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by angdis 15y ago
What exactly is Peter Thiel "betting"? That he will be able to find another Mark Zuckerberg and in the process derail the academic careers of several hundred or more promising candidates? Hopefully the students who don't "make IPO" will be
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by angdis 15y ago
If it works for him, that's great for him and whomever he _thinks_ his audience is.
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by angdis 15y ago
Indeed, that's why it is best to hold the swearing unless you _really_ need to use it. It can be powerful rhetoric in the right context. But used too often, it loses its sting and merely lowers expectations for whatever comes out of the spe
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by angdis 15y ago
Usually not a good idea to swear, especially when presenting to a wide audience. Not everyone is cool with profanity and you risk being silently judged and dismissed by those individuals as a result. Moreover, you never know where your pres
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by angdis 15y ago
In theory, yes of course, you can encrypt your communications personally and "figure out" on a case by case basis how to do key exchange with the end-party. But that is a MAJOR OBSTACLE for all but the most patient and tech-savvy people and
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by angdis 15y ago
Yes, I agree "trust" is the wrong word. It is perhaps better to think of it as a trade-off of some risk for some convenience and that's OK. In any case, back to the OP's question, the stated "policy" about privacy means virtually nothing un
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by angdis 15y ago
The real question is not whether google, dropbox or anyone else has explicit "policies" about reading content from users. They're just going to say whatever makes them look good from a marketing and legal perspective. Companies lie all the
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by angdis 15y ago
If this were a real breakthrough, we would be seeing a trickle of confirmations followed shortly by a flood of news and immensely stepped-up activity. I'm impressed by Focardi, however. Not because he can make energy from nothing (I triple-
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by angdis 15y ago
For now, they're far enough ahead of any real competition that the flip-flopping won't be too harmful in the short term. They have a great product and they know it. And, this isn't the first time Netflix pissed off customers. A few years ba
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by angdis 15y ago
Why is it that libertarians often resort to lame "parable-like" stories to get their point across? Is there really such a dearth of real, concrete examples from which to draw? It might be forgivable if the parables were at least interesting
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by angdis 15y ago
There's a flip side to the IKEA effect. I don't have a name for it but it has happened every time I've built something from IKEA. Basically, it all goes together nicely... except for one defect. Sometimes there's a hole drilled in slightly
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by angdis 15y ago
... and more often than I'd care to admit, it is easier and BETTER to quit and find another job rather than "re-write" or "re-factor" somebody's legacy mess. Seriously. Life is too short.
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by angdis 15y ago
It is _really_ hard for someone straight out of college (as Angela was) to say "no" to a pile of legal boilerplate that probably will never be enforced. Practically everyone does it. Not doing it "marks" one as somebody who might make troub
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by angdis 15y ago
I'll admit that "poor" is a tricky thing to define but pointing out the possession of random consumer electronics doesn't demonstrate that a household is NOT really "poor". The presence of a social safety net, meaningful employment, food se
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by angdis 15y ago
Procrastination and not getting work done can be caused MANY different things. There is no way that a few sentences exchanged with strangers will crack this problem. You have to find the root cause of your problem in your own way. For some
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by angdis 15y ago
Seems like a really bright, headstrong kid who is about to further cripple the already rough start of his potentially promising academic career.
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by angdis 15y ago
This is no different than "generation X" in the early 90's. We were called "slackers" then. Lots of well-educated folks with no real job prospects and no money. I made $8/hour performing science demonstrations for children! That's OK though
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by angdis 15y ago
Sure, it happens all the time and has happened since before humans existed. The concern is about how much extinction humans are CAUSING. Given that extinctions can impact entire ecosystems, we (as a species) should be worried about the impa
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by angdis 15y ago
There are also techniques from "metagenomics" where environmental samples are taken from ocean water captured in filters and dna-sequenced en-masse (see "Global Ocean Sampling"). It is then possible to statistically infer the number of dist
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by angdis 15y ago
The article is simply a massive preachy FAQ with intricate advice that really boils down to common sense and good manners. And yeah, the people who lack the common sense to post good questions, are not going to ever read something like that
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by angdis 15y ago
It certainly is a nice way of thinking about hiring. The "problem" is that each one of those slices (whatever they are) is deeply and intrinsically subjective both in width and length. For instance, how can you determine how important "visi
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by angdis 15y ago
It doesn't matter if JWZ is entirely correct or not. He is doing a nice public service by providing some guidelines to help folks to introduce utilitarian biking into their lives. For those that are completely new to biking, his advice is a
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by angdis 15y ago
It depends. I think there are lots of folks who would excel but do not make it to college simply because of economic conditions or low familial expectations holding them down. There's also many without intellectual talent who get into colle
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by angdis 15y ago
Depending on the job market, college grads may or may not have a hard time find a job to get on track to pay off their loans quickly, so what? Everyone has a rough patch, some more than others. The high school student who chooses NOT to go
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by angdis 15y ago
Yes, I see a lot of that. Virtually every university I come across has recently completed or in the middle of some huge sprawling campus expansion. It is hard to fathom that the growth from increased tuition aren't directly funding such bui
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by angdis 15y ago
What I would like to know is whether Google is actually getting into hardware manufacturing operations? It is not clear from the articles if motorola mobile was using contract manufacturers for their hardware or not They [motorola mobile] c
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by angdis 15y ago
I think some people are getting retentive about applying the "debt" metaphor. Uncle Bob is simply trying to draw a operational distinction between technical debt that is accrued deliberately and technical debt that is accrued out of sloppin
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by angdis 15y ago
Three questions: 1) How much would 8g of Thorium cost? How much would the engine cost? Even with economies of scale, I can't imagine that it won't be an astronomical investment. 2) Could enough thorium ever be produced? Can it work on a Nor
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by angdis 15y ago
Can this be made to work using only the existing MAC keyboard? Or do you have to have both the VT220 and MAC keyboards on your desk?
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by angdis 15y ago
It absolutely is NOT SIMPLE. I agree that mob mentality can reach "criticality" and cause crazy stuff to happen over one night. The thing that makes this different from a football riot (or the WTO riots), however, is that the activity is su

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