Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
But are they any good? China's patent laws are worse than those of the US.
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by Hyena 15y ago
How much software do you have, including regularly visited websites and other ephemeral software?
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think this article gets the nexus of failure wrong. Apple didn't change everything because, ultimately, the Apple idea didn't spread. I'm a big fan of Steve Jobs and how Apple has approached products but the fact is that it's pretty much
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by Hyena 15y ago
Yeah, it would rapidly be swamped by various scams intended to separate the users from their money.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I have doubts. 3D printers are effective at replacing casting and (sometimes) stamping. But they don't replace forging, rolling or assembly of moving parts. That is, I think they most replace manufacturing operations which were low labor an
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by Hyena 15y ago
I used to read The Economist on a regular basis as well, along with FP and FA. But over time, it has lost a lot of its appeal, being steadily replaced by blogging academics and research papers for me. All those mags serve a sort of middle g
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by Hyena 15y ago
There was talk about this a while back, the need to go back to the curated list idea of the 1990s in order to reduce SEO spam.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I don't think this is correct, though. I think the free content model has actually been spectacularly successful. If you don't agree, I don't know what you've been reading for the last 20-odd years. It just hasn't replicated the form of old
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by Hyena 15y ago
Speak to enough mainlanders and you'll see the same opinion in China.
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by Hyena 15y ago
True, but there's nothing that keeps it from expanding higher and it has all the resources for it already in place. I'd think Khan Academy is likely to slowly become the major mathematics provider. Possibly also finance, depends on whether
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by Hyena 15y ago
Is it? I see lots of high quality content all over the web, particularly as blogging has picked up ever more people who are prominent in academic fields. I think this should be re-titled "Can We All Agree That The Webmag Experiment Has Fail
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by Hyena 15y ago
Another step in America's quest to become its parody of China.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Probably because Khan Academy is heavily biased towards mathematics and OCW heavily biased towards science/engineering.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Yes, I'm aware and that's the problem: I have to be aware of this sort of thing even for consumer software . Contrast Windows: I download, double click and it goes. No knowledge needed.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Could this article be more wrong? I took the Linux challenge last month, making Ubuntu my main OS. The experience was terrible and I switched back to Windows. Linux is still almost awesome and I've retained a Linux install as a "work mach
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by Hyena 15y ago
"For video cameras, it will be USB 3 for everything other than Sony which has its own special precious non-compatible variation Thunderbolt that only works on VAIOs since Sony loves to play the special precious protocol game with their litt
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by Hyena 15y ago
Comments to this post seem largely divided between people who identify heavily with their employment and people who identify heavily with their activity. For the former, unemployment is terrible. For the latter, it's merely a financial issu
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by Hyena 15y ago
Note, though, that they went to "excellent schools". They could have just gone to low end state schools and walked away with much less doubt.
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by Hyena 15y ago
How do these suits work? Presumably, Cisco has done nothing wrong in China and therefore isn't liable.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Note bene: since the effective tax rate on the wealthiest Americans is lower than that of almost everyone else because of how tax law treats investment income, Buffett's argument is for the time being indifferent between progressive and fla
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by Hyena 15y ago
This was my thought as well, I've never heard of a brute force attempt working in the real world.
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by Hyena 15y ago
First: the service is invite only for the time being. Second: the network effect can be a curse as well. Linkedin has succeeded because its network is limited to work contacts. There are costs to having a complete public network. Third: Goo
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by Hyena 15y ago
It's snark from the earlier debates about structural unemployment. If I'm unemployable, it's because I really don't have the patience to work for most employers at this point. They can DIAF for what it's worth.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Arguably, if we're going so far as to factor in food, we should factor in health benefits. If bicycling reduces your demand for medical care, it also reduces the portion of your carbon footprint taken up by treatment. Hospitals and medical
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by Hyena 15y ago
College was awesome. Every time I read a critique of college education, my thought is this: you paid too much to do too little because you were focused on "getting a piece of paper". A better strategy is to use that time trying to know ever
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by Hyena 15y ago
Robin Hood was largely stealing from a landed Norman aristocracy which had conquered and subjugated the people he was giving to. That's the context for the legend. Try again.
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by Hyena 15y ago
The most important thing about Google+ is that it integrates from the start platforms that have arisen since the first generation of social media. So Google+ is Facebook-like and Twittery and bloggy in one package. But I think this means th
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by Hyena 15y ago
These stories always make me wonder about the people who work at the patent office. What are they like? What do they think? Are they mostly young people, old people, tech people, clerical people, Wisconsinites, suburbanites, Mad Men or Squi
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by Hyena 15y ago
I am responding to the blanket claim that the contract is unenforceable because CA has at-will employment. That there are specific exceptions to the general rule is not important re above.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Contracts are always enforceable.

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