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by asr 16y ago
I think it registers as creepy because the narrator is anthropomorphizing while we watch. Although I agree that in the abstract I'm not bothered by it. I mean, we also kill mice in large numbers for science...
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by asr 16y ago
Correct. These new tests produced abnormally large results. If these results were true, then this would be front-page news. But the results are faulty. So the actual radiation is ... the same as what we thought before these new tests were c
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by asr 16y ago
This article is confusingly written to obscure the fact that there's no story. Some field tests showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected, but the TSA has determined it's because some field testers, who were conducting 10 tests
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by asr 16y ago
I don't think you're really disagreeing with the author--I think his point is that there are fewer original ideas with the potential to redefine genres, push boundaries, etc.: "I don't mean that there are fewer really good movies than ever
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by asr 16y ago
Definitely agree. Plus defending every single part of Apple's policies makes him set up straw men and false dichotomies like nobody's business. Take his summation: "iOS isn’t and never was an open computer system. It’s a closed, controlled
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by asr 16y ago
Nice piece. I have a question that comes up every time I read a "we came up with our Y-Combinator demo in the last weekend and got funded" story--is this rare? It seems like I hear it all the time, but maybe most of the "last 24 hour" demos
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by asr 16y ago
http://www.toggl.com/ I was a big fan of Toggl when I was being billed out by the hour... I never needed to share the data but they claim it's very easy to do.
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The Truth Behind the Salesforce.com Hype(online.wsj.com)
3 points by asr 16y ago|0 comments
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by asr 16y ago
To be fair, writers have been doing this for a long time... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_style#Similarit... Did you watch The Social Network? Did you like it? I think we all knew how it ended, it was the writing, cinematog
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by asr 16y ago
Please keep this respectful. I happen to agree with you but there's way too much virulence running through this post (and much of this thread, IMHO).
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by asr 16y ago
Currently reading from ihackernews.com...
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by asr 16y ago
Thanks for pointing out that interesting, and relevant, data (upvoted). The problem with looking at negative median returns since 1999 is that from 1999-2002 this is just picking up the bubble, and as you point out many funds from vintage y
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by asr 16y ago
Yet another example of getting some things wrong in the article, and then some things wrong in the title, to end up with a basically dishonest piece of journalism. The article is based off of the "Cambridge Associates LLC U.S. Venture Capit
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by asr 16y ago
Unfortunately the brief is not searchable, but I'm not sure where David Lam thinks Kik denies that Ted had access to BBM source code. All I see (paragraphs 41-43) are some fairly technical defenses to the confidential information claim (RIM
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by asr 16y ago
I excitedly went to the Virginia lottery website, thinking maybe I could find a game or two possibly vulnerable to something like this and then buy a few tickets for the fun of seeing if this can still be done... But manufacturers appear to
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by asr 16y ago
Just to clarify for any others who misread the title, this is comparing paperbacks to Kindle edition, not all paper books. The numbers imply Kindle sales are about 85% of hardcovers and paperbacks combined. Also, since Amazon sells 100% of
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by asr 16y ago
What makes you think Zuck likes money? I think he likes building a business, and I think his ideas about the future of social networking may involve a lot less privacy than you (or I) would like, but really the only significant thing he's d
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by asr 16y ago
I could kind of understand if Toshiba doesn't want to put much effort into selling to current iPad owners, but there are a lot of other iOS devices whose owners might be in the market. Toshiba just lost an opportunity to tell me anything ab
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by asr 16y ago
While I understand the logic of your point, I think the assumption you make is that MasterCard will add in the costs of a possible DDos attack when considering whether they made the right business decision. And I think the answer is no, alt
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by asr 16y ago
Just curious, is there some sort of GNU for patents? If I were going to not patent my invention I'd want some way to make sure nobody else came along, filed for some trivially new derivation, and then managed to extract most of the value of
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Foursquare Q&A: Monetization, Facebook competition(voices.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by asr 16y ago|0 comments
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by asr 16y ago
I agree computers will be able to drive much better than humans, and this transition will occur at some point--the question is, when? Is the 8 years mentioned in the article anywhere close to realistic? I don't think so. Not only does the t
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Product vs. Feature: the Lesson of Xmarks(blogmaverick.com)
2 points by asr 16y ago|0 comments
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by asr 16y ago
Was it the Adam Smith quote "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public." Why do I know that off the top of my head? Civ IV... who says games
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by asr 16y ago
Your advice reminded me of the Solidarity movement in Poland under communism, and the movement to act "as if" they were already free. "As soon as they started to act 'as if,' the 'as if' started to melt away." ( http://tinyurl.com/2a9l7b8 )
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning article on leaving babies in cars(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by asr 17y ago|2 comments