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by akamaka 11y ago
I think both wordings are rude, particularly because of the word "you". OP doesn't know anything about his family's history. It's different from making a general argument that talks about the benefit to the whole co
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by akamaka 11y ago
Your comment may be factual, but you could have skipped the "you should be thankful" bit. It's quite a rude thing to say to someone you don't know.
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by akamaka 11y ago
Alternately, how about being able to undo a vote, like reddit?
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by akamaka 11y ago
The rest of the commenters are quick to dismiss this article as presenting scapegoats, but I'm very keen to see more in-depth investigation about how this was orchestrated. There are a lot of different ways that this type of cheating c
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by akamaka 11y ago
Doesn't that fact argument work against GMOs? Cross-breeding has been done for thousands of years, so it's a very well understood technique, whereas doing it in a lab is has not even had half a century of experience behind it.
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by akamaka 11y ago
Oh wow, I read the article and completely missed that. They were talking about the TV show "Silicon Valley" just a few sentences before mentioning her, and I assumed that they were describing a fictional startup with her playing t
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by akamaka 11y ago
I definitely wouldn't consider nuclear power in Canada to be a complete success. In 1999, Ontario Hydro's debt stood at $38.1 billion, most of which came from the construction of nuclear plants. For comparison, the entire gover
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by akamaka 11y ago
Thanks for sharing that quote! It summarizes exactly what I've felt since I first encountered his fonts, which is that they have an amazing "neutralness" to them. The Avenir font started with Futura and smoothed out its disti
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by akamaka 11y ago
My comment was written under the assumption that there is more than one path toward reducing CO2 emissions. Putting that aside, I agree with you completely.
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by akamaka 11y ago
This article, like many pro-nuclear arguments, doesn't address the most basic problem -- is nuclear power cost effective? Sure, it's cheap in theory, but nuclear power projects bring with them enormous project management risk. If
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by akamaka 11y ago
It's funny to read this, because I personally find iOS to have by far the best UI of any mobile OS, and I consider the flat design of iOS7 to be a big step forward. Other people feel differently, and they consider Android superior, so
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by akamaka 11y ago
Dude, I thought you were interested in this subject, so I wanted to give some examples of how Kuhn's theory works, seeing as the article did it poorly. I guess I didn't do a much better job myself. I'm not here to argue with
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by akamaka 11y ago
I know you're addressing "the culture" here in general, but seeing as I'm part of it, I really want to make clear it's not merely monetization that impresses me about Steve Jobs. He spent over a decade heavily invol
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by akamaka 11y ago
Steve Jobs spent 12 years creating, funding, and leading a risky company that built a UNIX implementation that has become one of the most widely used. I think the creating OS X is in the same league as creating UNIX or Linux. Sure, Jobs wa
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by akamaka 11y ago
I think you're actually proving Kuhn's point when he argues that the progress of science involves wiping out almost all memory of obsolete paradigms. When we read a science textbook, all of the information is placed within the str
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by akamaka 11y ago
You're right, and it's the article fault for poorly explaining Kuhn's thinking. Newton's laws have never been overturned, merely refined, so we've never truly shifted away from a Newtonian paradigm. A better example
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by akamaka 11y ago
Can anyone explain how to read the CO2 vs GDP graph near the bottom of the article? Is there a name for this type of graph? http://breakthrough.turing.com/images/elements/Figure_13.png
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by akamaka 11y ago
You've probably started using it more recently, but if you want to see what it used to be like, check out this XMLHttpRequest wrapper and see how many browser bugs it fixes: https://github.com/ilinsky/xmlhttpreques
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by akamaka 11y ago
The part that excites me the most is the potential for reducing car ownership. The utlization rate for both cars and parking spaces is extremely low (something like 5% for cars and 15% for parking spaces), so it's not hard to imagine
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by akamaka 11y ago
In my opinion, yes, definitely yes, and probably not, or at least not automatically. The network effect alone is a huge barrier to entry. Second, the only obvious way to undercut Uber on prices would be by being bigger. There are significa
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by akamaka 11y ago
Oh yeah, I agree with you 100%! I just wanted to add another dimension to the equation, one which is on my mind a lot. To give an example of my thinking, I predict that Uber, once it defeats the incumbents in a fair fight, will contribute
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by akamaka 11y ago
You're entirely correct, though another factor to consider is the share of economic value that is captured by industries that have enormous capital requirements (e.g. jet engines, semiconductors, oil refining). Even if all of the monop
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by akamaka 11y ago
Very interesting point about vaccinations. I went looking for more numbers and found this: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/02/young-adults... It's quite counterintuitive to me that, acc
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by akamaka 11y ago
One of the problems is this idea that opposition to GMOs and growth in demand for organic food is fueled by scientific illiteracy. There an oft-repeated lament of "I can't believe people think GMOs are unsafe!", but why not i
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by akamaka 11y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I think there are still a lot of possibilities for innovation here. We waste 50% of food, with a big portion of that waste happening at the retail level. Food distribution services like Good Eggs ha
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by akamaka 11y ago
I think folks underestimate how much agricultural science and technology there is that doesn't fall under the very narrow categories of genetic engineering and chemical pesticides. Modern society is built on top of the massive producti
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by akamaka 11y ago
I'm not sure if you just have a problem with organic food, or if this is just another reiteration of the tired old "if you're not trying to solve world hunger..." argument that gets used to criticize business ideas, but
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by akamaka 11y ago
Colo versus cloud is not a typicial flamebait subject, but the way he worded it may as well have been trolling. For example, think of someone writing "Do people really believe that Vi is better than Emacs?". Yeah, I feel that star
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by akamaka 11y ago
Yes, your comment is unneccessarily inflammatory, in case you're wondering why I'm downvoting you. Nobody in this thread has made any comments about their uptime expectations before you brought up the subject. There's no sign
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by akamaka 11y ago
Can anyone recommend further reading that gives an in-depth analysis of housing costs? There's no end to articles exploring the various political angles, but what good are those without understanding the underlying economic constraint

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