DaniFong

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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   I suppose children should not be allowed to swim either...
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   Thanks for the link, Michael. I wonder how far the link goes the other way? One of these days, I want to try to sort out the major results and foundations in the major topics of physics in a big map, showing what has been shown to follow fr
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   I think more accurately, that she was a cheerleader who became an engineering student, and then a professional engineer and finally cheerleader. It's good for science, and for any field, I think, to show that there's a diversity of interest
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   FWIW, "The China Project," documented in the eponymous book, appears to show a dangerously strong correlation between meat intake/animal protein intake and cardiovascular problems, cancer, and dementia. This is possibly not true when the pr
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   Why does selling shares to the public produce a duty to do anything possible to make a profit? A share in something could be a share in any social contract. A share in a nation, for example, accords one vote and a host of other rights and d
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   I use a 3G connection through Millenicom. It hasn't been awesome but it has supported what was a nomadic lifestyle for a time. It's not always on. You have to turn it on. This has been a big timesaver for me. YMMV.
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   I would be interested in discussing it with you, potentially to help you find funding/whatever, if you're comfortable. dani.fong@gmail.com if you're interested.
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   Did Einstein really help the patent office? There is a degree of truth in this point. I will also add, though, that some of our best hires aren't doing anything remotely like what we hired them to do...
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   by DaniFong 16y ago

   Definitely. My bet is that the biggest issue is peer pressure which, honestly, is why I think top down efforts from parents and teachers and governments to boost girl's involvement in STEM are so ineffective. Most of the early development
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Problem 1: You're impute a rather radical belief onto all feminists. You are constructing a straw feminist. Problem 2: How is a person supposed to choose an unbiased test? What do you even mean ? Problem 3: The most obvious fact should b
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth seems to uncover exactly this relationship. www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/DoingPsychScience2006.pdf In the bottom quartile of the SMPY cohort (99 percentile) less than 0.5% received tenure at a
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    I almost wrote yet another in a long series of posts bringing the evidence I encountered on the flip side to this discussion. I thought, once again, that doing so might have enabled a few more people to release that it's just too darned har
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Skype won in part because other attempts at VoIP didn't work very well. There are lots of practical problems in just getting a p2p connection to work, there are often firewalls to route through. Trying to debug these is not helpful when you
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Wow, thanks for this. I'll see if I can figure this out.
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    I was once asked by a Ghanaian student at Princeton how long it took to become incorporated. "What? I don't know. A day, and month? Something like that?" "and how much!?!" "Dunno. $150?" "My god -- I thought incorporation was the hardest th
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    Terrific Visualization of the US Electric Grid(npr.org)

    4 points by DaniFong 16y ago|0 comments
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    His ex, Justine Musk, says in her post 'golddigging' http://moschus.livejournal.com/140610.html "For those who want to know the extent of my golddigging, this is what I asked for, from my ex-husband and the father of my five children Elon
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Spouses bare a significant amount of the risks and emotional hardships of founders. They can be up late, discussing ideas into dawn, making food, or educating/entertaining their five children as one digs in. Being married to a founder could
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Cut any way you like it, TechCrunch is a success.
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Michael Arrington is/was a lawyer and runs a startup. I think his legal background has given him the confidence to pursue legally sensitive journalism Barack Obama ran a very startup-esque campaign, tech development, social media strategy,
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    There is no sustainable growth without sustainable decay. Makes you wonder about those financial systems based on economies with compounded interest -- exponential growth -- which are supposed to be resident on a finite planet. The populati
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    These are new small businesses, not startups, specifically. They are the restaurants, catering services, print shops, laundromats, and interior design firms taking up the strip malls of the world. By the metrics used San Jose would rank as
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Or, you can make something for your own amusement like Steve Wozniak, and spend the next two decades helping the entire planet come around to discovering how useful it is. Minds take time to change.
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    I haven't yet met any inventor worth a damn that wouldn't invent and innovate for the heck of it. There are really only two things I see patents incentivizing: innovation in otherwise unattractive fields, and development of further innovati
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    For what it's worth, my friend Patrick Collison wrote an aware winning Lisp at 15 -- and is still hacking.
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    But the original idea for Facebook wasn't 10% as big as Facebook. 'Execution' includes turning your good idea into a great one.
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    There's Bill Joy, too :-) http://www.kpcb.com/team/joy
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    FYI, we did kill a huge fraction of the world's megafauna before agriculture.
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    How We Wrecked the Oceans(ted.com)

    1 points by DaniFong 16y ago|0 comments
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    by DaniFong 16y ago

    Last I heard, there were some quirks in matching the memory model between C and Python which caused excessive paging (?) that PyPy can avoid. Can't find the reference, but maybe it's a clue to help you look.