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Follow the flow(technologyreview.com)
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The New World of the Anthropocene(pubs.acs.org)
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by davi 16y ago
On the need for a second try at inserting a 4 inch tube to capture some of the oil coming out of the 21 inch riser pipe: '“This is all part of reinventing technology,” Tom Mueller, a BP spokesman, said on Saturday. “It’s not what I’d call a
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Google scrutinized for listening in on wifi(nytimes.com)
2 points by davi 16y ago|0 comments
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by davi 16y ago
note to self (post is too old to edit): apparently Facebook does have a lists capability: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341787 , http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768
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by davi 16y ago
Adding a little bit of friction to vast, interconnected networks of automated high speed trades doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world to me. It seems like it might dampen otherwise wildly oscillatory behavior from the system.
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by davi 16y ago
FTA: "You could reduce the tax per share for stocks under $5 dollars to 5 cents. But I would leave it at 5 cents even for stocks priced at pennies per share or less."
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by davi 16y ago
Did you read the article? The proposal seems reasonable to me, much more so than your comment gives it credit for: a small per-share transaction fee which could be fed into "an annual payment towards the next time Wall Street screws up and
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by davi 16y ago
'"Sleep has been the Rodney Dangerfield of medicine," says John Winkelman, medical director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital's Sleep Health Center in Brighton, Massachusetts. "It just gets no respect."' A lot of neuroscientists I know,
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by davi 16y ago
( This article located due to mention by ruang: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1331269 )
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Mark Cuban: place a 25 cent-per-share transaction fee on Wall St. trades(wallstreetpit.com)
49 points by davi 16y ago|56 comments
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by davi 16y ago
OK, after reading this article, I finally get it. (Or at least have a reasonable working hypothesis.) The iPad does to the internet what the iPod did to music. I don't really need that done to the internet for me, but I can see how millions
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School Building(middmag.com)
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by davi 16y ago
Thanks. That is indeed an inverted form of what I was wishing for, and I didn't get the idea from the initial response to my post.
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by davi 16y ago
How do you see the internet providing built-in ACLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list Even if it did, your assertion is like equating assembly to a high level language. Just because you theoretically can do anything in ass
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by davi 16y ago
1: I want ACLs meet Web. I want to publish personal stuff to close friends & family, professional stuff to colleagues, and random miscellany to the world, all via the same tool. I want to be able to customize the layout of my content de
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by davi 16y ago
And in case you're tempted, you may want to think twice before drinking that ultra-pure, 18 MOhm water you have handy in the lab: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutdeminerali...
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by davi 16y ago
At first I thought you were going to write about decrepit infrastructure in the US. That's probably more worth ranting about.
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by davi 16y ago
Thank you. I wonder why Cambridge (where I live) is not listed? The surrounding towns are. edit: according to http://www.mwra.com/02org/html/whatis.htm , Cambridge receives full sewer, but only "emergency backup" water from the MWRA. edit2
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by davi 16y ago
more on omniwheels, which I did not previously know about: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_omni_wheel.shtml
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by davi 16y ago
I don't think it's creepy, at least not after giving it a brief read. It's interesting, and everyone is being very polite and well spoken with one another, and talking about what they're interested in. We should do as well. (I upmodded you
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by davi 17y ago
They didn't miss the obvious. I think in your quote they're talking about legal obstacles to widespread adoption. Then the next paragraph, Jobs and Bezos make your point: Jobs said he lived seven minutes from a grocery and wasn't sure he w
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by davi 17y ago
This from you: "Any sane person would give up, but if you really want to see what you're building exist in the world, you'll keep going" and this from pg: "There's nothing more valuable than an unmet need that is just becoming fixable" are,
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by davi 17y ago
Yeah that blog smells pretty ripe to me, too. I don't trust invective. But it's worth knowing it's there if one is going to dig into this topic a bit further.
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by davi 17y ago
recent update: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/news/news-detail/index.aspx... "On February 10, 2010, the University at Buffalo Medical Center released a press release describing preliminary results from an ongoing study led by Dr. Robert
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by davi 17y ago
I agree this temporal aspect isn't the only dynamic, but I don't see people talking about it much (at all?). I think it's worth thinking about as an angle on the whole thing. Market tempo matters. Doesn't make what they're doing any more p
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by davi 17y ago
there is already going to be a lag Without cross-compilers, the lag is as you say: developers update their apps. With cross-compilers, the lag balloons: the makers of the cross-compiler toolset need to incorporate the latest Apple featur
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by davi 17y ago
I think there is also another dynamic at play: Apple makes high-end, high-margin 'lifestyle' computing devices. Every time Steve Jobs gets up and announces a new whiz-bang hardware or software capability in one of these devices, that whiz-b
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by davi 17y ago
Has anybody here ever done this in the real world? Or had it done to them?
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by davi 17y ago
you could say they're the modern day Bell Labs I think this comparison is unduly favorable to Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#Discoveries_and_devel...

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