andrew93101
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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
I think it is relevant.
If users generally dislike facebook, but continue to use it, it's a bad situation to be in for Facebook. It indicates that people are using the product because of its network effects and despite the product itself.
It means that if anything begins to actually challenge the network effect of facebook, they will be in a very tough spot.
Comment · 12 years ago
Not directly related but a fun fact: GCHQ had discovered both RSA and Diffie Hellman asymmetric crypto years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't understand. The apple watch does allow 3rd party apps.
Comment · 12 years ago
"Run your small business as if it were a large business" is a quote that I would disagree with for startups, for two reasons:
- it encourages premature scaling
- many large businesses have lost the ability to innovate and lost the ability to respond quickly to market changes.
Both of those consequences can be fatal for a startup.
Comment · 12 years ago
A great way to check the visibility of your own profile is to view it in an incognito window.
Comment · 12 years ago
Here is the link to Q2: http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=861599
Comment · 12 years ago
"Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies?"
This is because last mile internet access is a textbook Natural Monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Comment · 12 years ago
Has there been discussion of passing this fee on to customers who access from Comcast in the form of a surcharge? If Netflix hiked prices for customers who were connecting from Comcast networks, it would encourage news of this business practice to spread.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think the idea is that lead exposure in childhood leads to crime later in life
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
This is the best article I've read yet on the subject of what's actually going on. The NSA slide deck was always inconsistent with most of the public statements of industry execs, and this article reconciles them nicely.
The more I read on PRISM, it seems that PRISM itself is a minor revelation (that being, PRISM just automates what used to be done manually).
Most of the outrage just flows naturally from the Protect America Act, which was never a secret. The public is just now hearing about how the act is used in practice.
Comment · 13 years ago
An ambitious goal, but unless they have a clear path to get there, it shouldn't drive their valuation.
That's the opposite of what I'm describing. I'm describing making something that people don't find compelling, that doesn't solve their problems, but they use it because it's their only option (the network effect).