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by sfifs 9y ago
The content likely was not attractive for an advertisers to put an ad on in the first place and so revenues dropped the minute ad controls for advertisers were added. Google didn't really have a choice but to do this given the billions
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by sfifs 9y ago
>> There’s no way for a user to simply download its entire database. “So we made a web crawler,” says Mizuno. “It’s a tool that goes to their website, searches for a company, and downloads that one company’s business relationship list
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by sfifs 9y ago
the point your parent post is making is that creating jobs for 5500 relatively well paid people is likely worth the tax deal. Especially given if not Ireland, Apple would have stuck the deal elsewhere. Ireland is basically selling the abil
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by sfifs 9y ago
Ah... Thanks! I didn't know this. I wanted the groups feature but don't want to deal with the feed
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by sfifs 10y ago
So when westerners dig up mummies in Egypt, cart them to the Louvre and sell tickets for the privilege of visitation, that's historical research but when folks in poorer countries dig up metal from abandoned ships to sell, it's gr
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by sfifs 10y ago
dependency management is the main reason I love statically linked binaries. Without static linking, getting the right ecosystem of libraries installed - especially when libraries depend on other libraries is a nightmare for any moderately c
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by sfifs 10y ago
You're comparing reference to infer whether underlying data changed? Sounds really really fragile... Does the JavaScript language guarantee this or are you depending on the specific engine implementation? For instance will this still h
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by sfifs 10y ago
Same as democracies everywhere. Organize and vote out the reps in the next elections. Americans are unique in how frequently you get opportunities to vote out leaders (2 years for Congress and 4 years for president) but you rarely do.
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by sfifs 10y ago
Already very much a thing and has caused casualties in the middle east including Western soldiers. Google around.
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by sfifs 10y ago
The danger is political risk, not necessarily theft or vandalism. Any dependency on territory not under your own societal control can be used to hold you hostage and cannot be depended upon. Forget the solar farm, easiest is to cut power li
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by sfifs 10y ago
>> The fact that he and the majority of the GoP continue to lack the political will to tell their people the truth does not change this. The end incentive of a politician is to win and retain power. The means to the end this is to tak
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by sfifs 10y ago
Perhaps you misunderstood what marginal cost means. It is the cost of generating one additional unit of power on an already existing infrastructure. It takes expense to mine an additional ton of coal, transport it to a power plant, burn i
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by sfifs 10y ago
Basically the reason that doesn't happen is because such a business model of matching blog one by one with advertizers doesn't scale - neither for the buyer, not for the seller. The person making such a market cannot make a livin
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by sfifs 10y ago
Well... they have to make money to pay bills and make a return for investors - they're not an altruistic charity. The trackers appear to feed into behavioral targeting companies who probably pay for it. Their pricing page clearly says
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by sfifs 10y ago
Most advertising is cost per impression, not click. Search is pretty much the only major cost per click type of advertising.
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by sfifs 10y ago
if you're running production AI in JavaScript in your browser, I'm highly impressed. If not, then the snark is unwarranted.
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by sfifs 10y ago
Bitcoin is quite trivial to take down (spam with transactions because clearing rate is so slow). Also remember that the core promise of Bitcoin is decentralization not anonymity and anyone with resources amd will like the NSA should be able
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by sfifs 10y ago
Not in Japan but live in India which follows essentially a similar system. In India at least, the short answer is the employer doesn't. However, every financial institution that deals with you deducts and prepays some taxes on your b
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by sfifs 10y ago
Or it's possible your (persumably you're American) foreign policy is indeed working with full information - the goals are different from what you think it is. After all weapons manufacturing capabilities expensively started up can
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by sfifs 10y ago
There is ridiculous amount of competition an innovation in the Chinese app market. Every time I visit China, I'm surprised by something new the folks can do with mobile. That innovation is starting to spill into India with Chinese com
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by sfifs 10y ago
Wonder if you've read the famous Paper Reactors Real Reactors paper: http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/Rickover.pdf
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by sfifs 10y ago
No it's because marine reactors require highly enriched uranium to get the power density to weight ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Diff... As you might guess, highly enriched uraniu
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by sfifs 10y ago
Actually it's not about your or my network. Capable proven leadership is one of the rarest resources on earth. No investor will fire a proven leader unless there is extrodinary liability or (much more rarely) upside.
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by sfifs 10y ago
> There's no reason to assume someone capable of taking a company from zero to $60bn is necessarily capable of taking it from $60bn to $120bn, or even just maintaining a $60bn valuation. Sure. Now quick propose a concrete CEO candid
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by sfifs 10y ago
SMRT is owned (bought out) by Temasek. It's not traded anymore. Even before the privatization, Temasek owned a majority of shareholding http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/majority-of-smr... Comfort
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by sfifs 10y ago
You've picked poor examples. NASA just gave up on making rockets and arguably going private is going well for them. US military is quite famous for inefficiency. F35, B2, the 100 million dollar gas station in Iraq etc. Given the mess i
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by sfifs 10y ago
It's is merely privatized in name. They're basically owned by the government. Shareholding just passed from one government body to another.
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by sfifs 10y ago
Possibly to you sitting on the other side of the world. Not so for the thousands of people displaced who lost their homes and communities through no fault of their own and might be exposed to higher cancer rates in their lifetimes.
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by sfifs 10y ago
Basically in any reasonably capable enemy airspace, you need to fly with emissions control - ie. no radio, no radar else passive detection systems will find, triangulate and guide a SAM on you. If you're doing drones, this means progra
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by sfifs 10y ago
So if the extremely niche specialty is really valuable, the potential employer should increase his or her pay to compete and stop linking salary to age or experience. Any really highly skilled, highly qualified white collar job adds hundred

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