Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
I doubt the marketing rationale. Most G+ accounts will be connected to older Gmail accounts, which are themselves likely to be the point-of-contact for most online transactions (and, if not, it's going to be same_name@yahoo.com, etc.). So i
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by Hyena 15y ago
Cloud computing should be safe simply because the history of computing until the 1990s should be available to serve as prior art. What would be helpful, of course, is if there were a ruling or (heaven help us) a law which made explicit that
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by Hyena 15y ago
I'd think that world would be a long ways off for a lot of people. I can't play large games from my phone. There's not even a port of Dwarf Fortress. Sad times.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Just to play devil's advocate: Apple pays for the infrastructure to host and distribute the Kindle app, which then proceeds to circumvent the payment system by offering the app for free and charging for the content from outside the Apple st
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by Hyena 15y ago
I still think that the most bothersome thing is that there are lots of people, especially in my generation, who grew up with the Internet and with identities tied to ancient AOL e-mail addresses, screen names, Usenet handles or MUD characte
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by Hyena 15y ago
Well, no, I didn't use scare quotes, though that was my intent. Usually it seems like the more people review some procedure, the more they convince themselves that is how it's done.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Does anyone ever actually see an improvement in their creativity from a system like that? I'd imagine that most people just get stuck in a loop, reaffirming that those are, in fact, the necessary elements.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The article is mostly about addictive personality and the connections between addictive personality and innovation or success aren't really well drawn. Moreover, their anecdata suffers from the problem that people who are in a high stress e
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by Hyena 15y ago
Cascading default in state, local and foreign governments along with the end of a largish chunk of firms, ending with a series of currency unpeggings that make the end of Bretton Woods look carefully choreographed. There may be riots in Chi
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by Hyena 15y ago
Bike sharing systems allow you to localize bike storage, removing the need to transport bikes long distances. Instead, transit by bicycle is reduced to middling distances where they have an advantage over both walking and cars. Second, I do
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by Hyena 15y ago
I remember when that issue was a current topic. I kept thinking that the "peak founding age" had been pushed low by the generation gap between people born before-and-after ~1980. The fact is that there would be relatively few technology sta
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by Hyena 15y ago
This article seems pretty off-base. It's true that established businesses more rarely need to hire people because technology has eliminated a lot of clerical jobs, but the flip side is that there are lots of smaller companies now as well wh
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by Hyena 15y ago
The only problem with this is that paying for channels isn't quite analogous to paying for streaming access. Felix Salmon points to the obvious difference in reasonable pricing models: a stream aggregator could charge a flat fee but pay var
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by Hyena 15y ago
What about the vast majority of us who went to schools where professors don't have connections of note anyhow? A lot of these complaints seem most relevant to people who went to top tier schools but graduated with a degree that's less-than-