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by zecho 14y ago
The first-mover advantage has resulted in telecoms capturing their markets in major cities. The question is just how free are these markets? In my city, for example, the city has a contract with a cable operator that basically states that a
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by zecho 14y ago
It is back up for my paid apps account, but not yet for my free accounts.
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by zecho 14y ago
"...and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." One wonders the level of suffering people a
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by zecho 14y ago
Without even mentioning Fox News or any Murdoch/Newscorp-owned properties, one could still make a strong case for a sorry state of journalism in the United States.
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by zecho 14y ago
There's also renaming entire companies to shake anchoring bias: Worldcom -> MCI.
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by zecho 14y ago
The longreads email is fantastic. A weekly selection of 5 non-fiction articles, a fiction recommendation and a link from a reader.
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by zecho 14y ago
Personally, I don't mind his style. It's entertaining, but he has a tendency to draw some ridiculous conclusions by drawing a few lines between here and there. I prefer his New Yorker articles over his books, though, which tend to merely re
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by zecho 14y ago
But with Reddit, there are thousands of others who agree with you, who have created tons of subreddits that would be relevant to whatever your interests. Obviously some communities are more active and more interesting than others, but they'
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by zecho 14y ago
Thank you. One of my email addresses is there. Thankfully it's just an account I use for fantasy baseball. Super obnoxious, though.
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by zecho 14y ago
Form a crowdfunded corporation and direct mail every household in his district to annoyance until his district removes him.
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by zecho 14y ago
Or can do without going to a club. There's more than one way to find a mate.
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by zecho 14y ago
Speaking of Dwolla and tight networks, Shane Neuerburg, one of Dwolla's co-founders lives in Osage, MN, a township with only 774 people in it. He's now working with a startup in Fargo, ND called BreadVault, but Fargo itself is full of start
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by zecho 14y ago
Agreed. There's the whole moral question of patenting life.
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by zecho 14y ago
One minor correction for you. It's rare that a popular show is available hours after the original broadcast. Usually a few minutes and sometimes before the show even airs on the west coast.
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by zecho 14y ago
Two reasons are possible. First, it's over. Stuxnet is out of commission and the CIA/NSA/DOD have all moved on to other programs. It's an election year and this is the kind of strong-on-Iran thing that sticks with a certain segment of voter
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by zecho 14y ago
On one hand, this is a momentous day for private space flight. On the other, we're closer to Moon lobbyists than ever.
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by zecho 14y ago
I don't think DDG needs to take anybody's crown to be successful. It provides a service to a few niches, mainly the tinfoil hat types and to people who mostly use Google as an intermediary to find wikipedia articles or posts on stack overfl
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by zecho 14y ago
I've said it in this thread already, but that acquisition is definitely not finalized.
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by zecho 14y ago
No. The FTC is probing the purchase, which was to close 2nd Quarter this year, so it'll delay that. That said, it's still very possible the two will eventually become one.
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by zecho 14y ago
> Or this could be a relic of something the Sofa team was working on before the Instagram deal. Probably. And the Instagram deal is still under review from the FTC for quite some time, so it'll be awhile before we see any major integrat
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by zecho 14y ago
It's about finding a balance. I can't stand a cluttered desk, but I'm a cluttered person, generally. I take care of it by swiping everything off my desk once every other week and into the bin. If I can't immediately think of a reason to sav
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by zecho 14y ago
> I said fuck it and went for a walk at the park. The ultimate lifehack. Living it.
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by zecho 14y ago
I had an account in college when it was college-only and it was awesome. Then they let my mother-in-law and Rob Scoble and my boss join and it wasn't fun anymore so I deleted my account. It's wonderful not having the account, though. I rece
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by zecho 14y ago
Expensive schools don't necessarily have motivated students, especially not at the undergrad level. I've met just as many morons from the Ivy Leagues as I've met from state schools (and brilliant people, too). Cost has little to do with des
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by zecho 14y ago
I agree. The statement that plumbers make as much as doctors is insanely inaccurate. I think Thiel needs to find a new plumber, because he's clearly overpaying.
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by zecho 14y ago
> Imagine a search engine that simply removed the top 1 million most popular web sites from its index. What would you discover? A lot of my competitors who are still on the first page of Google results.
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by zecho 14y ago
Seeing as how moths still fly into flames, it's probably going to be awhile. Anyway, that's a shocking number, but I know it happens. I used to work at a TV station in college and once came out to my car to find a goose head on the hood. Th
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by zecho 15y ago
One of the few times I find myself in visual mode is when I'm indenting lines. v{motion}>> or <<. Super useful.
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by zecho 15y ago
There's a whole fascinating book about the evolution of this illusion. http://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Elephant-Magicians-Impossible-D...
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by zecho 15y ago
I'm not sure if you can say that text is the best way. It's certainly one way to tell a story, and even a fundamental way to tell a story, but there have been many interesting advancements in storytelling in the last few millennia. I also e

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