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by ynniv 13y ago
Yep, Facebook has the same thing, which was also pitched as altruistic. https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=116481065103985
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by ynniv 13y ago
A better carefully worded response is still a carefully worded response. Google is in a difficult place because we all expected this to be happening, there are now documents suggesting that it has been happening, and no one takes at fac
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by ynniv 13y ago
And for most of the years computers have been around they did not revolutionize communication. That's a relatively late development. Not even close. Computers have been used as a novel communications tool since at least 1958, and for (de)
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by ynniv 13y ago
The way that we use computers to communicate is very different from the Plain Old Telephone System. With telephones you could call an individual around the world, but you couldn't have the kind of interactions with lots of people in non-rea
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by ynniv 13y ago
The alternative to a computer in every home is... well, there really isn't any other way to talk with people around the world. The alternative to a 3d printer in every home is Amazon Prime.
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by ynniv 13y ago
Really? Data that you don't control has effectively become a permanent record. On the one hand we say that any information on kids is private, and on the other it's being handed to third parties, and we all know that you can never really ta
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by ynniv 13y ago
I am confident that any company capable of paying $1B dollars for them will cut it immediately. If that's the core value of the product, it either won't get bought or won't survive getting bought.
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by ynniv 13y ago
Yeah, that's going to be the first feature removed when someone buys them. Also not worth $1B.
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by ynniv 13y ago
I don't understand the value of Waze when anonymized cellular phone data provides real-time, high resolution congestion data for any place that has cellular phones, which is basically the entire globe. Why do people use Waze?
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by ynniv 14y ago
What does that have to do with invalidating the author's claim?
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by ynniv 14y ago
I am familiar with the concept of nastygrams. You said: When your "innovation" consists of leveraging someone else's product, it's generally bad form (even if not illegal per se, unless it amounts to trademark infringement) to make it seem
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by ynniv 14y ago
When your "innovation" consists of leveraging someone else's product, it's generally bad form (even if not illegal per se, unless it amounts to trademark infringement) to make it seem like you have an association with them when you don't.
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by ynniv 14y ago
That seems to be okay in light of Mp3Tunes. [ http://www.grammy.com/news/artswatch-music-locker-service-wi... ] [ http://www.wired.com/business/2011/08/cloudmusic-is-not-a-cr... ]
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by ynniv 14y ago
The gimbal is 95lbs, and the camera another 5. Also, photos of JetRangers.
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by ynniv 14y ago
People come here for news about unexpected change. Maturity is great but predictable, and will be reported in other channels.
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by ynniv 14y ago
I'm looking for devops and computer vision people in Atlanta. Drop me a line at vinny@touchoflogic.com and I'll buy you a beer.
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by ynniv 14y ago
If you hold the bitcoin for a very short amount of time, it's not especially risky. There's a company that facilitates payments in bitcoin: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitpay-integrates-bitcoin-w...
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by ynniv 14y ago
Some landmarks have coordinates on them. I followed the chain for a while, but then I lost it. https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.359305,-71.067467&t=8...
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by ynniv 14y ago
Your comment history suggests that you are a crusader: willing to take great risks defending those whom you identify with, but uninterested in defending a disabled mute's right to participate in our modern society. Your arguments, however w
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by ynniv 14y ago
When surveyed about a different runtime, I wrote in "common lisp". Not sure they took that one seriously.
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by ynniv 14y ago
It's probably much easier to quietly splice a cable when someone else is caught severing it elsewhere.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Three Letter Agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc)
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by ynniv 14y ago
It must be nice to spend $600M of taxpayer money without having to tell them what you're spending it on.
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by ynniv 14y ago
get your Network security together No. In an educational setting, lax security is a feature.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Neukölln, Berlin, Germany [ https://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe ]
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by ynniv 14y ago
That's a great question, possibly the defining question, and I think the answer is a resounding "No". Humans seem to rarely buck the system, so it's much easier to deal with the occasional seed individual before the problem becomes systemic
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by ynniv 14y ago
Clozure Associates was established in 2000, well before any similarly named product.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Jobs were the secret sauce that made capitalism work. If your neighbor was wildly successful, there would be some modicum of trickle-down that would benefit the community. Now that success and job creation are almost entirely decoupled, the
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by ynniv 14y ago
Yes, and that end is your Mac. It did this on purpose, and it should just renew. [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755461 ]
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by ynniv 14y ago
It's 50% faster but took more than 50% longer to write At this point it's useful to know how long it takes to run, and how long to write. Is a run days long, months long, or years long? Or another way, is concurrency more expensive than a

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