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by Duff 16y ago
I don't know how you can accuse me of making up FUD, while asserting that the impact is "very low". Since the NY Times reported this morning that unprotected workers were burned by contaminated water suspected to be leaking from the #3 reac
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by Duff 16y ago
Of course, catastrophic failure of a coal or wind power plant kills plant workers and maybe a few unlucky bystanders. The Fukushima disaster, on the other hand, is poisoning square miles of land, air, sea, most likely the groundwater and pr
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by Duff 16y ago
I'm sure the Chinese already have a network of informants and surveillance to gather "evidence". A system like this that just terminates calls is probably meant to slow the organization of mass protests. They probably figure that a near-spo
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by Duff 16y ago
Murph Jr. really doesn't make more money, as other costs have skyrocketed since that time. The early 80's were the tail end of the era where a single income could purchase an average home. So while my income is about 50% higher than my fath
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by Duff 16y ago
It is more about the "how" and less about the "what". If I called you 500 times and simply said "Hello, hello, hello", that is still harassment. The WBC people apply for permits and protest on public property. What they say isn't relevant.
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by Duff 16y ago
I don't think this matters, as most of this wealth is on paper and is thus ephemeral. The inconvenient truth is that our levels of spending and accumulation is debt is not sustainable, period. That leaves two choices: 1. Dramatically cut en
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by Duff 16y ago
Have they improved the ability to manage Firefox settings in an enterprise environment?
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by Duff 16y ago
For many students -- perhaps as high as 80% IMO, something like the Khan Academy, combined with a supervising adult to coach you could easily replace teachers, and should. Why? Schools work the way that they do because it is convenient. The
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by Duff 16y ago
The support of wingnuts like Kucinich and Paul guarantees that an issue will be ignored by 99.8% of the country.
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by Duff 16y ago
Knowing nothing about it, it seems to me that you could curate a semi-automatic solution pretty quickly. (ie. Look, this guy follows Cisco's Datacenter Twitter account... let's show him stuff from Juniper's datacenter team, etc)
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by Duff 16y ago
It shouldn't matter. In 2011, people interested in NCAA basketball should see sports stuff. People interested in Ruby on Rails or Amazon EC2 should see IT stuff. It should be pretty easy to spot people's interests on Twitter. Amazon.com doe
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by Duff 16y ago
These stories have the odor of propaganda to them. I'd argue that there's no looting because refugees are penned up in shelters inland, and the coastal towns are pretty much gone. In Katrina and Haiti, people were stuck in the immediate are
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by Duff 16y ago
The funny thing is, clients like Twitterrific and Tweetie pre-Twitter takeover managed to figure out how to monetize the client years ago. The Fusion Ads that were featured on Twitter in particular were excellent -- I actually found some th
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by Duff 16y ago
The 7th largest earthquake in history was an 8.8 off the coast of Ecuador in January 1906. Three months later in April, the Great San Francisco quake struck. I'm not an earthquake historian, but I'd be willing to bet that other earthquakes
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Some Japanese water supplies, food, farms contaminated with radiation(consumerist.com)
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by Duff 16y ago
It's not a fad, it's shared services. Sharing comes at the cost of flexibility, which can be a pain in the butt. Personally, if I'm going to be operating a large computing environment, I'd rather stick 80% of my workload in a cloud environm
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by Duff 16y ago
I'd argue three reasons. First, airlines usually recruit military pilots, since the government was kind enough to invest $500k or more to train them as pilots. Second, the era of airline pilots being a glamorous job is over. When major airl
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by Duff 16y ago
You can also hook into the kickback schemes by partnering with major reward programs like Amex Membership Rewards. Or work with state governments to have a voucher program like what Ireland has for BnBs. It's a great business.
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by Duff 16y ago
I'd like to offer you some prime property in Pripyat for your home. If you buy today, I'll even throw in a free well-drilling for your water supply.
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by Duff 16y ago
Sure, if you conveniently ignore all of the children born in the Ukraine and Belarus with birth defects due to exposure, the plant workers and soldiers who were sickened or died heroically trying to shutdown the reactor, the increased incid
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by Duff 16y ago
A few short days ago, we were told that everything was a-ok, no worries. Then the buildings started exploding -- still, everything is under control. On Monday we hear that fuel rods are fully exposed, but that is ok too. Now we're talking a
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by Duff 16y ago
I respect your faith in good engineering, but I haven't seen alot of evidence of good engineering here. There is no evidence to support your assertion that this is nothing like a "China syndrome" type issue. This facility is located a few m
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by Duff 16y ago
I'd argue that is splitting hairs. What will magically lower the radiation when the workers leave? They can't drop boric acid and water on the half-melted reactors from helicopters for fear of rupturing them further, the control systems are
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by Duff 16y ago
I'm really kind of sick of listening to people talk about how everything is hunky-dory. I heard one supposed expert on CNN basically state that a nuclear meltdown is no big deal. The lesson to learn here is when a government tells you every
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by Duff 16y ago
I attended one of the earlier "Startup School" events a few years ago at Harvard. Unfortunately, things didn't work out for my startup concept (I ended up working for the government, of all things), but I found the meeting inspiring. Here I
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by Duff 16y ago
People behave irrationally during panics. Through a little bit of cleverness on my part and alot of luck I found myself sitting on cash when Lehman collapsed. So faced with the prospect of fiscal apocalypse or (I had friends pulling money o
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by Duff 16y ago
I can't speak to the numbers, but I've read about foreclosures thrown out of court by judges in the WSJ and Economist, so it has happened -- at least in the early days of the mess.
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by Duff 16y ago
You can only forclose on a home on which you hold a lien. One of the big problems associated with this mess is that banks couldn't figure out which bondholders owned which mortgages. The junk mortgage companies (one of which BOA acquired) w
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by Duff 16y ago
That's a great point. People always say mean things about the Soviet Union, but in comparison to North Korea, a factory worker in the Stalinist era had a great degree of personal freedom.
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by Duff 16y ago
From the lecture, that sounds like one of the techniques that are at work with the Khan Academy. Teachers encourage students to help other students. Teachers spend their day helping kids instead of futzing around with lectures and books. Th

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