Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
That's an awesome idea. Perhaps it could kick in at a karma level.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I will be. Wal-Mart's revenues are $421 billion a year. Amazon.com is $34 billion. They also have fundamentally different core businesses: Amazon's core is easily delivered items which are often difficult to find in stores, Wal-Mart's core
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by Hyena 15y ago
Auction patent extensions in blocks. First, you start with a free, though much shorter than present, initial period. After that, however, you must purchase the next extension at auction. At period2, there will be X2% as many extensions as t
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by Hyena 15y ago
Or every generation of programmers gets larger and more varied than the last because of increasing computer penetration (there was a time when they weren't in most governments , now they're in most pockets ), the lure of jobs and exposure
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by Hyena 15y ago
I don't think he says anything new that's particularly useful and everything useful said is particularly old. His major arguments against "propping up" were made even as TARP was debated and were used to justify creating a resolution author
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by Hyena 15y ago
True enough, but you don't need your real name on Twitter, at least.
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by Hyena 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that there's a difference between "anonymity" and "not-my-real-name". Most people on the Internet are probably not anonymized by their screennames/handles/nicks/whatever-the-kids-call-them-now because they work hard
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by Hyena 15y ago
And that response could come at 4am. I wouldn't characterize it as "better", though. The fact is that social networks, especially Facebook, are more broadly public with private speech and connections. If you were actually listening to a rev
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by Hyena 15y ago
And more careful selection of who knows it, generally, with less ability for people to verify what they've been told if they stand outside the trusted circle. Moreover, memory isn't permanent in the brain but social network companies seem t
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by Hyena 15y ago
No they're not. In the area of real names, they're mostly about enabling people you didn't give your nickname to find you and therefore complete the social graph.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Nothing about this requires a real name. Almost no one on the Internet knows my real name and yet plenty of people know me very well.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think our grouping of friends is generally suppressed in our thinking. We have fine-grained distinctions among our friends, but we generally don't see it that way because they're not important re friendship . Instead, we have different c
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by Hyena 15y ago
As frosty pointed out, typing itself doesn't "just work" for lots of people. Moreover, command interfaces aren't ignored by the "just works" crowd: voice command has been a holy grail for years. It's typing that no one wants to do.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I do it on a regular basis, actually. What's surprising to me is that others don't seem to: I often come across articles in other languages which are dwarfed by their English companion. I'd think that someone would have bothered using Googl
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by Hyena 15y ago
Presumably a lot of the low-hanging fruit in the English-speaking world has been picked. So Wikipedia really needs to draw contributors from outside Anglosphere to flesh out history and culture articles.
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think whether economics is closely tied to politics depends on what you're asking after. There are two sets of economists: social scientists and engineers. The latter seem to work primarily for government and their work is necessarily c
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by Hyena 15y ago
Doesn't this suggest that MS tried to organize a cartel to put a lock on the wireless industry? The major players all coming together to purchase patent portfolios and agreeing not to sue each other over it sure smells like an anti-trust
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think you fundamentally misunderstand the complaint: would you prefer to win a Nobel Prize or be crowned king of advice animals?
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by Hyena 15y ago
That correction is a concession. If you have more resources and more people and you're not producing more, you're doing something wrong. Very wrong. Second, the talk of "abstract level" and "tangibility" is basically the same sort of inte
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by Hyena 15y ago
No, I definitely agree with this. Scheme is a valuable pedagogical tool. But that probably doesn't matter. So it's better, on the whole, to preserve what you can out of the current book by adapting it to Python than losing it completely. Th
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by Hyena 15y ago
Screw topical circles: I'd pay cash to use Google's knowledge of people to guide follows. For example, I'd like to be able to follow a bunch of people who talk about mathematics; presumably, Google could pick these people out based on what
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by Hyena 15y ago
The obvious solution: rewrite SICP to use Python rather than Scheme. It is CC attribution and non-commercial, so I don't see any legal barrier to outsider revision.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Because humor is not launching, I guess.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Path dependence works, you know: the person you were will tend overall to shape the person you will be in the future. You also can't just "decide to shape the future", you've got to actually analyze your past and develop ways of deflecting
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by Hyena 15y ago
It's just kind of neat. It's also an interesting test of non-verbal brand identity since it can take a moment to recognize, not unlike color-term mismatch tests.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Millenium Falcon. Perhaps it was hidden from George Lucas.
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by Hyena 15y ago
It's called "knowing interesting people who think about the things they're engaged with but aren't programmers".
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by Hyena 15y ago
"People need to realize that Facebook has a vision for their product, and that they need to be able to follow it unimpeded." How is this even possible in the social space? Facebook can't possibly have a vision with too much resolution, all
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by Hyena 15y ago
This all seems pretty blown out of proportion. EJ rented her house to a stranger. That stranger trashed the house and robbed her. The listing service botched their PR badly and only got around to doing the right thing after some missteps. T
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think this is mostly people getting what they paid for. I'm sure lots of people who bought Androids said "oh, well, it's just like an iPhone and everyone has those" but what they were actually thinking was "damn this is so much cheaper".

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