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Comment · 9 years ago
The thing that bothers me most is.. Don't people want cookies any more??? When I go grocery shopping, I get a cookie from the bakery. I need to look at them all and pick out the best one. That's how it works! Although I'm sure Amazon will have a solution for that soon enough as well!
Comment · 9 years ago
Amazon has their own delivery service, bought wholefoods, and now bought blink. Blink has a doorbell offering plus the camera's that you already know of. It's not a stretch to have groceries delivered all the way to your fridge and put blink cameras all over the house to make sure the delivery guy walks back out when he's done.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Nice find! I will take a look at that, thank you
Comment · 9 years ago
Thank you, you are right about the software versus system piece. I hadn't thought about it that way. I'll grab a copy of that book and take a look!
Comment · 11 years ago
I find it hilarious that anyone is signing up, man or woman, after finding out that there were so many "bots" there talking to people. If this company has ambitions of being public (or being a company at all) then the bots shouldn't be a thing. That's just straight up defrauding users.

The problem with the site in general is that (relatively speaking) there aren't a lot of people looking SPECIFICALLY for affairs. No doubt SOME, but not a LOT. I think that the reason is that affairs work that way. I don't think people wake up, sigh deeply, and say "I think I'll have an affair today". It comes from a relationship that is broken (actually, 2 relationships that are broken), and an opportunity (finding that second person).

Comment · 12 years ago
One thing that the story doesn't mention is that business travelers are some of the people that suffer the most, because we are required (usually, and unless you're some sort of corporate higher-up) to book the cheapest seats that we can find. Ironic because we travel quite a lot more than "regular people". I guess this is something that could be dealt with on a corporate policy level, and isn't necessarily the problem of an airline, but it's just interesting to notice.
Comment · 12 years ago
Wrong title. "Nobody can make you a decent ANYTHING in less than six months." At least job related. You need to make a bunch of mistakes and have a bunch of "AH HA!" moments when those theories you learned in school or a book actually make sense.
Comment · 12 years ago
Then you just joined a very large club. I don't think that means you shouldn't pay them, however.

Also, there are tons and tons of people who complain about taxes but don't do anything about them. Do you vote? Did you ever run for any public position? Did you ever write a letter to someone in a public position making an awesome suggestion, or volunteering your time to help fix the system you think is overinflated? (Just examples, you know what I mean...)

Of course I WISH taxes were lower, I love money! But I also believe that despite it's many, many, GLARING flaws... The USA is the best country on the planet, and I want to support that.

Comment · 12 years ago
Let's put it a different way. Let's assume for a second that the taxes are more or less "fixed" and need to be paid. SO - you can have companies participate to a lesser or fuller extent. The rest falls on us as INDIVIDUALS.

The moral angle here is that companies shouldn't avoid the taxes of the very environment that enabled them to succeed in the first place.

So I think what he's basically getting at is that paying your (corporate) taxes is basically like "giving back" to that system/environment.

That's the way I think about it, anyways.

Comment · 12 years ago
Same here, weird.
Comment · 12 years ago
If you get really good at a specific product, there is usually someone out there that needs some help. For example Checkpoint firewall, or another IT Security product...
Comment · 12 years ago
This is actually pretty nice, thanks for showing it off

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