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721.
Nassim Taleb on Charlie Rose(paul.kedrosky.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
722.
Snowy game, VR goggles take burn victims' minds off of pain(arstechnica.com)
3 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
723.
Wall Street: Profiles in Panic(vanityfair.com)
9 points by bd 18y ago|2 comments
724.
by bd 18y ago
Credibility of the anecdote, title is a bunk.
725.
by bd 18y ago
This is from Phillip Greenspun's blog, so it has more credibility than if it would be just some random blogger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Greenspun
726.
by bd 18y ago
The site is down, but from what I remember it claimed to be an art project. I could only find this quote on TorrentFreak article: "This artistic project addresses the topic of current media distribution models vs. current culture and techn
727.
by bd 18y ago
V. I. Lenin: To The All-Russia May Day Subbotnik http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/may/02.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbotnik History has made a full circle.
728.
Marc Salem: How the mind creates reality and meaning(gelconference.com)
4 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
729.
by bd 18y ago
Marketing? Private list to create appearance of exclusivity. "Republishing: PLEASE DO NOT REPRINT WITHOUT PERMISSION Forwarding: PLEASE DO FORWARD TO SMART PEOPLE"
730.
Flash Bestiary: A compendium of actionscript code(krazydad.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
731.
by bd 18y ago
So by JWZ's maxim they are really poised to succeed. http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
732.
Musings on oil markets and increasing tanker transit speeds(investorvillage.com)
2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
733.
The new media landscape (top 50 online media groups by traffic)(nickdenton.org)
3 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
734.
Carbon credits, a projected trillion dollar market(fastcompany.com)
5 points by bd 18y ago|6 comments
735.
by bd 18y ago
Wow, I didn't realize it was this bad. People can be very silly. As the old saying goes: "civilization is only four meals away from anarchy" . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article492642.ece
736.
by bd 18y ago
I'm in Europe. I do understand that it is bad in US, but not how it became so. It probably isn't just because of "credit" aspect of the credit cards. Even here people buy stuff on credit. Just it is structured in a different way - credit is
737.
by bd 18y ago
I find this very hard to understand. Credit cards are virtually non-existent where I am (despite a strong marketing push). For cash-less payments or ATM withdrawals everybody just uses debit cards. If people go to minus with their accounts
738.
Universe explained by quantum randomness(infoproc.blogspot.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
739.
Qt Widgets enter the third dimension: WolfenQt(youtube.com)
2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
740.
by bd 18y ago
Whether we like it or not, attractiveness works even on people not looking for sex and in situations not directly related to mating. There were many studies: attractive people earn more, are considered more intelligent, honest and kind. Han
741.
by bd 18y ago
Not Havok, but close. It was MathEngine, which made Karma physics engine (used for example in old Unreal). They were later bought by Criterion (RenderWare) which was subsequently acquired by Electronic Arts, where it just died.
742.
by bd 18y ago
There are plenty of extraordinarily capable people outside of elite colleges. In The Bell Curve they mention SAT statistics for top verbal scores. Although their point was to show extreme concentration of talented people at the elite scho
743.
by bd 18y ago
Exactly. While it's hard to get the exact figures (as CEOs graduated over a long time period), we can make at least some approximations. I just run quick numbers for the year 2007: 57,845 Ivy League undergraduate enrollment [1] 15,386
744.
Design lessons from World of Goo(blog.wolfire.com)
38 points by bd 18y ago|7 comments
745.
by bd 18y ago
Maybe the proper solution is to increase the production? I found a much better article on bluefin tuna troubles in Scientific American - indeed there are attempts to farm tuna: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bluefin-tuna-in-peril BTW
746.
by bd 18y ago
Joel Spolsky was doing something similar: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBA.html I wonder how this went.
747.
by bd 18y ago
We are speaking about self-replicating beings. This is not oil, that once drilled is gone forever. Predicting 40 years into future is hard. But there is definitely a problem. A fundamental one. Overfishing is a classical "tragedy of commons
748.
by bd 18y ago
Let's be more precise: the article speaks about bluefin tuna, one of the many tuna species, the high-end expensive one used for sushi. Other tuna species (that are usually sold in cans) seem to be doing ok. Just to get the perspective - thr
749.
by bd 18y ago
QT is indeed really good. They also wrote an article about how to design APIs: Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html
750.
by bd 18y ago
"However, the very same excellence in mentalism would make such psychotic savants much less noticeable than their autistic counterparts, whose deficits immediately identify them as odd, socially-isolated, and eccentric. Psychotic savants,

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