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931.
by forensic 17y ago
I can't bring myself to do these kinds of corporate exploits. It just makes me feel like I'm spending my life learning about a bunch of bullshit arbitrary rules rather than something I care about or something that helps the world. So I end
932.
by forensic 17y ago
Why does it only browse the web? How hard can it be to throw a desktop on there? You make all that hardware and then cripple it with limited software? Whateva. I would pay $499 if it had bluetooth and could run a normal OS. Also, these Fusi
933.
by forensic 17y ago
It's the opposite for me. As I get older I become more interested in tech stuff, and less interested in the general stuff. I used to spend almost all my time considering the meaning of life and all that.
934.
by forensic 17y ago
Face-to-face communication contains significant non-verbal information which lends itself to trust. The human organism has developed ways to test others for inauthenticity, lack of confidence, etc. These tests are difficult to apply online,
935.
by forensic 17y ago
Which won't happen to the brands he listed. The only brands that have actually become net liabilities are a small handful of corrupt ones - Enron, WorldCom, stuff like that. But Newsweek "disappearing in 2010"? Impossible.
936.
by forensic 17y ago
"should" yes, but it doesn't take intelligence to want to encrypt your data, just paranoia. Microsoft is selling Windows 7 Ultimate to people who are computer illiterate with the sales pitch that it will secure their data. These people woul
937.
by forensic 17y ago
Google specifically avoids changing the user experience. Facebook-today is, for my uses, much worse than Facebook-of-years-past. In the past it was simplistic, elegant, and did one job and did it well. Now it is trying to be everything and
938.
by forensic 17y ago
Seems to me the services facebook provides would be better provided on the operating system. It would have to be built in though - people don't want to download anything. If Apple got into the business of social networking, they could fract
939.
by forensic 17y ago
It's one thing to have systems for the NSA, it's another thing if Microsoft's "Windows 7 Ultimate" biggest feature is easily beatable by the public. Anyone smart enough to want to steal your data is smart enough to download this program off
940.
by forensic 17y ago
Why do they bother saying "Brands" when everyone knows that never happens? Motorola, Kodak, Newsweek... whether they get bought out entirely or sold piece by piece, those brandnames are not going anywhere. They may get new management or agg
941.
by forensic 17y ago
Isn't this the majority of RFPs? Most are just there for props as part of an attempt for some guy to sell his favourite company to the boss.
942.
by forensic 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. "Copyright notice was required under the 1976 Copyright Act. This requirement was eliminated when the United States adhered to the Berne Convention, effective March 1, 1989." (First Hit on Google,
943.
by forensic 17y ago
I have to disagree with you. Creating a business based around something you believe in is arguably the #1 most powerful way to change the world. Just because people make profit does not mean profit is their "only" goal. And like Paul Graham
944.
by forensic 17y ago
Considering the public already paid for the pipes when they were built... it's all just a corporatocracy scam and you might as well stop trying to find a technology-based solution. This is 2009. There is zero reason for network congestion t
945.
by forensic 17y ago
The interesting thing here is not that Twitter is small, but that farmville is insanely massive. This should demonstrate to game companies the importance of a convenient platform. All it took to get 70 million people in a game was a platfor
946.
by forensic 17y ago
You make my point for me. Look at how much effort and expense they have to go to just for those bomb sniffing machines - and they basically can track only a small handful of very specific, very rarely found chemicals. Implementing this to s
947.
by forensic 17y ago
Am I correct in thinking his ideas on sniffing machines are totally ludicrous? Are we not basically talking about a chemical-based air tester that would have to sort through ridiculously complex masses of data trying to pick out which subtl
948.
by forensic 17y ago
obviously that is his purpose in posting it he's demonstrating his value as "visionary/evangelist/whatever"
949.
by forensic 17y ago
I live in canada and it's working fine for me :P
950.
by forensic 17y ago
People do it in all genres except fiction. There are tons of non-fiction blogs that get published by just printing out the words and putting them on the shelf. I've ordered books from bloggers expecting to get new content (lol, pg comes to
951.
by forensic 17y ago
There are lots of places like this, but they don't work specifically on the venture capital model. (But they should!) http://www.channel101.com/ is an example where it's a kind of co-operative incubator for comedians, directors and actors
952.
by forensic 17y ago
>So you're suggesting that despite years of education and learning from mistakes, investors never learn from their past mistakes Investors learn that the best bets are betting on being too big to fail, or being risky as possible to get
953.
by forensic 17y ago
This seems to plague all employers in software. See Paul Graham's essay about how the only way to spot a good hacker is to hack with them. Which puts all programmers in a lemon market.
954.
by forensic 17y ago
No one is stopping the researchers from starting a company using their findings. But the findings themselves should still belong to the public.
955.
by forensic 17y ago
AFAIK Claudio Stampi is the only person to test polyphasic directly because since then it has been considered unethical to directly test polyphasic. (The Geneva Convention considers it torture, afterall) See my reply here as well: http://n
956.
by forensic 17y ago
The debunkers are cultish because the proponents are cultish. Just like atheists are cultish in response to cultish cults. If reducing delta wave sleep by 10% significantly decreases performance on memory and reasoning tests, why should red
957.
by forensic 17y ago
Hyperbole much?
958.
by forensic 17y ago
Claudio Stampi tested all the various forms of reducing sleep and found polyphasic - the uberman style - to be the best out of them all. At the same time, he found that polyphasic sleep results in poorer performance compared to normal sleep
959.
by forensic 17y ago
Polyphasic sleep for knowledge workers has been thoroughly debunked by real science. http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm The science has been done. The tests are clear. Polyphasic sleepers suffer performance losses in mental
960.
by forensic 17y ago
But the direction/efficiency of innovation would improve. Better to spend money that encourages companies to research more genuinely useful products rather than products that simply may be more marketable because they have a useless extra 2

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