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by b1daly 9y ago
At a certain point, rather than trying to radically reengineer American society for a post job world, I think are far more palatable solutions (palatable to our crazy system as it stands). Shorter work week! Higher taxes, spent on social se
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??? Amazon is not even close to Walmart in revenue or profit.
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The five biggest companies in the US by revenue or profit are not data-driven tech companies. None of the top ten US companies, by revenue, fit that description. http://fortune.com/fortune500/ Ranked by profit, only Al
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Pay you for what? I don’t think many red blooded Americans resent leaders of companies that are kicking ass, reaping the rewards. What’s eating away the civic fabric are those who put their own self interest above everyone else. Once you ge
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Well, these fancy pants CEOs didn’t really succeed, did they. I’m sure their individual point of view, their self interest, it’s perfectly reasonable. But from the outside it’s disgraceful. How do you justify taking a $4m payout after worki
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It is remarkable how thoroughly Google has munged their communications platforms. Especially as an iPhone user, I am constantly befuddled trying to get a semblance of a well organized contact list between my google apps, never mind a corres
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Musicians get 70% of retail is on iTunes downloads. (Or rather, the owners of the copyrights do.)
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I agree very much with the interviewee that Facebook is a cultural wasteland, that provides one of the most enervating experiences on the internet. I think as a young person he doesn’t realize how it was a cultural anomaly that small time c
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by b1daly 9y ago
You mean you don’t have a personal understanding of “knotted” muscles? That seems hard to believe, as everyone has them. I’ve never seen a scientific description, but I have always assumed that the muscles were “stuck” in some kind of contr
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The concept of whether a belief in indefinite growth as a possible tragectory for human societies is “normal” offers little to people considering the issues. You don’t have to look that far back in history to find examples of societal “norm
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by b1daly 9y ago
On a related subject, this one of my favorite presentations about audio perception. It’s about the perception of words in backwards music. It blew my miiind... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcI8z-HoKPY
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You can save a copy of your old boot drive at least, and boot from that to access your projects. FWIW keeping an old machine around is not that outlandish of an idea. A computer is a universal machine, and it comes with trade offs. If you w
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The dot com bubble was also much bigger than this current cryptocoin bubble. The market cap was bigger by multiples. I would also guess that this market cap reflected vastly more actual capital flowing into the market than we see now flowin
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That’s one reason Bitcoin won’t “go to the moon.” Real currency represents a claim on current production in the economy. If Bitcoin were to continue its exponential price rise, we would have a situation where the people who amassed Bitcoins
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by b1daly 9y ago
I don’t mean to be short, but your views demonstrate completely the bizarre myopia of the “hacker community” (for lack of a better term.) Everyday users experience massive troubles with security issues, and incur painful losses, at the hand
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by b1daly 9y ago
Is Chinese public sentiment in favor of this ever increasing surveillance? As an American, this is horrifying. But given the reports of the high levels of crime and corruption, maybe citizens feel like it’s a net benefit. I wonder if a mass
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by b1daly 9y ago
Struggling to get my mind around this. One system I’m familiar with that comes to mind is the Drupal CMS “permissions” system. You can set content types, and along with associated fields. There are things you can do: view a resource (in pra
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Huh, Children’s privacy and liberty are already extremely limited, by definition. The phone addiction thing is severe for young people, and it’s not comparable to playing games on the computer back in the day. My stepson responded to the su
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by b1daly 9y ago
One simple tweak I wish I could do in google would be to eliminate search results based on broad criteria. For example, no sites that have a product for sale, no sites that repackage contents from other sites, no sites that include a given
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by b1daly 9y ago
Your comment highlights that there are very different types of security/insecurity to be concerned about. Hacker OSS types who advocate for the security of OSS based on the fact that the code is reviewable, are implicitly prioritizing
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by b1daly 9y ago
One thing the articles references, which I don’t think people grasp yet,is that young people are inclined to create the music in the vein that they listen to. Nowadays, that means music that is entirely synthetic in its sound sources, and p
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by b1daly 9y ago
Spotify for music discovery, hands down. It offers multiple ways to discover new music (or music new to you). It’s really beyond anything else, ever!
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I have a feeling that using a UI that lacks haptic feedback will be exhausting to use over extended periods of time. The idea of waving my arms around in the air for ten hours does not fill me with anticipatory glee!
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Holy crap, there is a top. To realize these gains, owners of bitcoins are going to have to convert back to fiat. US dollars have a built in floor as government issued fiat, which is that they are required to pay taxes. The money supply of a
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by b1daly 9y ago
This is an interesting question. If would dismiss it as not remotely possible, if it wasn’t for the fact that what has happened I never considered remotely possible! That said, I don’t think the scenario of bitcoin sucking up the worlds wea
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by b1daly 9y ago
This is just bananas. I always thought the routing/acct would just authorize deposits. I assumed this, because every time I need this info, I look at my checks. (When people wire money to me). When you write a check, the signature is t
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That’s not what it’s about now. Obviously these digital tokens are a great medium for speculative gambling. Among the many problems of bitcoin as money, is the speculative aspect increases price volatility, which reduces utility as currency
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by b1daly 9y ago
Current issuance of tethers is ~$850m, according to the story told by Tether/Bitfinex, these should be held mostly by users. There’s no reason for exchanges to hold (unless they were buying for their own account).
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As it stands, according to Bitfinex (who is has same management as Tether) individuals do not buy tether from the Tether (the entity). They buy from Bitfinex, with dollars, transfer internally to Tether, Tether generates new tethers, they t
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by b1daly 9y ago
One variable here might be that people have very different levels of sensitivity to motion sicknesses. I'm hyper sensitive. Most carnival rides will disable me for hours. While others can't get enough. So the issue Murdoch is disc

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