tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I wish I could just bar code in media and books, accept / reject the prices en masse and then generate the shipping label to send it to Amazon. I'd be a lot more inclined to send in stuff if the process was a little more streamlin
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
And the point I'm making (which you seem to miss) is that the value of taking this step has actually risen. Prior to PRISM, if Google did this, it would incur similar risks/costs but only a limited number of people would care. Pos
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
SF already has one of the most expensive programs in the country for providing shelter and services to the homeless. Homelessness is a national problem: if one city provides better services than others to get the homeless off the streets, i
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
For your statement to be relevant, you'd have to show that if they were concerned about stakeholders other than shareholders, they would have acted differently. That's not self-evident. It's not clear that this suit would hav
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Ultimately, a company has to have a compelling business interest to justify pursuing something like this. Until this became a public issue for these companies, it might be hard to argue that they'd be acting responsibly to pursue a leg
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Are the similar token-based schemes for non-Gmail services? Seems like OpenID or the like could provide similar functionality to avoid having to provide your actual password to other services so they can look at your inbox.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It also doesn't seem like they've made any effort to combat this kind of blind spamming. I can't rate the quality of a blind inbound from someone I don't know (which is almost certainly from one of their paying customers
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
So if China solves its three biggest, most intractable problems, it'll be a great place to live? No problem.
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The Intricacies of Customer Development(insiteny.org)
3 points by tomkarlo 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Why not just go straight to free-to-play model? CoD for $0 for the first level, but $5 each level after that. I'd try a lot more games out if I didn't have to pay $60 up front, and it would encourage developers to make better game
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Those kind of apps don't have the same purchase cycle as entertainment items like games, movies or books. They don't grow less valuable the more hours you spend using them (in fact, they generally become more valuable the more you
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Yes, Microsoft maintains tons of legacy support for user's running old software on newer platforms - but that's essentially support for their own legacy platforms . They don't go out and provide tools for say, pre-OSX Mac us
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's supporting their own legacy products, not other companies'.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
This seems more like Google is retiring support for users of old Microsoft products... considering they're offering both a newer browser, and a newer option for running web sites that requires an old browser... you're only boxed o
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The PRISM Details Matter(medium.com)
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's well-known that there are restrictions on how much companies can legally disclose about some of these government requests.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Consider the sheer volume of data we're talking about here. Unless you think these companies would miss a fiber optic trunk running out the back door of their data centers, does that make any sense?
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Even legal docs are open to interpretation - they're not math. It's hard to expect a concise and readable post, not couched in legal phrasing, to somehow exclude all possible alternate interpretations. Especially when it can'
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Is there any statement that would actually make you feel comfortable? If you're going to choose to disbelieve someone's statements, there's very little they can say to change that.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I believe everyone's using the term "direct access" in contrast to the access the government is already known to have , which is via warrant or other "indirect" requests.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Just because "networks" have value doesn't mean they're in anyway "unfair". It's like saying that having a college degree is "unfair", because it makes you more qualified for a job than someone who doesn't have one. There are lots of people
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Google Keyboard now available in Play Store(theverge.com)
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's because one is a service, and one is an open operating system. If a service doesn't support a protocol, you can't use that protocol with it, so there is demand that the service support the open protocols that most clients have implem
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's even more expensive to do nothing when your health care system has to pick up the pieces. Appropriate preventative strategies can be cost-effective, and should be easier for voters to support (since they benefit everyone rather than ju
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Highly speculative publicly-traded businesses have been around as long as there have been stock markets and aren't new at all. Historians have suggested that in the 1850s/1860s more money was made selling shares in mining companies than was
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Probably vs. LinkedIn and online, in particular.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I believe (subscribed) recruiters can already search by which profiles have been most recently updated. Just keeping track of that info plus the linked company would be enough, particularly if they expose it via an API.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Presumably, when a company is laying someone off, ex-employees don't have to worry about non-poaching agreements they might have in place with the employer. The easiest person to hire is someone you've worked with in the past and liked, and
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Keep in mind that restrooms are often the one part of an office that a company can't upgrade because they're under the control of the landlord and not the tenant. I've worked at a number of companies where we were doing fine, but the bathro
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
In the case of subsidized, "merchant" (free-market, privately financed) energy suppliers, they do in fact disconnect when they don't feel like selling. If you have a gas-powered merchant plant, and the spark spread isn't good, you turn it o

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