flipbrad

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by flipbrad 18y ago
it's no good saying 'people' - the problem is which ones. Plenty of people were driving aorund in nice cars during the last bubble, having 'taken to the bank' investors' cash; but the whole setup was totally unsustainable and the people put
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Read "Godel Escher Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid"? Wonderful book by a remarkably clever computer scientist attempting a (very tricky) definition of consciousness (or 'a system getting meaning when composed of meaningless parts', like you
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by flipbrad 18y ago
I currently use Foobar to play my music library; the last.fm client to play custome radio streams from my friends, or based on my past listening habits, etc - and Songbird for mp3 blogs (I love the way it lists all mp3's on a page on the
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by flipbrad 18y ago
been using it for a while - great tool!
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by flipbrad 18y ago
like many 'order out of chaos' systems, government tends to be a self-reinforcing system, unfortunately, leading to ever increasing ordering of its environment. the only way it can apparently beat the second law of thermodynamics is to cons
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by flipbrad 18y ago
a major factor in overschooled society, and its' warped perception of education, is an overreliance on diplomas. Would HN and the startup scene be remotely as fertile, exciting, open and (to an extent) meritocratic if investors refused to i
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by flipbrad 18y ago
this certainly is a zone Google should be aiming for (but not via g. adsense) - hopefully (for them) pre-empting any widespread cultural adoption of this techinque for tipping a creator, which would be totally unsustainable
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by flipbrad 18y ago
use your own site/publishing space for your own unique takes on a story
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by flipbrad 18y ago
it's the developing world. people from the west will very rarely know the appropriate price for an item or service. If we supposedly 'get wise' to inflated asking prices and start haggling down to 30-50% original - they'll just inflate the
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by flipbrad 18y ago
only if deep fried
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by flipbrad 18y ago
"Give us your sensitive data, we'll make you feel good and optimistic" Preying on the vulnerability/need for validation of most startup founders?
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by flipbrad 18y ago
does that lend weight to, or subtract from, his warning?
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by flipbrad 18y ago
a true hacker. inspiring stuff.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
is the "birthday paradox"-like one there to catch out those that have been training for these questions, spot a birthday question, immediately calculate for 10*9 pairs rather than just 9?
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by flipbrad 18y ago
your skin certainly knows where and when to (re)grow...
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Tinyurl next time?
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by flipbrad 18y ago
not necessarily. if the body can somehow keep count, it may just replace the cells you remove. I'm not sure we know for certain either way yet.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
your theory is one theory, and it's the view held by society. does not hold that the set point theory is invalid. I would not be at all surprised if your (extremely complex) body system had an 'equilibrium' weight which it will attempt to n
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by flipbrad 18y ago
no - he's absolutely correct. this was discovered earlier this year, IIRC. cf: http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54629/
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by flipbrad 18y ago
over time it should return to a 'fair' position, once temporary disequilibrium in the 'crowd' (induced by marketing, hype, whatever) is resolved. It's a shame people vote 'strategically', not to reflect their true sentiments - but whatever.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Very good post. But I was wondering how you value your ideas up front? Also, any scope for going back and revaluing it (e.g. if it brought in much more revenue than expected, with little work required i.e. little dilution) during your regul
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Potentially an important contribution to synthetic biology but quite frankly the article/blog post is appallingly written and very unclear on the scientific detail, so it's hard to assess the findings. I'm surprised Reuteurs published this,
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Ithink the Dems have the right man fr the job - Obama is a wonderfuly intelligent man who will bring all the requisite nuance and intelligence to the presidency (his choice of favourite films, for example, reveals a man very sensitive to di
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by flipbrad 18y ago
I'd rather not touch my screen but I do want multitouch controlling of onscreen objects, e.g. in games or graphics apps, or for sorting through photos, organising research snippets/post it notes (digital ones of course), moving icons around
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by flipbrad 18y ago
we rag on TC for shit headlines and then nickb does the same =(
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by flipbrad 18y ago
disgraceful, pitiful even. at a time when content publishers should be competing on quality or service, and building strong, happy brands, instead they risk everything employing black hat companies to destroy everything that disagrees with
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by flipbrad 18y ago
as do I. the important stuff hits techmeme (which I pull the RSS feed to) and/or HN. I do however read TC:UK, @mbites does a pretty good job there without pollution from mike arrington's insufferable soapboxing/linkbaiting I'd love to be ab
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by flipbrad 18y ago
you're going to need a lot of contacts - as a VC, you're a matchmaker between investors and capital-needy high potential businesses. Have you got enough contacts that you can access the best prospects, and turn away asshole investors and on
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by flipbrad 18y ago
Seesmic seems to be a largely redundant startup (with excellent execution and PR): so far it has very little value for the world at large; it tries solving a problem that doesn't exist; it's not technically very impressive, nor revolutionar
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by flipbrad 18y ago
I go to Oxford, and that post is a gross and in many cases largely inaccurate generalisation. I'm sorry the oxbridge guys and girls you've known are so insufferable. I think you're significantly off the mark taking that experience and makin

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