thomasthomas

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by thomasthomas 10y ago
dont forget about sponsored filters. should be a boon for sc. organic marketing. would bet this revenue surpasses sponsored stories. comparisons to fb and twitter are a little off. SC is more of a messaging service than social media Evan S
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
why i think adding an edit feature to twitter is thorny issue
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
stories of random encounters with bill are my favorite. whether true or not, i think it says something that most are believable. from the comment section on WP: Personal Bill Murray Story - A woman I know (a mother of 6 kids) was working i
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
hope they're smart enough to get that transaction out of apples ecosystem and onto a browser. forking over $300 off the top to apple would be brutal
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
why is "tb_" bad for tables? for some reason this has become standard practice for me. at least on SQL Server it can help distinguish tables from views in complex queries or stored procedures. No idea where i learned this habit.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
user management is a little cumbersome but overall i agree. theyre constantly adding integrations with google analytics ,tableau, marketo, etc too
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
if news was is so important to twitter why did they spend time and resources on stickers? seemed like a bizarre product decision at the time and told me they didnt understand how their users were using their product.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
from a story posted yesterday about the CIA crunching data to predict social unrest, it is fairly obvious the feds have access to social media firehoses https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/cia-claims-it-can-pr
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
"In certain sectors such as finance, it can be self-detrimental as in the case of the financial meltdown in 2007-2008. When a predictive system becomes too efficient, it undermines the very foundation upon which it stands. If you’ve ga
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
eh app store is really feast or famine for businesses. zero middle ground. could help smaller guys. theres a whole niche industry where smaller biz's pay money to get promotion from 'social influencers' to boost downloads. ap
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
this "greedy" perspective is growing more prevalent and tiresome on HN. i would speculate increase is due to increase in younger users not in the real world and international users with different perspective on economics/com
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
"I really want to see autonomous vehicles" Take a trip to PA and stand next to a busy street for 30 minutes
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
seems like ad ransom. "we will block your ads but if we get money we will show ads"
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
theres a nigerian prince in need of your help
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
i've worked for many banks. amazing how reliant the whole industry, therefore the world economy, relies on excel. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-12/how-rookie-excel-er...
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
High stakes "I cut you chose" with nba ownership. I love this: """The situation could drag on until October of 2017 as Kaplan and Pera have a deal in which he has the option to make a bid for controlling interest in
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
glad someone added this. the pod is pretty amazing to see to the persistence and struggle justin and co. went through. last five minutes of the second episode were best part
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
if the insurance companies can keep state laws in place, perhaps less revenue but also less payouts = more profit(?)
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Is Obama's JAMA Paper OK?(academia.stackexchange.com)
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
maybe i'm slow but it just occurred to me that this apple rule is also why i cant get books on the audible app. i can only "add to wish list." also, i never understood why hbo had two different apps: hboNow and hboGO but now
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
This is why i'm skeptical of tesla rushing out autonomous features. i think augmented driving being confused by customers as fully autonomous is extremely dangerous. teslas rush to market and resulting accidents could set back the whol
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
The main alibi was that he was in the library where he would sometimes check his email after school. Question: Why can't they ask whoever his email provider was if there's record of him signing in after school? Why didn't the
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
Marking their ratings down is your job. Write a review about your complaints. Read reviews before you book. The rating system is what make Airbnb works. I've never had a problem booking any place with a long list of positive reviews.
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
used to work for a container shipper, there is absolutely zero intra-US transportation via container vessels. The multiple US port calls in a string such as NY - NFK - SAV are discharge - discharge - load or something of the variant. its no
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
I agree with you but I would challenge the assumption lower taxes means less revenue
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by thomasthomas 10y ago
betting everything on the guy that wanted to 'disrupt receipts?' http://www.recode.net/2014/1/15/11622364/jack-dorseys-advice...
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by thomasthomas 11y ago
I would suspect this is because when 99% of users hear of an upgraded gmail service that costs money, they will start asking questions as to what's wrong with their current gmail service. They get so much synergy across products from u
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by thomasthomas 11y ago
Russ Roberts has a great podcast about matching markets with Alvin Roth http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/alvin_roth_on_m.htm...
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by thomasthomas 11y ago
a little off topic but is it possible to truly randomize the 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 shuffle combinations? edit: also, when i play solitaire via an ipad app there is always

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