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by frig 17y ago
What're the odds of intel trying to develop some x86 extensions (read: new instructions + other hardware optimizations) that'd be better-suited to doing hard-realtime (or at least "low latency") embedded work, and then making sure at least
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by frig 17y ago
PVI was/is essentially the only company that actually manufactures E-Ink screens. E-Ink was basically all-IP, and PVI was basically the only significant manufacturer to license the tech to manufacture the actual screens. I'm inserting "basi
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by frig 17y ago
The only evidence the guy had that the kid at Harvard is overly-bothered by his classmates' circumstances and insufficiently grateful for the opportunity Harvard has given him is that the article included too many quotes about feeling left
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by frig 17y ago
Looks like he's not the only guy out there who likes to bitch and moan and whine. Edit: Read the article, then decide. Likeliest scenario: Harvard has a big initiative to make it even more "need blind" (already linked-to in this thread) and
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by frig 17y ago
Even if it's true that you haven't tricked people into clicking on them, without further evidence it's hard to say if your clicks are because people find them useful or because people get confused.
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by frig 17y ago
The connection is this: Hypothesis A: ads are useful, people click on them b/c they deliberately want more info. Hypothesis B: ads are useless, people click on them only when they are somehow tricked into doing so. It's obviously the case t
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by frig 17y ago
Hypothetical: if I were to tell you that, say, 75% of the net ad revenue on many ad networks was generated by clicks on ads served by adware and spyware, but only, say, 15% of total ad impressions were served by adware and spyware, would yo
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by frig 17y ago
Edit: On further reading everything I speculated below is pretty much wrong and inapplicable. That, and now that people are paying for subscriptions they (pragmatically, if not strictly legally) have to guarantee a particular level of user
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by frig 17y ago
The redeeming quality of C++ is that there's nothing better in its specific niches. The question to ask is: - do you just care about results: I need a program that produces these outputs when given these inputs - or do you care about what a
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by frig 17y ago
What about it do you mind?
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by frig 17y ago
Right, but the point is that the "right to a trial" (at all): - is a positive right (to have a jury trial at all implies judge, jury, etc., all of whom have better things to do with their time than listen to two losers argue back and forth,
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by frig 17y ago
The positive/negative rights thing is basically the libertarians adopting a simplified and less-nuanced reading of Isaiah Berlin's famous essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty" http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/twoconcepts.pd... It'
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by frig 17y ago
But you don't mind being guaranteed a speedy trial by a jury of your peers, do you?
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by frig 17y ago
There's basically one manufacturer for all e-ink-esque screens (PVI). The consequence of that fact is that there's not a ton of room for price flexibility: everyone's using pretty much the same screens sold at pretty much the same price, an
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by frig 17y ago
Eh, not so sure it's bad sci-fi, given that it's not far from historical norms. Most of human history is a comparative handful of people executing effective control over most of the available resources, isolating themselves in heavily-barri
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by frig 17y ago
It's a lot harder than it looks, actually. Visual design is more art than science still, and even when it can be made fairly rigorous finding people who not only can make a good design but also articulate its logic in a formalizable way is
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by frig 17y ago
Apple tablet is probably a much larger ipod touch. Primary notivation is to make the itunes video store stop sucking so bad: currently the only pleasant way to watch videos from itunes is on an appletv (at home), or on a computer (clunky, m
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by frig 17y ago
Walk me through the mechanics of a hypothetical market for IP law service providers. Who sells what to whom?
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by frig 17y ago
A tip of my hat to you, sir -- very definitive.
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by frig 17y ago
Warning: a little long+rambly. At microlevel I don't see anything unusual. At a more-macro level I do think Google (generally) treads a lot of legally-uncertain grounds, and thus often has something to gain from being targeted with (som
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by frig 17y ago
Question: are you familiar with lane's gifts versus google (clickfraud class action settlement)? If not take a look; I think you'll be able to infer some strategic similarities (I'm happy to elaborate, but I'd rather not bias your judgment
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by frig 17y ago
(not following closely) I thought the difference between the prior attempts and this one is that: - the guild doesn't have authority to grant rights to orphaned works - but in this case the plaintiffs did a class action against google (wher
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by frig 17y ago
You've got some of the best links around. How are you coming across them?
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, I am rambly today, my apologies. My thesis is basically this: - the urban experience is going to be the normal human experience (if not already, in the future) - in the urban environment, it's natural to accept general restrictions on
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by frig 17y ago
I think we've exhausted any vein of disagreement. That said, there's one thing I want to point out: I think you're overestimating the extent to which there are any natural principles that'll set in and show their hand; they're out there, bu
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by frig 17y ago
I'm going to also pick on this: - I can't emphasize enough that the notion of private property is critical for successful societies. It's a lesson history shows us very clearly. In case it's not clear: I agree. - My ownership of something d
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by frig 17y ago
I was actually being a bit of a smartass, but I've decided to repent. I don't have time to tell you the full story, but here's a fuller outline. I assume you know what a bond is; if you don't, you'll need to look it up. (1) The fed basicall
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by frig 17y ago
Oh, agreed -- I'd like to see the notion of "private property" well protected moving forward. I just think the way its strongest advocates operate is going to do much more harm than good (in, eg, the same way the Republicans slagging every
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by frig 17y ago
On the other hand, there are people who will dump toxic waste into my groundwater and my air unless the men with guns are willing to deprive them of life or liberty for failure to cease said dumping. Any time you calmly and rationally keep
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, the "next # in the sequence" things are in theory dubious but in practice the theoretical unsoundness doesn't really cause issues (in the sense that: the people you'd want to select for will often find the pattern you want them to fin

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