thomasthomas

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by thomasthomas 10y ago
This podcast will shed some light on your query: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/podcast-wall-streets-just... “Bloomberg just wants you to be locked into the ecosystem and never, ever leave. It’s like the Hotel Cal
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Check out Jim Epstein's article on how its used in Venezuela. Pretty great use case. As long as there are a few intermediary companies, i'm not sure it matters that most companies don't take btc. Like many bitcoin users, Alb
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Tag Manager is definitely preferable in my experience if you want to empower non technical people such as marketing to make their own changes on the fly without having to bother developers.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
This is why google needs to get into social search. WSJ is basically moving discovery from traditional search to social search. how many searches across social platforms is google completely missing out on? I know for certain topics, i run
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
If you're as big as Uber, paying your taxes is not enough, you need to show that you are a positive contributor to society so that society decides it shouldn't regulate you out of existence. what theory of economics is this i&#x
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
more of an innovators dilemma problem imo. even if execs knew everything there is to know about CS its near impossible to change the ethos of a ~500billion revenue company
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
> unfortunately !? some people want to control what they do with their own bodies and not be slaves to the state. gtfo
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
MAUs affect their stock price. MAUs are in their 10k IIRC, does the SEC look into this? i'm not sure.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
because i recognize the futility in expanding my argument which a philosophical one thats been going on for centuries. no ones going to change their minds. if you'd like my expanded argument you should start with 'the road to serf
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
so i shouldnt have the right to choose?
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
i'd like the choice to not have any insurance
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Thanks to the ACA, a larger share of Americans have health insurance than ever before because its compulsory. this shouldn't an argument for the ACAs effectiveness. I have to buy car insurance if i choose to drive a car on public roa
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
if uber/lyft can't differentiate their product in any way it seems a race to the bottom imo unless some cooperation happens. i bet thats why lyfts been running these commercials about how great their drivers are; to create some pe
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
do ride sharing companies become airlines or cereals? Over the years, we've tried to figure out why the competition in some markets gets sort of rational from the investor's point of view so that the shareholders do well, and in
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
sam, i'd like the choice to buy or not buy health insurance. thats a little thing called freedom
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
tangentially related: thats why i love amazon's upside. retail means theyre swimming in way bigger pond than facebook/google (at least with their core products)
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
google, facebook, twitter all eating from the same pie: ad dollars.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
if i was google's lawyers i'd argue search isn't an industry. they make money via ads so its in the ad industry. itsmy chief problem with thiels 0 to 1.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
San Diego. Best coastal city that has warm weather year-round in America in my opinion. Warm climate coastal city is my preference though. For the east coast that really only leaves charleston and savannah. Those two aren't big enough
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
does anyone actually believe he doesn't practice!? seems like he read 48 laws of power "Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless"
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
this comment section is hater news at its finest. autonomous will change all of our lives for the better sooner than you think. edge cases will be solved. the competition will be interesting, rooting for everyone.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
my favorite pencil story: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe/posts/9442877455813... Archimedes said he could move the world with a lever long enough, but when it came to proving it, he needed a pencil to ma
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
the design possibilities and field day designers will have when steering wheel and forward-facing seats aren't retrictions will be amazing
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
except speed limits are enforced by police. huge administrative authorities have executive, law making, and judicial power. The [Federal Trade] Commission promulgates substantive rules of conduct. The Commission then considers whether to a
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
The invention of the wheel was so challenging that it probably happened only once, in one place i disagree with this premise based on kevin kelly's simultaneous discovery phenomenon. The fact that pretty well every invention and dis
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
they've never really been a content company you changed my perspective with this comment.youre so right. essentially everything espn creates to fill time between live events is garbage. only issue for leagues distributing content th
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
the difference is the communication act of 1934 essentially lets the FCC create laws whereby the police etc don't have that power. the power to create laws should be held by elected officials imo. the 5 leaders of the FCC get to unilat
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
lots of power for an entity of unelected officials....
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
with all the bots on the platform, how can they accurately report any user number (mau dau)?

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