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GPU Raytracer in HTML5+WebGL(cdn.rawgit.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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You Can't Feed a Family with GDP(nytimes.com)
6 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
It's a psychological thing. If a company hasn't even tried to get revenue, then the sky's the limit. But as soon as it does it gets actual numbers, and those numbers are usually not as big as anyone's wildest dreams. Som
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by api 12y ago
To the extent that this is true, it's one of the major social criticisms of Silicon Valley-- that it's a Ponzi financial scheme where the game is to spawn massive but deeply unsustainable growth juggernauts and then sell them to g
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by api 12y ago
In Silicon Valley these sorts of businesses are often derided as "lifestyle businesses." The Valley -- especially the big VC ecosystem -- wants big sector-conquering victories. That's because the VC industry is driven and f
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by api 12y ago
It's a lot harder to get big without burn. Offering value for free or very cheap is the easiest way to achieve exponential growth.
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by api 12y ago
It's not large corporations per se, but traditional government contracting where the implicit incentive is to deliver minimum value at maximum cost.
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Building a Private Backplane Network for Your VPSes with ZeroTier(petekeen.net)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I think China shows us that a totalitarian regime can in many cases be worse for the environment than even the most unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. That's because totalitarian regimes will apply forcing functions to things lik
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by api 12y ago
uTP isn't really to make torrents run smoother. It's to allow NAT traversal.
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by api 12y ago
A second faulty assumption is that a totalitarian regime would in fact protect the environment. Even if it we're put into place for that purpose, who watches the watchers? China is a good example... Nominally communist until the elite
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by api 12y ago
“because forbidden thoughts may circulate in secret, but what can be done when an important fact is lost in a flood of impostors … ?” This accurately describes one of the main failings of the Internet. It was supposed to give us an age of t
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by api 12y ago
... or the "new economy" Silicon Valley movement... oh wait. One word: "disrupt." Sigh.
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by api 12y ago
Exactly. Atheism does not describe a belief, but a lack thereof. I don't think there is a pink elephant in the room with me right now, so I'm going to start a movement!
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by api 12y ago
"Movement" ... ugggghhh... The instant something becomes a "movement" it loses 50 IQ points at least, and this one is no exception. They start by having something to say, but they quickly turn into ends-in-themselves cir
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by api 12y ago
You see a similar effect in business of course. In booms like the tech boom I think we saw a crop of people with actual merit get rich, but normally it's the wheelers and dealers.
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by api 12y ago
"The following images depict opening up and messing with a 275 volt DC power system. It will be exposed, be unfused, and be extremely dangerous. If you touch the wrong spots, you will commit suicide instantly. If your metal tool touche
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by api 12y ago
I'm a fan of the view that evolution should be viewed as an information transfer process. It transfers information about the fitness landscape into the genome. Similar environments will give rise then to similar information. There will
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by api 12y ago
"App runtime for Chrome..." floor->add(jaw); Think about that for a while...
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by api 12y ago
You should go for $25M at least. This shit is mad disruptive yo.
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by api 12y ago
No, it's harder than that. If you don't inspire people, you get B (or worse) work out of everyone. Being inspiring is the only way to get A work out of anyone, ever. Nobody works at their full potential for a "bullshit job.&q
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by api 12y ago
> As uncouth as it may be, there are plenty of people who just simply aren't good enough to do a particular job. Sure. In reality I think both are true, and this makes the problem of building a great company even more challenging. N
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by api 12y ago
... or alternately: everyone becomes a "B player" when they don't really care. As the post correctly states, people are not cogs. We are sentient beings with complex, conceptual motivational structures. Companies with a sen
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by api 12y ago
We all do. I've got several -- one involving me and two more involving others -- that are so weird I'd have to tone them down quite a bit to make them believable.
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by api 12y ago
As far back as I can remember I had trouble with formal education for the simple reason that assignments are pointless. They don't solve real problems and have no personal significance to me, so why do them? I have never been able to g
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Doing Time: Why User Experience Trumps Everything(adamierymenko.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'm not sure... seems like what you say may hold for a while, but eventually you start hitting a more objective sort of hard: things that are hard for human beings to comprehend due to the limitations of our intelligence itself. Beyond
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by api 12y ago
Canada has a lot of oil and other natural resources in proportion to its population. I suspect this underwrites a lot of their high standard of living vs. labor intensiveness. I'm not sure nations that don't have that kind of cash
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by api 12y ago
I'm sure there's someone out there who would give you a $0.99 laptop . With camera and microphone always engaged and uploading everything you do to a central server so your tiniest behavioral characteristics can be sold to adver
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by api 12y ago
The cheaper the mobile device, the more it likely spies on you.

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