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by blakeweb 16y ago
My first thought when I saw this was that it wasn't possible to bring civil claims against the federal government. But looking it up, I found the Federal Tort Claims Act ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTCA ) which changed that in 1946.
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by blakeweb 16y ago
> Each and every course at MIT has put up all their educational documents including slides, exercises, tests, audio, video, schedules etc for free. Many courses also include video and other multimedia artefacts. Just to prevent readers
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by blakeweb 16y ago
Agreed. You've got to address the real problems, or you won't get anywhere.
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by blakeweb 16y ago
To answer your question as best I can: it's exploratory at the moment, like the examples in the original article. The immediate goal is to pursue directions one of which will hopefully produce software and knowledge clearly valuable enough
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by blakeweb 16y ago
To generalize from my very limited experience, people doing this use the same hiring strategies as companies, but 1) rely on personal connections and relationships more, since they're often trying to stay a bit under the radar, and 2) are m
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Software Carpentry v4: free, brief screencasts on basic python, shell, regex...(software-carpentry.org)
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by blakeweb 16y ago
The features page of your website says this about security: >All transmission of file data and metadata occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL). >All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256). And yet I hear people here
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by blakeweb 16y ago
If you're interested in more, Brad Templeton has been singing the praises of a future with robot cars, and how to get there, for many years, both in all the futurism un-conferences I've visited in the bay area, and on his very thorough webs
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by blakeweb 16y ago
For what it's worth, Larry Ellison also personally started and funds the Ellison Medical Foundation, which distributes on the order of 100 million dollars (cite: wikipedia: Larry Ellison) per year to leading academic biologists for research
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by blakeweb 16y ago
I stand corrected--"and so on" is what he uses over and over in BoC. "so it goes" is from Slaughterhouse Five. Thanks.
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by blakeweb 16y ago
It's mostly "direct deposit" -- electronically from the company's account into yours, appearing on the day it's supposed to in your account. But people still call it a paycheck.
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by blakeweb 16y ago
Breakfast of Champions. Just open the first pages and you'll see it all over.
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by blakeweb 17y ago
Check delicious? I myself sometimes tag blogs I find that only _might_ be useful later, rather than subscribe to them. At first pass I pulled a bunch, with a pretty low false positive rate at least on the first few, using economics+finance
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by blakeweb 17y ago
FYI, the author mentions "flax oil also fits the bill", which from what I know, and from the most recent Nutrition Action Newsletter (nonprofit consumer information organization), isn't true. It's in their latest (November) issue, but I ca
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I've used it personally, and it works as advertised. It sits independent of google analytics, if I remember correctly, so it doesn't matter what analytics tools you're using. As long as you're only running a few tests at a time, you're wil
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by blakeweb 18y ago
Finance is another area ripe for innovation. There's a crisis going on, as we've all noticed, and one reason behind it is that businesses in the industry who were perceived to be creating tons of value turn out to have just been running in
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by blakeweb 18y ago
It took several minutes of playing with a chart and exploring the contents of the page before I had that 'aha' moment when I realized what your site is trying to do. (example: whomovedmystock.com/goog) From the questions in the comments her
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by blakeweb 18y ago
> If you're in a creative position, talent is essential. I used to believe this strongly as well. I worked with a great web graphics designer on several projects 3-5 years ago. We'd collaborate on overall flow and wireframes. He'd ma
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I seem to remember hearing about something similar this past weekend at http://conference.freeculture.org in berkeley, but I can't recall it. If you're interested in the area, I'd ask Joshua Tauberer, razor.occams.info, who made http://g
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by blakeweb 18y ago
A long way down the page at slashdot is a comment that points out that in fact, according to the linked BBC article, they're not talking about storing or monitoring content, just dates, times, locations, etc. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I really don't like these developments--viewing the requirements that seem to attach to these lending marketplaces, right after seeing dozens of smart people rack their brains on another thread here about what it would take to start an inve
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by blakeweb 18y ago
Fantastic. Such a cleaner method than copy-pasting table data from web pages into excel to visualize and manipulate it, which I've done countless times doing market research.
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by blakeweb 18y ago
280slides definitely looks sharp, but it seems to be the only application so far that's a working example of a fairly complex web app built on cappuccino. This despite the fact that in the video he claims it's pretty simple to port a mac a
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I read this article, and two days ago listened to this podcast from 'this american life' on npr. This article's arguments doesn't stand up against the pretty convincing descriptions of what's actually going on from the corporate treasurers
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by blakeweb 18y ago
The point of the post wasn't the AI box game. I agree that, at least to me, convincing someone to let you out of the box doesn't really sound impossible. In the post he says he chose it as the example of something "impossible" specificall
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by blakeweb 18y ago
Nope, you're thinking of Founder's Coop in portland. Here's the discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164892 They actually have updated their application to include a thank-you to YC: http://www.founderscoop.com/apply.php
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by blakeweb 18y ago
I can't read about the semantic web anymore without the "ditching the semanic web" ideas from inamidst being at the front of my mind. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320989 ) It seems like RDF in theory is fantastic, but it's still so
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by blakeweb 18y ago
You can see the trap he's talking about as one possible future on the horizon--I don't think we're there yet, and it will take continuing to be vocal about our concerns to keep the benefits from turning sour. The 2 main potential problems w
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by blakeweb 18y ago
Seems obvious once someone spells it out like that. The complexity in deciphering what genes correspond to what expressions makes sense given how chaotic evolutionary changes are.
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by blakeweb 18y ago
You're right, it's presumptuous and probably inaccurate for me to say that. My perspective (which I was mistakenly projecting on the rest of the community) doesn't have much room for being self-employed doing projects for other people as a

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