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by wdewind 12y ago
I don't see how you can say that and not feel the same way about payment providers. If AirBnB is not on the hook for activity that happens explicitly and exclusively on their platform I don't see why we should hold banks accounta
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by wdewind 12y ago
It seems like you don't allow someone to get their organization's feed unless they are an admin for that organization. Is that correct? All I can get are my personal repos.
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by wdewind 12y ago
You're proposing that my solution wouldn't work. Maybe, but your opinion is based on just as little data as mine is, so neither is more valid. I still think my system would work fine, and this is based on helping work on systems
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by wdewind 12y ago
I think there would certainly be things to iron out but the burden is on them to provide a system of regulation that works. Currently they aren't. Regardless I don't think the two problems you mentioned are insurmountable for a
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by wdewind 12y ago
There is an extremely simple solution that AirBnB will forever refuse to do: simply build a function that allows me to search for AirBnBs by address and file a complaint should I need to do so. As far as I can tell this + feedback provides
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by wdewind 12y ago
What about making existing technologies cheaper so that the money they currently have stretches further? Tons of progress here with everything from cheap microscope lenses that can be attached to iphones to prosthetic limbs that can be 3d
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by wdewind 12y ago
You drastically underestimate the ability of Vegas casinos to detect this stuff, as well as their tendency to share their info with other casinos.
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by wdewind 12y ago
The point is that it is unlikely that machine would exist in your house. You'll still get clothing from the same company, shipped or in store, they'll just manufacture it differently. This is a big deal, but again, it's unl
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by wdewind 12y ago
Maybe. It's extremely difficult to imagine a world in which distributed, unspecialized manufacturing is actually a reasonable way for most people to get their goods. One argument many people have made is look at the personal computing
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by wdewind 12y ago
We recruit from any school. But I know there are some programs that are better than others. All you can do is use that as a positive signal, not a rule. A degree from a less prestigious program doesn't mean we wont look at you. I d
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by wdewind 12y ago
Not in any higher demand than any other schools with CS degrees. As someone who is currently doing and has done a lot of hiring for NYC tech companies I can tell you a Courant degree is not a significant plus on a resume, in the way a Stan
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by wdewind 12y ago
Sorry, you're absolutely correct, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. As a math institute I have no problems with it, and it has a great reputation. I have a number of friends who felt the program was good. Regardless, the mai
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by wdewind 12y ago
Not sure about that, was talking undergrad only. I can't speak for the quality of education at Stern undergrad, but I can certainly say it is good for your career, whereas going to Courant doesn't really mean shit for a career in
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by wdewind 12y ago
Courant is getting better, but when I was there the faculty was lackluster and was so heavily based on mathematical theory that it was getting smoked by more modern programs like CMU's or Stanford's. I would not recommend Courant
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by wdewind 12y ago
I can't agree more with this piece. Having recently (5 years ago) been at NYU, I can tell you the NYU the author remembers nostalgically is completely gone. It's a shell of a school, massive and well funded, yet intellectually j
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by wdewind 12y ago
Except that the the yellow cab leaks are unintentional and based on ignorance, and these are (allegedly) based on intentional disregard for privacy. So I don't agree that the two are the same at all.
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by wdewind 12y ago
I'm not sure you do. White hat the price is free, the only request here is that you don't sue me for pointing out a hole in your system.
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by wdewind 12y ago
If you create an ad on television stating that you are buying tons of a particular model and make of car, and then demand for that car goes up, why is this seen as a negative in a functioning economy? A functioning economy responds to dema
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by wdewind 12y ago
This is only true if you are selling a relatively low investment product. I also work at a SaaS business and can tell you there is absolutely no way we could make sales on marketing alone (and we sell to primarily SMBs). Whether or not you
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Rigged? That's what the big players in the HFT field are doing by using the various tools available (near-location, co-location, fast networks, fast custom hardware and lately microwave networks). I can't personally afford to
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by wdewind 12y ago
A general rule: as a technologist if you find yourself blaming the user, you are doing it wrong.
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Before that, looking at trees (and other complex objects) was "painful" You are the only other person I have ever heard describe looking at complex objects as sometimes painful. This happens to me sometimes, mostly with very
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by wdewind 12y ago
Uber claims to be 20% cheaper than yellow cabs in NYC. What gives?
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by wdewind 12y ago
> a Tag Heuer Android watch with replaceable innards Yeah I definitely do want that. Would pay in the $1K range for a Tag quartz, if they could somehow keep an automatic movement in there... Can't wait to see what happens when the
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by wdewind 12y ago
$9, full rotisserie chicken, whole foods, union square manhattan. I can't imagine how anyone can justify a more expensive super market rotisserie chicken than that.
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by wdewind 12y ago
> It's really difficult for me to see Newson's work as anything but very, very anachronistic. His formal language seems to me to be hopelessly trapped in the 90s. I could not agree more. Newson is someone I really want to like
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by wdewind 12y ago
Serious question: why are you assuming cards EOL with balance on them more frequently now than when they had rounded amounts?
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by wdewind 12y ago
MTA does both. Serious question: what difference does it make? I have a hard time understanding the outrage here.
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by wdewind 12y ago
No, the point is to incentivize people to keep their cards, ie: conserve. It's a good thing, just like the charge for a new card. I'm a New Yorker, so at least some of us like it.
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by wdewind 12y ago
That's a really great blog post. Thanks for sharing it. I encourage everyone to read it - it's not long and may open your mind about net neutrality a bit.

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