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by bcheung 11y ago
I strongly disagree. Why wouldn't we want to continue making progress on the web? Where would we be today if cavemen decided spears are good enough so let's just stop there. I think the web should continue innovating and that tr
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by bcheung 11y ago
I love the fact that you guys are using that spreadsheet.
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by bcheung 11y ago
I'm not quite following. Isn't that just mmap?
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by bcheung 11y ago
Did they sell the data or the company? I'd be curious to know if the new owner is still obligated to follow the same privacy statement? In either case, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this.
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by bcheung 11y ago
Short answer: leverage. The greater the leverage the more production can be multiplied and thus income. Some things that have amplified leverage are: 1) Access to a larger talent pool (globalization) 2) More educated people 3) The Internet
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by bcheung 11y ago
Krugman says nothing happened in the 1990s. I say the Internet happened. I also don't buy the argument that it is just social norms because income inequality is more of a social speaking point now that it was back then and yet salaries
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by bcheung 11y ago
There are enough suckers out there to make this possible I suppose. It's not just an alpha male thing. I've seen this on the female side as well. As a photographer I've worked with porn stars and I've seen them get ton
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by bcheung 11y ago
That highlights the need for standard DRM rather than having each company using their own code that runs on your computer. With a standard DRM solution, the only person you would need to trust is the browser vendor. This seems like a bette
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by bcheung 11y ago
I can't think of a good reason to deliberately remove it from your browser. Why would it be worse if more companies used DRM? I can think of some edge cases on obscure devices or if you are pirate but other than that it seems like leg
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by bcheung 11y ago
Publishers who want to protect their content against piracy and don't want to use cumbersome expensive solutions. Traditionally DRM has been a hassle for legal users, expensive to publishers, and complex to encode and host video. Hav
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by bcheung 11y ago
The Internet introduced free higher education a long time ago. ;)
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by bcheung 11y ago
Austin is considered one of the worst neighborhoods to raise kids? That doesn't seem right. It is one of the most affluent cities in Texas.
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by bcheung 12y ago
Miami and San Francisco are both warm-weather cities. That's hilarious.
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by bcheung 12y ago
The birth of a new metric: alias WTFs="history | grep fuck | wc -l"
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by bcheung 12y ago
I would prefer death to the font-size: 2^1000px
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by bcheung 12y ago
I personally prefer the Netflix format of all at once (especially with how little each plot line moves forward each episode) but I can understand a metered approach. You can generate much more hype and social media buzz if you trickle it o
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by bcheung 12y ago
Aquaponics is a great solution to the problem of lack of farmable soil and water shortages. It uses only 10% of the water for the same yield. It also grows faster, is more nutrient rich, and can be done pretty much anywhere you can store
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by bcheung 12y ago
They had no game and thus no food. So they switched to agriculture because they wanted food. (food > no food) == more
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by bcheung 12y ago
I'm not making any assumptions. I'm just pointing out that people had the opportunity to remain hunter-gathers and they didn't. They were human thus the evidence of human nature doesn't support your argument. I don&#x2
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by bcheung 12y ago
Food production and food science are advancing and it will only accelerate. Currently, technologies like aquaponics allow for high volumes of nutrient rich foods to be produced with much less water and fuel inputs. In the future we may be
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by bcheung 12y ago
We all came from hunter-gatherers. If hunter-gatherers didn't want more then logically they would have stayed hunter-gatherers. So, why do we have the current civilization? I suspect because being cold, not having medicine, refriger
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by bcheung 12y ago
And you can only sell so many yachts to the 99%. Does that mean the economy is doomed? There are other things rich people buy besides jeans. Buying yachts requires much more fabric and seamstresses than jeans do. It also employs more peo
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by bcheung 12y ago
Capitalism is more strongly correlated with freedom than inequality and prison. Think about what it was like before capitalism was around. Monarchs dictated everything. You did what you were assigned to do, which was pretty much what you
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by bcheung 12y ago
Software engineers are one of the highest paid professions. How does software production cost 0? Do you mean distribution?
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by bcheung 12y ago
I question the post-scarcity assumption. If you described how people live now to someone who lived 5000 years ago they would think we live in a post-scarcity world now. We have such abundance now, yet we still have "poor" people
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by bcheung 12y ago
That principle (from The Mythical Man Month) applies to team size. If you have multiple independent teams competing they will not have that increased overhead.
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by bcheung 12y ago
Seasteading FTW!
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by bcheung 12y ago
One solution to damage clean up is free and available to everyone right now. It's actually more popular with the extremely poor than the affluent. It's called fasting. http://jdmoyer.com/2012/02/01&#x2F
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by bcheung 12y ago
In 50 years we will have AI that far exceeds even the best engineers today.
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by bcheung 12y ago
There's a minority of deaths from car crashes and accidents. By yeah, effectively, it's aging that we should be concerned about.

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