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by alpine 14y ago
'...people brag all the time about not knowing how to do math'. This is true, I think, mostly of Anglo-Saxon countries. It is quite a disgusting attitude. In what way is someone's life-chances or overall happiness degraded by a better under
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by alpine 14y ago
Do you believe that writers and social scientists have nothing to add to this discussion? Mostly, Yes.
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by alpine 14y ago
One of the smartest interview pieces I've read in a long time. I don't think you can ever over-estimate the benefit of forcing seemingly non-functionally aligned people to sit next to each other. Forcing your enterprise to build social conn
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by alpine 14y ago
I stopped reading the moment I encountered 'I say this as a writer and social scientist...'
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by alpine 14y ago
Illustrates the danger of passing all PR functions to, well, PR people. They have obviously taken on trust the rational provided to them by their IT contact. We all know this tweet is ridiculous - who are they to know different?
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Britain is a good place for entrepreneurs, says Adfonic chief Victor Malachard(telegraph.co.uk)
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by alpine 14y ago
One could argue that the recent wars were started to satiate the hunger for a cause that the Fight Club quote is eluding to.
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by alpine 14y ago
There's one thing I don't think I've seen mentioned when this subject is brought up. If you walked into an office comprising 100% standing desks, would the environment seem a tad more unfriendly than others? Would it be intimidating enough
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by alpine 14y ago
This is a null business. Kill it now.
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by alpine 14y ago
I don't think you are factoring in the spin to be expected from any CEO, never mind the Director General of the BBC, who has to admit that his charge is less than innocent. The accusation of bias against the BBC is common enough, indeed it
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by alpine 14y ago
You could offer to pay ~£8k in licence fees for life time access to UK TV. Of course, if you watch and don't pay, you will live in fear of a prison sentence. Luckily, extradition from the US to the UK is less likely than the reverse, so you
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by alpine 14y ago
Yep, we are in 2012, yet just because some things are possible (like access to TV from every source across the globe), doesn't mean to say those things are permissible .
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by alpine 14y ago
Yes, I have been paying attention. Trading is all about timing.
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by alpine 14y ago
Time to short Apple. Somehow, I don't think this would have happened under Steve.
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by alpine 14y ago
It is a big statement, isn't it? I do believe it to be true, however. What I'm positing is that the technological pieces can all be deployed relatively easily. What is required is the 'spark of genius' that triggers mass adoption. The hook
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by alpine 14y ago
It's fairly obvious to me that an open system, that incorporates Twitter-like functionality as a subset of a greater whole, could take over this space in less than 12 months, leaving Twitter/Facebook/* as AOL-like also rans. Winer appears t
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by alpine 14y ago
Parliament make the laws.
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by alpine 14y ago
She's asking that the people who caused the problem (Parliament), investigate with a view to determining why there is a problem.
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by alpine 14y ago
His local MP, Louise Mensch apparently tweeted 'It is for Parliament to investigate actions here'. Talk about missing the point! This man was convicted because he fell foul of the nannying, micromanaging, politically correct, busy-body soci
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by alpine 14y ago
I haven't tried any possible solutions. Building an inhouse monitor is a possibility, but I would pay for a service if it was only $25 pm. Particularly if it included the option of buying Sys Admin/DBA support, charged hourly as required, w
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by alpine 14y ago
Smart monitoring tool that would automatically check: - Front end web site availability - APIs available - Back end processes are running - Database up - Disk space available - Error logs for important issues The database checks would inclu
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by alpine 14y ago
The BBC is anything but unbiased. From the horse's mouth: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/09/lecture-thom...
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by alpine 14y ago
Can you name a source of unbiased news?
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by alpine 14y ago
Drudge, FT, Telegraph, HN, BBC
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by alpine 14y ago
Like fusion or a cure for cancer the break through is always 'a few decades away'. Which is a promise that conveniently meets the dual criteria a) soon enough to continue to attract funding b) far enough in the future to allow the current c
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by alpine 14y ago
Lord Kelvin has to be a contender http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelv...
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by alpine 14y ago
It didn't end well and he made some poor business decisions along the way, but Tesla still deserves consideration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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by alpine 14y ago
There is a solution that requires you to use a semicircle line to join two of the straight lines. You could argue it meets the rule 'just four straight lines', and you would be all the more 'creative' for proposing it. However it is unlikel
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by alpine 14y ago
Seems to me you are extrapolating an unknown and arriving at the worse case scenario ie they are so underwhelmed by your solution that they think it is ok to treat you in a shoddy manner by not following through on their promise. That's one
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by alpine 14y ago
Your argument is completely rational. Isn't the point, though, that these feelings are irrational? I don't think telling yourself to stop being irrational is the best way to address the problem. Once you have debugged the cause of the irrat

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