Benjo

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by Benjo 16y ago
From what I understand, the government of Singapore keeps corruption low just by paying their officials a lot. The president makes about $3 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Singapore It may just be an anecdote but it see
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by Benjo 16y ago
Actually I think that street would be Google search results.
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by Benjo 16y ago
He already established that he only cares about the MakeMoney interface, the details of the implementation are unimportant.
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by Benjo 16y ago
GP was responding to: I want to earn money just for the heck of earning money So we're operating under the premise that he's not in it for that stuff.
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by Benjo 16y ago
The reason you want oxygen is that it is a way of staying alive. The oxygen itself is obviously not desirable. This is actually my point.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Because money is only useful because of what it can afford you. Why do you want to make money? The answer to that is the true objective.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Google's servers are on 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 if you prefer them to OpenDNS.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Be forewarned. If you don't deal with cliffhangers well, it may be better for your mental health to wait for the series to be finished. The author is thoroughly committed to the quality of the series, no matter how long it takes. At the cur
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by Benjo 16y ago
GP is probably referring to low interest rates and the general availability of investment dollars.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Marginal effects count. We don't have to cause an epiphany; making everyone slightly more aware of the problem is useful too.
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by Benjo 16y ago
I'm just asking for a guess.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Do we understand the building blocks? What's the smallest system we can't model?
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by Benjo 16y ago
So what DO you think is holding us back? My understanding is the memristor is a much closer model of a synapse. So if the problem isn't raw computing power and it's not the synapse model then what do you think it is? What's holding us back
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by Benjo 16y ago
IanaEE, but I am a CE: The human brain has 10e15 synapses [1] and 2.5 petabytes of storage[2]. A modern quad core processor has about 7e8[3] transistors. Now the brains switches and storage probably can't be directly equated to a processor,
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by Benjo 16y ago
What you described is essentially grep. Hiring someone to give you an executive summary of your image on the internet is different. Honestly, I don't know if this is really the most important function of a social media consultant. They are
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by Benjo 16y ago
Lieberman is not part of the administration. I haven't seen Obama trying to censor this, although he obviously would have prevented it if he could have. By definition he doesn't want classified information leaked.
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by Benjo 16y ago
I was emphasizing that even as someone now jaded by such complaints, I find this to be a valid article. Then your original post was unclear, as you said nothing positive about the article. Because you were negative about the trend of comp
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by Benjo 16y ago
It's not clear to me if she's a) complaining for the sake of it, b) looking for advice on how to handle this, or c) offering advice to guys on what not to do. Point c is probably really good advice to a lot of people, but she's muddled it
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by Benjo 16y ago
As far as I can tell she does social media.
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by Benjo 16y ago
The 55 year old still has 30 extra years of life. You can't dismiss all of that as useless to the job. That's 30 years of learning about communication, teamwork and productivity through just experiencing life. I don't know how you make the
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by Benjo 16y ago
If you can find it, Beautiful Young Minds is a great documentary about the British team for the International Math Olympiad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Young_Minds
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by Benjo 16y ago
Are you responding to someone in particular? The article itself seemed very neutral.
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by Benjo 16y ago
He's already been given the "sexual scandal" treatment the elites gave to Eliot Spitzer.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Keep in mind that "agriculture" includes livestock. Also, the climate of the southern US is well suited for cotton. Beyond that, corn is grown pretty much everywhere.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952218
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by Benjo 16y ago
See also, essays on the Great Filter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
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by Benjo 16y ago
Comcast isn't being overt about it, but it's easy enough to explain that Comcast is making things more expensive for Netflix. It doesn't take much for consumers to understand the conflict of interest between those two entities. Of course, y
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by Benjo 16y ago
I think their corporate nature is incidental. Wired is a corporate media. Perez Hilton is not. This has more to do with getting technical details correct then being a corporation. So maybe "non-technical media" is the term we want?
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by Benjo 16y ago
I think "popular media" or "general interest news" work in this context.
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by Benjo 16y ago
Balancing portfolios is basically a universally recommended practice. If you manage your own portfolio, won't you have a similar "churn rate" to the index fund?

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