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In other news, Vogue magazine is 91% fullpage ads.

I agree with all of this, but I don't think Gates will accept the job. He's very committed to his foundation, which is a much bigger opportunity for large-scale benefit to billions of people than CTO of the USA.

Adventure requires exploring the unknown. Thus, you never know whether you will be taking the "safer" path, but that's the fun.

You have to make sure that you're not defaulting on anything in your capacity as a startup, i.e. office space.

> when you count the big corporations that aren’t going anywhere (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, etc.) and the porn sites (with which you cannot compete) you have a lot of dogs fighting for very few scraps.

WTF? Facebook and YouTube didn't even exist 5 years ago. Good to know they weren't thinking the same way.

If the hardware bothers you that much just get a Dell and install Mac OS. Steve Jobs isn't going to send the FBI to your doorstep.

Narcissism is healthy and good - it pushes people to achieve.

not "could have," "did" get a lot cheaper. Most of El Mariachi's costs were actual film and processing; nowadays you can rent a camera for a week for $500 which will give you film quality.

Why? Zuckerberg has done what a lot of us want to: write code that is used by millions of people and earns us billions of dollars.

Why do you say that? Do you think people are going to lose interest in the things they do on Facebook, or do you think a new competitor is going to provide a product sufficiently better than Facebook to take over the market?

No, he suggested a system which if implemented would eliminate spam in 2 years' time. Nobody implemented that system, so we still have spam. I'm not going to summarize the system here, you can Google that.

Thanks for exactly restating his question. I needed that.

nonsense.

Yes, have you ever seen the film that accumulates on the inside windshield of some cars on a very sunny day? It's vaporized and then condensed dashboard material :\

I know you're joking but I've actually seen "Cloud 3.0" in print somewhere.

too bad that the 200 person line clubs are rarely worth going to anyways, unless you derive your utility from the actual act of getting in where they cannot (it seems as though you do)

I'm surprised they managed to get this done with all the credit bailout noise.

Does this do the actual face recognition and assign a tag automatically?

Why is this surprising? Nintendo actually makes something that people want.

Why should I care about someone who doesn't care about me?

I've run psych studies at MIT. 90% of subjects are MIT students, unless the prof specifically has to get a broader cross-section in which case the study becomes annoying, expensive, and delayed.

All general social science is implicitly the study of college students.

Beware. The program that is called simply "Alarm Clock" thinks 12:30am is in the afternoon. I missed an exam because of it.

Not really. The CIA and its ilk are so clueless that their pages are probably indistinguishable from that of a typical MySpace user, if not in form then at least in the value of the content.

...9 years ago.

My friend Laura's dad had LASIK in both eyes; one eye was made perfect and one eye went blind. Another friend had PRK in both eyes with no ill effects. Just two anecdotes for you to make your decision.

Jeez dude. You make PG's 6% sound like a downright bargain :)

But Google can't detect when someone makes a one-off ad click for content they like.

I do this already. If I see something really good I see if there's an ad to click on.

70ms can really affect the time people spend on a site.

One of the few things that's almost an auto-downmod for me is 'One of the few things that's almost an auto-downmod for me is "I'm going to be downmodded for this"'