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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Trying to un-commoditize a commodity, a terrible business strategy. Apple can do it, but apple isn't reeeally selling computers, certainly not PCs.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Maybe it's the statistically well supported paradox that men are overrepresented at the extremes, both negative and positive extremes. And start-ups, for various reasons not limited to risk, are a kind of extreme case of (self) employment.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
The idea of ideas as viruses is old. They can infect you, then can breed with other ideas, they spread, etc. Religion world wide does seem to follow a pattern of more complicated and more energy demanding religions being replaced by religio
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
The industry, actually several industries both electronics manufacturers and media companies, need the new new thing to keep sales up. It is a consumer driven economy after all. And that is why 3D will pushed hard, for as long as it takes.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Yeah, that's what happens when actually have some competence, and thus you know that you know very little AND you also know the crowd here will call your BS on these subject. Oh but politics or other crap like that will fill with comments
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
You're... kidding, but I had to think about it.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
I'll take a thoughtful essay on architecture and the power of government over the crap OMG look at this crazy Sh!t! and the self help How to lose weight/How to get a date/How to be social. articles which are hitting the front page more
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Relevant: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dis...
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
It's a bit more then a social construct. The language family is called Indo-European because of shared ancestry.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
From your wikipedia link: Blue eyes contain low amounts of melanin... Blue eyes are most common in Northern Europe and Central Europe and to a lesser degree in Southern Europe,North America and southern Central Asia; Afghanistan is a notab
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The Mifare-cracking presentation at 23C3 (news.ycombinator.com)
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Haiku(arstechnica.com)
145 points by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago|29 comments
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Don't only Caucasians have blue eyes? And aren't they (full disclosure "we" in my case) also the only ones with the mutated version of the gene which controls how much melanin is deposited in skill, hair and... I think also irises? Asians
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
3 weeks unpaid time off, if my recollection is correct. And then they go spend that kind of cash on an acquisition, I doubt it will create a lot of good will inside the company.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Landscapers have been a problem for me absolutely everywhere I've lived. I have two choices, rid the world of early morning landscapers or sound proof the house, starting with better windows.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
I can't stand noise as well, but I've always taken it for granted that it is my job to stop noise from entering my home. I am always surprised by people who also hate noise, but don't seem to think a lot about sound proofing, they are more
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
But it is also a high risk, high yield strategy. The high yield is great, the high risk not so much. It is heavily reliant on very few, very closely related varieties and pesticides. That's just a ticking clock until a fungus or something l
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Here's something that bothers me. The super strains of wheat came from crossing a wide variety of diverse wheat species, just one example the sturdy stalk came from a Japanese dwarf variety. But now the further refinement of the vast majori
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
I am surprised by the load bearing power of steel, the total height of a crane made of steel + the counter weight + the weight of what it's lifting, that's a lot of force at the bottom of the steel tower.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Accidentally bad math or intentionally bad math? I recall the great article posted here, written by the self identified godfather of the software to slice and repackage risk. And I always wondered, did he understand the difference between c
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Botanist Natalie Tapson says the plant is a genetic freak that can only reproduce by cloning itself. She says it's under threat from the introduced phytophera fungus... Sexual reproduction is a big sacrifice, instead of passing on 100%
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Speaking as a gen X member, gen Y is now what, just getting out of college at best? While we're in our 30s to 40s. This comparison is silly.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Few things make me feel palpable joy like this.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
1-13 are about treating the symptoms of failed states. How about we treat the disease itself instead? Politics and state building sure are a whole lot more complex and difficult, and don't make you feel nearly as good, as feeding children.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Quick, get the FBI to harass some of those gene hackers and put some more regulations and restrictions around med. tech, that'll help.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
What I was saying there was that you can't find a cure for a disease you haven't discovered yet. Do you disagree? Absolutely. Many drugs targeting one disease have been found to cure others. The list includes cancer drugs, antibiotics, an
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
And how will we ever pop that bubble? Wouldn't that meant that many, many middle class kids, sons and daughters of voters, would suddenly not be able to afford college? How would that ever happen politically?
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
As a long time C++ programmer is very much appreciate expert C++ advice, even if it comes from someone who hates C++. This was great, and I would like to add that any good programmer should know that it is easily possible to run out of stac
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
You know what, I don't find this superfluous. Maybe a bit early but not by much.
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by asdlfj2sd33 17y ago
Perhaps you may change your mind if you read up on how easily bacteria swap DNA and just how many of them there are and all the places they live and all the things they eat. Or to put it another way, what happened since bacteria have been a

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