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by 001sky 12y ago
This (apparently) is an oblique lobbying effort, at least in part. see, the last para of eg: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/10/us-internet-consume...
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The Zettabyte Era–Trends and Analysis(cisco.com)
1 points by 001sky 12y ago|1 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
CS is expensive and the margins on micro-transactions is small. Think about the order of magnitude: (1) An average 2.5% transaction fee on a $100 dollar e-bay transaction is US$2.50 in revenue. (2) The cost of sending someone a "paper
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by 001sky 12y ago
Tetragametic chimerism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28genetics%29#Tetraga...
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by 001sky 12y ago
'I'm guessing' 'trivial' and 'splicing fiber optics' doesn't realy flow, logically.
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She's Her Own Twin(abcnews.go.com)
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Computer passes the Turing Test? I'm not convinced(telegraph.co.uk)
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Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created(alternet.org)
174 points by 001sky 12y ago|78 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
"Eh? Tapping a wire is one of the easiest ways to listen in to communications" Yet splicing into fiber-optics, especially undetected, is not the same thing at all. The americans have special-forces submarines that help them with
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by 001sky 12y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/technology/internet-giants... Is a perfect dupe to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7860987 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06&#x2
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by 001sky 12y ago
Fair enough, but in the linked article the example would not meet even your test of "Look like cars and function like cars"...because the thing is basically a luge-position with an aero-fairing. This was the starting point of my c
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Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies(nytimes.com)
2 points by 001sky 12y ago|1 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is the right analogy. Its the same reason you don't always want a "faster" car in the america's cup or in f1. Boring racing. But the product is not "winning", its racing...the "racing and competition&
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by 001sky 12y ago
The goal of the site was to combine something like stack-overflow with indie-gogo.
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Thai junta tracks Internet posting to capture protest leader(uk.reuters.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. /S
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by 001sky 12y ago
From your citation: It is markedly different from most mainstream cars due to its fibreglass bodyshell and compact three-wheeled platform which allow it a special taxation and licensing class under British regulations. Also, the Morgan I
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by 001sky 12y ago
Ugh. The memes. HFT is not "liquidity". The purpose of the "speed" is to elicit information.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Ha. Its not even a car - it's a tricycle[1] ! The distinctin may sound pedantic but legally speaking they are quite distinct: It’s lack of a four wheel, and low production volume, exempt the Morgan from most safety and emissions regul
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is a good qualification, but not all "products" need be consumer-facing products. That's just a play on words for "retail" sales vs business or professional sales. Its a seperate point to say its a 'featur
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by 001sky 12y ago
The issue is that humans have extra-ordinary endurance. That just doesn't jibe with modern society. The sub-set of people well-bred to only work out 1-2 hours a day, or to have equilibrium metabolism in a cubicle farms is arbirtary to
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by 001sky 12y ago
"We find that clearly communicat-ing need through the narrative is essential and that linguistic indications of gratitude, evidentiality, and generalized reci-procity, <as well as high status of the asker> further increase the l
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by 001sky 12y ago
Over the past year, I’ve contributed a half dozen more stories to Forbes.com. Not under my own name, but as a ghost writer for a couple different CEOs. For that work I was paid—no exaggeration— TEN times what Forbes ever paid me to write f
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by 001sky 12y ago
Devil's advocate: (1) When things are dirty, the only people that will use them are those with no alternatives. And equally repugnant and racist phenomenon is found in inner citie schools ("the only people that will use them are t
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by 001sky 12y ago
Here's the disambiguation from wikipedia: In professions [1] A supervisor or superintendent; one who keeps watch over and directs the work of others, often in the context of forced labor or slavery [2] In law, a person appointed b
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by 001sky 12y ago
food is almost certainly steeped in petrochemicals. So is automobile production. So the analysis is flawed. Which is fine, but it's also false once corrected for capital intesity (and depreciation). So the result is lame. It is not
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by 001sky 12y ago
Even at this low level, the analysis is false. Walking consumes no gas. This is why you cannot arbitrarily pick an incongruent levels of abstraction. The entire premis of gas_equivalent_calories is flawed, then, unless we take steps to appl
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by 001sky 12y ago
The capital investment to produce the car uses energy--so no, I highly doubt this math. The cow is a capital investment like the car (ie, and energy sink that makes other things happen with less energy). If the cow alows you to not buy a ca
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by 001sky 12y ago
If you look like you’re paying attention, teachers will like you even if you never talk to them. This is exactly how I got my job as a teaching assistant for programming classes and I only remember talking to the teacher once or twice all
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Why You Hate Work(nytimes.com)
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