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by Perceval 17y ago
Does anyone know what they've done with Safari? Safari 4 on Snow Leopard is 64-bit. Are they supporting 32-bit Safari on Windows and 64-bit Safari on OS X? This could give an indication of where they're likely to go with iTunes.
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I always enjoy the wholly baseless wild speculation that arrives during the week before an Apple event.
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I agree. Might as well just read Popper and Hume and cut out the middle-man.
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Fascinating set of proposals, thanks for posting them here. They seem to fall under the general category of 'automatic gain control': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_gain_control As the 'noise' of submissions goes up, a system tha
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by Perceval 17y ago
Until there is patent reform, all companies will engage in this kind of cover-your-ass patenting. There are too many patent trolls out there starting multi-million dollar lawsuits on the basis of seemingly frivolous, obvious, or otherwise
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Relatedly, Clay Shirky had an interesting article distinguishing between newspapers and journalism saying, "Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism." http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
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So it seems as though the railroad metaphor in the Economist blog was apt: once the railroads/newspapers could no longer use finance in order to establish monopolies and then extract monopoly rents from their customers, it was good old co
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That, and invented a time machine in order to go back in time and kill Craig Newmark's parents before he was conceived.
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They may not even be indulging deliberately: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3325948/The-Thames-aw...
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Michel Foucault Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College De France)
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Given the degree to which established academics disagree with one another, often in a vituperative and acerbic manner in public , I'm not sure having direct contribution from 'experts' will improve anything. An encyclopedia is a tertiary s
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When I was in college, I interned for a DARPA spinoff out in Reston, VA. I assume you're not looking solely for startups physically in DC. If you are, I'm not sure you're going to find much. Most of the tech community is out in Northern
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Not too long ago I stumbled across someone doing visualizations of comment threads, which seemed like it might help in sorting out what was going on: http://demaws.net/projects/tldr Also, I wrote a very long essay on the problems of web f
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I think this is a good idea for two reasons: 1. It's cheaper for businesses to start their own Business-pedia article than to pay for the development and hosting of their own website. 2. It may stand a chance of keeping a lot of the busines
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We're in the Midst of a Literacy Revolution(wired.com)
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I would rethink things fundamentally. That requires a lot of abstract thinking about ontology, but that's how the past revolutions in search began. Yahoo treated the web like a phone book or directory. Altavista relied on self-categorizat
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I wrote a proposal for an extension that could passively solve the porn+awesomebar problem in the same way that AdBlock Plus passively solves the ad blocking problem. Since I am not a coder, I can’t whip up an alpha proof of concept, but pe
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Given the importance of mobile phones to civil unrest from the Orange Revolution, to the Tulip Revolution, to the recent Iran protests, I think there are some very important political implications for the 2/3rds of the world that is now con
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Yes, but IBM had to completely change its stripes in order to survive. They used to make business computers. Yet they sold off every last bit of computer manufacturing, the last part going to China as Lenovo. Their core competency is no
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As a Wikipedia admin, I'd love to have you update the article for Pointcast, especially if you have sources you can reference while filling in the gaps & correcting information.
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In an ideal world, the purpose of political speech is to persuade. Mackey's piece, while inflammatory in parts, is an argument that he intends to persuade at least some people. In an ideal world, the appropriate response to political speec
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I agree. As a Wikipedia admin since 2004, I'm upset by the increasing hesitance of long-term editors to allow anonymous IPs to explore and edit. One wonders if they can even remember when they were a green anonymous IP editor, adding cont
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Wikipedia is increasingly conscious of being sued by public figures because of the high profile vandalism cases that occur with some regularity.
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I thought his Genealogy of Morality was better executed in deconstructing our ideas of right and wrong.
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I just wrote a satirical piece a few days ago using the Kenyon speech and the "Federer..." article: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/8/19/17330/9169
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I hope they begin to reconsider their model of giving multi-million dollar bonuses and 'guaranteed bonuses.' The TED speaker pointed out that when incentivized, workers' range of thought focused rather than thinking about the big picture.
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This article is about the 'inductive fallacy,' more or less. Karl Popper wrote a long work (The Logic of Scientific Discovery) on the scientific method, putting forward the criterion of falsifiability as an alternative to the positivist ap
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It would separate two forms of money: the common form of money used as means of exchange and a store of value; and, the debt/credit money created out of thin air through a contract and collateral. The two currencies would float against one
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Check out this New Yorker article on "neuro-enhancing" drugs: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_... It has some info on Adderal (an amphetamine) and other drugs used to increase mental performance.