matthewsimon

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by matthewsimon 11y ago
Sorry to quibble, but I don't think that's what "disintermediation" means. Disintermediation typically refers to "cutting out the middleman", not introducing additional middlemen. Cf: https://en.wiki
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by matthewsimon 12y ago
... and how much does the price increase in month 25?
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by matthewsimon 12y ago
Three hours seems extreme. I live in Manhattan and can get to LGA in under an hour on a public bus, or by taxi in 35-45 minutes, and a taxi to JFK might take an hour but certainly not three.
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by matthewsimon 12y ago
Google says "You need permission / This form can only be viewed by users in the owner's organization."
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Gamma Ray Burst in M31 Andromeda Galaxy(businessinsider.com)
1 points by matthewsimon 12y ago|0 comments
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Super-Eddington-scale Gamma-Ray Burst Detected In M31 by Swift Satellite(gist.githubusercontent.com)
2 points by matthewsimon 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Companies Turn Me Down For Contracts(blogs.perl.org)
13 points by matthewsimon 12y ago|0 comments
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by matthewsimon 12y ago
You could read this as a cautionary tale about the difficulty in launching a social networking service: Even with $1.6 million cash (earmarked for a development project in Pakistan) and 500,000 mobile phone subscriber records (stolen from t
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by matthewsimon 13y ago
The federal Animal Welfare Act specifically does not apply to farm animals, and many state statutes also make specific exceptions for agricultural operations. Cf. http://awic.nal.usda.gov/farm-animals
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by matthewsimon 13y ago
The Guardian's UK stylesheet calls for this treatment of acronyms that are pronounced as a word -- people say "Icann", not "Eye See Aye En En" -- which does seem odd but may be acceptable as a regionalism.
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by matthewsimon 13y ago
There's no magical shorting mechanism -- you'd have to find a counterpart and enter into a futures contract. A few exchanges offer this as a service. [0] http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/05/bet
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The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road(forbes.com)
40 points by matthewsimon 13y ago|64 comments
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by matthewsimon 13y ago
> ... did they point a gun at any of the suspects ... This may seem a minor point, but the housekeeper and other staff were not "suspects", they're innocent members of the public.
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by matthewsimon 14y ago
Intriguingly, 349 of the largest Bitcoin transactions ever are all part of an interconnected and obfuscated web of exchanges between November 2010 and August 2012, involving at least 430,000 BTC.
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Google Drops the Price of Google Maps -- By 8X(webmonkey.com)
1 points by matthewsimon 14y ago|1 comments
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by matthewsimon 15y ago
> ... the most densely populated zip codes ... It turns out that zip codes aren't as populous as you might imagine. As of the Y2K census, only a dozen zip codes have over 100,000 residents -- 80% of all zip codes have less than 15,000 r
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by matthewsimon 15y ago
I use a cooperating set of Mac apps: connect to the server using Cyberduck, browse to a file and double-click to open it in TextMate, edit the file and type command-s to save, peripheral glance to the corner of the screen where Growl puts u
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by matthewsimon 15y ago
Ripe for data-driven visualization. http://daytum.com/robynt/categories/191024
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by matthewsimon 15y ago
I'm getting the Etsy mini as well, and I'm in New York City. (The Etsy iframe that's being served is 368px wide, but your sidebar only has 300px available.)
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
As I understand it, there was some vague talk about being selective, in case they maxed out the capacity of the space, but in the end I believe they sent out tickets to everyone who signed up, and nobody was turned away.
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
I was at the same FourSquare hackathon today, and you're right -- there was a lot of socializing going on, and there were people who seemed to be trying to figure out how to present their previously-existing project or startup. On the other
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
Sheesh, did you bother to read the linked document? The "client" in pubsub registers a call-back URL with the server, and the server then POSTs new data to that URL. No periodic polling required -- that's the whole point of this.
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
The Guardian has posted headers and metadata, but not the message bodies, as a Google Fusion Table: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=317391 Additional data links on the Guardian's site: http://www.guardian.co.
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
It's the latter -- the quoted passage is referring to relocating the existing long-term prisoners already housed at Guantanamo. ("Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison") My understanding is that new prisoners are no longer being bro
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
Obviously, a passive income doesn't just depend on "smarts", it also requires initial assets and cultural capital that are generally inherited from the previous generation.
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
There's recently been a round of debate about whether the alt attribute for media (eg, <img alt="Foo">) should remain required or could become optional. As I understand it, some web page creators say "some of our images don't have g
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by matthewsimon 16y ago
Oh my god -- a class of fifth graders in 2009 wasn't aware of two relevant scientific papers published in 2008? The only way to explain these pre-teen children's ignorance of this knowledge is that there's a conspiracy dedicated to hiding
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by matthewsimon 17y ago
FogBugz, with under a dozen users. I find it a bit frustrating (missing features; Unix compatibility issues), but the user interface was easier for our non-technical staff to learn than was the interface for RT, which was our initial choice
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by matthewsimon 18y ago
You're definitely not too old -- I'm 36, and my co-founder is in his forties. Possible drawbacks to older founders include: - may not be able to work for free (or nearly so) for as long a time, because they have families to support (or have
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by matthewsimon 18y ago
It's not as "hip" as Python or Ruby, but I remain a big fan of Perl for server-side self-hosted web/database applications -- depending on what you're building, you can often find pre-existing modules on CPAN that provide a lot of the plumbi

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