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by bhewes 13y ago
Norway is one of the richest countries in the world. Here in LA a bunch of my neighbors have bought the Tesla S. The tax incentive on a luxury car is nice, but it is still a luxury car. I do like how hydrocarbons are the main driver of gree
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by bhewes 13y ago
If anything this is going to make copyright law more efficient. If one man can cause so much havoc what happens when a few people that own a ton of copyrighted work wise up and use the same tech?
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by bhewes 13y ago
Actual the fact a house deprecates makes more financial sense then what he have in the US. A house is an expensive durable good. Land is the asset that appreciates. Nothing crazy about separating the two.
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by bhewes 13y ago
This reads like an advertising campaign for a movie or video game. Aka "Prometheus" and "Deus:EX Human Revolution"
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by bhewes 13y ago
Why would the best and brightest of India who master English not leave? Indians who work in the US/UK reach their global maximum. I don't see how this is a net negative on India.
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by bhewes 13y ago
Though this also makes me wonder when AT&T and Verizon will each buy search engines.
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by bhewes 13y ago
Interesting, I would suspect then that AT&T and Verizon would go after the ISPs to pay up.
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by bhewes 13y ago
Smaller companies already do pay when they buy bandwidth. I don't see the economics working for AT&T and Verizon to charge startups. Maybe some kind of tier bandwidth general cheaper bandwidth and "network optimized" band
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by bhewes 13y ago
What happens when Google, Netflix, Microsoft wise up and start charging AT&T and Verizon to access their services? This is how cable works, Comcast pays Fox, ESPN. This will backfire on Verizon and AT&T.
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by bhewes 13y ago
Please, this is like saying no new works of Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction, Drama, Religion will be written. Reminds me of Fukuyama's ridiculous "End of History" argument.
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by bhewes 13y ago
I think the "best and the brightest" turning away from Wall Street will leave it open for new ideas to play out. And Google's beloved margins are about to be destroyed with the big three all developing hardware. All the cash
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by bhewes 13y ago
If this is a case of bad design in cars we have come a long way. It was not long ago that the Ford Pinto was catching fire due to a known bad physical design.
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by bhewes 13y ago
I played HS Baseball in Oklahoma. One year we lost to Jenks in the state finals. Only thing I wish, is I was better. HS baseball was my outlet from the physical prison that is modern suburbia. Now my outlet is weight lifting and sparing, an
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by bhewes 13y ago
When I read stuff like this I think, oh, I can download Linux, emacs, the GNU Science package, quantlib, a few pirated quant books and then call myself a quant trader. I mean come on, just because the tools are cheap or free does not trans
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by bhewes 13y ago
This type of talk is much needed in the Tech world. Nice to see someone like David actual call the problem out. A problem as old as time. The Stoic view - "The perfect archer is concerned to take perfect aim, to do everything an archer
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by bhewes 14y ago
Seems like Moore's law is hitting all hardware now. But it still takes years to make a decent movie or any creative work no matter the hardware.
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by bhewes 14y ago
Someone read Rainbows End
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by bhewes 14y ago
A standardized test is bureaucratic mechanism of control. It is a way to grade and rank a whole populace with a simple abstraction. They have nothing to do with learning.
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by bhewes 15y ago
If I am not mistaken the publishing has continued to grow since the orignal writing of this article (1993). Things changed, but it was not killed.
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by bhewes 15y ago
Not only digital books, but Print-On-Demand books as well. POD is just-in-time inventory.
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by bhewes 15y ago
It is still a political problem as the IRS has not already done it even though the tech is available. But you are right it is not something a startup can do. Though a startup could develop web apps for states. God help them if they do.
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by bhewes 15y ago
You are right. My argument would be that the fundamental problems may not be solvable. Though I think in smaller countries the problems can be mitigated effectively. Example I believe in Singapore you can pay your taxes online.
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by bhewes 15y ago
My only question is which of the three problems is actual a technical problem? All three seem to be if anything political problems.
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by bhewes 15y ago
How are you looking for Editors? I know plenty of underemployed editors. Many with years of experience. Do you pay market rates?
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by bhewes 15y ago
For independent publishers something as simple as tying their print sales together with digital sales. This is already pretty simple, but it needs to be stupid simple. You can guess your Amazon sales data pretty easily. Bowker.com is alrigh
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by bhewes 15y ago
I run a Literature in translation publishing company built on top of Ingram's Lighting Source. I also am deal with publishing issues at Los Angeles Review of Books. Few authors have any desire to self publish. The barrier to entry to write
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by bhewes 15y ago
I view these lab companies as following the publishing model. A company like Milk produces say 12 apps a year hoping a few of them are hits.
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by bhewes 15y ago
In the future I will make sure that I register domains that are not under the control of the U.S. government.
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by bhewes 15y ago
Why do people assume that the people we send to Mars need to come back? Could we not send large supply stores first and then send people on a one way trip? I would guess people would sign up even knowing that the trip to Mars is one way.
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by bhewes 16y ago
This reminds me of John Gray's idea that idleness is a burden for most. "Work fends off the heavier burden of idleness, and even the round of commuting keeps the self at bay." http://www.thedrawbridge.org.uk/issue_17/mostly_a_wise_leap_..

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