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by seanos 15y ago
The claimed paradox is that more and more people are using 'content consuming' devices yet, at the same time, there is an explosion in the amount of content produced.
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by seanos 15y ago
"-75% of trading is now automated, it is just computers trading with each other. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I have never figured out if this 75% includes algo trading. If it does include algo trading (my guess is that i
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by seanos 15y ago
For those that are interested: Here is a video of an extremely interesting talk, entitled "Human Traders are an Endangered Species!", by Dave Cliff who's involved with the Foresight project: http://trading-gurus.com/human-traders-are-an-en
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by seanos 15y ago
It's not mentioned in the linked article but a significant proportion of the space junk in orbit can be traced to China using a missile to destroy a satellite back in 2007. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2007/01/china_blows_u...
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by seanos 15y ago
"Venezuela is falling to pieces, structurally, morally, economically, etc. We wasted a decade that could have turn our country in to a super power." This is so true, based on my experience having stayed in Caracas, Venezuela on my way to Bo
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by seanos 15y ago
Initial feedback from using Verbling for 30 mins: A feature of this site is the ability to instantly connect with a partner. However, there needs to be a way to switch partners instantly. For example, I was speaking to someone who had video
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by seanos 15y ago
I think gender and birthdate are important information for selecting a suitable partner. For example, I prefer to speak to females around my age, rather than males or females who are much younger or older, as I find it more interesting to c
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by seanos 15y ago
This is an excellent point, I think you are right. On shared talk the number of people in voice chat is always significantly lower than in the text chat although once in text chat people often, after say 5 mins of chatting, ask to move to s
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by seanos 15y ago
No, from my experience with sharedtalk this is a definite problem for certain language learners (although not necessarily the startup since they don't need to appeal to everybody). Native speakers of English are in demand from native speake
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by seanos 15y ago
From one of the drop down menus on the sign up form: "I speak español" It should be either "I speak Spanish" or "Yo hablo español" surely?
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by seanos 15y ago
"I hope they don't riddle their site with crappy ads and upsells like all their competitors" - I'm not sure about all competitors but I've used both Bussu.com and SharedTalk.com and neither of them have these problems. In fact, the latter h
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by seanos 15y ago
"not very comfortable for them to talk to strangers face to face (online)" - this may be true of certain people but there are large numbers who will do based on my experience of using a text and voice language exchange site called sharedtal
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by seanos 15y ago
A better alternative is sharedtalk.com, you can also do voice chat there. I use that a lot, but in general the pattern is just to use this type of site as an introduction at which point you exchange Skype or facebook user names and then swi
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by seanos 15y ago
Still suffers from the problem that in order to obtain the discount, a bunch of other people would have to request the discount on the graphics card in those few days. That's unlikely so I probably wouldn't bother asking for the discount (i
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by seanos 15y ago
Interesting. Still, the realtime location data Loopt have would make this much more effective. People might not want to travel to a realtime deal running somewhere in their city, in case it ends before they arrive. But if the deal is runnin
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by seanos 15y ago
This is a much better idea. Instead of daily deals, realtime deals. Let the business offer a limited time deal (30mins, 1hr, or until they cancel). For example, an empty restaurant or bar could post a 50% discount for customers placing orde
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by seanos 16y ago
Actually, expected returns will be slightly lower but well worth it as the reduction in risk from the diversication away from 100% equities is huge. E.g. 20% in bonds will barely diminish expected returns whilst significantly reducing your
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by seanos 16y ago
I am heavily invested in Australia - huge natural resources and located close to the growing asian markets.
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by seanos 16y ago
The selling of add-ons would be an equivalent model, of the general model the author is talking about, for anime. From the article: "This approach can be mimicked by anything that is made of bits not atoms. It can be applied to writing. It
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by seanos 16y ago
Example for anime would be something like give away the anime and sell the merchandising (toys, t-shirts etc).
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by seanos 16y ago
What about giving away software free initially to build up a user base and search engine ranking etc, and then once your software is established, either charging for the software that was once free or introducing a premium version? Seems li
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by seanos 16y ago
Individually, it negligible. Cumulatively, the time spent by the many thousands (millions?) of users who are clicking links they deem relevant for queries all over the web (Bing are collecting data from all sites) is huge... My point is t
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by seanos 16y ago
You could also argue that the user is doing the hardwork by going to Google (or any other site, since this is not specific to Google) and deciding which links are relevant by clicking on them. The user has opted share this work they have do
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by seanos 16y ago
"The bottom line is that Bing's index contains associations that it could never have figured out if Google hadn't figured them out first." Actually, it is the users who are figuring out what is relevant not Google since a) Bing are collec
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by seanos 16y ago
Equally unethical sure (x=y), but differing opinions on whether that (x) is ethical or unethical. Personally, I see nothing wrong with it.
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by seanos 16y ago
But people can still ride a horse. A contacted tribe can never become uncontacted again. BTW I have no idea whether the right answer is to contact them or not, I am just explaining why it is a moral dilemma.
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by seanos 16y ago
"If not this is so typical of the american way of thinking. Yes, we are so superior lets convert them all to our [insert culture, religion etc...]. " Why is this the typical american way of thinking? Surely every culture believes theirs is
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by seanos 16y ago
I think it's because when we invent television we don't lose anything. Once we show these people the modern world, there is no going back. It makes it a difficult moral dilema.
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by seanos 16y ago
yep!
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by seanos 16y ago
If they like trading pots and knives with other tribes, maybe they would like to trade with the wider world if they were given the opportunity?

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