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clear and concise does not imply perfect grammar :).

It might be that the people that are reading the "new" stories and thus effectively making the decision which stories get at least a brief chance to see a wider audience, are not actually interested in the same things that the core is interested in.

This means that the community-at-large is effectively given the opportunity to vote on a sub-optimal selection of the submitted stories.

This can perhaps be fixed by briefly flashing all new stories towards the bottom of the top news page, to give them a brief chance at wider exposure. One way to do this would be to make a queue, and put every new story on the bottom of the front page for 5 minutes barring a certain number of down-votes for moderation.

This might really effect which stories actually end up on the top news page (though perhaps only for stories submitted during peak times).

I finally got contacted today after 2 months in said pool :).

Never mind you are totally right. Definitely nothing about crying or killed. He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

I don't know if its fake, to me it almost sounds like the the people on the radio are repeating what he is saying or asking him to repeat something, but one can be fairly confident that the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.

So you heard the part I couldn't make out.

I think I made out the entire thing, but I was fuzzy on the last word.

I hear: "K narodom nashe rodie, prakldavuyu chilvetchistvu put k Kommunizmu, bifshi cosmonaft umru?"

The first part translates roughly to: to the people of our homeland, I am laying the way for civilization to communism.

The last part to, this former cosmonaut is dead. But I could totally be mishearing that last bit (as the grammar doesn't really work if that is what he's saying).

The bit about the translation is misleading. I speak russian.

The audio is very fuzzy, but I think at the end he says something that roughly translates to "the former cosmonaut is dead"

Before that he says something about the people, I can't make out anything about heat or temperature. Apparently the people on the ground couldn't either, which is why you hear "mission control" asking him to repeat himself. I couldn't make out the word they asked him to repeat either.

Your "friends list", sure google crawled that from your inbox, but surely you are aware they have that information and have in essence authorized them with it by using their service to email people.

The "friends of friends" bit is the one that could be creepy potentially, but here as well, all they do is take your friends emails, find other social services on the internet associated with those emails, and display the names of your "friends" (totally public) lists of friends.

This is something you could easily do manually with any search engine.

That said, burst speed is what matters if you are streaming or doing something else that is similar.

The typical user has no need for sustained output unless they are torrenting things, being used as a supernode for skype, ect.

I do like the idea though.

All the information is publicly avalible on the internet. They are simply organizing things you could find by other means.

Uh oh... we've started to recurse.

And ocaml, where you need them for polymorphism.

Because it feels like your being cheated when you are sold something that the person that is selling it to you broke on purpose.

It doesn't really matter if the practice actually lets more people use a product, it just feels dirty.

All other things aside, people actually had a huge amount of freedom when it came to job choice in soviet russia.

This is super not intuitive, and there's no way that I can see to revert back to the original state.

A professor of mine once gave a pretty compelling argument for why we are still a long way from using pictures in ATM security.

Imagine you have an ATM account, you fall down and cut your face, maybe break your nose.

Now you need to withdraw money for some reason. You are locked out. Now lets also say that you know someone high up that made the decision to buy these ATM machines. You tell them that you are locked out, and he's going to start wondering why he put these new machines in place.

We'll probably get there eventually, but I think we are far from that point right now.

I think setting up cafes in book stores is the model a lot of them use.

they had 300 million in profits in 2009...

i don't think that qualifies as a startup.

Overcast in buffalo...

It depends where his costs lie. If the ratio of piracy/buyers remains constant, and he is making money right now. Greater volume -> greater profits.

I disagree that this idea is incompatible with this usage profile. You could have your personal computer do alert processing on the box itself, and either setup a system of unencrypted alert messages, or have it ping you every once in a while.

The main idea here is to only allow your personal information off of your own computer in an encrypted form. This seems like a pretty good place to aim for in the future.

The problem isn't lock-in as much as it is privacy. It is better for consumers for all of their private data to be private as they use the internet, instead of having the rely on trusting someone else with the data. Part of the concern is lockin - as in what happens if the service changes their policies or disappears. But this is not the whole picture

The other side of this is that the pirates give you network effects which let more people see your app.

I wouldn't disable it totally, they will just move to giving prominence to something else. Just throttle the amount of bandwidth pirated accounts consume. They are likely giving you sales you wouldn't have otherwise.

I totally agree.

The problem is how do you make it possible for the best people making music (or whatever other internet good) to completely sustain themselves via things they put online.

Yes, but what is going on here is the situation of there being so many picketers that it takes you a while to get through the picket line.

The picketers aren't touching you, but you do become aware of the fact that they are there.

It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest.

You mean like forming a picket line?

Like what oppressed workers did in the throws of the industrial revolution?

Its peaceful protest...

Exactly, you also need something like a government to make people internalize externalities.

This is what I meant. You need something to force people to internalize externalities, and to provide goods that wouldn't otherwise get made.

Market failures are a real thing, and you need some sort of institution to address them. The internet does nothing to change this, except that it makes it possible to create more discriminating policies that are more efficient (in theory).

The thing is, you still need some institutions to provide public goods within each region of the earth, and these invariably have to be governments.

They seemed to say that such an option was still on the table.

Although, if google had an algorithm to account for the quality of reviews, not having a no follow, and having the ranking be a function of total number of reviews, and average feedback score, wouldn't be bad either.

I think that having a general sense of how the web is put together will make any business person more effective in what they are doing, even if they cannot write any code. Taking a few months to get educated before committing to build something would probably pay off in spades in the long run.