ctdonath

79 ms·

811.
by ctdonath 8y ago
A possibly interesting contrast: https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/democratic-re... Upshot: what would normally (by Western standards) be an easy 17 hour drive takes the narrator something like 54 day
812.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Was the iPod Shuffle that got me in. $100 sucked me into the iTunes ecosystem; now my career is writing apps. Don't underestimate the value of very small entry points.
813.
by ctdonath 8y ago
I've been expecting some means of a display screen being the camera (pretty theory: phased array optics, a sensor at each display pixel). Interesting development.
814.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Remember: "if you don't pay to use the product, you are the product." If your "product" won't participate, especially when it's the relationships between products that are most valuable, your valuation is
815.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Did they address how many have just quit FB? I did, $0.
816.
by ctdonath 8y ago
There's a reason ancient Judaism included a "Year of Jubilee", where all debts were forgiven every 50 years.
817.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Might "Atlas shrug"? Company could respond to liability lawsuits by literally taking down its infrastructure, every line & pole.
818.
by ctdonath 8y ago
A general CO2 tax wouldn’t be hard to implement if we were a dictatorship. It's ideas like this why Americans are heavily armed. Nobody can explain how a "co2 tax" would actually do good, yet you implicitly advocate killing
819.
by ctdonath 8y ago
IIRC, someone built a "camera" that searched for photos that had been taken from that location & direction already, returning the best existing approximation instead of actually taking yet another picture.
820.
by ctdonath 8y ago
You miss the point: it's not about drawing a line in the past, it's that we couldn't think past a date in the future. We didn't know society-changing events on 9/11/2001 would happen. We couldn't believe 1
821.
by ctdonath 8y ago
That threat was real, and an example of how concerted objective efforts could fix it. Unfortunately, many people seem to think a risk is only real if something goes wrong; successful mitigation seems to mean the risk wasn't real.
822.
by ctdonath 8y ago
"Pay" goes both ways. The manufacturer wasn't willing to pay for a million dollars by making this treatment.
823.
by ctdonath 8y ago
"the ’90s, that bizarre blip in American history where it seemed like we were living in an eternal present, the End of History" That's something millennials & later won't understand: 2000 was a mental barrier we coul
824.
by ctdonath 8y ago
A thing is worth what another will pay for it.
825.
by ctdonath 8y ago
A key part of true "rights" is the ability to do it anyway: you may be subsequently punished by an oppressive state, but you don't need compelled assistance nor permission to do it. One can speak, publish, make weapons, be q
826.
by ctdonath 8y ago
As though $BIGCOMPANY would approve of people tearing laptops open to tear out hardware. Or $JOEUSER could do without voiding the warranty, assuming he had a clue how.
827.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Video may be embarrassing, audio more likely actionable.
828.
by ctdonath 8y ago
"...and even before its data banks had been connected, it deduced the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off." - H2G2
829.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Look for the next in flat computers. Seriously. AR/VR glasses might count.
830.
by ctdonath 8y ago
My company (major telecom) literally gives away camera covers. Surely they'd do same for mics if there was a convenient cheap way. There's plenty of rumors about mics & cameras being commandeered by hackers & secret agenci
831.
by ctdonath 8y ago
You pay for work because it produces more value than out costs. Minimum wage requires paying at least $X/hr; some work is simply not worth that much - the employer loses money by paying for it. Example: I'd like to hire someone to
832.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Still makes it practically illegal to produce less than $15/hr value. Can't produce that much? no work for you. This ensures that, even in the article's revised view, those who do suffer are those most needy.
833.
by ctdonath 8y ago
And your 9 remaining just saw their work demands go up 11% (with no additional hours), to cover the departed's work which still needs doing. Sure, 20% more pay for 11% more work is a deal, but it's still more work than originally
834.
by ctdonath 8y ago
"Like" was ruined when Twitter made it republish tweets, making it practically identical to retweet. It had been useful to mark posts for later review. Without it at all, there will be no way to "save" a tweet.
835.
by ctdonath 8y ago
I don't think Blu-Ray can ever become a non-helldamned format. "Blu-ray is a bucket of hurt." - Steve Jobs, on why Apple never supported it.
836.
by ctdonath 8y ago
And Tesla is about to enter the pickup market.
837.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Finally had a chance to look up Siemens Xelibri. Oh my. When your phone reminds one of contraceptive packaging, you're doing it wrong.
838.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Kin did have an unusual shape, at a time that such a shape worked (?) as a fashion move. Not saying Kin was the worst, but it certainly warrants an honorable mention.
839.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Don't forget the monumental flop of the Microsoft Kin. $500,000,000 on development, only 500 sold.
840.
by ctdonath 8y ago
Commoditizing space travel may save the human race. That's Elon's point & goal.

More ›