rationalbeats

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by rationalbeats 14y ago
This post is from October 20, 2006 Twitter did not exist then, so I think it is obvious to the people who read this website how a tag like that would be there now.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Your comment is so isolated from the real world, and the very fundamentals of humanity, that I have to wonder how old you are and if you even have a girlfriend. Let alone kids. The comment you wrote is something I would have written 17 year
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Well to plays devil's advocate, the coal miner is working in a coal mine because he did not get a superior education. You can argue about why, but I am willing to bet (I don't know anyone working at Zynga) that many of these employees still
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
No it is sent to Soundexchange, and is split 50/50 with artist and label. It is the performance royalty. It is a different royalty than publishing royalty which is BMI/ASCAP and those monies are sent directly to the label and they decide ho
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Why do people say stuff like this?
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
"But, I just fail to see how they are going to get a strong user base" Why not some integration with Pandora, where you can create user specific radio stations based off of the band's Myspace profile, that is also linked to their tour sched
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
There is a reason this company has been banned from the major app stores. They are not paying the artist for the music they play. So they are stealing from people like me.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Never used Spotify before, but the screen shot you just posted looks just like iTunes to me.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
It doesn't matter. The NYTimes is the official mouthpiece for the US government, no matter who is in the White House. They will never be allowed to fail. (until some other mouthpiece for the White House emerges) Before you 'junk' me, why no
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
That was required reading at the conservatory I went to years ago. (Not by the teachers, among us classmates. We made everyone read that we interacted with) Got to play with Kenny at a jam thing a decade ago. Absolutely amazing experience.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
All those things are great, but I stopped using them when I realized they can freeze my money, or remove money from a linked checking account for whatever reason they decide and I have almost no recourse except to hire a very expensive lawy
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Yes that is it. Thanks for pulling finding that.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
I'm not a criminal, I am a a pretty mundane guy actually, but of course we live in a society that every single one of us breaks some small law every day. Which is why I stopped using Facebook. I also stopped using Twitter to tweet. I still
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
How could the friend even find a way of contacting someone at facebook. That is near impossible.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Well March is the Spring Equinox, and September is the Fall Equinox and that would be my educated guess as to why those two months are special.
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by rationalbeats 14y ago
Considering the author of the story is permanently banned from Wall Street for fraud, it does not surprise me he is loose with the numbers. I would also question the rest of the analysis as well.
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
Well the credit card example is not new. I remember reading, in the NYTimes, about several people who had their credit limits reduced significantly after the 2008 crash, and the reasoning they were told was the type of places they used thei
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
Exactly. I sold a car on Craiglist once, and I will never do it again. You open yourself up to some potentially dangerous (life threatening) situations. To me a "potential" loss of 2 grand that I would incur by trading my car in at a dealer
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
Really? 4 year to vest for most companies here so if you were hired in winter of 2008 into spring of 09 all of those shares will be vested by time the lock up expires. That is assuming they file next week go through the 3-4 month quiet peri
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
livefyre does that. If you go to TalkingPointsMemo.com and check out their comment section you can see it in action. In my opinion it is a little messy only because when you load a page only the top few comments load, but as you scroll down
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
Well they said that their database was compromised and they were not sure what was accessed. So I stopped using them after that incident. It was a while ago I don't remember the particulars, but I do remember they said they were not sure if
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
Except when LastPass was compromised last year...
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
I have a hard time accepting that answer. Those quotes were taken directly from these newsletters http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rXxdXLObxdk/TvFkFgQzpSI/AAAAAAAAFh... It has his name, his face, and says by Ron Paul He also benefited financiall
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
I loved that book. It feels good sometimes to know where that quote came from without Google. My path to becoming a fan of his work started young when I was no more than 11 or 12 and sitting in a pediatrics waiting room with my dad on the E
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
I just found this website that was from a NYTimes article http://www.khanacademy.org/#browse I bookmarked it because I plan on going through all of the lessons so I can refresh myself. I've only watched a few clip but they seem helpful. H
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
I was watching Bloomberg West the other day and they were talking about the people who bought Groupon shares on the secondary market at like 30 or 32 a share and that it must really suck to be them because they have to hold for the 180 days
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
So I glanced through the S-1 real quick. They want to raise $100 million, and so far this year their revenue is about $55 million? Those numbers seem off to me. Also they are only pulling in 50 odd million a year? Seems really low. Did anyo
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
Maybe explains why Twitter is so bad at so many things. Like making money. Why don't they offer a customized twitter feeds of all the GOP presidential candidates and sell ads off of that feed? For example... I have had a strong suspicion th
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
It hasn't changed much because it is working great for a very well connected sub-set of our society.
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by rationalbeats 15y ago
I think it is great. One free book a month. Say 13$ a pop at 12 months that is $156 a year in free books. I only read a couple full books a year now. Pre-Internet I was consuming a couple dozen a year. I already have Amazon Prime for their

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