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by dodo53 15y ago
Who said people were happy about it? I think there's a lot of anger at banks at the moment for perceived corruption. But there's a huge gap between voters caring and measures that are actually effective being put in place with lots of lobby
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by dodo53 15y ago
But wikipedia have previously frozen controversial pages that are having edit wars. They could choose the last revision that is reasonable favourable to advertiser and then freeze the page
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think generally the current theory is that quantum entanglement doesn't allow you to transmit information faster than the speed of light as you can't choose which state your local particle collapses into (although there's some disagreemen
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by dodo53 15y ago
Who new the singularity would start as an arms race between AI writing obfuscated legal documents and AI decoding them :oP
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by dodo53 15y ago
I always imagine that future construction of houses will be less like a giant 3d printer larger than the house laying it down, and more like a bunch of smaller specialised robots building up a structure like ants build a mound or spiders bu
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Copyright and time zones [open source time zone database sued](economist.com)
2 points by dodo53 15y ago|0 comments
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by dodo53 15y ago
Well I don't know your particular situation, but I think I'd respect a CEO/dev manager more if they said: I appreciate some people work better at different times and personally I'm a night owl, I trust you guys to get stuff done, come in wh
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by dodo53 15y ago
This is very cool - one quibble though, there doesn't seem to be any test of 'slow' in the slow build. You could add a linear regression slope and select for songs where Pearson coefficient is high, the slope is small and the last decile vo
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by dodo53 15y ago
That is an awesome website if you've not seen it before.
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by dodo53 15y ago
or because if you've already started a family you are generally expected to spend a certain amount of time looking after them/enjoying their company. People get socially ostracised/divorces/estranged children for working too hard at the off
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by dodo53 15y ago
vim and emacs would be fun too :oP
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Brainwave controllers(economist.com)
1 points by dodo53 15y ago|0 comments
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think it's also because we tend to see outsourcing as management-sees-devs-as-interchangeable-workers. If good devs in Bangalore/Beijing were given ownership of products and allowed influence over direction of things I'm sure they'd do gr
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by dodo53 15y ago
It's quite a community selection bias to ask people to pay for houses before the whole town is constructed - presumably towards people who are already pretty wealthy (or incredibly risk-tolerant). I also wonder with that kind of money and m
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by dodo53 15y ago
What about as a further peer-pressure type 'good citizenship' patent thing - a voluntary pay $x per patent in your portfolio to a non-profit which uses money to search existing patent-base and seek to preemptively invalidate invalid/frivolo
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think ironically the more obvious the return on investment of the research is, the less sense it makes for government to fund it - the private sector is more likely to fund something where the route to commercialisation is clear. Or: basi
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by dodo53 15y ago
Well progressive taxation already redistributes money whether it's from aggregate advants of smarts or looks. You're talking of non-economic advantages, which are not redistributed for smarts either
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by dodo53 15y ago
Or worse - reverse it and you have if I think you're ugly, you can't have good thoughts.
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by dodo53 15y ago
yes! Maybe would be better to have a commentable hacker wiki section.
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by dodo53 15y ago
ha I misread that as GOP (Grand Old Party = US Republicans) :o)
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by dodo53 15y ago
I'm surprised they wouldn't prefer to leave them up but subpoena the data afterwards (or even require realtime backdoor access to it).
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by dodo53 15y ago
ok that makes sense, thanks
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by dodo53 15y ago
I don't really get why it's a big deal. They have to report the normal net loss, and the amount and categories of things they're excluding is public knowledge so why does it matter if they decide to come up with a possibly not-useful metric
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by dodo53 15y ago
>One of our clients, net worth in the $60M range, built a small company and was acquired with stock from a multi-national. Stock is often called a "paper" asset. This seems odd (also the example of programmer with stock options later) -
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by dodo53 15y ago
it feels a bit like: damn those scientists/engineers trying to solve complex problems with a one one-size-fits-all analytical/reductionist toolbag; some problems are really hard! What we need is to use our one-size-fits-all Structured Dialo
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by dodo53 15y ago
which is maybe not saying much :oP
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by dodo53 15y ago
off-topic: I have a perverse desire to put some microphones up, see if there's any birdsong recognition software out there, and tweet whenever a bird in range tweets :oP
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by dodo53 15y ago
Would be very interested if you could find a link (had brief unsuccessful look myself)
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by dodo53 15y ago
It's a very bad way of putting it - but I think there's a valid discussion needed around whether schools should enforce 'rounded' education - I think the question is essentially what should we do students who are at 10th grade maths and 5th
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Developer fury as Google makes Android apps vanish(theregister.co.uk)
21 points by dodo53 15y ago|9 comments

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