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by agjacobson 9y ago
This is childish. Apple's version of this works better, in real time, in FaceTime, because it's above a threshold of kiddiness.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
No. Automation and a large supply of workers keeps wages low. Businesses hate instability.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
In 2016, China landed a robotic rover on the moon. The NY Times had fairly extensive coverage. For a solid month, the main article was in the top ten of forwarded articles, assuring that all nytimes.com readers would repeatedly see it in
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by agjacobson 9y ago
I noticed this too.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Ridiculously wasteful. Not needed. Optimize "self-driving in packs with prefiled flight plans." No new infrastructure required.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Yep, men don't get called for routine thefts. And she is talented. Still a theft.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
One of the worst thefts from common shareholders ever.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Quick Calculus by Daniel Kleppner Also, if you can find an ancient copy of Thomas Calculus when it was two volumes. Buy the first volume. Solve all the odd problems, the solutions are in the back. That's how I learned! A later editi
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Great post.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Thanks. I'm indeed not crazy.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Your last sentence is correct, I made a mistake. The rest of what you said kind of supplements my post. One evening of self-medication was enough for to me, a formerly non-opiate addicted person, to experience extremely unpleasant withdrawa
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by agjacobson 10y ago
I want to use this message thread to tell a story and make a point. If it is off-point, delete it, give it negative votes, whatever. I had abdominal surgery. They had to remove 14cm of my colon which was badly inflamed due to diverticuli
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Management Summary "I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction" Hold yoga poses long. Take strong patent medicine herbs. Knitting. Volunteering at an animal shelter. Cold showers. Realistic goals on the benc
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Macintosh II with Finder 4.6. Never has a computer system maintained a technical lead for so long, 1987-95, with Finder upgrades you loaded from floppies. Bridgeport milling machine. People just copy it. They can't improve it. Ashla
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Nah. When Bob starts running the robot, he gets a raise to $60,000, and the guy who owns the robot keeps the $140k. And by the way, there tends to be significant wage deflation of automation workers with time. I can show you an advertiseme
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by agjacobson 10y ago
How does taxing somebody based on his owning a robot solve the loss of purpose that many people feel when unemployed?
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by agjacobson 10y ago
At first glance, not workable. Is a CNC mill a robot? What is a robot? Who decides? Do we hire some CIS and philosophy professors to study this? Should a hammer be taxed at a very low rate? Does the hardware store checkout robot registe
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MacOS Screen Updating 2017 Edition(1014.org)
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Reminds me of doodles I made when I was around 9. I had a ruler, a compass, and a pen; no computer.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
This article had a certain amount of childishness to it. "The usual suspects would be Russia, Iran, and maybe even China." Even China? The article pertains more to China than to any other country. Which model of System 360?
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by agjacobson 10y ago
On occasion I am forced to use toPDF on my ios devices, plus some gymnastics to save documents to Dropbox. This might have been obviated by some share nonsense I did with iPhotos. Dropbox seems to be working better and better. Available of
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by agjacobson 10y ago
You're right. It's been years since I carried around a flash drive, only to lose it, or not know which flash drive has...
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Dropbox just works. Go on vacation, my itinerary, all my travel docs, critical material, it's in Dropbox, and often available offline, since wifi can be spotty. Now its in my phone and my Ipad as well. It just works. And if you&#x27
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by agjacobson 10y ago
You have a good point. What I don't see is: (1) Some control over professors running outright businesses, and once tenured, putting much of their effort into those businesses, while still drawing senior-level pay. I don't claim t
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by agjacobson 10y ago
It's really outrageous. University research publications behind paywalls, but paid for by us. Now patents, the development paid for by us, in the hands of trolls. And public universities involved. This privatization is outrageous.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
The navigation system on my 2013 Acura is unusable. My iPhone sits on the seat and does the job. The navigation system on 2016 Volvos is usable.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Why should you care who services your mortgage? The only thing on your mind should be proper treatment of any payments you make exceeding your standard payment. You need to be sure that extra amounts are credited to principal.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Well, bless your heart!
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Yelp may have a value, but it is not proportional to the square of the number of users.
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by agjacobson 10y ago
Nice. Something like this happened to me in 1979 in Berkeley. You can infer how angry I got. I was too busy, at the end of grad school, to even contest it.

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