunes link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772?...
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Juicero was more of gross incompetence than fraud. The outcomes were similar, but the root causes are not quite the same.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> However, at the same time apparently Larry Ellison was advising her. Interesting, considering Steve Jobs acknowledged Ellison as his best friend after his return to Apple, at a time when Oracle was considered the 2nd largest software
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> For example, if you have two documents with the first tagged 'tech, microsoft' and the second tagged 'tech, linux' we can infer that tech is the parent of 'microsoft' and 'linux' How do you acc
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Perhaps it’s not clear. Article was written in 2012 while the author was an economist in residence at Valve. He would later become Greece’s Finance minister in 2015.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> It's promising, though, that we now have data showing [psychotic] targeting practices are unnecessary. Perhaps, even inefficient. Perhaps you meant psychographic ?
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Troy Hunt explained how to find out if your password is pwned using the API in a comment [0]: You need to look at the request being generated. Here's how to do it: 1) The SHA-1 of P@ssw0rd is 21BD12DC183F740EE76F27B78EB39C8AD972A757
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Yes, congenital defects. His first heart attack came at 31, he went on to have several more heart attacks. From his Wikipedia entry: At age 31, Bogle suffered from his first of several heart attacks, and at age 38, he was diagnosed with th
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Good to know. With respect to the acquisition, is the smaller company Wrapidity?
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by sah2ed 8y ago
That the article was published recently may be true but the article’s contents doesn’t really contain new info. Please see this comment up-thread [0] which surfaced older incarnations of the same content. 0: https://news.ycombina
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> Datastreamer was the first company in the content indexing space and we were WAY ahead of everyone else. Meltwater.com is in the same space but is much older — it was founded in 2001. Their engineering team recently blogged [0] about
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Right, but they now go by the name UpWork. That the article uses the old name of oDesk from 4 years ago points to the need to add “(2015)” to the thread title. https://www.upwork.com
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by sah2ed 8y ago
That was an interesting thread of rebuttals and counter-rebuttals. Thanks for linking to it!
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by sah2ed 8y ago
No. I specifically said remaining hours . To recap: - 8hrs for work; - 8hrs for leisure (daily commute, family time, hobbies etc); - 8hrs for sleep. Once you take out work time & leisure time all you have left is sleep t
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Not that I agree with Amazon's policy for no open source contributions, but imagine that an employee decides to spend the 6-8hrs out of the remaining 24hrs meant for sleep on something other than sleep, what do you think will happen? T
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Links? Please. Thanks!
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Oracle’s Ellison Reveals $1B Stake in Tesla(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sah2ed 8y ago|0 comments
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> By the way, recent developments indicate that Apple is back to building an electric self-driving car instead of a self-driving platform. This is the correct approach, yet a lot of people still haven’t internalized this subtle distinc
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You’d get a lot of value from reading an old but still relevant book from 1998: Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Hal Varian & Carl Shapiro that discusses several of these strategies. “Commoditize your com
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by sah2ed 8y ago
An old thread[0] used different terms like “commandos, infantry & police”; or “pioneers, settlers & town planners” but which correspond roughly to your “startup, scale up & optimize” description, to explain the 3 stages of a com
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Might be a good idea to obscure the full URL in your screen shot.
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> Note the key difference between Space X and Boom. Space X took well-understood rocket engine technology and made it cheaper. It didn’t try to fight fundamental physics. That's quite a revisionist characterization of SpaceX'

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