Uhhh no. The _only_ reason _WE_ act civilized is because we are a eusocial species.
We've have always depended on each other to survive. The myth of the single man subduing the world is a myth.
Daniel Boone could not build a musket and powder all by himself from rocks and trees.
Same with any of Ayn Rand's characters. You think the government is a pain in the ass, well take your great idea and build it in Somalia and see if you can make any money. We build on each other.

The reason we get along in general and specifically far more often than we don't is because we are eusocial. The tribe is a single thang, just like an anthill is.

Amazon's business model is actually still the same as any startup--expand or die.
Going into a new area such as smartphones keeps investors interested.
If they stopped expanding into new areas and technologies, then shareholders would start expecting them to make a profit and that has yet to happen at Amazon.

The report doesn't sound analytical at all to me.
Computing the average of all salary offers is like computing the student population based on average nr of students who apply to the university rated against the number who actually attend.
Since 3/4th of students don't accept (because students apply to 4 or more universities on average), then the "student" population of NC University is not 34,000 as stared in its brochures but "actually" 8,500--if you're going to use the same sort of "reasoning" and "logic" the salesmen for the Data Analytics program are using.

I only have a b.s. in math but this sounds like a completely different kind of bs, probably marketed toward folks who think buying a lottery ticket is a good investment.

Hey dude, this is not the forum to be bashing Microsoft ;-)

The article reminded me of the basic design decisions Joel Spolsky talked about simply putting a trash can on a street corner.
It's got to be big so it holds lot of garbage. It's got to be heavy so it doesn't blow away. It's got to be light enough to empty.
It's got about 20 conflicting real life counter-manding requirements.

She's whining about the folks who say writing a game ain't that hard. Ain't no harder than writing a novel. All you've got to do is type the right words that tell an interesting story. How hard can that be?
Harder than it looks.

People play games to avoid real life because it is boring.
ditto for movies and books. The reason "literary" stuff is boring is because it's too much like real life where nothing interesting happens.
Books that sell are full of violence and sex.
If you want any excitement at all in real life, you've got to troll the slashdot comments.
And if you want sex, you need to learn to type one-handed ;-)

At first I assumed Aereo's lawyers were just trying to fan the flames. No way would the ruling affect serving up documents out of the cloud.
That would be as bogus as arresting people for announcing software bugs after giving a company a few months to fix them.
Or like being able to copyright a one click checkout.
That would be absurd.

All this talk about colleges _teaching_ ethics and no comments on how abusive and profitable the NCAA is?
Having those kinds of colleges teach ethics seems about as useful as Dick Cheney or Bernie Madoff teaching ethics

I think Facebook now actually _is_ the new AOL. And that portends a significant downfall in future profits.
Grandma loved AOL because it was easy. Then her son created a site on Geocities. Then her grandkid's band had a MySpace site.
Then finally it got easy enough to post baby pictures on the fBook and that site collected a boatload of users--all of whom specifically chose that site consciously and many of whom don't use it anymore. Sure, Zuckerberg can force newbies to use his site pretty much exactly the way AOL did by plastering everybody with installation CDs
The fBook has probably got all the sticking power of popularity that AOL has. It's still around apparently, but it ain't big business and it ain't the internet and it ain't even on anybody's minds anymore.

Facebook used to be the new AOL. Now it is turning into the current AOL. Technology, like life, moves on.

That might be what the NSA says, but how could anyone believe them after everything else that has happened?

Because without OKCupid, most of the readers here are probably down to a one-handed sex life.

Since most users have no idea what browser they are using, or that they are even using a browser, then just boycotting OKCupid period is the safest thang.
That's how stuff can backfire easily.

It died. Moral Libertarianism isn't profitable enough to the folks who fund political campaigns.

The conditions that apply means there needs to be a solution AND it needs to be profitable.

You want a different example: cholesterol
That may have always been a medical problem but it was never a popular one until _after_ we developed profitable cholesterol-lowering drugs.

For ADD, Ritalin was used as a DIAGNOSTIC drug. If it solved your issues, then you had ADD. If not, then ADD was not your problem.
That's two examples.

Isn't the incidence of bulimia and anorexia related to class status also?