bonemachine

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by bonemachine 13y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The article I saw copied and pasted everywhere was a blogpost from someone who went through the bootcamp process (whether this person made it through or not, I'm not sure). And actually, I specifically remembered the "counseled ou
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Nothing conspiratorial in the fact that the networks (correctly) assess that the American viewing public would rather watch Mad Men or Game of Thrones than The Snowden Files, any night of the week.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
There already is one: http://github.com/
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Why of course -- a certain percent get "counseled out of the organization", according to widespread reports. That's part of the reason why they call it "bootcamp."
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by bonemachine 13y ago
And that's what's so terrifying about Glass. That one day, suddenly, it will just be... the new normal .
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Soulless and robotic, to be sure. And eerily so. But what else should we expect from the owners of a news portal that was, from the outset, itself nothing other than soulless and robotic, to its very core -- and whose passing almost no one
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Wow. Talk about showing one's true colors.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Yep, pretty creepy. But thanks for the tip!
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Howabout "geekspeak?" Much catchier.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Am curious as to what the "public beaches" thing is in reference to (being as the links don't seem to be working in the original article): Some of the blows have been self-inflicted, like venture capitalists who compa
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Well it's still a "crime", technically, but for companies at Google/HSBC/BP-scale the consequences are more like those for a misdemeanor -- i.e. you might pay a trivial fine, and maybe get a little egg on your face,
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The original article was really quite informative about this. Please have a look: When drivers accept a call, furthermore, they need to interface with the app. The suit goes on to note that under California law, it is illegal to us
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by bonemachine 13y ago
The large companies obviously know how to avoid accountability by eliminating, or never creating paper trails. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that it was a lack of a paper trail that kept the principals of HSBC out of orange pajamas.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Oh, and since when does selling BTC anywhere, including Silk Road, constitute a crime? Shrem, at least, wasn't charged with "selling BTC" but for violating this thing known as the Bank Secrecy Act. As it says in, you know,
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Agreed -- thumbnails are next to useless, distracting to look at + "thin out" the result set (by forcing vertical spacing), and presumably slow things down quite considerably, all around. Please restore to something reflecting the
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Given his god-like status in the VC community -- and of the company he founded, which until recently has boasted of its "continuing relationship" with Mr. Perkins -- it's more than appropriate: http://www.kpcb
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by bonemachine 13y ago
"Tom Perkins has not been involved in KPCB in years." Really now? Apparently he's still listed as a Partner Emeritus: http://www.kpcb.com/partner/tom-perkins To quote from KPCB's own linking
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by bonemachine 13y ago
It's far worse than a "bad metaphor." It's holocaust trivialization, basically.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
I think we're well overdue for a surveillance DrStrangelove. It wouldn't work. No film depiction could possibly be as absurd as what has already been foisted onto our everyday lives already.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Don't know about startups... but definitely seems true for romantic relationships (by and large).
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by bonemachine 13y ago
I'm always surprised people yell about the U.S. not wanting to help those in poverty. I think that's pretty well refuted by noting that the U.S. is #1 in charitable giving . Pah. There's no way that you can assess a how well
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Again, yes "liquidity providing" might have some value, maybe. But it's just really hard to see it having anywhere near the social (or simply wealth + capital-generating) power, of say, nurses/medtechs, schoolteachers,
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by bonemachine 13y ago
I'm under the impression that financial innovations throughout history have generally spurred capital investment. Innovations like fractional-reserve lending have made bankers&investors wealthy, but also spurred spending on infras
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Haven't looked at it yet, but very upworthy, from the idea at least. Have you considered making it configurable for vocabulary sets (or other kinds of questions)?
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Better to just avoid dealing with recruiters altogether. Except for secretive financial shops (if that's your thing) and temporary contracting gigs, they're almost never needed or useful. Nearly all the good FT jobs are advertised
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by bonemachine 13y ago
This is an unfortunate outcome, since Yale’s copyright assertion muddles the argument that Yale’s actions violate Peter and Harry’s freedom of speech. Agreed. Very muddled thinking, indeed.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
It's not necessarily a very good idea (although death marches, used judiciously, do work) No they don't. Or that is: they sometimes work for your boss (or your customer), in the short run. But they don't work for you .
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Perhaps a better title would be "Everything Wrong With Our Insatiable Big Data Fetish In 4 Easy Charts".
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A Month of Surveillance by GPS Is up to 6,875 Times Cheaper Than Using People(businessweek.com)
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