swyman

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by swyman 9y ago
The post says they'd block ads from their own network that violate the standard as well
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by swyman 10y ago
Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly (IANAL) but that article left me thinking the mistake was signing the original deal with Sony. Does fair use actually cover what the platform did at at the time?
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by swyman 10y ago
> The approach we take is to track a lot, and figure out what works the best over time. That's really, really bad statistics.
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by swyman 10y ago
Except that time he intentionally sabotaged the 1968 peace talks to end the Vietnam War because he thought it might help him win an election. For reference, the war continued until late 1975. He is directly responsible for each and every ca
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by swyman 10y ago
Divesting would actually be the more direct form of profiting from the status quo. Lock in the gains that the status quo created for you before the culture becomes so toxic the company folds. Keeping your holdings and releasing this letter
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by swyman 10y ago
What kinds of situations do you think are more appropriate for web or web-like apps?
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by swyman 10y ago
Would you mind sharing an example or pointing me to a good guide that explains this concept? How does functional programming make a problem less complex than OO or imperative? I've heard this a couple of times, but the intuition has ne
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by swyman 10y ago
The correct version of the argument is that Facebook can afford to pay for extra bandwidth and reduced latency, but new market entrants cannot. Snapchat has plenty of funding. It also has knock-on effects in the allocation of financial gain
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by swyman 10y ago
Why yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct38KwROdw
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by swyman 10y ago
I have a really hard time putting much stock in metaphors that have so many components and work backwards from the metaphor to the real world. Too easy for the truth and usefulness of the advice to get stretched out to make the comment as a
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by swyman 10y ago
90% of our Tor traffic was script kiddies
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by swyman 10y ago
It covers the costs of ensuring the applicant meets the agreed-upon regulatory requirements. Next question.
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by swyman 10y ago
You didn't even read the article. The predatory pricing they're talking about is running competition out of business by selling below cost until they have a monopoly.
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by swyman 10y ago
From what I understand there's a clause in the deal that allows Verizon to walk away if Yahoo was hiding something "material" from them. http://www.wsj.com/articles/material-adverse-change-clause-i...
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by swyman 10y ago
Thanks for all that info. It's really nice to have both source material and a reasonable summary.
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by swyman 10y ago
That's all well and good, but I'm turning off Uber's access to my GPS entirely.
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by swyman 10y ago
You're not doing yourself any favors here. People say they don't trust your company because of past behavior of the company itself and history of even ethical companies being bought or changing priorities, and you just keep pushin
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by swyman 10y ago
Stop pretending people can't decide for themselves how much privacy they want and from whom
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by swyman 10y ago
> I can't blame the visitors, because they were here for a cheap holiday and knew no better. And the people who rented out their flat are really nice (I'm otherwise on good terms with them). So it's hard to blame anyone bu
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by swyman 10y ago
Ultimately the responsibility to pick reliable tools lies with the carpenter
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by swyman 10y ago
This is a great question. Bull markets (in retrospect) select for aggressive risk-takers without much regard for their sophistication, and bear markets the reverse. You'd basically want to perform this analysis on everyone doing this t
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by swyman 10y ago
> without reduction in American worker's wages. Those jobs would need to be replaced with something paying a similar wage for this to be true. Otherwise you'd move along the demand curve for labor to a point with the same numbe
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by swyman 10y ago
Personal anecdote incoming: I don't buy as many games as I used to as a teenager/college student, but the ones that I do spend money on now are the ones I see on Twitch.
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by swyman 10y ago
Fun fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern...
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by swyman 10y ago
Does it need to be the main cause (or even a cause at all) of the initial jump in incarceration rates for private prisons and their lobbying (and incentives in general) to be objectionable? There's a group of relatively influential peo
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by swyman 10y ago
Don't most reported private valuations fail the most basic smell tests? If share rights, liquidation preferences, and seniority are homogenous, doesn't each share need to be summed individually vs multiplying quantity * latest sen
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by swyman 10y ago
There are enough moving parts and conflicting incentives within the system that it's unlikely to be that simple. In theory, yes, they may have underpriced their IPO and left some money on the table, but that isn't necessarily the
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by swyman 10y ago
Exactly. Taken to its extreme, this is the argument in favor of the seeming paradox that we'll never run out of oil, despite the Earth having an obviously finite supply.
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by swyman 10y ago
I thought Fadell leaving was universally viewed as a positive...
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by swyman 10y ago
Or their other options are ripe for disruption

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