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by adventureful 14y ago
The moon isn't very impressive at this point. Apollo 11 was 43 years ago. I'm mildly annoyed that humans haven't walked on Mars in my lifetime yet. In not quite 70 years we went from being very earth bound, to walking on the moon. As such I
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Scientists developing device to 'hack' into brain of Stephen Hawking (telegraph.co.uk)
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by adventureful 14y ago
1) When you need to take advantage of the liability shield. 2) When you take on investors, who will typically want a C corp or at least a LLC structure. 3) When you have good reason to bring assets or income under a company umbrella (for an
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by adventureful 14y ago
It's a hack, it's not meant to be a broad commercial product. It's not much different than the test engines he builds for experiment. You're indeed being unnecessarily cynical.
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by adventureful 14y ago
And yet he did like the Xbox 360.
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by adventureful 14y ago
The stem cell century accelerates.
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The Affair Between Europe, Mobile Phones Is Ending(minyanville.com)
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by adventureful 14y ago
Big data mining has made it radically easier / more practical, to mine everybody's purchase records for cross matches on lifestyle choices. In this case, impacting things like health insurance. By shifting to cash, they can't track any of t
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by adventureful 14y ago
I wasn't speculating either direction about Turing's death, but what I said regarding Copeland's statement was correct. Judging someone's state of mind by what they project externally is not an accurate approach. Taking a single psych cours
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by adventureful 14y ago
That's an extremely horrible story that I previously knew very little about. It was 60 years ago, but it felt a bit mentally violating to read it now (how Turing was treated). It's worth noting that the claims by Copeland are seemingly just
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by adventureful 14y ago
Yep, their stock price didn't crash with the dotcom bubble, they still had time to make adjustments without it being so dire. Their stock averaged about $35 / share, from mid 1997 to mid 2005. They had to take loans from Carlos Slim, and th
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by adventureful 14y ago
It's even worse for the NY Times. They derived a huge amount of their business from national and international news (rather than just local / NY City). At the national & international level, there is obviously tremendous competition onl
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by adventureful 14y ago
It would take extreme desperation for someone like Japan to call in their held paper. That's an entirely plausible scenario though, given their debt loads. However, the US could push a button and 'print' $2 trillion tomorrow morning in a mo
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by adventureful 14y ago
The plan is to not print a lot of money all of a sudden. The ideal is to inflate gradually, as the Fed has been doing for decades (destroying 97% of the dollar in the process). As twisted as it is, the US has an interest in seeing the Euro
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by adventureful 14y ago
Our government can print, the Treasury has the legal ability to do so at any time. The Federal Reserve however owns the Federal Reserve Notes (aka the 'dollar'), and they own the US Government accordingly. Our government would both print an
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by adventureful 14y ago
The EU crisis is absolutely not a US/UK media thing. Half the Eurozone is melting down, and requires trillions in bailouts from 'printed' Euros to bail them out. It's from decades of unpaid-for lifestyle choices, accumulated debt from Socia
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by adventureful 14y ago
In other news, Eric Schmidt purchased a voodoo doll.
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YouTube's Gigantic Year Is Already Here, Citi Says(allthingsd.com)
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by adventureful 14y ago
I'll paraphrase Peter Drucker: the job of an entrepreneur or businessman is risk management and risk elimination. The goal is to limit and kill risk, not pretend it's not there. Entrepreneurs are properly risk killers. A lot of this is rath
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by adventureful 14y ago
And how many mortgages do you suppose it would take to buy poetry.com? It's not even close to accessible to the average person. Maybe if the average person saved every penny they earn for a lifetime, they could buy poetry.com.
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by adventureful 14y ago
The added singularity is near part is silly. In ten years when that's a 500,000 (or 5 million) core neural net, the singularity is near part still won't apply.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Saying the municipalities weren't trying to game the system, is not proven by saying you don't have to participate. The statement that if you don't like the rules you don't have to participate plays to the nature of your position. This isn'
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The euro crisis, in one picture(washingtonpost.com)
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One day I hope to own a festering, global top 50 site, like Craigslist. You could certainly make intelligent points about ways Craigslist could improve their service, but festering is an asinine thing to say about a wildly successful servic
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by adventureful 14y ago
Had no clue DotCom was on Twitter. https://twitter.com/#!/KimDotcom
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by adventureful 14y ago
Linus acted like a petulant child with the fuck you nVidia bit.
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by adventureful 14y ago
Extreme positions can typically only be accomplished in dire times. Outside of an extremely dire scenario, what you'll accomplish by taking the abolish software patents position, is nothing. If you want to make progress, the EFF is taking t
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by adventureful 14y ago
Sure does. It's the concentration of wealth into the hands of a government, which is made up of people. Oh, you're only talking about the concentrating of wealth into private hands? I reject that arbitrary separation. It still matters where
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by adventureful 14y ago
michaelochurch: "We're not really seeing this efficiency, though. For all the money being funneled into a small set of people, most of whom are not entrepreneurs but well-connected parasites, there's very little coming of value out of it."
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by adventureful 14y ago
Ellison currently yields $300x million per year just in dividends from his Oracle stake. I'd say he's cash flowin' just fine. Fun side fact: Steve Ballmer earns nearly half a billion dollars every year from dividends via his Microsoft stake

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