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by samd 16y ago
Sorry about that. The reason there's a limit is to keep the emails relatively short so people will actually read them.
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by samd 16y ago
It's quick and dirty and manual right now. But if you've heard of us at this stage you'd probably make a pretty good alpha user.
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Trapster hacked: millions warned of possible password breach(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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by samd 16y ago
How trustworthy is the feedback from these dissatisfied businesses? People have a strong tendency to blame others for their problems and this case is no different. Groupon and its "disloyal" customers are an easy scapegoat for the business'
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by samd 16y ago
Except that as the metrics and tracking gets better so does the advertising.
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by samd 16y ago
Don't worry, like any academic field philosophy is filled with jargon, but knowing the jargon doesn't make you any smarter and not knowing doesn't make you any dumber. Both you and Eliezer made good arguments and points, they just happened
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by samd 16y ago
I'm not sure. Here is the rule: "Do no harm." Why should we follow it? A rule-consequentialist would say, "Because if everyone followed that rule all the time it would lead to better consequences, on average, than if people tried to calcula
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by samd 16y ago
Not a very informative article. There's nothing in it other than baseless speculation and weak inferences.
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by samd 16y ago
The objection is he making is essentially the objection a rule-consequentialist would make. Which is that although in this particular situation it would produce better consequences to kill the innocent man and save the 5 people, overall it
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by samd 16y ago
Looks are almost always relevant to people's opinion of you. That's true for men and women, but it's only in articles about women that it seems to be pointed out as if to undermine their accomplishments.
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by samd 16y ago
It's depressing that the article has to start with an exposition of her looks and dress. I've never read an article about a male luminary that focuses so much on looks.
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by samd 16y ago
I'm just surprised hosts have enough marketing wherewithal to do that on their own. Though maybe AirBnB makes a point of telling people to get professional photos done.
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by samd 16y ago
One of the most compelling things about AirBnB is the gorgeous photos of all those unique places. I don't know how they get them. Do they just have lots of hosts with amazing photography skills or do they send people out to take pictures?
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by samd 16y ago
It also seems like if you're good enough for a startup to want you then you're good enough to start your own startup.
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by samd 16y ago
You're right, I simplified for the example and assumed only one canonical job for each major. However, that doesn't undermine my criticisms. You'd still have to multiply each job by the amount that the degree helps you get that job. So it's
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by samd 16y ago
Yeah, sure it is, because that's horrible advice. Does anyone actually believe that all degrees are equally valuable? I think people have a general idea of which degrees are more valuable than others, a flawed and vague idea to be sure, but
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by samd 16y ago
If I'm understanding your methods correctly, you only have data for earnings by occupation. So when you say "Computer Science majors earn x." it actually means "People who do the same jobs that computer science majors tend to do earn x." If
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by samd 16y ago
Another thing I like to see is when the posting talks about what sort of projects you'll be working on. The latest example of this was GazeHawk's job posting: "Eye tracking gives you a ton of data with a lot of dimensions. We want to show
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by samd 16y ago
You definitely kept your book fun, and thank you for writing it. Though some mention of Lisp files would be handy. You sort of have to figure it out on your own now, or get through the entire book in one long REPL session.
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by samd 16y ago
In other words, Google is a monopoly. Their strategy is to monopolize markets and charge artificially high prices for advertising. It's a weird sort of monopoly though, their users can go elsewhere, but their users are not their customers.
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by samd 16y ago
You're right, it does depend on people's perception of quality. I can only recall being frustrated with the scraper sites when they don't have the answer I need, because when I go back to the Google results and try another page I find that
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by samd 16y ago
Perhaps it is important for them to maintain an aura of neutrality and cold calculation. Though if we are supposing that Google is intentionally crippling it's algorithm, would it be so much to suppose that they would just clandestinely run
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by samd 16y ago
If promoting spam sites filled with ads was so profitable why wouldn't Google just put more ads on its search results page and cut out the middle man
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Google and Facebook: Algorithmic and Social Search(samdecesare.com)
1 points by samd 16y ago|0 comments
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by samd 16y ago
Whether they were demonized or not would require some studies as I mentioned in the last sentences of my previous post. Who demonized them? How much of the population demonized them? How strongly did people feel towards them? And how did th
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by samd 16y ago
Well I'm glad the last 100 years of business history can be summed up with a single strawman. It's such a relief that there was no nuance or complexity in history, now I won't have to do any of that nasty "thinking". Sarcasm aside, you pres
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by samd 16y ago
The formula for writing on the software industry is to turn your personal experiences into general principles. It provides no knowledge about the world, all it gives us is one person's perspective of a handful of situations.
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by samd 16y ago
OkCupid tends to use the contents of private messages for their juiciest research. I suspect if Facebook started talking about what people were saying in private there'd be quite a shit storm. Edit: Oh yeah, and OkCupid loves to make bold p
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by samd 16y ago
You are probably right that it makes more financial sense to go into one of those careers than to start or work for a startup. Yet it's still perfectly acceptable to join the startup world, so long as you're getting something else out of it
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by samd 16y ago
When I first saw the contest I was only thinking about indexing all the existing data from some website, but clearly it's better to just start indexing the new data, and get a website up and running. Later I could write another program that

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