ethana

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Watch SRI's Nimble Microrobots Cooperate to Build Structures(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by ethana 12y ago|0 comments
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by ethana 13y ago
Revolving doors that's all. Remember Colin Powell? He's on the board of Bloom Energy. Slowly Silicon Valley is infiltrated by ex-politicians and cabinet members.
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Microsoft holds 200 patents that are necessary to build an Android smartphone(blogs.technet.com)
1 points by ethana 13y ago|1 comments
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1981 primitive Internet report on KRON(youtube.com)
1 points by ethana 13y ago|1 comments
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by ethana 13y ago
Bing Translate is actually better than Google Translate in my experience. Especially for east asian languages translation. It's one of the hidden gems that I though is under-utilize by Microsoft. I hope Microsoft open up the Bing platf
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by ethana 13y ago
Good idea, they might want to have this all the Middle East.
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by ethana 13y ago
On the contrary, what if George Carlin was right and mother nature just needed human to make plastic?
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by ethana 13y ago
Yes. Gods are probably a bunch of mathematicians and programmers. And we are living in their life simulation program. The universe might as well be a projection.
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by ethana 13y ago
I still have no idea why we even go through with daylight saving anymore. It's been exactly 100 years since WWI.
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by ethana 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Microsoft already has its own VR product in development. That internal leaked doc a couple of years ago about xbox 720 revealed something similar to a wearable headset. Combine VR with the holodeck Microsoft has going c
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by ethana 13y ago
The 47 millions food-stamp recipients disagree with you.
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by ethana 13y ago
this guy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568109/Unemployed-b...
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by ethana 13y ago
So basic income is the minimum living cost? What if minimum cost of living increase every year as it does? What if you live in San Francisco where the standard of living is crazy high? Do the citizens of S.F get a higher basic income than s
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by ethana 13y ago
Basic income already exist for some people, it's extended unemployment checks + food-stamps.
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by ethana 13y ago
So what should the basic income be? $10k/yr? 20k? 50k? 100k?
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by ethana 13y ago
Remember when Netflix did the price hike and got a consumer backlash? Hey maybe if they could indirectly price hike through IPs, then no one would notice ;)
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by ethana 13y ago
Well, the world have a lot of people, and some of them post stuff on HN. Then some other people vote on them ;)
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by ethana 13y ago
We'll just have to wait to be proven next week. How long can that take?
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Shit Bitcoin Fanatics Say, Part 1(youtube.com)
7 points by ethana 13y ago|0 comments
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by ethana 13y ago
The progressive media recently has been cranking out nonstop economic bs articles. Drumming up class warfare is the end goal. Divide and conquer.
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Law Enforcement Agencies All Over California Have Been Secretly Using Stingray(techdirt.com)
5 points by ethana 13y ago|0 comments
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by ethana 13y ago
People smoking too much weeds? Ban weeds. Several firearm slaughters? Ban guns. Couple of knife mass murderings in China? Ban knifes! 1 reported vehicular violent murders? Ban people driving. Perpetual occupational wars for Democracy (oil)
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by ethana 13y ago
For democracy.
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by ethana 13y ago
Reminds me of the early days of Flash 4. Very nice indeed. But flash animations made the web horrible, I don't suspect HTML5 animations will fare any better.
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by ethana 13y ago
"A Mac App for Cool People" Did they really have to resort to a level that low?
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by ethana 13y ago
Well, I hope Microsoft decides to combine the best of both. Perhaps finally the Bing platform might be useful with some fiction inspired characteristics.
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by ethana 13y ago
Submitted at noon. Everyone left for lunch.
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by ethana 13y ago
To be honest, those drawings are pretty good and very creative.
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by ethana 13y ago
I think 'netbook' was predominant that anomaly. It was the dawn before low-cost tablets and, to its credit, created a whole new segment in low-cost computing. Much of those segment are now diverted into iPads and low-cost Android
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by ethana 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with using table for layout. Before calling me old school, let it be known that table can do responsive before even css2 was drafted. Also the rendering compatibility of table still looks pixel perfect now as ho

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