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Cossolus

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    Comment #2427316

    It's only a blunder if it doesn't work. And that depends not on the bonus but whether there's a clear top-down plan for a well-defined social product. Bottom-up development, where …

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    Comment #2425226

    I think that in the video you should get rid of the elevator music and have someone narrating the most important points about the service, such as how it differentiates itself, wha…

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    Comment #2424169

    Microsoft used to be able to "embrace and extend" in order to extinguish the competitor. With Bing it seems they can only "embrace", by which I mean copying and trying to decrease …

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    Comment #2409452

    The same thing occured to me. The same thing probably occured to everyone that read the article, because that's exactly what the article says: "The findings in the current study ar…

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    Comment #2396594

    Your problem is that you believe that since you personally don't want to do crack, that the overall usage of crack in the general population wouldn't increase if it was available a…

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    Comment #2391587

    Here's how I see it. You have all these knobs you can twiddle with and see the results. Here's what happens when you turn the knobs: make crack legal -----> crack-use increases a L…

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    Comment #2390390

    Let me get this straight... you think you're going to regulate the behavior of a crackhead by changing his tax rate?

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    Comment #2389220

    I think the reality of how +1 will be used will be more like this: you see your list of search results. The first three are so-so and the fourth one is great. You think to yourself…

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    Comment #2366517

    The parent is actually correct. From the original paper: The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the 'imitation game." It is played with three…

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    Comment #2365287

    There's a name for "good reasons" that don't result in proven product. They're called "bad reasons".

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    Comment #2363495

    This product reminds me of cue-cat, in the sense that it fails to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

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    Comment #2288866

    Yes, these secondary affects are interesting to think about. Also, if people don't have to drive 95% of the time, people will forget how to drive, and will probably be unable to in…

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    Comment #2278159

    Sure, and snorting vitamins could replace eating meals. Sleep has been implicated in a lot of secondary roles, including memory consolidation, the body's ability to repair itself, …

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    Comment #2263175

    I think that's the most important feature, and would give your site an advantage to using a wiki. Providing/exposing 'semantic structure' in documents and separating style from str…

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    Comment #1923369

    Sell when you can, not when you have to.