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16081.
by api 14y ago
"I’ve visited Singapore a few times in recent years and been impressed with its wealth and modernity. I was also quite aware of its world-leading programs in mathematics education and naturally noted that one of the candidates for president
16082.
by api 14y ago
I think this proves that Apple's UDIDs are a horrible, insecure system. That is a privacy catastrophe.
16083.
by api 14y ago
No, the UDID is a privacy catastrophe.
16084.
by api 14y ago
Personal observation: I cannot get over how far this "super entrepreneur"'s personality is from the glib, fast-talking "operator" personality type fetishized by most venture capitalists, business gurus, and MBA programs. I mean... he hesita
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Elon Musk Mahalo Mentor Interview on PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla(youtube.com)
5 points by api 14y ago|1 comments
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by api 14y ago
They've also been used to design analog-to-digital converters that work better than hand-designed A/D converters. The kicker is that we don't know exactly how they work, nor have we proven that they are "correct." But we've tested them enou
16087.
by api 14y ago
The US healthcare system combines everything that is bad about a state-run socialized system with everything that is bad about privately funded care. To add insult to injury, we do not pay substantially less taxes than, say, Canadians. If w
16088.
by api 14y ago
In the long run I think iOS's more locked down console model is going to hand the market to Android.
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by api 14y ago
A lot of engineers don't get evolution because engineers tend to think there is one best way to do something. How could evolution ever discover the "answer," they think? This is endlessly reinforced in school. You get right answers and wron
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by api 14y ago
I have a very tough time rationalizing this guy's futurism with the rest of his opinions. Of course, I guess compartmentalization and contradiction are common elements of the human condition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilder
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by api 14y ago
Glad to see that if Apple locks down OSX and I'm forced to go back to Linux, there will be machines that basically copy Apple's aesthetic to run Linux on that don't look like ass.
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by api 14y ago
Either philosophy is a dead end, then, or it is the base of all knowledge. Depends on whether knowledge is a tree or a graph, which is... a philosophical question! My brain exploded.
16093.
by api 14y ago
So now we have an Apple/Google oligopoly on mobile devices and fluid UIs.
16094.
by api 14y ago
Does it guarantee dreadlocks?
16095.
by api 14y ago
Thank you Elon for giving us back the future. Tnx.
16096.
by api 14y ago
I completely agree with your first speculation. I don't think they want to go after these and fail. I think they'd rather have them exist in their present possibly less hardened form and try to monitor and reverse engineer them passively.
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by api 14y ago
The idea that there's a single location for things like self-awareness is silly, and comes from the fact that we lack the language or the mental metaphors to talk about emergent, epiphenomenal, decentralized processes. Even economics, which
16098.
by api 14y ago
Yet college is more of a requirement now than it was then.
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by api 14y ago
At least you've got Saudi Canada out in Alberta that can help pay for some of it.
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by api 14y ago
Also, space. If you have kids, space will become more important. As soon as you even think about having kids, absolutely everything about how the suburbs are designed suddenly makes sense. I still prefer an urban setting though.
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by api 14y ago
That's a valid point, but I didn't know there were any tech hubs or otherwise interesting places with jobs that had house prices like that. That is lower than small Midwestern cities with lousier economies. Why is housing so affordable in T
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by api 14y ago
I know a lot of professional people in my generation, and I know of only a few that have anything like what you describe. One managed to land a six-figure job in Kentucky , one of the lowest cost of living places that was largely passed ov
16103.
by api 14y ago
I agree that growth forever is unrealistic. I'm referring to the fact that growth has stalled for everyone below a certain bracket, but is continuing apace for everyone above. This has been true for a very long time, but people were filling
16104.
by api 14y ago
This is exactly what both the left and the right are propagandizing the middle class to do: lower expectations. In some cases, it means lowering our expectations to below those of our parents. Think about that for a minute. Find me a corp
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by api 14y ago
Send them the median income / home value ratios too. I think the boomers qualify as the most irresponsible generation in history, especially in the USA. Now half of them have no retirement savings and are getting old, fast. Guess who's goin
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by api 14y ago
In most of the U.S. public transportation is virtually unusable. I've heard European exchange students compare the U.S. transit system to the worst of the former Soviet bloc.
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by api 14y ago
Earth to Planet Trust Fund: it is the economy. http://livingwage.mit.edu Also look at the ratio of median income to real estate value. We are still in a housing bubble. My household earns about 40% more than the national average, we do no
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by api 14y ago
I finally got a car since I was able to land an abusrdly cheap loan (2%!), but still won't touch a house. Real estate where I live is absurd, and I do not live in one of the big prestigious cities. (I used to, and real estate there was inco
16109.
by api 14y ago
Myself and many other "millennials" are very reluctant to "buy" such things because they can't. What we can do is go into massive, enslaving, soul-crushing debt for them, something the smart ones are justifiably reluctant to do. Real esta
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by api 14y ago
Simpler definition: when politics eclipses merit. When "it's not what you know, it's who you know," the organization (or society) is doomed.

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