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by tamana 11y ago
No doubt she is a bright well-educated driven person. Zuckerberg-esque, no doubt. But zuck pulled it off because Facebook didn't need any next-gen tech to launch and get big-- just elbow grease and investment/marketing connections
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by tamana 11y ago
But they never had the tech! This wasn't a genius scientist who got investment to productonize an idea. It was a BS company set up by the parents and their uberwealthy/connected friends, with the kid as the media friendly face, li
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by tamana 11y ago
Uh, why didn't she teach the known diagnostic criteria? I don't want my oncologist winging it based on what looks intuitively obvious on a slide.
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by tamana 11y ago
Public facing systems isn't the issue, user generated content is.
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by tamana 11y ago
Yes , github hosts UGC which has a lot of spam/malware.
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by tamana 11y ago
The problem is also that it is easy to buy some cheap bad food while not saving up for rent/car/school payment. In other words, even though we can't afford our lifestyle, food dolllars are the first dollars, and we go into de
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by tamana 11y ago
Some good ideas here, for sure, but this 1954 article exhibits the tone of the modern melodramatic shrill blogger, who uses flowery metaphor in place of data.
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by tamana 11y ago
The reference to "inheritance" seems bizarrely out of place.
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by tamana 11y ago
You are saying that DUI is not a meaningful danger?
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by tamana 11y ago
Did the NYT help propagate that moral panic?
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by tamana 11y ago
The only thing stopping you from writing a novel was KU?!
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by tamana 11y ago
Sure but so far this scam is in fake books,not fake kindles. It's hard to move the needle with fake Kindle client accounts paying $10/mo each.
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by tamana 11y ago
Any sympathy for the half decade they spend toiling for no income before they strike it lucky?
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by tamana 11y ago
Can you still your service on your website, and publish a free companion app in the app store?
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by tamana 11y ago
It's sad that Amazon promotes a platform-wide "coins" system that just smears the whole platform with taint.
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by tamana 11y ago
The platform companies hire salespeople to promote and facilitate the "paid install" advertising business, it's part of their monetization strategy.
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by tamana 11y ago
OK, if you don't want to engage with the company, no need to engage. No need to make it a principles battle. Not every business is concerned about entertaining your itch for reading.
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by tamana 11y ago
Whoever is oncall rotation for that week does.
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by tamana 11y ago
The title is a weak joke -- it's a famous quotation that has one word that is a homonym of the topic of the article.
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by tamana 11y ago
Practically, the way to go here is: make your data structures strict (with "!") and make your control structures lazy. So, don't create a list of numbers if you intend to sum it, use a non- lazy data structure. The trick is t
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by tamana 11y ago
News aggregators don't play well with tongue-in-cheek article titles. Coming via HN or Reddit or whatever, we aren't familiar with the post author and have nothing to go on except the title, which we must take at face value.
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by tamana 11y ago
Jeff Bezos agrees with you. Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg do not. Interestingly, of those, Bezos was the MBA manager, the rest were all programmers.
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by tamana 11y ago
You should meet Ben Franklin, Galois, and Mozart.
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by tamana 11y ago
A good camera has a good lens for capturing light and color. Megapixels rarely matter. A bad lens makes bad pixels all the way up to VGA pixel size.
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by tamana 11y ago
How did people in that situation survive before the iPhone4 came out?
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by tamana 11y ago
Close to 1.3ft per side, or a 18" diameter sphere A gallon of gold is 75lbs, almost 10x as dense as water, and worth about $3million
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by tamana 11y ago
That's what a "hobby" is: a money-losing activity. A "business" is a money-making hobby.
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by tamana 11y ago
Sort of. Those businesses have externalities in worker unsafety and pollution.
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by tamana 11y ago
Can someone explain how this would win him customers? "Oh yeah, let's get WebHosting with that idiot who trolled ServerFault. He seems like a reliable and professional fellow."
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by tamana 11y ago
Civil suits are torts, where there is not much specific, just guidelines for how torts are resolved. A tort is still a tort even if no specific law makes it actionable. By analogy, burglary is illegal, with a statute of limitations. If the

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