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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/08/17/wi...
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I don't know. Seems a bit timely. Bob Iger of Disney this week has said, that they are at a point with their content/merch/theme parks etc able to "burn out" the entire consuming population of the country if they wa
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The Indian Telecom landscape has no resemblance to the US or Europe. There is no AT&T/Comcast monopoly. Why? Because the regulator has done a pretty decent job ensuring access to voice and data stays cheap through competition. As f
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Appreciate your answer and what the course is trying to do. All I'll add is, it's good to be aware of the contradiction all that data presents. The contradiction shows up in your post and I have a feeling you are aware of it. &quo
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If you are a young journalist being told "data journalism" is the must have resume bullet point for the future, here's some unsolicited advice from someone in techland who has worked with journalists. 1. Don't waste your
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Well...no hard and fast rules here. Look at Van Gough. He saw and did what everyone else did. Then went off and did what no one else had done. Makes one wonder what effect the environment at Apple or the Googleplex has on a mind like that.
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Well said. I think we are in that period where it has become so easy to collect data...that everyone who can...be it Facebook, the NSA or Joe the Plumber...they can't help themselves. Why? Cause it produces the illusion of knowledge.
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I don't get this. Sure the watch makes it easy to collect your heart rate date, but where is the data on whether they are eating a burrito or watching game of thrones going to come from?
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Fully agree. Not to mention the fantastic artwork.
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Yup they are dangerous. Be careful Donald Trump.
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We need to believe all men are created equal but everyone knows it isn't true. So goes for particles probably. Would explain all the weirdness.
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Come on. Google doesn't need to unionize cause they are the chosen ones made of special star dust. They believe what IBM employees at their hey day believed - in rainbows and ponies. And then what happened?
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Also would like to hear from the Germans how their software billionaires think of unions? With unions I find it hard to imagine being able to gift 30 billion dollars to future Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates.
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ISP's could be doing a better job of looking for/blocking out these shaddy DNS servers. Until that happens, workaround is to setup all devices to not rely on router provided DNS.
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This is the kind of mentality that allows Wall Street and Silicon Valley to take advantage of people, who don't know any better what problems they are creating for themselves. With it "smart" people, don't have to feel r
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Maybe it's just harder to distinguish Rick Santorum and a porn star. How would you do it? Or maybe nobody cared enough to Google Bomb Weiner and Edwards.
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The amount of time it took to get a letter across the country/world also made a difference to their signal to noise ratio. It especially comes across in the letters written by thoughtful people. You could compare it to speech making or
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Honestly not sure :) Maybe at the back of my mind looking for a long term hobby project :) I am a software guy. Had no idea about/interest in this stuff . Then a couple months ago, I got a tour of a textile factory which had a bunch of
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I think I need to leave this here - http://www.polkacafe.com/iconic-independent-bookstores-acros...
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Interesting...thanks for the link. And here you go... http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/software/ This one I found interesting too http://www.tienchiu.com/how-tos/equipment/a-comparison-o
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There are some interesting projects happening now and then in the space. The one's I have noticed are openknit.org electroloom nervous systems
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Makes sense. Breaking it down into smaller modules sounds like a good way to go. Good luck!
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For those interested, the textile industry (and their ridiculously expensive power looms and weaving CAD/CAM software) are ripe for disruption, if a smart hacker can get the cost of a loom down to the sub 1K range. There are a whole lo
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Yes. From China or India or both.
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Yup. Cant wait for the Youtube, Amazon and Pornhub planes next.
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Take a look at the history of the Manhattan project. It's a fascinating case study of how the most brilliant minds on the planet, can end up on opposite sides of a moral question. For every Robert Oppenheimer who has a doubt and raises
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Well...its always going to be easy to say the leadership is stupid and backdoors are a horrible idea. What's hard to answer is how do you stop the next Boston marathon bomber. No good answers to that, which is why we see all kinds of p
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There is a Matt Taibbi talk somewhere, where he says he was on the presidential campaign trail with more or less the top reporters in the country when Bear Sterns collapsed, and his shock at realizing that none of them knew what that meant
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25-30 years is too long to predict anything when it comes to tech. The Chinese already have their versions of Google and Amazon...and just like the Japanese automakers in the 70's there is nothing to suggest they can't displace ei
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The kids call it Deep Learning these days.

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