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by chton 12y ago
There's more than one way to Twitter. If you know some people on it personally, you're more likely to engage in conversations.
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by chton 12y ago
It depends a lot on how you use it. For me, it's a firehose of information (I follow around 2000 accounts). You drink from it when you feel like. If the fire hose is big enough, there's always something interesting to read. It
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by chton 12y ago
There are conversations that work on twitter, and ones that don't. In general, twitter conversations are quick back-and-forth affairs. If you need more than 2 tweets to express your thought, you're either using the wrong medium o
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The ‘perfume’ of 67P/C-G(blogs.esa.int)
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by chton 12y ago
Passing the hat is very much in character for them, unfortunately. It still happens in church every single time. As long as people keep giving, they'll keep doing it.
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by chton 12y ago
that's an interesting point. I didn't consider excises. Those are usually levied on products that harm the user or the environment in some way, though. I doubt you can argue that internet data harms the planet :p
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by chton 12y ago
Carbon credits are a sale of "carbon capacity" for money, again here the money is taxed, not the credits themselves.
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by chton 12y ago
But information isn't a taxable item, since it's not a monetary amount. It would be like taxing electricity. You can tax the money you pay for it, but not the information itself. You're not using your education to generate d
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by chton 12y ago
Now that their kickstarter is up, people are already streaming in to back it. I bet most of them will completely gloss over this gem of a sentence: "Currently, this surface needs to be a non-ferromagnetic conductor." While it doe
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Tractor beams are suddenly a lot more plausible(engadget.com)
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by chton 12y ago
I'd use for people who claim X years of experience, but haven't made any progress in ability in those X years. You can spend 30 years evolving, or you can spend it standing still and only moving when you have no other option. Th
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by chton 12y ago
Oh I would never use that kind of language to somebody's face. It's blunt, and usable when describing (for example) why you wouldn't hire a candidate after a job interview, but not as a form of criticism. There are better wa
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by chton 12y ago
"one year's experience 30 times, not 30 years experience." is a fantastic sentence and I'm stealing it. I've seen too many developers to whom it applies, and it's a great way to express that.
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by chton 12y ago
That is a very good point, but I don't think corporate influences like the MIC are necessarily limiting the president's power. It's an influence, and a very strong one at that, but they can go against it. It's just one
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by chton 12y ago
You're allowed to break your promise if it turns out it would do more harm than good. If you're unwilling to change your views based on new information, you would be a zealot and unfit for government. I don't know what info
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by chton 12y ago
That also requires serious dishonesty on Obama's part, something which doesn't seem supported by people's accounts before his campaign. Unless you believe he kept up the pretense even years before holding a public office, th
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by chton 12y ago
I'll have to save that paper for later and see if he has some decent sources. If he does have proper evidence, maybe the theory has merit. On the other hand, if there was a 'smoking gun', it would be mentioned on the first
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by chton 12y ago
I'm sorry, but any theory that has "I think the American people are deluded" as an important point should have a lot of other evidence to it. This article is lacking that. One thing the theory seems to gloss over is that it
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by chton 12y ago
Interesting, I did not know about this. I guess some of it can be chalked up to cultural differences, then. Does this also mean that the Chinese started far earlier than others in doing real urban planning?
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by chton 12y ago
In Belgian traffic, 100km takes 100 years to drive, so they're both right :p
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by chton 12y ago
Tokyo is still far older than any US cities, and more importantly it grew organically. Kyoto is much older, yes, but it is a stricter grid only because the entire city was built that way in the 8th century. Unlike Tokyo, most European cit
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by chton 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. Boston looks more patchwork than chaos. The only one approaching the European style is DC, and even that is not quite the same.
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by chton 12y ago
The difference between European and Japanese old cities, and American 'new' cities is incredibly obvious. As a European, something like Chicago just doesn't look natural, like it's not a real city. On the other hand, I
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by chton 12y ago
Aha thanks for the explanation, that does make things clearer. Also a huge thanks to you for being at the forefront of technology. I consider energy research the single most important thing we can do for humanity, and I'm incredibly
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by chton 12y ago
It sounds very similar to the way Helion Energy does it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy ). Do you know what the major differences are?
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by chton 12y ago
The usual scrum meetings aren't places for micro-management either. All of them are led by the team, and nobody tells them what to do. If your company is micromanaging employees during your sprint planning or retrospective, it's
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by chton 12y ago
I'd say "bad scrum". If you do scrum well and get the spirit of it right, it's a joy to work in. It's not perfect, but compared to what happens almost anywhere else, it's great.
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by chton 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. Should be rephrased to say "26% is currently unhappy enough in their job that they'd leave".
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by chton 12y ago
AR and VR still aren't quite as convenient as a real 3D model you can walk around and point at. The technology isn't there yet. But it's true, once it reaches that point it might be used for this and would replace the 3D-pr
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by chton 12y ago
An interesting idea, but it may be short-lived. They're essentially using a 3D printer as a poor man's 3D hologram system. Very nice application of the technology, but once we commercialize actual holograms it'll be obsolet

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