Sven7

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by Sven7 13y ago
Moving from desktop to mobile keeping compatibility (with a huge base - a challenge no one else had - possibly only nokia transitioning from dumb to smart) isn't a trivial problem by any stretch of the imagination. They took a swing i
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People taking advantage of people is why legal systems emerged. If they didnt the law would be redundant. And who can even imagine such a world...
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Great! Thanks for the link. Have to figure out whether mine supports it.
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I really like what Google has done here. There are a lot of "smart TV converter" boxes running android being sold for ~100$. They are great for bringing things like skype/youtube/presentations to the big screen. The main
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It we accept this analogy, the question that arises is - if nature hasn't figured out how to eliminate allergies over millions of years of evolution, what magic do we expect a government to perform?
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If you are wondering if its possible to dismantle something large and bureaucratic...there is evidence for it in the shutting down of the German nuclear sector. 17 multi billion dollar reactors, 350k employees, 50-250$ billion in shutdown c
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People are ambivalent, because they have bigger problems in their lives. Like keeping a job, paying the mortgage, wondering if their kids can ever afford college, lack of health care coverage...the list is endless. The conversations/ar
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If such a system can control a future president, it can also control a future head of the NSA, or whoever else works within the system going down the foodchain, to the point where it becomes too much of a risk to its own existence. Basical
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Its recursive. What applies to everyone, applies to everyone within the NSA/intelligence community too...as long as they stay staffed with people atleast.
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Lets call it - the only know counter balance to experts running the show. We have a lot of geniuses on Wall Street and Silicon Valley and it hasn't prevented serious meltdowns that have effected millions of people. Not to mention a law
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by Sven7 13y ago
What you might be looking for, is nowadays positioned as a "smart TV converter box" $60-100. Basically a Android box that has a hdmi/av out, connects to wifi and comes with a remote. I set this up for my parents so they can l
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It boils down to - I don't like hearing people say stupid things or things that are different from what I believe. I think this is something people have to learn to get used too, given the unprecedented amount of noise our networks are
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High up in government. Possibly the pentagon.
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Do you have kids? If it offends your sensibilities censorship is always an option :)
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answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6082643
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There are a lot of assumptions here. (1) You know (or can tell) what content your kids are exposed to on the internet. Most kids I know are quite adept at keeping what they are upto hidden from their parents and that isnt unique to the curr
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Hilarious. In which fantasy land is every outcome of a law predictable before it gets issued.
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Do you have kids?
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I think they have taken a good step in the right direction. Kids are exposed to too much crap these days. Kids growing up with involved parents and teachers turn out alright, but there are a whole lot of kids who aren't that lucky.
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>it still hasn't arrived Have you seen wolfram alpha in action?
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The equations of power have changed. Two contradictory things are happening inequality grows while information asymmetry reduces. Something is going to break. And we generally wake up and fix thing only after things break. I say another 5-
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"Nationalism is the biggest disease on the planet. Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing." - Nicholas Negroponte
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I know its fashionable to bash Microsoft but give me a break. Why focus just on tech what about all those financial transactions flowing through Wall Street. Is everyone going to start banking in Antarctica now? What has happened with Ameri
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Fucking Yeti! I know you are out there. I'll find you.
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Product companies require a higher level of talent than consulting companies do. The larger companies get, it just gets harder to maintain that level of quality, and the consequences show up in the output. A Google at 50K employees looks ve
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When kids ask why, parents are at their creative best. The difference these days, is they blog about it.
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When it comes to profs of the stature of Dijkstra it doesn't matter what you pay the school.
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It makes me wonder...in the faced paced tech world today, where things appear as fast as they disappear, what the odds are of finding a title that stands the test of time.
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A good time time to join Facebook would be after their first major data loss/leak/scam/disaster.
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The code injected into every page could be for some interaction with Amazon affiliates code...

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