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by alexqgb 14y ago
There's a direct correlation between misery and drug use, as well as a direct correlation between misery and high levels of social inequality. People who agonize between the dangers of prohibition vs. the dangers of legalization (or even de
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by alexqgb 14y ago
What happens depends on what interests Google more: driving the spread of Android through less-than-fully-aligned carriers, or gathering the data that everyone using these with iOS could provide. I'm guessing the latter. Apple may respond n
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by alexqgb 14y ago
A fine example of a headline editor stating one thing ("morass!") and the author stating another ("probably no morass right now, but in a corrupt congress, that could change.")
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by alexqgb 14y ago
For me, the fantastic thing about the first iPod was immediate access to any track, combined with shuffle play. It changed the experience of listening to music. It was like my entire collection had a single, superfluid interface. And the th
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Devices have off switches. People's social expectations don't. For instance, there aren't too many salaried people with enough autonomy to decide that they don't want their bosses e-mailing them after hours, over the weekend, or on vacation
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by alexqgb 14y ago
From Lockhert's Lament, in which the author debates a fictional idiot (this should be required reading for anyone who has anything to do with curriculum design). "What about geometry? Don’t students prove things there? Isn’t High School Geo
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by alexqgb 14y ago
How can you "move past" not understanding mathematical concepts when they're essential to everything that follows? I mean that's the whole point of math - to provide an explanation in which every step is necessary, and understood to be nece
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Enterprise sales is exactly right, with the enterprises being the biggest ad agencies, media companies, and corporate cients on the planet. A lot of these folks are keenly interested not just in the images themselves, but also in the contex
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by alexqgb 14y ago
It's more than conceptual lineage - geometrically, the Mac Pro was a 1st gen. mini flipped on its side then amended with handles and vents. And the precise curve of the corresponding corners is repeated on the MacBook Pros. And the iPhone.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
I'm always amazed that more people don't recognize the Cube as one of the most successful design manifestos in corporate history. Unlike the successful-in-their-time Candy iMacs, the Cube introduced a hardware design DNA that permiated virt
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Agencies, in effect, earn a percentage of the spend. But this amount is determined up front. Clients go to market saying "We have $x for client y and we want to know which shops will give us the most bang for the buck." Shops that over-prom
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by alexqgb 14y ago
I'm a big fan of NetNewsWire ( http://netnewswireapp.com/ ) The designers very explicitly set out to create an interface you could navigate with one hand, enabling you to slowly drink your morning coffee with the other.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Here's another question; what's the long-term effect of inspiring absolutely incandescent levels of loathing among "customers" who actually feel like severely exploited captives? Could that produce anything that might disrupt a business m
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Actually, starting around Spider Man 2 (2004) major studios have been making growing use of DI - digital intermediates - which are usually 4k files from which they generate the negatives from which they strike the release prints. And with t
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Unless he decides to fight back in a precedent-setting way, which he now has the free time to do.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Confirmed. When I say Google supplied me with the single worst customer service I've ever had, I do mean customer. Not user. Customer. e.g. "24/7 Support" meant I was free to sent them an e-mail anytime, day or night. Or I could call the 80
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Wouldn't it be something if Radio Shack outlasted Best Buy and Circuit City both.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
The temptation to pass laws like this (an unstoppable force) exists in fundamental opposition to the reality of tools as powerful, as versatile, as cheap, and as highly distributed personal computers (the immovable object). This conflict is
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Rather, we became our big brained selves because our progenitors cooked their food.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
I don't come to HN for jokes either, but I'm always surprised by the extent to which incidental displays of cleverness go over like farts in churches. I keep wondering if the people who feel compelled to police this stuff heavily also strug
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by alexqgb 15y ago
NBC doesn't disagree. They know they're responsible, and they take they responsibility seriously. Specifically, they fire the intern, they settle with Apple (assuming Apple sends them a bill), and they pass the cost onto their insurance com
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by alexqgb 15y ago
According to the Prometheus spokesperson “Without the availability of patent protection, future health care will suffer as companies may opt out of new research and development.” This assumption is based on the demonstrably wrong assumption
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Not sure about that. See Jason Russell, who has just had a spectacularly bad day. http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/16/10721745-report...
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by alexqgb 15y ago
All your mails are belong to us.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
It's wrong only if you assume that guidelines should pertain to an absurd range of deliberately destructive yet highly implausible scenarios, as opposed actual problems that could regularly occur in their absence.
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Photographer Christian Hougue produced a really beautiful series on this ground stations called Arctic Technology. He mentioned that the air is some of cleanest in the world, which is a real boon to the equipment they're running. http://ww
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Gosh I don't know. Maybe sleazy sites getting pushed to the margins would have to develop non-sleazy business models or die trying. In either case, it's a win for the Internet.
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This has less to do with moral panics, and more to do with an acute awareness of the dangers that come with unidirectional transparency. HN's demographic may be more attuned to these problems than most, but it's absurd to think that this ba
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"Robot Readable World" by Timo Arnall does a great job illustrating what's behind entirely plausible scenarios like these. http://www.elasticspace.com/2012/02/robot-readable-world
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What's really helpful is considering property rights independently of whatever they're actually protecting. And protecting is the key word, since the rights themselves are abstractions. What gives them concrete value is the institutionalize

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