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by 205guy 14y ago
"the transaction is severed from the familial unit and carried out in the market." And this is one of the good things about a capitalist free market, it reaches certain efficiencies and spreads the risk (and rewards) across the whole econom
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by 205guy 14y ago
But which is the cult, mustachianism or consumerism?
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by 205guy 14y ago
But the Babylon installer is from one of IM's advertizers, so it is possibly indicative of the types of pages that IM inserts in other installers. If nothing else, the poor reputation of Babylon is indicative of the types of software that I
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by 205guy 14y ago
And you missed the point as well: if you didn't know who Aaron was, and you didn't click any of the links on HN about him, would your life be any different? I didn't know about Aaron until all the articles started popping up here. Only curi
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by 205guy 14y ago
I like this quote, only slightly newer, by Paul the hermit: "Tell me, I pray, how fares the human race: if new roofs be risen in the ancient cities, whose empire it is that now holds sway in the world, if any still survive, snared in the er
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by 205guy 14y ago
I think the Farce is strong in that one. Seriously though, all it takes is a bunch of Star Wars reference to garner a bunch of Likes? No wonder there are so many actors in politics.
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by 205guy 14y ago
I just read the copyright thread, and someone mentioned how the Coca-Cola recipe is still secret, not copyrighted or trademarked. I kept thinking that with enough computational power, someone could eventually reverse engineer it from some m
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by 205guy 14y ago
I think there is a distinction here that needs to be made: copyright is about the marketplace, not actual ownership. If I drew a mouse cartoon and really liked it, and maybe just showed it to my kids every year, I could keep it secret and I
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by 205guy 14y ago
I believe that is a feature and not a bug. At least for the contractors and their friends in governmnet.
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The "people of old" were just as intelligent as humans today, they just didn't have the same access to technology or stored knowledge (which is why Wikipedia is so revolutionary in some ways). If you look at the statuary from Classical time
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by 205guy 14y ago
I came here to say exactly the same thing. My thought was they were going to be collecting WiFi info. Anyone know if that is even possible (I guess everything is possible, since they created the platform)? Hadn't thought of the pedestrian i
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by 205guy 14y ago
Esprit d'escalier: "In my day (usenet), we didn't have links--and we liked it." (old SNL joke for those who don't get it). This conversation has 2 angles I find very interesting. The first is the whole question of quality of the content. Go
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Cuban ingenuity in the iPhone age(sfgate.com)
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by 205guy 14y ago
Surprised no one quoted this yet: "I avoided computer science because I heard it’s too theoretical and non-practical." OP then enrolled in pre-med, the epitomy of theoretical and non-practical (cramming all the anatomy and cellular biology
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by 205guy 14y ago
Wow, so much negativity in these comments. To me this is the logical conclusion of the phone camera (a lot of people had this idea, I'm sure, but they seem to be the first to get it out). After bashing Samsung for their iPhone copying, I ap
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by 205guy 14y ago
I find the smart-phone answers encouraging. I had never heard of the quantified self movement before, but it is a neat thing. However, just imagine the power for science when thousands and millions of self-reported health data are aggregate
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by 205guy 14y ago
At first I was going to say "what a sad reflection on American culture" (the fact that the car is the enduring anchor of the Alzheimer patient), but then I realized they could use the same single car for all their patients, so it is, in a w
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by 205guy 14y ago
The glossy effect, and all the other UI niceties took thousands of hours of research to perfect. You think they just mocked up the design in a single alpha release and shipped it as is? No, good UI takes tons of work, not just development b
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by 205guy 14y ago
When Apple copied from Xerox PARC, was the UI part of an already successful, profitable mass-market product? No, they stole a research idea and ran with it (though it's just as likely to have been patented). But when Apple has a successful
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by 205guy 14y ago
Very interesting article, and a point-of-view I'd never really considered. I had always assumed the "intelligence" that was being added by software was an addition to the existing business processes. I hadn't thought that some of it was ori
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by 205guy 14y ago
I'm curious: how do they know it's a new species? Seems like it could just as easily be a small mutation that does not affect interbreeding. From one (presumably dead) specimen, how did they determine it was an entirely new species, and not
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by 205guy 14y ago
There must be some amateur radio people out there able to receive these signals, no? With the protocol stacks mentioned in the other comments, I wonder if they're able to extract the encrypted data. Which leads me to think there have got to
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by 205guy 14y ago
Same here. And I was thinking: "wait a minute, that warm, unfeeling server really does care about those bytes--quite ironic actually."
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by 205guy 14y ago
Very interesting read of one person's (very credible) opinions about China. Yet... The title is a tautology. I can't help but feel that anyone from country X will every be integrated into any other country, as long as they still want to be
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by 205guy 14y ago
Nobody is pointing out Twitter's and Facebook's role in this affair. Sure, they are just tools (pun intended), but their very nature (short statuses broadcast directly to social network) makes rumors and heresay take on more sinister propor
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by 205guy 14y ago
I think you have that backwards: city homeowners lobby against new building permits because SF has limited space. They feel their neighborhood is plenty crowded, their views are blocked quite enough, and traffic is already congested, etc. H
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by 205guy 14y ago
War is peace, freedom is slavery, and rent control prices people out of SF. SF has limited space. Price is not the only way to allocate space. Local government can, within limits, set other ways such as rent control (essentially a form of s
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by 205guy 14y ago
I'm rather tired of all the sanctimonious, edgier-than-thou commenters and bloggers who keep saying CL has a "shitty UI." And that't not just because I like it (it's clean, simple, and easy to use). I totally agree that it could be improved
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by 205guy 14y ago
And today, I was just thinking about ditching my data plan on my iPhone (or more exactly, getting a MVNO SIM and turning off 3G). And of course, that made me wonder if there was an app for accessing dial-up.
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by 205guy 14y ago
RTW (round the world, I assume) may have some special meaning in this context, but to the lay person, that itenerary does not cross all degrees of longitude and, notably, not the dateline.

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