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by skewart 9y ago
Like @yebyen said in a sibling comment, satire and parody are protected and comcastroturf is pretty clearly satirical, even if it is pointed, critical satire. Another comment further down on this post also references a few legal precedents
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by skewart 9y ago
Because it's free speech protected by law. There is no trademark violation. Comcast is trying to scare people into thinking that there is, which is bullying.
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by skewart 9y ago
But there is no trademark or copyright abuse here. The domain and website in question - comcastroturf - is protected under fair use. It's not impersonating Comcast in any way. The concern is that if they're willing to be aggressiv
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by skewart 9y ago
I really like this idea. It looks like you just started the other day, but I hope you keep it up. I can see two aspects to this habit. One, it functions as a kind of journal of work that would be useful to look back on in the future when
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by skewart 9y ago
I think it's more the other way around. How did SurveyMonkey convince Serena Williams to be on their board? Her husband may well have played a role. (Sure, it's not a huge time commitment, but it's not zero either, and I
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by skewart 9y ago
SurveyMonkey has 650 employees?! Do they just have big customer support and sales teams? Or are they working on a much more ambitious roadmap than simply maintaining their classic survey tool?
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by skewart 9y ago
Right. And there is absolutely no legal justification for requesting you go fetch those bits from a data center hundreds of miles away and show them to the CBP employee. However, they are hoping that people don't know that and do it an
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by skewart 9y ago
Sounds good! You can reach me at hn_skewart@yahoo.com.
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by skewart 9y ago
I like the header idea, and letting it market itself by way of invitation emails. Man, now I want to build this thing.
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by skewart 9y ago
Yeah, supporting both uses would be critical. I think you're right that making sure it could interop with existing email clients in as painless a way as possible would be critical. I'm not sure how much of a chance it would have o
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by skewart 9y ago
> Choice can be overwhelming, and for better or worse, the lack of freedom in Facebook's post editor makes it much easier for folks around the globe to pick up and use. Email won't ever have that, and that's okay! I agree
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by skewart 9y ago
I'm assuming that people participating in this network are all using a new kind of email client designed to work with these feeds. On the receiver or "follower" side of things the client would filter emails coming from addres
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by skewart 9y ago
> We already have a model for this: email. Come to think of it, you could build a Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter clone on top of email pretty easily. All it would take is a slightly reimagined client. Just whitelist addresses of people
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by skewart 9y ago
It seems like everyone I know likes to hate on Medium - either because the content is lousy or because the business model is broken. And yet, I end up clicking on something that takes me to Medium on a weekly, if not daily, basis. Medium f
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by skewart 9y ago
> Mr. Williams — a Twitter founder, a co-creator of Blogger — set everyone free, providing tools to address the world. In the history of communications technology, it was a development with echoes of Gutenberg. Uh, hmm, no. That's a
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by skewart 9y ago
People often describe finding pmf as an explosive, overwhelming moment, when customers are pulling the product out of your hands. I wonder if there are any hugely successful companies that experienced in more subtle, gradual way. Instead of
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by skewart 9y ago
This. The idea that college somehow intrinsically causes you to earn more money is completely wrong and absurd. It completely conflates causation and correlation. Yet it's frequently trotted out as a justification for taking on studen
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by skewart 9y ago
That's not what Alupis's comments sound like to me. It sounds more like they're saying that if Amazon wins it won't be because they had unique, impossible to reproduce logistics and fulfillment programs. It will due to o
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by skewart 9y ago
> which is 99% developed. Not really. There's plenty of room to build a ton more in San Francisco. Just because there's already, say, a parking lot or a Burger King with a drive-through on a block in the city doesn't mean
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by skewart 9y ago
I completely agree that the idea that giving people housing and food would magically stop crime is utterly absurd. However, reducing the number of children growing up in highly stressful poverty situations may well lead to a reduction in c
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by skewart 9y ago
"We should pay lots of money to keep people who have committed minor crimes locked up in prison for a long time just so we can pretend we're making the world safer." -> "But what about those who refuse to pay?" -
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by skewart 9y ago
Where are you getting the 0.76% figure? The article mentions 6.7 million, which is about 2% of the US population. Still perhaps a lower percentage than during the height of the gulag days, but not that much lower.
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by skewart 9y ago
Where are these terms of service? I don't think most websites explicitly state that looking at ads or making your browser execute all of the scripts on the page is part of a terms of service. I mean, there are plenty of disclaimers abo
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by skewart 9y ago
It sounds like you're saying that once you give something to someone then you have an ethical right to dictate how they use that thing. For example, if I buy a pillow for my sofa and the pillow-maker intended that I rest my head on th
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by skewart 9y ago
One of the central complaints in the blog post is that it's too hard to get your hands on an Android phone that doesn't come with impossible-to-remove bloatware. I've been amazed and annoyed by this too. I understand all the
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by skewart 10y ago
I think improved tools and techniques actually are vastly increasing developer productivity, it's just that our expectations for what developers can do keep going up as well. We always just push until we hit a wall of complexity and h
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by skewart 10y ago
I know what you mean. At the same time I think it's less about what a company thinks is fair and more about what the market will bear. You can find more engineers willing to sell their labor at a lower price in lower cost locations. Of
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by skewart 10y ago
How does the headline imply it was a typo made by the company? I did not get that impression at all.
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by skewart 10y ago
That's the standard arrangement in most cities in North America, not just SF. I don't think a driver processing a credit card with Square/Stripe is shady or fraudulent either. It might be against a given city's regulati
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by skewart 10y ago
Think of it from the perspective of the other employees on your team. In most cases the person being let go for performance reasons is a drag for them to work with. Plus, even for the employee being let go, it's usually better for that

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