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by tdaltonc 11y ago
It's about iTunes, not the iPod. It's about the app store, not the iPhone. It's about the phone contract, not the phone hardware. It's about the K-cups, not the Kurig. It's about the cable subscription (and the ads)
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Small isn't better in every way, but one way in which I think they are indisputably better is that the owners a local business are embedded in the same social context as their customers, employees, suppliers and externalities. All busi
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Is that what happened to Mandrill? I've read a coherent explanation of what's going on there and why, but I'd love to.
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You must be a fun roommate.
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In the same way that one could talk about 'return on capital,' one could talk about 'return on labor' and 'return on land.' I don't think it's controversial to say that capital and "entrepreneurs
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> No one has ever been expected to do something like this in the past, AFAIK. They're not legally required to, but there certainly is historical precedent. I live in LA, and many of the parks, museums, university buildings, and char
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This is just a conclusion from data mining; what is google doing to experimentally confirm this finding? Or how would I use this insight to engineer a better team?
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It wasn't apples choice really. This is just the first time they've been asked in a public trial. Who knows how many times they (and others) have been asked in a FISA court.
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The government caused the Dotcom bubble?
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The interesting thing here wont be the tech, but the business model and regulatory framework.
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This is what scholarpedia is for.
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I love the idea of graphical programing, but whenever I use one (nipype, labview, or puredata), I end up with an unreadable mess.
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What are the odds that Apple has been ordered to do this before, but every other time they were asked it was in a FISA court? That would mean that this is the first time they've been allowed to talk about it.
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I see your point. Defying a order from a democratic government is a big deal. But Apple isn't saying they wont do it. They just want to make it really clear that they're not happy about it and they want the government to change th
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Because incompleteness.
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Is there no objective way to tell if things are really cooling? Or for what types of startups things cooling?
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Is google big enough to set up an independent "healthcare stack" to just do their own thing?
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I assume you're referring to "Against Method" by Feyerabend? His argument is absolutely not that science is "random". It's that the methods of science cannot be predicted, prescribed, or universal, even over ve
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This is really cool. I think that the biggest weakness is the preference elicitation, but that's a super hard problem. Also there's the fact that there is almost as much diversity within cities as between them. I live in Echo Park
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Teleport to the city that's best for you(my.teleport.org)
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I don't think so. It's simple for a firs time user, but has near limitless depth for hardcore users.
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No one wants to be dumb pipes.
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What's Winning on Kaggle?, Founder and CEO of Kaggle(youtube.com)
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Maybe start with 1km and see how that goes first.
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I love the symmetry with AWS. I pay them for one minute of compute, they pay me for one minute of eyeballs.
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Where's the pricing section? Is this going to be ad supported? Cross subsidized?
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Flexible Figures – Dynamic Pricing(economist.com)
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As I understand it though, open office is a trend. Your mechanism doesn't explain why there was ever a time without open offices. So what's changed to make office managers more penny-wise, or have there always been "open coll
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Let's Use Behavioral Economics to Design Technology That Doesn’t Kill Us(singularityhub.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
That post is more than 1000 words. Did he post this on his facebook page because he feels like he has to or because he actually thinks that facebook is the best tool available for sharing a long form blog post?

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