Brakenshire

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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> The truth machine is broken. How do we fix it? > And why is it that whenever I see a list of the "top 10 most important problems" to solve, this isn't on it? The truth machine has always been substantially broken, wha
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
I agree, although I feel like it gives a slightly better feel of the uncertainties to look where that figure came from: > The wartime crude death rate in Iraq was 4.55 per 1,000 PY (95% UI 3.74–5.27), more than 0.5 times higher than the
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
Seems like an odd thing to say. He was an applied materials scientist, you don't have to work on fundamental theories to be a scientist.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
IIRC, an Ovshinsky NiMH battery patent is what's behind the idea in "Who Killed the Electric Car?", that various companies bought up a key technology of Electric Cars to run them into the ground. Although I'm not clear o
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> So, Gladwell promises that our alleged misunderstanding has “consequences for everything from the way we educate our children to the way we fight crime and disorder”. Consequences for everything! That is the hard sell, the first free r
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> I'm too lazy to look for the actual references, but in one form or another climate-related arguments for the "superiority" of Europeans were made in the late 1700s and in the 1800s (and towards the end of the 1800s a mor
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> Perhaps they'll do a tier system like "Steam Machine Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum" It would have to be some sort of rolling release I think, because this year's gold hardware will be next year&#x
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
If you don't mind a link to Kotaku, there are some interesting impressions on there, particularly this bit: > "This sounds weird, but it's almost like rolling two weighted trackballs that are too large to actually fit into
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
It means they are fully committed to the programme. Up to now there was speculation that they were going to abandon it.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
This is Linux, though. Even if a timer isn't built in, it will be trivial to install. You could probably use something already in the apt-get repositories.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
You can't enforce such a brutal publish or perish pressure on someone's livelihood without selecting to some extent for people who will abuse the system. I personally think the whole system is fundamentally flawed, given the exten
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> Besides the fact that I think a 'soul' is a poorly-defined construct and thus hard to crush Ah, I see, you're engaged in a 'War on Metaphor'.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
I hope they'll be using CycleStreets (from OpenStreetMap data): http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/38089596/
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> You cannot prevent that some entity will have private data about you, once you start using mainstream online services whose focus is on mainstream issues like ease of use, portability of data and seamless access from multiple devices.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> The latter would be far more obvious in the code and easier to spot. But we can't see the code. And it's far from certain you'd be able to pick it up through watching data packages.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> For those of us in the other 200 odd countries it really is boring as hell to have to wade through your pointless, unsubstantiated paranoia. Speak for yourself, not for the rest of us, please.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> No you can't. I'm not aware of any commercial Android phone that doesn't need binary firmware blobs running in kernel space to work, i.e. for display drivers, WiFi, the radio stack etc. Using an open source operating sys
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
We can thank the European Commission for that. They made GSM 900/1800 a mandatory standard early on.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
That's very misleading, the contribution rate was always dependent on price, not on early hype. Look how quickly the increase fell off when the price went up, and then took off again when the price was dropped, in the first couple of d
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
> $600-800 is a lot of money for most people, and the constant fluctuation and uncertainty about pricing and the fundraising effort is definitely hurting their cause, I believe. On the other hand, they've always refunded any extra m
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
Could it charge over HDMI? I suppose that's the key question.
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by Brakenshire 13y ago
You'd need a fully fledged desktop to make it work. Is there a project like that in existence which you could just install on a random smartphone? I haven't heard of one.