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by LPTS 18y ago
(I don't mean to sound harsh on you, you sound smart and what I wrote has the wrong tone.) "most of the time people learn things specific to the topic they are interested in." Your structure is wrong. It's not most of the time all people.
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by LPTS 18y ago
No one has humor here.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Stop the presses.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Maybe it just seems to me like an investment obviously worth paying.
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by LPTS 18y ago
"When you learn by yourself, you tend to learn enough to do what you need to get done. In school you learn things that are not immediately obvious that you need them." No, no, no. YOU tend to only do the minimum to do what needs to get don
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by LPTS 18y ago
The assumption does not hold with more information. First, self teaching processes filter out idiots too, since idiots can't self teach. P(qualified | (no degree + autodidactic)) > P(qualified | (Degree + little self teaching ability))
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by LPTS 18y ago
"Web developers who don't have degrees aren't exposed to the fundamentals and fancy algorithms that are beaten in to you in CS courses." That's not true. First of people without degrees can be dropouts, having learned it in school before d
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by LPTS 18y ago
I think you're shortchanging the value of being autodidactic. The paper signifies an accomplishment that has nothing to do with actual ability. This obsession with degrees is a fetish. Any decently self teaching person is going to wade thr
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by LPTS 18y ago
Maybe a degree means you are too willing to accept mindless mediocrity (like that found in our education system) and no degree (but the same level of ability) means the person is both autodidactic and unwilling to accept everyday mediocraci
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by LPTS 18y ago
Get a refurbished mac. If you are going to program you should have a mac. The 21rst century computer company.
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by LPTS 18y ago
How will they compete with microsoft?
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by LPTS 18y ago
That's not an offer. That's a middle finger.
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by LPTS 18y ago
"Welcome to the dystopian nightmare of round the clock policing and advertising, that you are only willing to accept because you have no taste, vision or standards, and you desparetly cling to the past, that we euphimistically call the soci
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by LPTS 18y ago
What these numbers mean is that apple is the only 21rst century computer company. Dell, HP are 20th century computer companies. It also means that most people who are desirable customers (spend over 1,000) who buy for themselves and look a
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by LPTS 18y ago
I wonder if you could make an AI research project where instead of making computers smart like people, you tried to get computer users to act like machines, entirely predictable. I bet there would be something to learn there too. I also wo
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by LPTS 18y ago
That's a little (edit: lot) misleading. Apple's market share of PC's sold direct in stores over 1,000 is at 66%. The 66% would not hold if internet or corporate sales are included. Therefore your title exaggerates apples market share in c
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by LPTS 18y ago
This is great. These are incredibly exciting new developments. There was a great one I read a few days ago about our conception of space as a continuum being an approximation. Space might be better understood as being quantized. http://w
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by LPTS 18y ago
It makes my brain hurt how dumb Scoble is. I've never done any heroin in my life, but every time I read Scoble it makes me want to find the fattest, rustiest needle I can, load it with heroin mixed with whatever mystery powders I can find,
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by LPTS 18y ago
Um...you're going with...um...newspapers and pharmaceuticals as examples of noble corporations? Um... OK. I hate to break this too you, but newspapers haven't had shit to do with the truth since ownership rules relaxed enough to turn them
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by LPTS 18y ago
So basically google is an extortion racket where people can't find you on the internet unless you either pay outlandish SEO fees to people to battle against google for tricking it into displaying your results high, or pay google for ads? An
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by LPTS 18y ago
I really think you are wrong about google being a great job where people can easily be fulfilled. But, I sure agree with you about corporations doing a lot of good for the world. Corporations are great. The problem with corporations is in
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by LPTS 18y ago
I guess I should of said "the number 3 guy thinking he can win" instead of each of them (yahoo doesn't want this fight). I can't think of any, but I would imagine there are cases. There is no way this hybrid frakenstein beast would be one
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by LPTS 18y ago
I agree it's a bit of a cheap shot. I don't think it's inaccurate. There is no doubt the ad system is valuable. There is no doubt that creating the advertising systems google uses would be an intellectual challenge. But people don't want
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by LPTS 18y ago
It must be a fine line to walk between finding hyper-intelligent people, meeting their intense need for self actualization, and mostly employing them in the soul numbing work of selling ads.
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by LPTS 18y ago
It's like a race where one guy is ahead and the number two and three stop and have a fistfight, each thinking they'll win the race if they knock out the other. Both these CEOs are dead. The only life left in them is the natural processes t
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by LPTS 18y ago
Good for them. Porn sucks. Porn is to sex as chocolate life savers are to an artisanal chocolate cake.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Not that this article is great, but I would think anything thats about huge scale world problems would be of interest to the group of creatives that need problems to apply their technical skills too so they can create world changing compani
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by LPTS 18y ago
Great artists steal.
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by LPTS 18y ago
I realize this is irrelevant because the content was donated (which I didn't realize when I posted). But still: "Well, if they don't enforce this, it will look bad when they try to enforce something else." Because the US government and the
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by LPTS 18y ago
I don't exactly see the US attorney stepping up to defend the copyright of whatever porn they are using. I just can't see the US Attorney releasing a statement like: "Copyright laws exist to ensure the creators of content are motivated, an

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