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by flipbrad 17y ago
The UK constitution is (and this is debateable of course) based in part on the concept of 'parliamentary sovereignty' - one commentator put it that 'parliament could make it legal to kill blue-eyed babies'. Since UK entry into the EU, passi
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by flipbrad 17y ago
'Tried to vanish' but posted updates, in public, to twitter (at least long enough for google to cache them) - does not compute... He then stopped using Tor. Or his remote-login Vegas computers as proxies. Reopened his twitter account to the
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by flipbrad 17y ago
This has been a very long time coming though; so how many record deals made since this Act was passed will have ignored the end of a revenue stream 35 years from when the recording is made, and gone in at what will now be a loss? Clearly, a
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by flipbrad 17y ago
I find it interesting that (at least in the given extract) Buffett only highlights one of the two sources of unfair advantage (unfair starting conditions, but not unfair monopolies) that help people get exponentially rich with a non-corresp
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by flipbrad 17y ago
already written to complain to london's Members of the European Parliament. not sure what good it'll do - most of them are completely useless, the EP has been ignored on this very issue (ACTA) in the past, and they're only writing back to m
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by flipbrad 17y ago
It's not really frugality - think how many HN users would redesign the page (even just to fix the broken tags!) for free!
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by flipbrad 17y ago
Is this about whether they add value, or destroy it? In this case: "Some investors later would argue that Mr. Paulson's actions indirectly led to the creation of additional dangerous CDO investments, resulting in billions of dollars of add
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by flipbrad 17y ago
we've had 3D atomic level detail for molecules - especially horrendously more complex ones than this - for a long, long long time. NMR and X-Ray crystallography in all its guises are the two main candidates here. NMR even gives you that inf
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by flipbrad 17y ago
actually, if you consider that afm is directly detecting charges, I guess we're talking about more than probability here - that picture ought to be a (rough) record of where the charges in that molecule were as the AFM needle passed over th
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by flipbrad 17y ago
note that amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, not DNA. Also it's worth bearing in mind that DNA is a complex and fairly inert molecule, whereas RNA or TNA are often catalytic, thus potentially both simpler to spontaneously orig
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by flipbrad 17y ago
A bit like 'pay what you want' - this is a band that has the prior cred and prior revenue to experiment pretty much however they damn well please. Other threads around me point out the cons: albums are cornerstones of artists' careers, fant
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by flipbrad 17y ago
cancer rates would still be astronomic for anyone exposed to the fallout. worse, perhaps.
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by flipbrad 17y ago
It takes (usually) four to six oncogene activations to take a cell (or its progeny) into serious, lifethreatening, mofo cancer mode. Things need to be turned off - programmed cell death (apoptosis), DNA repair, sensitivity to growth-suppres
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by flipbrad 17y ago
It's a public policy exemption. A greater good call by a grateful society would not punish TC for its crime/immorality if it deemed the leak to be of sufficient value to public interest. That's a risk the publisher/whistleblower takes but i
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by flipbrad 17y ago
This is what's profoundly wrong with this Arrington character. What an awful, tabloid approach to defining news. New reporting is, quite simply, doing the legwork to bring stories to your attention. They might not have come to your attenti
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by flipbrad 17y ago
I do take slight issue with articles on copyright theory that go back into the history of copyright but make little or no note of the atoms to bits transition. It's possible, of course, that the author doesn't feel that anything has changed
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by flipbrad 17y ago
Absolutely; makes me think back to this item ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590276 ) - the power of 'because'; whatever follows because only has to sound plausible in the blink of an eye that will be spent assessing whether the user
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by flipbrad 17y ago
In a down economy, with huge unemployment in the valley (lots of competitors, unless you're unique in some way?) are you not better investing in yourself by continuing college?
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by flipbrad 17y ago
Oh come on - why seek to hurt/destroy a viable business in these dark days just because you personally don't like how you're treated? Determine a fair value for your work and negotiate. It's a shame they opened with a low-ball offer backed
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by flipbrad 17y ago
"EVERY single person who gets the flu (any and every flu) at some point in his life gets one they have no resistance/immunity to!" But thatericguy's point still stands, if he was talking about there being no herd immunity and the crucial di
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by flipbrad 17y ago
I suspect most approaches (barring methods so time consuming your spending will be out of control before you even start) aren't going to give you something something remotely accurate (or useful for your question). Having said that, there m
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by flipbrad 17y ago
It's not a 'great funding model' - frankly, few nonprofits spring to mind that have found one; my main criticism of this lies in long term interest - the success of this is buzz-based, and like million dollar homepage, that's going to pass,
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by flipbrad 18y ago
just imagine Los Angeles after widespread adoption of electric bikes... ... nah, neither could I.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Part of the problem is an obsession with diplomas and enforced curricula. Jobs will not hire unless you have the necessary diplomas - until that changes, forced, regimented, rote and curriculum-based learning is the only real option on a ma
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Brings to mind an amazing book - Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society. Essential reading if you're interested in this topic (and who wouldn't be? http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/intro.h... )
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Anybody here read Prospect?
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by flipbrad 18y ago
From the 'ripping the bandage off' school of PR - and there's a lot of 'owie' in the comments thread. Cringeworthy stuff but ultimately let's hope last.fm's long term viability increases because of the move, and that people get over the shi
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by flipbrad 18y ago
anyone here using tipjoy? had any success with it?
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by flipbrad 18y ago
You open your argument with the implicit statement that we can consciously (thus should) control and minimise risk (to the point where black swans are eliminated) - and that it would be desirable to do so. but using your swan argument, to m
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by flipbrad 18y ago
depends what community. any designer with the mainstream web (my parents) in mind will be reasonably attentive and receptive to this news (bearing in mind the large inertia people have in upgrading their programs - and with an upgrade this

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