dubcomesaveme

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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
to continue his human monkey analogy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk
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"Google builds loyal following in China"(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
"They knew that mobile devices would overtake PCs." For productivity work, people usually prefer to remain stationary and use monitors larger than 4". They are not competing products. Ludicrous.
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
subscription fees + time invested in leveling = sunk costs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th... players will spend more time playing than they would otherwise want to due to their perception of sunk costs, hours
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
Governments are basically corporations with varying degrees of public ownership that have monopolies on societal goods. I would consider this corporate espionage. The US also engages in corporate espionage through the NSA in the interest of
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
from article: "Finally, the NSA has a rich history of monitoring the communications of Americans – sometimes legally, sometimes not." re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT&T
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles Global warming WILL occur, regardless of man. The question is what is the value of the subcomponent of temperature variation caused by man. I would argue that it is nearly impossible to iso
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
wow.
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
The only backward value apparent from this article is an extreme defecit in holding people accountable. One could argue that every other value must be phenomenal since it is still a thriving city despite this impairment.
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
incomplete combustion\plenty of other stuff in the ground in it(heavy metals etc.). The smoke is not just CO2. Plus " sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the primary causes of acid rain. In the US, About 2/3 of all SO2 and 1/
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
u.s. nuclear reactors have always been safe: if a loss of coolant failure occurs the reaction is designed to slow down rather than speed up soviet cheronobyl style. the concern is what to do with all the junk from processing\using fuel rods
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
I think this notion was already captured in 1929 by Freud with 'Civilization and Its Discontents'. http://www.archive.org/details/CivilizationAndItsDiscontents He more broadly introduced the idea of Tools as Prostheses. Telephones can be
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
looks like they need to find one given the state of links on their main index (in Opera at least)
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
What, hackers don't get enough sunlight? guffaw!
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
All mac, no dual monitors, they honestly put some sort of flame decal on that table, and minimalism is not one of their design philosophies. In summary, needs more Helvetica.
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
ha, myself a physics to economics to cognitive science major early in college, now settling in on Computer Science to sit down, gear down, and actually MAKE some stuff. In the short term, it's a financial drain to spend extra time during yo
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by dubcomesaveme 17y ago
"Coffee isn't a drug _or something_". lol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugs First picture caption: "Coffee is the most widely used psychotropic beverage in the world. In 1999 the average consumption of coffee was 3.5 cups per day per U.