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by regoldste 12y ago
A few thoughts on this: (1) The City's attitude toward these mobile apps, which facilitate a market for public parking spaces, is that they are creating a "predatory private market for public parking spaces" by "hold[ing
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SF Issues Cease-and-Desist to Mobile App Auctioning City Parking Spots(sfexaminer.com)
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Google May Flag When Search Results Are Redacted for Right to be Forgotten(blogs.wsj.com)
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by regoldste 12y ago
To echo the feedback others have provided: your website makes it a challenge to understand what your product does. Being obtuse about the point of your product is not an effective strategy unless you are in stealth mode and you have a simpl
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by regoldste 12y ago
I believe the European Court of Justice's ruling applies to all of the EU countries, not just to Spain. I think it's unimaginable that Google would stop serving the entire EU market on principle. But you raise a neat question: ass
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by regoldste 12y ago
I intended my comment hyperbolically, consistent with my overall satirical tone. To be clear, I don't believe this will kill the internet, and I don't think it is necessarily undermining European free speech protections. My concer
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House GOP Leadership Calls for FCC to Abandon Proposed Net Neutrality Regulation(techcrunch.com)
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by regoldste 12y ago
"Gonzalez had his home repossessed 16 years ago. If you Google his name, you can still see newspaper stories about his debts. 'It hurts my reputation,' he says in Spanish. 'My debts are long paid, but those links were th
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by regoldste 12y ago
I don't deny that the easy availability of mass amounts of information about people on the internet has serious, troubling privacy implications, has magnified the importance we ascribe to that information, and has made it more difficul
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by regoldste 12y ago
I envy you for being so well-adapted to the traditional style of teaching :) On the whole, most people learn better by listening or interacting or doing. I'm certainly the exception in this respect. My brain processes information much
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by regoldste 12y ago
As someone who learns almost exclusively by reading, I've always been bemused by the concept of lectures. I've never thought that a professor explained the material better than the textbook or other reading materials that prepared
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by regoldste 12y ago
Fair enough, you're correct that no new right was created in the EU. I was reading your comment as defending the concept of it as a right, and so I took issue with the notion that it should be a right. Reading the opinion does not alla
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by regoldste 12y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, atto, and congratulations on your launch this week! A few thoughts on your site: (1) My first concern is about privacy. The idea that my search results would be curated based on my friends' browsing activ
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by regoldste 12y ago
You make a good argument about why she has an interest in not being found/identified with this information. To be sure, there are good reasons why she would want to distance herself from this event in her life. By the way, that is the
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by regoldste 12y ago
I agree. I might pay up to $5/month if they offered more than just bookmarking. EG, a powerful and comprehensive platform that automatically organizes the material that a user consumes across all devices. It would be especially valuabl
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by regoldste 12y ago
If their goal was to bury it in mediocrity, I think that would be a good strategy. But I think their goal is to bring attention to a movie that distorted history in a meaningful way, then down-voting it is a pretty effective strategy. If yo
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by regoldste 12y ago
I don't disagree, but you are missing my point, which is a descriptive matter of American attitudes about food. For the most part, I accept your point that old neighbor-cheese (and eggs and slightly-wilted vegetables and over-ripe frui
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by regoldste 12y ago
That article is about scavenging for packaged grocery store food that isn't fresh enough to sell, but is certainly safe enough to eat. Don't you think there's a meaningful difference between a packaged, untampered-with Starbu
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by regoldste 12y ago
This is an incisive and articulate explanation of my reasoning. Ride-sharing and food-sharing are different in a few meaningful ways that raise doubt that a food-sharing app should be premised on this analogy. Not only is it the case that t
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by regoldste 12y ago
Luca, I don't mean to criticize your idea, which is a great attempt at solving the problem of wasted food. I just doubt that this model will really take off. I think you underestimate how squeamish people are about perishable food--eve
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by regoldste 12y ago
Has anyone found a review of how this app works in practice? It seems like it could work well for unopened perishable foods, but do the founders really expect that strangers are going to want to eat each others' half-eaten, saran-wrapp
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by regoldste 12y ago
The article is an incisive analysis of the pernicious effect of money on politics, though it mostly repeats arguments that Lawrence Lessig has been making for the past five years, and adds little new insight to the conversation. Towards the
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by regoldste 12y ago
I think it's also occurring in part because of doctors who are prescribing aggressive and often unnecessary courses of antibiotics. I expect this is at least one explanation for why (as the article notes) antibiotics are ineffective at
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by regoldste 12y ago
I think your moral arguments are sound, and I tend to agree, but I would just add that you should probably explicitly recognize the (implicit, I think?) premise that there is a meaningful moral distinction between the death penalty and othe
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by regoldste 12y ago
Very interesting indeed. I think it raises many more questions than it answers about human behavior and the infectiousness of rumors in social media. I'd be particularly interested to see an analysis of whether sharing a false rumor ha