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541.
by forensic 15y ago
The internet used to be cool. It was full of smart people saying smart things. Now it's mainly a communication tool for 13 year olds and desperate housewives.
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by forensic 15y ago
People who gained power and money in America's free market closing the door behind them. It's really sad.
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by forensic 15y ago
The #1 reason companies use online authorization is because people actually pay for it. Sony is all-too-familiar with people pirating games on their consoles. Online authorization eliminates huge swaths of pirates. Most consumers aren't thi
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by forensic 15y ago
So put your money where you mouth is and pay me to work on robotics and space travel. Offer any 25 year old this choice: a) You can be paid $100k/year and work on space travel. b) You can go found a photosharing startup and I'll fund it. Th
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by forensic 15y ago
People are smartest when they're old, but they're also the most risk-averse when they're old. 60 year olds today are generally uninterested in creating the future. Their main concern is with their own health I find. The more active 60 year
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by forensic 15y ago
PhD is not from the science realm. The PhD was originally about theology, law and medicine. It was co-opted by scientists less than two centuries ago.
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by forensic 15y ago
I was wrong saying profit equaled the utility exactly. There is clearly an opportunity cost with HFTs, and I would hypothesize that at a certain point there is a better ROI in other fields for those people. There should be diminishing retur
548.
by forensic 15y ago
My point regarding pings was that tiny advantages in speed, if leveraged across enough people, become large advantages in speed, and if a single person provides a tiny bit of value to many people, then that adds up to a lot of total value p
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by forensic 15y ago
Has this been integrated into Blogspot? The trick would be getting the feature hooked into the major publishing tools.
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by forensic 15y ago
Humans don't scale either. That's why google doesn't use humans. Sounds like the easy solution here is to have people submit their content to some google authentication system at the same time they submit to their blog. Problem solved.
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by forensic 15y ago
Is that 5 minutes of advanced information truly worthless? Does the average wealth of society increase or decrease with the addition of the arbitraging Galileo? I think it increases. Inequality increases, true, and there are other dangers i
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by forensic 15y ago
Chromebooks actually compete with Windows. Apple basically doesn't - it serves a small segment of premium users. Microsoft is still for the masses and will continue to be unless a competitor undercuts it. Which is precisely what Google is
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by forensic 15y ago
My fav part of this is when the Airbnb founder says he didn't start the company for money. I think we've all heard the story by now about how desperate they were to make money.
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by forensic 15y ago
I wonder how much of this applies to Facebook.
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by forensic 15y ago
Well most of the arguments are the same, Richard Gabriel is just less tactful than pg. What I want to know is whether Richard P. Gabriel ever had business success with LISP rather than just academic success. A quick scan of wikipedia doesn'
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by forensic 15y ago
Would benefit from a professional editor/proofreader -- there are quite a few typos as well as english mistakes. Still, he is smart for moving fast, and it looks like there is good value here.
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by forensic 15y ago
I've read various stuff to this extent, but the most interesting treatment was in the documentary called "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" that examines the origins of those two gangs. A big part of it was how the LAPD would only enforce
558.
by forensic 15y ago
They use intimidation and other tactics to keep crime confined to certain neighborhoods. They have a lot of strategies geared toward prevention. If the police fail to respond to calls in the ghetto then the crime in the ghetto increases, fo
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by forensic 15y ago
I don't see why not. As long as you don't actually break into Exxon and commit I crime. The real reason your scenario is unlikely is just that Exxon practically owns the government, so they would change the laws or something to fuck you ove
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by forensic 15y ago
Do police protect inner city poverty-stricken people victimized by gangs? It's pretty easy to argue that police only protect those who pay them.
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by forensic 15y ago
If the status quo is a problem at all, then it's a problem with all of modern academia. The problem will only be solved by better ways of selecting and supporting academics. Fix how stuff is funded and you fix the issue.
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by forensic 15y ago
My ISP doesn't throttle, which is entirely why I picked them. I have access to a connection that downloads 20 megabytes per second from S3, and YouTube still buffers on that connection. Note that Vimeo doesn't buffer, and Vimeo has higher v
563.
by forensic 15y ago
While on the topic of YouTube... why does YouTube constantly buffer these days?
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by forensic 15y ago
The obsession with minimalism at the expense of features is some kind of illness. Simple to use is good. But making something simple to use by removing useful features is pretty dumb.
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by forensic 15y ago
People who make computers their life are doing life wrong. There's no doubt that computers serve as a solitary outlet for many lonely, ostracized, and anxious people. The fact that computers become the only good thing in their life is not a
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by forensic 15y ago
All signs indicate that Julian Assange is correct about Facebook information being completely and easily accessible, without judicial oversight, to US intelligence. This should not be surprising either, considering laws such as the USA Patr
567.
by forensic 15y ago
His comments are provably false. There are countless scientific studies showing the benefits of various strategies for increasing productivity as well as increasing your enjoyment of your work. (e.g. how to make masturbation feel better, ho
568.
by forensic 15y ago
rolling back a transaction and claiming it yourself is a kind of stealing more advanced ways of stealing bitcoins have been developed and successfully simulated, for instance the dominant cartel can actually go several blocks ahead of every
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by forensic 15y ago
It's very easy to game the system. You need roughly 30% of the network's total computing power and you can "steal" bitcoins from others. The creator of bitcoin outlines a strategy for stealing bitcoins in the FAQ. In it, he claims that 50%
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by forensic 15y ago
the entire point of bitcoin is to be free from government control unlike normal currency

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