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Arguments about marginal cost of production don't matter when the cost of enforcement is high. The issue of piracy ultimately comes down to whether agreements are enforceable. In the long run society won't help people enforce the unenforcea
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.. no one possesses the less because everyone possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives [it] without lessening [me], as he who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. --Thomas Jefferson A
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The key feature of a corporation besides limited liability is the nearly unmanageable principal-agent relationship between shareholders and managers. It's kind of amazing to me that a structure where shareholders lose to managers so consist
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Get a dog. Seriously. Cures loneliness. Great prep for human relationships. Also puppies are people magnets.
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The Mother Bear [wallet] (pictured) has a hinge that makes it harder to open if you are approaching monthly budgets. Seriously, that is funny.
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Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads. Where there are no bright lines, your side of the road becomes mine. Rudeness banned (mostly). Condescension, upvoted. Du
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Computer science is about what information can be expressed with a computing device. This kind of proves the point that the name is not adequate. Let's pick an example. Kolmogorov complexity is a tool used to discuss randomness and the li
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Robert Hooke wrote Micrographia, about his observations using a microscope. Today the field is called Biology. The field of Computer Science is still stuck with the name of its primary tool. It like calling cosmology "Telescope Science". Th
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I doubt they were ever asleep. Just executing a ling-term strategy.
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I am a gringo that lived in Australia for 6 years. In the state where I lived the police had two kinds of cameras. Large fixed cameras were well marked a couple of kilometers ahead. You are only at risk for a short time, But you would be am
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Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection(kickstarter.com)
54 points by T_S_ 16y ago|46 comments
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| Heck, just your algorithm access to an email server or something. Then my dog will find the bone faster than AIXI. See what I mean?
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I think the risk involved is crazy, stupid and selfish. I judge therefore I am ;-). However, at least these mountaineers effectively experiment with their lives in a relatively open manner. It's too bad the drug cheats in athletics aren't a
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People seem to underestimate how much engineering will be required for intelligence to interact with the environment successfully. My dog might not be as "intelligent" as me, but he knows a lot more than I do when it comes to information ga
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I moved from NY to SV this year. NYC is great but it is so large that the tech scene gets diluted by all the other industries. The suburbs are a tech wasteland (fine for other purposes I suppose). That said, the banks there have very large
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Boys, can I give you some friendly advice from a married man here? Don't send this story to your partner. You will send the message: compare yourself to this saintly blogger. It's a lose-lose. Best case: she simply barfs and laughs it off.
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Your point is well-taken. I was reacting to the early hype that suggested these bugs may have originated completely independently of other life on earth. If the organism evolved to use arsenic as a replacement for phosphate in a DNA-like ch
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I think this policy goes agains human nature. Numbers are a great mnemonic aid. I used to study for math tests in college and the last thing I would do is remember the number of properties in a definition of things, e.g. a field, which I th
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by T_S_ 16y ago
If it didn't use DNA I'd be even more impressed. It's great that they leaked it, though. My 9th graders' science class is going to tune in live, thanks to the leak. Good opportunity to make science seem timely and relevant to kids.
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Has the last love story been written? I'm always a sucker for these entrepreneur-psyche-yourself-up stories. ABDC: Always be double checkin'.
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Not sure if this is what you meant, but real transparency requires verification. If leaks are commonplace then "plants" will be too. All sorts of meta-games to play as well.
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Feasibility aside, that's a pretty narrow definition.
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This article is reads like an ad for the semantic web.
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Nice quote: "Non-breaking error handling is just an applicative functor on a partially applied disjoint union type constructor with semigroup error elements so what's the big deal?!"
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In a world where people take out payday loans at 400% is it any a surprise that they would incur technical debt in managing their content? The typical user thinks about the interaction with other users, not the content.
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"As a rule, American companies will present themselves as the 'leader in X', whatever the actual state of affairs in 'X'." "PayPal. The world's most-loved way to pay and get paid." Spotted as I fought the Catch-22 UX unsuccessfully to upd
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It's hard, not because it is hard to think up questions, but because it is hard to anticipate their level of difficulty. This usually requires some data to measure. Teachers would rather spend effort measuring the students than the question
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One often thinks of the word "I" when one stumbles upon Martha Stewart on television. The rate at which she uses the word is remarkable. One can't help but believe its uses is intentional or at least consistent with her marketing strategy.
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The article overreaches. It's like complaining about greetings. When I ask "How are you?", it doesn't imply that I don't care, even when I don't. I am not lying, I am observing social convention (being polite). Social convention requires
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God help us. You are so right.

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