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by arthurrr 14y ago
Technology cannot solve the problems of the world, because the real problem is human nature. Machiavelli got it right when he said that history repeats because man's passion never changes. The world is nonlinear, everything is cyclical. Whe
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Zero Hedge was an excellent site in its early days before it became popular. Most of the good contributors have left the site, understandably. And Matt Taibbi was responsible for the legendary characterization of Goldman Sachs as a "great v
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I think the new screen resolution is a terrible terrible decision, I like a phone/tablet that has about the same aspect ratio as a piece of paper. For me, 4:3 and 3:2 are ideal. I have no use for widescreen, especially when I am normally vi
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I say it's more like writing cartoon music
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by arthurrr 14y ago
In order to make the connection between the two you have to apply a bit of abstraction.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Iceland
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by arthurrr 14y ago
He doesn't understand how the economy works. Neither do nearly everyone in government. They are all basically academics without practical experience. You can't fix something you don't understand. You'd have better luck asking a virgin about
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by arthurrr 14y ago
This post makes me very very happy, knowing that Paypal lost one hundred million dollars. Thank you for making my day!
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by arthurrr 14y ago
And a lot of "beautiful" games are quite boring to play. Even if this game is "ugly", does it make it less fun to play? Personally, a game like this is inspiring because it means that it is possible to make a successful game without spendin
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Audio latency is better but still not very good, compared to iOS/CoreAudio. I suspect it will never catch up simply because of the underlying design, Google simply does not have the knowledge necessary to implement low-latency audio.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of Flight of the Conchords...having spent time living in both NZ and Australia made the show a lot funnier. I didn't realise how much I liked NZ until I left. I'm in Oz now, originally from Los Angeles. I feel much safer now
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by arthurrr 14y ago
The problem with academics is that all of their knowledge is theory, they have no practical experience. I think you should only be able to spend a maximum 1 year in government, you should not be able to make a career out of working in gover
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by arthurrr 14y ago
His jokey lunacy is what I like. It takes a bit of intelligence to have a sense of humor
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I think this is too dismissive, and is the equivalent of sweeping it underneath the rug and hoping it doesn't happen again. To me, this is a symptom that there is something broken with society. The way I see it, energy builds up in the syst
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Finding a good woman is a very difficult task, NP Complete I would say, depending on how you optimise. If you've solved that problem in your life, everything else is just noise. Starting a startup is trivial by comparison.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
markets aren't efficient (don't listen to what they teach at school), they trade on emotion, perception is more important than reality
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I think entrepreneurs are drawn to the US simply because it is the biggest economy. The corruption overhead is just a cost of doing business, you don't pay, your customers do, you just have to account for it when you create the pricing stru
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I don't really think determination is the magic ingredient. Personally I think the process of writing software is very similar to writing a song. (is anybody here also a songwriter)? Because if you try to write a song before you're ready, i
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I think that was one of the design goals of Java. (seriously)
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I met a nice girl who went back to her home country and we exchanged email addresses. But the emails we sent each other ended up in the spam folder. This is unacceptable. Email is unreliable. As much as I hate Facebook, it actually works fo
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I think what's going to happen eventually is that the A-level engineers are all going to leave Apple and start their own company, when they start getting frusterated with the new Apple. I don't think Tim Cook understands the arguably 25:1 d