chadmalik

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by chadmalik 16y ago
As I recall, Tone Loc used to do the wild thing on telco networks.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Are those benefits really "unmaintainable"? The FACT is that middle class wages have been stagnant or even declined in real terms since the 70s while executive compensation has absolutely exploded. Corporate profits have gone through the
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Um, I guess you were frozen in cryostasis pre-2007 and missed the entire financial "crisis" which involved something on the order of $14 trillion (i.e. 1 year's GDP or > the entire national debt) was funneled in the form of free money,
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by chadmalik 16y ago
For the big name schools, College football and basketball both generate huge revenues They are basically pro sports masquerading as collegiate activities. I don't have an issue with the coach of a team that in fact does generate millions
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Actually, there are plenty of competent administrators who would probably work for ~ $150K plus benefits (no free house). Having administration who are paid like landed gentry while professors and grad students are paid peanuts and students
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by chadmalik 16y ago
You think the teachers' union is more powerful than any single company? that is a joke. If teachers had the power of the top dogs in the finance, pharma, defense or energy industries (to take a few obvious examples) have they'd all make 7
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by chadmalik 16y ago
This comment is listiki-related but I notice they don't have an auth system and insist you log on using facebook or twitter! Not sure I agree with that. Anyway, the site looks cool.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
I recall another study that figured out people who are the gym who flex in the mirror all the time (hate those guys!) get more fit. That probably applies to desk jockeys as well.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
There's a fairly large debate going on about using fiscal/monetary stimulus (Keynesian) vs. no stimulus (Austrian). It's not just eggheads, almost everyone following the economic scene is discussing this issue ATM....FWIW I think we need s
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Clearly the author missed the recent carried-interest battle where Congress (absurdly) allowed Hedge funds and VCs to continue to be taxed on their guaranteed yearly management fees as if they have made a capital gain. I wonder if he reads
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Quote: "What's really incredible is how all these whales showed up overnight," Black noted in an e-mail. "We do know that blue whales have long-range communication. Their low-range frequency calls can travel hundreds of miles through the oc
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The whale internet: communication over hundreds of miles(sfgate.com)
2 points by chadmalik 16y ago|1 comments
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by chadmalik 16y ago
yeah the fact that the singularity guys are trumpeting this socially useless "innovation" is hilarious. gee now i get my online diaper order shipped next day! woo hoo!
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by chadmalik 16y ago
arguably humans should spend more time on art, athletics, poetry, music, literature, gardening, and the like.
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by chadmalik 17y ago
Right until your new chosen country does the same. If everyone does as you are suggesting, pretty soon you will run out of options and every nation will be the same.
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by chadmalik 17y ago
Call me a luddite but I really prefer driving a car with no software in between my foot and the parts that govern acceleration and deceleration. Just because you CAN use software for something doesn't mean you SHOULD use software for it.
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by chadmalik 17y ago
FB isn't going anywhere. The worst scenario for Zynga is that they start getting taxed by the platforms they piggyback on too highly. And since theres no monopolist in the SN market, thats probably not a huge concern. Actually since users
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by chadmalik 17y ago
I think that moving the parts factories here is a political decision. The core operations are still essentially Japanese and most of the hardcore expertise for Toyota, say, is in Toyota City, Japan. Its not because we Americans are less c
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by chadmalik 17y ago
Isn't it a bit deceptive to talk about Toyota etc. being made by American workers? The parts are designed and largely made overseas. The American workers are putting prefab parts together. Fact is, the US industrial base is largely gutte
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by chadmalik 17y ago
Yes but simulating the brain will never be the same as the actual "wetware" in operation. To my understanding, the simplistic reason that hard AI has failed and always will - while it uses digital computation as a platform - is that its a H
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by chadmalik 17y ago
The field of cognitive science (lingistics + philosophy + computer science + neuroscience + biology etc.) has actually discovered the underpinnings more or less. Consciousness is based on our bodily interaction with the world. Thought use
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by chadmalik 17y ago
I really doubt digital computation will ever be a platform for intelligence as we understand it. Biological systems really are different than digital ones.
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by chadmalik 17y ago
Doesn't it seem like having a high speed train network that connects the major metro areas is at least somewhat of a good idea? This is a good hedge against peak oil since trains can be powered by electricity. Also, arguably if the trains
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by chadmalik 17y ago
And just imagine the infrastructure we could have had for the cost of the Iraq war + the bank bailouts! Anyway one thing I'd like to mention that never gets highlighted is that buses are BY FAR the cheapest public transportation solution.
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by chadmalik 17y ago
There were in fact some people who worked at banks who refused to participate in the fraudulent lending activity, falsification of income statements, no-doc loans etc. - they quit or were fired. It may be "reasonable" to engage in fraud whe
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by chadmalik 18y ago
For your consideration, PayPal subscriptions service: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscr-i... It works just fine and no need to get the thousands of ISPs that exist involved, which is incredibly messy.
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by chadmalik 18y ago
Come on, PayPal works just fine. They even have recurring payments. Its silly to pretend theres "problems" with accepting payments on the web. Anybody can do it via PayPal.
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by chadmalik 18y ago
Thats a great point and thats why I always take glorification of whatever society immigrants come from with a grain of salt. Immigrants are almost by definition more motivated than the normal people in whatever society they come from.
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by chadmalik 18y ago
Yeah this is a great point and its a lesson the entire US economy has completely forgotten. The last decade - really the entire period after 1980 - is one big credit orgy. We really really really need to learn how to live within our means
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by chadmalik 18y ago
One thing that annoys me about coffee shops is how unfriendly people are. Mostly peering into laptops. I'd like to go to a coffee shop where people go explicitly to engage in interesting/random conversation with strangers.

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