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by NoPiece 13y ago
I feel bad for the Apple maps team - trying to catch up to a fast moving target.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The interesting thing is that the foundation of the TV system is built on the increasingly obsolete concept of broadcast TV. If you could get rid of that, and force all content providers to compete evenly via the internet, we'd have much mo
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by NoPiece 13y ago
I think you guys are getting lost in the hypothetical vs the reality. Is it hypothetically possible, yes. Is there any evidence it is true, no. See my comment below to see how cnet confused a physical bug with some inherent bugging capabili
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Here is the original source, the court memorandum. You can see how grossly irresponsible/lazy/stupid Cnet was. Note that it is VERY clear that the government is asking to install a physical bug into a phone that works when the phone is off.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
You are conflating a hypothetical with a real claim. it is hypothetically possible, but it isn't actually true. And you can ensure in many ways. Like measuring the power usage when your phone is off. Like looking at the source code of the o
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by NoPiece 13y ago
That's exactly the bad article that started the misconception. This is a case where you need to let common sense override your trust in journalists. You are probably smarter than them, you know more about tech and phones than them, don't tr
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Most of your points are great, but I just want to point out that it is not true that your phone can be tracked when it is turned off. That's a misconception that is propagated by a few very poorly written articles that misinterpreted some c
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The commenter said it is the "best in every single regard" which is different than the "best whole package." Setting aside subjectives like whether it is the most fun to drive or the most convenient, it definitely isn't the fastest car, or
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by NoPiece 13y ago
Kleiner's investments were in solar panels and lithium ion battery powered cars that were at best small improvements on old technologie that weren't efficient enough. If someone has a fusion reactor coming online, invest in that instead.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
There a lot of reasons Kleiner was foolish without even touching the global warming debate. $100k electric sport cars aren't a real solution to global warming. There is cheap abundant politically connected dirty energy. There is abundant cl
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by NoPiece 13y ago
The silicon valley support for green/clean energy goes beyond rationality. They were investing based on faith (or hoping for bigger government intervention) and got burned.
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by NoPiece 13y ago
It reminds of one of Facebook's early growth tactics - as part of the contact import process, they'd send out spam IMs to all your contacts saying you just joined Facebook and ask if they wanted to join. It was very shady.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I am very adept at Photoshop and Illustrator. I can cut images, and touch up, no problem. But I am a miserable designer. Groking design is something way beyond any skill in an app.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
And these days, .1% is even a bit high for an index fund. I think Vanguard recently lowered total stock fund to .05%
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I would just say that none of the studios you mentioned are large, or elite. If Bobby Kotick or Peter Moore were jumping on Kickstarter, then I'd understand the complaints. But these are mostly people who have been beholden to the big publi
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by NoPiece 14y ago
It is good to hear that was your experience, because it is disheartening to think that knowledge or education would be negatively stigmatized in any community. Interestingly, Barack Obama is one of the big propagators of that idea. I think
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You are right, but it is a really useful geek skill to share knowledge without making other people feel stupid. It is one of the differences between being the geek who runs the company, and the geek who is just as smart, but gets stuck on p
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by NoPiece 14y ago
That explosion was really shocking. Lesson - get far away from burning chemical plants.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The US spends 6% of the budget for interest on the debt, and 2% on education. Doesn't that say we are already deep into the problem, are already too deep in debt, and need to reprioritize? The bigger the debt is, the more legitimate spendin
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You make a great point - businesses have get money from bankers who expect a return. If government had that restriction on raising debt we wouldn't have a problem. We are 5 years into massive deficit, and massive debt, how much better are t
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I agree, except when the amount of debt gets so large, and goes way beyond the immediate. Then it becomes much more clear that it is a problem. There is a case to be made that in 2008-2009, a big, debt financed, short term stimulus could ha
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Of course, if you feel like the Government spending is good investment and will bring a return, then no problem. If you think it is wasteful political payoff, then it is a problem. The core problems is if the government taxes and extra $100
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by NoPiece 14y ago
In regards to your analogy: let's say you aren't salaried, but are self employed. Now you take on a a big mortgage, and spend you income on paying your mortgage instead of investing it in growing your business. Government debt slows growth
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You say, "it's dishonest to pretend that regulation is strictly driven by parasitic behavior," but I was just quoting directly from the nyc.gov site that explains that's exactly why those regulations came to be. You can argue separately for
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Why would you say that it would lead to market failure? It would have led to more cabs, lower fares, and more jobs (albeit at lower wages). BTW - if it wasn't clear, I didn't write that sentence. I copied and pasted it from the nyc.gov site
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by NoPiece 14y ago
What you are saying is fine, but that's not why taxi's were regulated, at least in New York. The regulations go back to the depression and were put in place specifically to limit competition in order to keep prices high and protect employme
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You are being down voted, but I think it is a valid point. Games compete for your time as well as your dollars, and the internet is a big and easy distraction. I spend as much time reading about games as playing them. Look how many views ga
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Good advice - might be worth just trying a micro EC2 instance from Amazon, which is part of their free tier. http://aws.amazon.com/free/
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I'd summarize this way: Code Might Suck, But It Still Works (better than your beautiful unlaunched stealth project).
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by NoPiece 14y ago
It reminds me of a lot of complex systems where you really want it to be one thing, that can be easily fixed, but it end up being a lot of different things all need to be addressed. Like when your site is going down and you hope it is just

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