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How Apple crushed Google in the fall of 2015(twothirdsdone.com)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|1 comments
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Google reaches into own silicon brain to slash electricity bill(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
This bit: "What we're going to see is increasingly solicitous machines defining our environment" reminded me of Jack Williamson's With Folded Hands scenario (from 1947, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by ableal 12y ago
Just a couple of days ago I re-read the first of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories. The closing is apropos: "[...] But, as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren’t a priest.” “What?” asked t
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Why Isn't the Guy Who Designed Beats Going to Work For Apple, Too?(gizmodo.com)
8 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
Me three. Possibly for trying to keep the political pieces at bay. May be a wise move to avoid excessive user involvement.
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by ableal 12y ago
> this article should have waited for the results. "Publish early, publish often" ? You know how the biz works ;-) Not that, as a reader, I disagree. Thanks for the outline.
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by ableal 12y ago
The comments at The Register are rather good, and point out this is a rehash of a known Wikipedia article (I knew that, but it's still worthwhile). But this comment was a nice cherry on top: "Not just german and not just math Rem
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Achtung! Use maths to smash the German tank problem – and your rival(theregister.co.uk)
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The War Nerd: Nigeria’s Inevitable Mess(pando.com)
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by ableal 12y ago
And next, for our convenience, devices hovering ten feet overhead trailing - and probably also blasting - ads.
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by ableal 12y ago
> but The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ? It's not like Tom Wolfe is a raging radical. Interesting reporting, yes, colorful prose, yes, burn-it-to-the-ground calls, no. Check out his book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catche
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by ableal 12y ago
I suppose you mean the Moto G you mentioned elsewhere. For now, I cannot get Amazon to show me a page for the Moto E - specifically looking for "Motorola Moto E" only shows Moto G links.
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by ableal 12y ago
He might say that, but I think "language-game" is not quite the right take. Anyways, to shore up my impression I looked up "Schopenhauer eastern philosophy" and hit a few things. The "Schopenhauer and Buddhism"
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Worse Than a Bug: Cockroach Code(pcmag.com)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
(Just a quick note, don't have time for more now.) "The great lodestar of the German Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, said that there are things one cannot experience (noumena), and that we cannot talk about such things. He also exp
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by ableal 12y ago
As I submitted this, I saw a dead submission - possibly automatically killed because of the Gawker URL - for this piece: "I Do Not Know One Person Who Is Happy at Amazon" at http://gawker.com/i-do-not-know-one-pers
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AmazonSupply: Amazon Is Attacking A Potential Trillion-Dollar Industry(businessinsider.com)
4 points by ableal 12y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
I'd guess the English title is a play on the phrase "The Man Who Counts" (in the sense of 'who matters'), which is also the title of at least one book ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Counts-Poul-Ande
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by ableal 12y ago
> not to mention that one or two persons could drive a dozen trucks filled with cargo Maybe autonomous vehicles will make smaller trucks cost-effective, and big trucks will then be charged their true cost in road damage and traffic risks
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by ableal 12y ago
"His paper "A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influence on Price" seeks to explain why popular restaurants with long waiting times for tables don't simply raise prices until the market clears. Th
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by ableal 12y ago
They were contemporaneous, and both pretty much hailed as the best use of English around. To my (foreign) ear, they sound similar. Some writers even go so far as fictionalizing Shakespeare sticking his finger in the KJV - I think Anthony Bu
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by ableal 12y ago
> since "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a work of fiction A tad older: "And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land." ( Exodus 2:22, e.g. http:&#x2F
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by ableal 12y ago
The link/story about the winning horse's owner is not bad either, if not nearly as gonzo ... "I went out there and sat for 21 days, 14 hours a day, waiting to shoot a tiger that had killed 117 villagers in the surrounding co
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by ableal 12y ago
"It's those little tweaks that bridge the gap between a jerky robotic ride and an amazingly smooth one." Properly taught robots know about jerk, snap, crackle and pop (the third, fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of the p
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by ableal 12y ago
It's pretty clear that autonomous vehicles are going to be standard, sooner or later. The technology will be mandatory for any new vehicle allowed on public roads. I'm just curious what's Google plan for it. Are they solving
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by ableal 12y ago
You can check out, but you can never leave?
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by ableal 12y ago
I always liked the "scheduled for the Greek Calends" turn of phrase (a subtler form of "never, is never good for you?" ;-)
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by ableal 12y ago
Even faster and perhaps more instructive is looking up Bethany Mota: "Her YouTube channel has more subscribers than Lady Gaga (4.8 million), she has more Instagram followers than Elle, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire combined (2.2 mil
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by ableal 12y ago
"I don't know where I am." "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground." https://www2.bc.edu/~radinr/Management_Humor/jokes.htm

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