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by Sven7 11y ago
That's a pretty thought
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by Sven7 11y ago
It's a different world today though. Even if two countries go nuts and drop the bomb on each other, it doesn't really mean the rest will jump into the fray.
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by Sven7 11y ago
"Entrenched protocols" like slavery got disrupted precisely because a moral dimension was brought into play. Everybody has weaknesses and exploiting them to sell ads is no more an art - it's a science - that is working at a s
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by Sven7 11y ago
Their other option is to monetize search queries i.e. allow people to build on top of their search data - making search a platform on top of which apps can be built. Providing the ability to run queries over the returned results on any keyw
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by Sven7 11y ago
All you have to do is convince Kim Kardashian its important...
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by Sven7 11y ago
Right. Snowdon was unlucky. He should have come to you for advice and filed some paperwork with management I guess.
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by Sven7 11y ago
What happens if Google goes down for a while? Is it really that bad? Yes, Gmail and Drive may cause all kinds of chaos but I think I can survive quite a while without the search engine and YouTube.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Very cool! This reminds me of galaxyzoo.org So I guess future corps, will consist of cube farms of employees staring at such screens, training/optimizing proprietary nets.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Like the Internet?
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by Sven7 11y ago
That's a very nice PC comment :) But after considering everything you have asked us to consider, what would you like us to do? Down vote?
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by Sven7 11y ago
It isn't wise. Every time somebody figure's out how to optimize for one variable, everyone starts optimizing and we end up with great productivity for a brief bit and then the California drought. We have been lucky so far cause sc
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by Sven7 11y ago
I have a feeling Karl Rove and David Axelrod know this quite well.
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by Sven7 11y ago
"Successful" OOP design pattern implementations are generally dependent on the kind of team you are surrounded by, and the people that maintain the code down the road. If you are, or want to be in a position to influence those dec
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by Sven7 11y ago
Now comes the hard part of wondering what to lookup. Shall we search for financial crimes? Nah...by the time we develop the expertise to write the query the crime has changed. Shall we find the next Boston Bomber? Nah...even more complicat
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by Sven7 11y ago
The expertise and worldviews one accumulates in piling up indecent amounts of cash, doesn't always help in it's eventual efficient distribution.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Yup, in Krugman's world there is no upper limit on credit.
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by Sven7 11y ago
The British while ruling India classified the Sikhs as a "Martial Race". "Non-martial" races weren't allowed to be recruited into the British Army in India. For more see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Sven7 11y ago
The number of people capable of producing good science, is much less than the number of people in science. The pressures emerge because of it.
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by Sven7 11y ago
To "reinvent the notion of privacy" so that it's socially acceptable all we need to do is agree to one rule - If you are going to financially benefit in anyway directly/indirectly from my biometric data, you pay me ea
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by Sven7 11y ago
But my Apple iPhone is beautiful and magical.
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by Sven7 11y ago
It's nonsense written 1500 years ago which is why it's hard to read. There are interesting themes. Great poetry but nothing too "mind blowing" when compared with similar texts of the period from other religions and cultu
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by Sven7 11y ago
I'd say that's a good mix :) And I really don't know any subject matter experts/actual practitioners who are "reasonably neutral" :)
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by Sven7 11y ago
As a non user of Facebook it's incredibly weird to see like scores assigned to every tribute or condolence comment.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Good message. In the old days we needed a Buddha, Jesus or a Krishna to remind us of the simple truths. Today we look for them in blog posts. Everything changes and nothing changes.
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by Sven7 11y ago
I am impressed with the speed. But it says internal demo for good reasons I am assuming :)
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by Sven7 11y ago
"Cheaper" trials are already par for the course in the developing world. And there are, as you mention, all kinds of down sides. But don't worry Big Pharma is not going to be sitting forever in the west. The rest of the world
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by Sven7 11y ago
Yes. He says it changed his life. I just wanted to know how.
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by Sven7 11y ago
How did learning new things change your life?
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by Sven7 11y ago
Doesn't matter to me, if he could have made a difference or not. I like the point he is making. Also it would be hard to find the value in any comment on Hacker News, if value is tied to their individual achievements.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Ok Google, stop diddling around and make her CEO already. She is redefining what a tech visionary is. Enjoy the love and work theme to all her talks.

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