stevetursi

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by stevetursi 13y ago
Hastily-transcribed transcript for those who can't watch the video: Q "NSA and PRISM - what's the sentiment in the valley?" A "Maybe this is indicative of the fact that I live in New York; that I've never reall
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by stevetursi 14y ago
Thanks. Just expanded on that idea and did one of these: data:text/html, <textarea style="border: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #F8F8F8">
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by stevetursi 14y ago
What happens in that case is people just type in RandomDictionaryWord at majoremailprovider.com and then the person who really is at that address gets the pleasure of your interesting offers, even though that person probably never heard of
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by stevetursi 14y ago
That's when I break out the postal code. If your city has that much of a span, then tell Google to start at your postal code instead - the idea being that you can usually drive from one end of a postal code to the other in <5 minutes. I
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by stevetursi 14y ago
<I>It seems a bit weird to publish a collection of papers as a textbook, especially at a low undergrad level, but I hear it's happening these days.</I> Took a macro-economics class at my local community college. One of the r
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by stevetursi 14y ago
Assuming the pirate bought the disc as a penance/feelgood/whatever for downloading the media, this totally negates that whole motivation. To the studio/network, two people got to see the content for the price of one. Ironically, the giftee
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by stevetursi 14y ago
True. But you're focusing on the chain for the chain's sake. Remember the chain is a hack - a method of altering your behavior to produce a result - and that result should be the focus. Of course, I'm not going to lie and deny that the chai
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by stevetursi 14y ago
Their prices are only ridiculous because the service is quickly being commoditized. Two years ago we (or at least I) couldn't believe how cheap dropbox was for what we got.
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by stevetursi 15y ago
I Said the same thing to my friend. His response, "Yeah.. and Yahoo, trying to be all hip, would have an iCE logo..."
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by stevetursi 15y ago
Looking at that list, the thing that occurred to me is how one bad individual can harm the reputation of an otherwise OK firm. The OP obviously had bad anecdotal experiences with every firm on that list. Also anecdotal is the fact that ther
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by stevetursi 15y ago
I had this same insight about a year ago, and while I didn't completely remove all my news, I made a point of reducing my RSS feed count to under 100 (it had been over 600.) I was indeed more productive, yet found myself missing knowing wha
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by stevetursi 15y ago
There's a qualitative difference between pain that's making an injury worse and pain that will go away if you can manage to ignore it. It's just different. Sorry that I can't explain it any better, except to say you'll know it when you have
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by stevetursi 15y ago
I've learned a lot about this issue from books such as Fast Food Nation and movies such as Food Inc, which tend to focus on the incredible power that food industry lobbies seem to have over congress and the FDA. In the case of Fast Food Nat