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by diydsp 13y ago
...and someone else would pay good money to a clown to put on a fake license plate cover of their business rival and commit aggressive acts, so vigilantes and a mob would go after them. We need time-varying crypto license plates. apparentl
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by diydsp 13y ago
You're hinting at another major problem in this area, too: It's not just that ppl have the data and use it for amoral/unfair purposes. It's that people come to trust the data, believe in it and use it to make decisi
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by diydsp 13y ago
I'll just quote Julia, the founder of Zidisha. "My objection to most handout programs is based on the negative psychological effects I experienced time and again while working with development assistance grants in Africa and Asia.
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by diydsp 13y ago
I believe TED is not about presenting tech as a "savior." I believe TED is a sandbox for a number of powerful people to work out their interpersonal arguments about whether tech is good for the world or not. As such you will hear
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by diydsp 13y ago
Well-written article! Wryly amusing in a laugh-out-loud. Thanks for this!
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by diydsp 13y ago
Semiconductors, especially VLSI, have a different workflow from most software projects. There are supposed to be as few releases as humanly possibly due to the enormous cost of each release. There are not expected to be a community of dev
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by diydsp 13y ago
I have a silly question, only having used JSON a precious few times, but if people want comments in JSON, couldn't that be done just by a named field within an object that follows the existing specification, iow an optional property ho
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by diydsp 13y ago
As usual, The Baffler is smug and ignorant to the point of dangerously distracting incoherence. Having visited and lived in Cambridge and Somerville for about 20 years, the problem has nothing to do with entrepreneurs and everything to do w
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by diydsp 13y ago
> Things are very bad in my city. There is no any kind of active community of computer enthusiasts; be it some Linux Users Group or something similar. Start one! Seriously- no jive. Be that change that you want . It may be that your
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by diydsp 13y ago
To find out, you could, for instance, read the second sentence of the wikipedia link the other poster posted for you and for which you thanked him.
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yeah, speaking of conspiracy theories, why is no one kicking around the possibility of sabotage from established banks? and/or governments?
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by diydsp 13y ago
That really does illuminate an angle of the U.S. bank bailouts before... ..that "too big to fail" really is not about jobs or anything like that, but about maintaining faith in the currency.
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by diydsp 13y ago
Lest people get the impression the C64 does not have 64K of RAM, I am here to assert that it does in fact have a full 64K of RAM.
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by diydsp 13y ago
Delicious, runs great under cygwin.
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by diydsp 13y ago
People are going to pigpile on you b/c you are wrong about the longevity of the tech information and sarcastic remarks about women, etc. I DO agree with the cringe-factor, though. I really didn't like watching her adjust her purp
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by diydsp 13y ago
Thinking about what is technically possible has been very limiting for me. The value proposition of Firefox OS is that apps will run on all phones, unlike the current iOS vs. Java schism. Of course it is likely to have other issues, but do
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes, the author cherry picks numerous inept counterexamples like the one you cite and this one: “Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong;" This is utter pessimism. I feel sorry for peopl
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by diydsp 13y ago
> I asked Kappes why fantasies hamper progress, and she told me that they dull the will to succeed: “Imagining a positive outcome conveys the sense that you’re approaching your goals, which takes the edge off the need to achieve.” This i
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by diydsp 13y ago
The thing ppl are missing here is that it the muscles matter much less than the confidence/energy the body builder is projecting. Imagine the same bodybuilder after punching a baby. He won't command respect. He may gain interna
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by diydsp 13y ago
Hmmm. I can see you're frustrated, but it's coming out sounding like you feel entitled to other's free work. Perhaps if you feel the need you could use the author's benchsuite at http://www.etalabs.net/l
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by diydsp 13y ago
This. I've done consulting in embedded for years and years. The discipline of modern desktop/web development has not reached the embedded world, except in a few high-margin areas (such as military and transportation). There are
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by diydsp 13y ago
Famous Fact: the second half of the title of the famous book is: "or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
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by diydsp 13y ago
agreed, I don't see any transmission code... btw, help me understand the use of the DnsFree variable... why is it often exor'd with 0x23dc67e8? is that the addr of a routine and exor is faster than adding? thank you.
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by diydsp 13y ago
What exactly kind of graph is this? I see three plots: a blue line, a thick purple segment and black speckles. None of them are labelled. Is one of them a mean, for example? What is the variance in these data? My gf and I only post on e
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by diydsp 13y ago
I just fired up plus.google.com again. 50% of the space is "ADD PEOPLE." The other 50% of the space is "DO YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE." Where is the V-A-L-U-E ? Under the fold at the bottom is "Continue to Google+"
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by diydsp 13y ago
Many years ago in high school, we had to fill out some kind of "drug" survey. It was long and tedious and I was very square. The questionnaire had pages of naive questions that I patiently responded to..... ....but around the 13
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by diydsp 13y ago
The effects of AI are an extension of human will. We will succeed or fall with or without AI. AI will only be a factor or artifact in this process, not its determinant.
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by diydsp 13y ago
To me, markdown IS clutter. Currently I use google docs and mediawiki for collaborative writing. I would try to differentiate yourself from those two options. I agree there is untapped potential in collaborative document editing, but in
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p.s. Here's an article from October 5, 2012 which in a very biased way dismissed the possibility of this happening.... then it happened, TWO DAYS LATER [1] > The lab's leaders predict that "ignition"-—the point where
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by diydsp 13y ago
Newspapers love to act as if it they call the shots. NPR in particular styles itself as the stalwart of the disenfranchised - has its shit together more than Occupy, but is unsullied by big corporate interests. They're not much worse

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