themagician

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by themagician 12y ago
There is definitely a kind of person who's interested in the social aspect of ride-sharing. In fact, there's always been—the people who hitchhike and those wiling to pick them up. You're right though. It's a small group.
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by themagician 12y ago
People keep using the word "never" and "always" to describe periods of time that are relatively short. We wouldn't say "never" with a sample size of 5 in any other scenario, but with finance we seem to loo
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by themagician 12y ago
It's not the failed IPOs like Groupon and Zynga you have to worry about. Those are actually good outcomes. It's the ones that are "too big to fail" that you have to worry about. And it might not even be explicitly accoun
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by themagician 12y ago
Right now there is a scandal going on somewhere, we just don't know where. Maybe Facebook, maybe LinkedIn, maybe Yahoo, maybe even Google. Maybe someone else, who knows. It always starts with a scandal. WorldCom, Enron, Lehmans, AIG, e
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by themagician 12y ago
The comments are the content. It has been this way since the earliest days of Slashdot. The reason that Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and HN exist is because of the comments, not the links. The reason things like Delicious ultimately failed was be
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by themagician 12y ago
Because we've decided as a society that paying people a decent wage is a good idea. The same can be said for a lot of jobs, including so-called "software engineers." You can pay people in Romania $300/day instead of payi
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by themagician 12y ago
It competes by doing things like not complying with existing regulation, laws, or unions. It's an "app" and thus except from all regulation. So they don't pay a driver $70,000/yr and give him or her a pension. They
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by themagician 12y ago
Still, the actual "usable" area on a circular watch is the square within.
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by themagician 12y ago
The response your body has to gluten, like many things, is going to be highly dependent on a combination of your gut flora and genetics. And while your genetics won't change over time, your gut flora will. There is this strange myth th
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by themagician 12y ago
I question a lot of this. Everyone I know uses it less and less. Teenagers do, at least to me and everyone I know, seem to be using it less and less or foregoing it all together. In terms of ROI on ad spend, it seems to be decreasing for ev
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by themagician 12y ago
Inbox is this really cool thing that doesn't work for anyone. It's awesome for categorizing transactional emails, but misses the mark for person-to-person communication. If you use one email address sole for transactions, and one
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by themagician 12y ago
It's a better business story than the vast majority of startups that come out of the Valley.
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by themagician 12y ago
Excellent points. I think what it really highlights is that, for most food items, there is no right or wrong answer as to how good/bad it is for you. There is some directional information, but even that should be taken with limited con
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by themagician 12y ago
If you ask the question, "Is <food item> good or bad for us," you're going to have a bad time. The answer is almost always going to be "bad" as we define it. Even the most basic things that we need are bad for
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by themagician 12y ago
The problem with the "science" around food and fitness is that there is an underlying assumption that is wrong, and that assumption is this: There are things that are inherently good for us. Nothing belongs anywhere, and nothing e
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by themagician 12y ago
As I understand it, FOIA requests on living individuals will be denied. If you create a business, and there is a file on that business, and you send a FOIA request it will be acknowledged… but odds are they won't have anything on the e
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by themagician 12y ago
Um, it's not really "legal advice". That's just how it is. It's not rocket science. Here's what the FBI has to say about the issue: http://www.fbi.gov/foia/requesting-fbi-records The CIA,
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by themagician 12y ago
That's somewhat accurate. I'd not seen this TED talk either, so thanks. The day-to-day didn't really change above a certain income, and that income limit (at least for me) was pretty low. Even living in both Manhattan and San
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by themagician 12y ago
If you submit a FOIA request on yourself you will probably be denied. FOIA Requests are only for organizations, businesses, investigations, historical events, incidents, groups, or deceased persons. Privacy Act Requests are for yourself. Yo
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by themagician 12y ago
I used to have money. When I got divorced I decided I would let my wife have it all. It was mostly hers to begin with, so it wasn't some great act of generosity. She walked away with somewhere around $2MM in liquidity. I walked away wi
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I think at some point, we do. People like this format. GIF, gyfcat, Vine, and now this. Instagram and WebM on 4chan also have things keyed to this behavior. But the thing that GIF has on all of them is that it works everywhere . It plays i
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by themagician 12y ago
I'm real. Uber isn't just a convenience for many. I rely on it to get around. Sometimes I might use it four or five times a day. Sometimes I don't use it at all. But I no longer have a car, nor do I want one, because of Uber.