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by Sven7 11y ago
I don't see how all this unnecessary info takes anything away from the point he made.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Oh engineers can do what ever they want. They are found in places like Facebook, Wall Street and the NSA doing pointless things with talent anyway. The problem isn't really the choices engineers make. When the smartest people work for
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by Sven7 11y ago
These are just short term hacks. The problems we are dealing with are third or fourth order consequences of the size of the defense budget. These issues will disappear if budgets shrink or get reallocated towards "peace" goals ra
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by Sven7 11y ago
Yup. The sort of leadership Obama and Bush have demonstrated when things go wrong. It flows down the food chain.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Which is why the BRIC's want their own bank. If robbery is happening the playing field should be level.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Congratulations. You are smart enough to be working on Wall Street. EDIT: Apologies I really meant he has just about enough imagination, not more not less, to be working on Wall Street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R00VB
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by Sven7 11y ago
for what joy?
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by Sven7 11y ago
You don't have too. This strange notion that everyone has to be "educated" about things, is propagated for the wrong reasons mostly for the benefit of a few. Those that are interested will find the info they seek. The barrier
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by Sven7 11y ago
Fully agree. It is all about hacking people's minds. Taking advantage of people's weaknesses and ignorance has never happened at the speed and scale they happen today. It's also why I see inequality just getting worse.
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by Sven7 11y ago
True but things like MH370 can still happen despite all the tech available.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Gandhi didn't have to wear a suit. He grew up being told to wear one though. And that suit didn't help when he got thrown of the train.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Is the military using any computing system today that was in use in 1915?
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by Sven7 12y ago
I call it the Jon Stewart\Glenn Beck model of selling ads. Reactions vs Solutions.
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by Sven7 12y ago
The caliber of the schools don't matter anymore. Nobody is capable of accumulating the quantities of data/processing power Google has access too. So search innovation more or less just lies in their hands and hasn't really go
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by Sven7 12y ago
Increased competition? Seriously Google. The current count of European Search Engines in your own memo is 0.
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by Sven7 12y ago
The dress code. That is all. Vampire squids on both coasts.
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by Sven7 12y ago
This is the mark of genuine flow :) wow...you should start your own "do whatever you want" university. Pretty sure all the young impressionable minds around here will enjoy it.
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by Sven7 12y ago
National Security VS Being part of a business (that may or may not be making any serious contribution to the common good) Both segments violate privacy. And in both cases there are ways to correct this from within.
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by Sven7 12y ago
But where's the competitive ecosystem in search? Innovation in search is restricted to few hundred people in Mountain View. And that's a tragedy. What Google did for innovation in smartphone\tablet\browser they have gone and done
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by Sven7 12y ago
Nice list! Thanks for making it.
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by Sven7 12y ago
George W. Bush should have known better than to have run for President. Now if Bush had posted the same questions on here I am pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing any of the responses we have seen so far. So I'll just end by paraphr
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by Sven7 12y ago
It's not that simple. Capturing people's attention is now a well studied science. The addiction is engineered. The people who are addicted(or "engaged") to their media streams whether social or main stream need the same
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by Sven7 12y ago
Coffee mug :) I was thinking X-Files alien fetus.
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by Sven7 12y ago
Not surprised. We heard the exact same reaction from Wall Street after 2008.
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by Sven7 12y ago
Good luck. That $75 Billion is only going up. It stops when we can't afford it. Until then everyone can keep debating all they want. This script has already played out in the sphere of Nuclear Disarmament. The day I take the defense an
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by Sven7 12y ago
Their opinions are bought and paid for. At current rates its 75 Billion dollars a year.
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by Sven7 12y ago
Exactly. I'd happy to see ant level AI first.
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by Sven7 12y ago
And they have done well for themselves with protectionism. They have their own versions of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Ebay...why not their own Cisco and Intel next. Wealth wont just keep accumulating in silicon valley. Not a bad thing.
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by Sven7 12y ago
At the end of the day is anyone arguing it was a bad thing that the Americans got to the bomb (and used it) before the Germans, Japanese or Russians did? I'd hand the button over to someone like Truman over Hitler or Stalin any day of
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by Sven7 12y ago
Just saying we have as much to learn from them, as they from us. It's not productive to look at their censorship tools as one dimensional attacks on freedom of speech. Both sides are programmed to look at the issue (of censorship) diff

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