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by dejb 19y ago
Ray Kurzweil's latest book about all this 'The Singularity is Near', was released in 2005. It has some compelling arguments is definitely worth a read if you are interesting in the longer term implications of computer technology and network
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by dejb 19y ago
Nice snappy comment but what exactly do you mean? Do you think this sort of thing is impossible? Or that 2029 is way too early? Or are you just saying that speculating about what will happen more than 20 years in the future is folly?
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by dejb 19y ago
Well I don't think any of your current cells can network your brain to say a google search by thought alone. To say the capacity for rapid brain-digital interfacing wouldn't have an impact on intelligence would be like saying the internet i
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by dejb 19y ago
I think this article is entirely wrong. Trying to create another silicon valley is a bad idea full stop. The way to compete as a startup or a tech company is to utilize whatever natural advantages your location has. Be prepared to communica
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by dejb 19y ago
So people who live on farms in France don't have the internet? I think he there still might be a flame.
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by dejb 19y ago
I thought it was - 'there is no cake'.
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by dejb 19y ago
How many page views per visitor? How many and which ad units are you showing? What is your content area? $1.5 for 1K banner views isn't to bad. But for 1K visitors viewing 4 pages each with 3 ad units then you'd have reason to be dissapoin
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by dejb 19y ago
For me your demo had an ad appearing over the content on http://www.guitarsite.com and the ad blinked on and of a few times. Nice idea though especially for those looking to monetize a site without a lot of hassle, as long as the your ads
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by dejb 19y ago
Imagine if the decision clearly disadvantaged one class of shareholders in favour of another. For example just taking all the assets of the company and distributing them to Class B shareholders, leaving the class A shares worthless. I do be
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by dejb 19y ago
Look up 'Board of Directors' on wiki or 'Fiduciary Duty'. I don't think it makes classifications of shares moot. It still matters as to who who has the say as to what the correct strategy (to benefit all shareholders) is.
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by dejb 19y ago
As far as I'm aware the board of any company is legally obliged to act in the interests of all shareholders. If an offer was big enough then each board member would probably have to defend their decision in court from angry shareholders if
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by dejb 19y ago
I admit the volume isn't huge. Maybe 10K per day on the presidential nominations. So you might be able to average placing 1K on per day without destroying your odds. If you had even a 10% edge then that's $100 gain which most people wouldn'
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by dejb 19y ago
I have a reasonable understanding of Brownian motion. Your comment indicates that you don't really understand markets. In an efficient market system (one which is perfectly predictive of chance of an event occurring based on observable info
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by dejb 19y ago
People in this market aren't a random sample of people in the street. They are self-selected based on their willingness to bet money on the event. If they are poor predictors they will lose money on average and if they are good they will ga
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by dejb 19y ago
Made me go find the video.
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by dejb 19y ago
Oh my god! The singularity has begun!
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by dejb 19y ago
OK fair enough. Maybe there was reasonable content later in the article. The fact is that a lot of us can't afford to invest the time it takes to get through this guy's life story in the hope of finding it. Ironically the very people that
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by dejb 19y ago
I gave up after the first page. Not because I was doing too many other things but the article just seemed crap with no actual science content. With so many other options life is too short short to read some no-content, neo-Luddite, arts stu
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by dejb 19y ago
Me and a friend tried to invent poker-chess. Can't remember the rules but I think when a piece would ordinarily be taken their was a showdown. Anyhow it sucked.
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by dejb 19y ago
backup? what is that?
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by dejb 19y ago
... in the US.
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by dejb 19y ago
37. More into business ideas than coding now. Back running the internet co I helped start 10 years ago after years of coding in between.
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by dejb 19y ago
Led Zep, Pink Floyd, the Stones, etc, could pull off an entire album of decent, coherent music, but I doubt any bands today can. The overall degree of talent is just completely different now, and I'm frankly shocked to hear even a single d
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by dejb 19y ago
I would love to play poker against you
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by dejb 19y ago
The real losers are non-US companies that rely on US income (i.e. advertising) but have mostly local expenses (i.e. wages). Trust me.
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by dejb 19y ago
I'm a big fan of Kurzeil's ideas but my goodness how boring are his speaches! I've seen about 5 speaches like this all with the same graphs etc.. And whats with the constant yawning. It almost seems that he is bored repeating the same conte
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by dejb 19y ago
This article's justifications for why the feature is missing typifies everything I hate about macs and their apologists. It's the whole 'we know better than you' about what you should be allowed to do. Give me an environment that is alive w
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by dejb 19y ago
To be perfectly frank I think he has a point. Paul Graham has some great things to say and he is certainly not braindead. But on this one I think he is dead wrong.

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