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by Perceval 17y ago
I love their stuff. I do kinda wish they sold physical CDs—I would get one for my dad in a heartbeat. This is probably my favorite of their tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg
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by Perceval 17y ago
I know I probably sound like a broken record to some, but I wrote a long article about the problem of anonymity/pseudonymity on the web: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
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by Perceval 17y ago
>...they'd have shipped a conventional laptop form factor if they could get away with it. One can imagine some combination of Apple's old 12" Titanium PowerBook and the new MacBook Air into a MacBook Air Nano . Still, it's not clear h
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by Perceval 17y ago
While I think putting marketers in that list is a bit trollish, I think you've hit on something that's broadly true. Developers reacted with rage to Apple's app screening process and are reacting with rage again to Apple's banning of inter
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by Perceval 17y ago
they didn't blow up Philadelphia... they blew up New York. That's because they were scared of Philadelphians. We threw snowballs at Santa after all.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Not true, as the iPhone gets more popular, Adobe will take care of those custom features. Adobe's history of failing to update their products to take advantage of OS X, of Intel processors, of Cocoa, or of the Mac platform entirely seems
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by Perceval 17y ago
I'm perfectly fine with future updates more along the Snow Leopard line than more normal updates with major features and UI changes. Add new goodies under the hood, make it faster and more secure, and charge me $29. Couldn't be happier.
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by Perceval 17y ago
IIRC, Jobs made a similar statement about being a novice when introducing the first Xserves, acknowledging that this was not an area in which Apple historically had strength, but that this was a first offering.
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by Perceval 17y ago
I think this is spot on. It's not iTunes per se that is the connecting point for all these devices. It's the iTunes Store that binds all of these devices together—all of them are dependent on the store for content and applications. Getti
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by Perceval 17y ago
Never thought I'd see D&G name-dropped outside of a political theory seminar. Gave me a start actually.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Because the Postal Service is provided for in the Constitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause Can't have a Constitutionally-mandated service wrapped in third-party advertising.
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by Perceval 17y ago
The author of this is an HN user. I hope his book on 'The Future of Science' is coming along well.
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The Future of Science(michaelnielsen.org)
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by Perceval 17y ago
Right you are. I've read both, and knew that Ostrom got hers recently, but thought that Olson had received one as well. Oh well, still a tremendously influential book.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Mancur Olson made a similar point in his 1984 book The Rise and Decline of Nations . His argument is that as time goes on, special interests and entrenched bureaucracies take what was a simpler system and load it up with exceptions and co
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by Perceval 17y ago
While managing pseudonyms at the level of code is easy, dealing with pseudonyms when building a community is difficult. Pseudonyms present a double edged sword: an online identity, but the possibility of multiple online identities (sockp
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by Perceval 17y ago
An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument toward the person" or "argument against the person"), is an argument which links the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating
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by Perceval 17y ago
If Wikileaks starts acting like a foreign intelligence agency, why are they surprised when the CIA starts treating them like a foreign intelligence agency?
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by Perceval 17y ago
>we have had relatively few wars I don't think that's an accurate representation. We've had a short history compared to European states, but we've packed a lot of fighting into that time: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl3017
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>Be aware of a strong anti-chinese bias in the general US media That's what's valuable about this leak. It's not just a Western journalist's subjective, emotional assessment of the state of Chinese politics. It's Chinese politics writ
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by Perceval 17y ago
While I'm neither a Marxist nor a Chomskyite-anarcho-syndicalist, I have read Manufacturing Consent , and I'd say it's a pretty straight-forward application of Gramsci's theory of hegemony to the United States. Gramsci, the leader of the
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by Perceval 17y ago
Here's a good article on young nationalists in China: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/28/080728fa_fact_... It's not clear that nationalism in China equates with blind support for the Party.
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by Perceval 17y ago
The Bayesian example given in the Wikipedia article looks like it works best with interval level data. Not sure it would work as well with ordinal data, because ordinals don't suffer to the same degree from outliers. The second example als
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by Perceval 17y ago
>items with the most reviews are going to rise to the top Yes and no. Anything with a larger N is going to make for greater confidence in the rating. But that rating still depends on the number of positive and negative reviews. So if
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by Perceval 17y ago
As far as I can tell, those corporations have been using third party ad networks to serve ads on their web properties. I think that limits the amount of control the NYTimes or WSJ might have over the pricing of ads, since the same ad might
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by Perceval 17y ago
Steve Jobs was a serial entrepreneur—starting Apple, then Pixar, then NeXT, then returning to transform Apple. Maybe he didn't want to be at the time, but in his Stanford commencement speech he said (with the benefit of retrospect) that
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by Perceval 17y ago
No, no functional difference. The key difference is that personas are just a wallpaper for the default chrome, whereas themes can actually change the shape and positioning of the chrome, not just the color.
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by Perceval 17y ago
One wonders why the major news/media corporations haven't simply cartelized their ad space. If NYTimes, News Corp, Knight-Ridder, and Conde Nast got together and decided the ad space in their properties would cost $X, where X is enough to
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by Perceval 17y ago
The U.S. only has 11 carrier groups: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm One new one, the Gerald Ford, is in construction. You are right that other countries at best only have one carrier. And, as far as I know, no other
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by Perceval 17y ago
There were actually two Chechen wars and they were fought differently. The First Chechen War was fought with the regular Russian Army being used indiscriminately against Chechens. Instead of intelligently targeting the separatist forces,

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