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by bertm 13y ago
I noticed that Eastern Nevada has one of the highest mobility rates according to this study. This surprises me. That side of the state is one of the least populated areas and the most desolate. I wonder if there is a statistical bias at wor
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by bertm 13y ago
It happened in the 70s to Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Paper's leaker. "Judge Byrne dismissed all charges against Ellsberg." "He and Russo faced charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 and other charges including theft
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by bertm 13y ago
There is not a video included in the article, but one can be found here: http://vimeo.com/51320244
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by bertm 13y ago
Great! Thanks. It looks like his name may in fact be Daniel Katz. Is that the same guy?
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Ask HN: Online Contract Law?
1 points by bertm 13y ago|3 comments
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by bertm 13y ago
Looking back at the Petagon Papers I found this quote: "[t]he security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, an ubiquitous press
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by bertm 13y ago
I don't understand how employees can get screwed with ISOs from a tax liability stand point. ISOs are not taxable until a capital gain is realized i.e. exercise and sale. Are you referring to non-qualified stock options?
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by bertm 15y ago
I often wonder about these types of theories. They are often hard to prove or disprove. It is fun to try and come up with a theory that is equally as plausible given the information provided. To your theory on art, could art be defined as a
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by bertm 15y ago
Patrick, have you tried a large thematic change to the BBC site in the past? It is pretty neat to see the changes for optimization to the site over the years. Still, I can't help but think the "loud" colors lead to less optimal performance
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by bertm 15y ago
It seems difficult to analyze the degree of ambition in any given startup from PR. Although ambition makes for a good story, it doesn't necessarily sell product/get users. So it seems, early stage startups focus on simple messages which the
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Autonomous Robot Truck Will Debut in Afghanistan This Year(singularityhub.com)
2 points by bertm 15y ago|0 comments
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by bertm 16y ago
A good analogy for this is flipping a coin. What is the proportion of total heads to total tails if a population of people each flip a coin until they get a heads. The answer is fairly trivial, as each coin flip is independent. Given a fair
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MIT Media Lab Software Agents Group: Current and Recent Projects(agents.media.mit.edu)
2 points by bertm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bertm 16y ago
Why not take a reverse engineered Ultima Online server and client, and add your AI twist to it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online_shard_emulation http://www.runuo.com/index.php
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by bertm 16y ago
This paper built upon work that Stephen Hawking did. "The hypothesis of gravity being an entropic force has a history that goes back to research on black hole thermodynamics by Bekenstein and Hawking in the mid-1970s. These studies suggest
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by bertm 16y ago
I think a quote from Feynman is apt. "I think it is safe to say that no one understands Quantum Mechanics." (Richard Feynman) My understanding of the article is this, simple yet hopefully useful. Einstein and many others in the past assume
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Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate(ted.com)
2 points by bertm 16y ago|0 comments
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by bertm 16y ago
I am curious about what it takes to get PR on Techcrunch.com for a new startup.
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by bertm 16y ago
Links to the project discussed and the white paper [pdf]: http://www.peertopatent.org/ http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v20/20HarvJLTech123...
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Beth Noveck: The Peer-to-Patent Project(fora.tv)
1 points by bertm 16y ago|1 comments
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by bertm 16y ago
"Drew is being prosecuted for illegal recording, a Class I felony punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison." The sentence length mentioned strikes me as severe, seems the law is being use in a way that differs from the original intent.
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by bertm 16y ago
Beware of mistaking knowledge for intelligence. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369781
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by bertm 16y ago
This presents an interesting paradox though because at the end of the day a decision is required. Do I eat thing X or thing Y? And in what proportion? So when a set of things is not well understood but a decision is required, many non scien
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Richard Feynman: Do We Live in A Cargo Cult Society?(calteches.library.caltech.edu)
80 points by bertm 16y ago|41 comments
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by bertm 16y ago
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben F
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by bertm 16y ago
Your design looks like a 37signals clone.
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by bertm 16y ago
Good QM joke...
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by bertm 16y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, this seems like a far leap from what the law was intended to do. The ruling would mean good for Facebook and bad for our society.
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine(kurzweilai.net)
9 points by bertm 16y ago|0 comments
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Tippr Buys Up Patents to Take on Groupon(startupherald.com)
1 points by bertm 16y ago|0 comments

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