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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
The second complaint seems to be complaining about Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap); historically, Sturgeon's law has been nearly as inviolable as conservation of angular momentum. If anything, I suspect that mainstream journalism
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
The content owners (not content makers, note) are liable to just refuse to use such a new medium, relegating it to a mostly irrelevant piracy channel.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
I don't know about physics, but in robotics and computer vision and CS, there is no correlation between credible research and journal publication. I suppose physics attracts more quacks, though, and it's not quite as easy to verify because
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Uh. Well, we know there have been more-than-several high-profile moves from Google to Facebook. How many high-profile moves have there been from Facebook to Google?
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
The idea with this kind of thing, as far as I can tell, is to be as nuts (i.e. risk-friendly) as you can possibly get away with. If you're never wrong, that's probably an indicator that you could get away with being a lot more nuts. Moreove
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Toyota's stock is probably undervalued to begin with because of the stupid pedal thing, and this probably makes it extreme. Short-term traders need not apply, though.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Related: http://www.tlb.org/busywork.html
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
The point was that at that time the brand was in need of rejuvenation, as it had been neglected. Nowadays, I think everybody would agree that the brand is quite healthy, so the problem is to remind people that there are new shiny things und
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
So make it download by torrent transparently like (IIRC) Starcraft.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
I think the last argument is misframed. If you want to sell software on a tablet device, you can do it through Android, iOS, or probably a couple other ways. Apple's claim, presumably, is that the quality of iOS, the App Store, and of the h
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Pieces of software basically never exist in a vacuum; they're always connected to other pieces of software and hardware (compilers, processors, graphics cards, phones, OSs, libraries, web services, ...). Other pieces of software and hardwar
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
I don't go on reddit often enough to have any idea about the uptime, but out of curiosity, do you think there's anything that could give someone the impression it was worse recently?
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
CS+math from CMU. The OS class there is transformative; the other stuff is often good, but I wouldn't evangelize to anyone to take anything other than the OS class. It's been rumored that people have been hired because they passed OS; passi
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
I agree with you that people are really bad at concurrency, but I disagree that it's that hard once you get used to it. Once you deal with one large deep difficult highly concurrent project, you get used to the idea that when there are thre
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
This made something click for me: I hear all the time about how a) technology makes people's lives better, but b) people's lives in the US seem to be sucking a lot lately. The sucking, this theory would predict, is due to people having thei
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
No, that's an example of stealing an object. Stealing an object is fundamentally not the same as telling someone something, even if it's something you didn't want them to say. This is why your example induces an obvious ethical reaction, wh
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Yeah, but the real flesh-and-blood human beings receiving the dollars, his point is, are not really people whom most people are all that interested in randomly giving dollars to, like starving people in Africa; they're government bureaucrat
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Pioneered by TechStars? Really?
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Er, sorry, accidental downmod from 4 to 3, intended upmod to 5.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Dangerous? Really? What is in danger of happening? A bunch of startups failing? Seriously, I don't understand that part. I'm not sure I understand your main point either, come to think of it. Non-web software matters? I don't think that was
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
This is not exactly true. Universities subscribe en masse to these things for presumably exorbitant fees, but the result is that everybody in the university has access and doesn't notice the evil in these institutions, and continues to publ
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
I have access to probably everything you want through a university VPN; if you really want a given paper, email me a link to it and I'll email back the PDF. I can't scale this solution, but I figure I'll do what I can.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Iran's top people have been established to desire the destruction of Israel at minimum, and they can't fathom the destruction of the US, but if they could, I'm pretty sure they would want that too. So, at minimum, they would want to do shit
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
The Iran political situation is not exactly about to topple, but it's not the most stable situation in the world, either. Four-plus years is a really long time when we're talking about the CIA's/US's/Israel's ability to topple a potentially
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
It actually honestly depends. If you have lived in a given city long enough that most of your friends also live in said city, FB gets bonus points. If you extrapolate into the future for Google sucking even more than it does now, Google los
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
I didn't actually intend it to be a stupid joke; I was actually trying to parse the word, and then it turned out I was in the middle of a redditesque joke thread. But, no, I doubt it, especially given the number of downmods.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
My best guess is where you breathe "ultra" fucken tiny silica bits from a volcano.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Depending on demand vs. production, being first in line might mean a difference of weeks or even months in when you actually receive the phone.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Some clarifications: 1. Presumably you don't have to satisfy everything in each level to be considered satisfying that level; otherwise if your entire family dies in a plane crash, you can never achieve MH3 again, and if you never got MH5 b
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
This is not intended to exactly disagree: Many times when people cite the Maslow hierarchy, they often to take it as an axiom that the hierarchy is completely exactly how people work, and to lead better lives, people must go about fulfillin

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