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by xiaoma 9y ago
I didn't ascribe anything to malice, though I do miss the "Don't be evil" Google of the early 2000s. It's more an issue of mass automation and the errors that accompany it. This is a company with 93 billion dollars
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by xiaoma 9y ago
And due to that removal, NYT articles like this one now have broken links to his blog: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/business/the-stock-market...
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by xiaoma 9y ago
No idea what all was on his blog and other google accounts, but according to the article they were used for his work at the university. Also some credible sites like the NYT linking into the disabled blog: https://www.nytimes.com
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Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His Story(investingchannel.com)
258 points by xiaoma 9y ago|197 comments
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I have been mostly bouncing between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, but even so, what Latin American city offers internet service at a similar speed and price as you could get in Chiang Mai, Saigon or Singapore? I sure haven't seen one.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The internet in Latin America sucks compared to east Asia. It's not even remotely close. I say this having used 130 gigs of high speed mobile data over the past month, tethering wherever I felt like it, and spending under $30 USD for t
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I agree with other comments that practice is important. Even more important is getting good input that you can model. Read fiction every day. While non-fiction is generally read for the purpose of furthering an instrumental goal (e.g. learn
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Look at how much more Microsoft did before reaching 500 employees. They wrote not only compilers and languages, but also games and productivity apps for poorly documented platforms and even OSes. Jetbrains is doing well for themselves, but
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're trying to understand, I'll restate the logical fallacy a bit more formally: Person A believes thing 1. Person A believes thing 2. Therefore people who believe 1 also be
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by xiaoma 9y ago
And Hitler himself was a big believer in no smoking spaces. That doesn't mean that anti-smoking groups have anything to do with the genocide Nazis engaged in, just because Nazis were also officially against smoking.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I disabled JS on Forbes and the experience has been great since.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Be careful not to confuse education with schooling.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
MRA? You mean the group of mostly men pushing for equal rights to custody and/or visitation of their kids? Wasn't that group started by a male feminist scholar? What do they have to do with this fringe hate website most of us neve
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Amazon sells shows by the show or season. Here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Halt-Catch-Fire-Season-3/dp/B01JFWK71...
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The gap is very relevant. There are literally hundreds of thousands more young men without degrees joining the labor market and few professions other than military, software and sales remain promising routes to a middle class life in the US
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The animations and laughter are absolutely fantastic. They make a relatively mundane subject far more engaging.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I'm not going to use a term the MPAA/RIAA co-opted and pushed into our language, despite the success of their marketing efforts over the last few decades. If you want to equate murder, rape and plundering from and often enslaving
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> To the downvoter(s): I'm genuinely curious, can you name any significant software companies that launched during that era? I've not done an exhaustive search, but I've looked for them and have had a much harder time fin
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I avoid dangerous Somalian shipping lanes. If you mean the co-opted meaning of the word that the RIAA/MPAA managed to acclimate Americans to a few generations ago, I'd use either a SAAS model or a subscription/membership mode
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by xiaoma 9y ago
They're "literally" the same.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Asking for a phone number as a verification method is particularly toxic for users such as myself who do a lot of international travel and essentially just use phones for data plans. Due to a close call with one of my own accounts, I absolu
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by xiaoma 9y ago
If you're using phrases like "sniveling white dudes", you're part of the problem.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Again, this is not the case. Reread my comment. I didn't write anything at all from the perspective of you, the merchant. As a customer , I love dealing with Amazon. This doesn't mean that I'd enjoy being their partner, supp
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "someone like you who feels that fraud is justified" This is completely unjustified and against site guidelines.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "About 2 years ago I sold an item through the marketplace, shipped through Amazon, and at 30 days the buyer requested to return. I ignored him, and then... (blah blah blah) I haven't used Amazon to buy or sell anything since&
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by xiaoma 9y ago
When I was a kid in the 80s, it was totally normal for our gym teachers to tell us to "hustle" when we were running, lining up or doing some drill. I'm not sure about the dependable part, but working hard and moving quickly a
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by xiaoma 9y ago
But most users aren't even logged in. Customization can help prevent a short-term backlash from the most engaged users, but whatever they choose as the default is what they will live or die by.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
>content broken up into “cards” with more visuals to lure people The reasons I left Digg for Reddit were the information density and the ease of rapid browsing. Eliminating those in favor of "cards" is incredibly short-sighted.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I've been encountering that claim for 20 years. In that time, the Chinese software ecosystem has grown more than any other in the world and might even be larger than that of any other country at this point. How many companies relying o
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "Developers need to learn Kotlin well enough to confidently read the language. While a few developers will self-teach themselves, teams will still need to set aside training time for everyone to get up to speed. New developers wil

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