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by frogpelt 14y ago
We should all have one currency too, then?
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by frogpelt 14y ago
Is there a large contingency of people in the science and engineering world not using metric? Like a previous commenter said, all my science labs in high school and college used metric. I imagine legitimate research and engineering labs i
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by frogpelt 14y ago
There are hordes of people who will say outrageous things because they think they are anonymous. It's one of the many ways that the Internet has amplified character issues that already existed in society.
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by frogpelt 14y ago
You are probably right. If all governments in the world collapsed today markets WOULD still exist with or without regulation. BUT regulation would start to reappear almost as quickly as it disappeared. A healthy marketplace relies upon a fo
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by frogpelt 14y ago
The "regulated" market (as opposed to the free market) produces what will be consumed. IV is the symptom. The disease is the current implementation of patent law. I'm not claiming that they are guiltless. But they are filling a space create
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by frogpelt 14y ago
Is Apple Maps really completely terrible? OR Does it have a few problems that, when compared with all the progress Google has made in that arena, makes its performance untenable? I say this because I have used Apple Maps to navigate the rur
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by frogpelt 14y ago
It never fails to cease to amaze me when people people mix up these type of statements.
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by frogpelt 14y ago
Apple is a victim of its own success and its marketing of that success. Google doesn't try to make every product they announce seem like the greatest innovation since the wheel lost its corners. Apple does. They release a video of Jonny Ive
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by frogpelt 14y ago
Maybe Apple was trying to stimulate the economy.
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by frogpelt 14y ago
I would agree except.... people aren't real on facebook (or Twitter, blogs and forums for that matter). The emotions I felt when reading my facebook news feed were not the same emotions I had when hanging out with these people in real life.
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by frogpelt 14y ago
Sure, they have the money to create something epic. But to build something epic and sell it for under $300 is taking a loss just for the epic-ness of it. That is not how Apple, MS or Google got to where they are.
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by frogpelt 14y ago
It seemed like linkbait to me, too. It sounds like a slightly different version of "Why I left Google."
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by frogpelt 14y ago
I dislike facebook myself and for a lot of the same reasons but this guy is dead wrong that no one would miss it. If facebook disappeared overnight, it would cause millions of people to come unglued. People are addicted to the connected/sha
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by frogpelt 14y ago
How is it simpler? - owner's keyfob transmits signal to car - owner's car polls for incoming signal - owner's car decrypts keyfob signal - owner's car verifies that the keyfob has a legitimate encrypted key for that vehicle - owner's vehic
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by frogpelt 14y ago
I'm not sure that it is as much this way anymore. You are required to have direct deposit where I work and I only write checks to individuals or to businesses that don't accept debit/credit card transactions. This story took place in 1995.
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by frogpelt 14y ago
The Twitter Rules state "Privacy: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization
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by frogpelt 14y ago
Could the Yankees patent a particular trajectory to the plate and keep all the other teams from pitching that way?
1038.
by frogpelt 15y ago
Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse. The free market left to itself would fix most of it's own problems (I say most because I think some regulation is
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by frogpelt 15y ago
I hate to rain on your cold shower but... - doesn't scale well Who said he wanted it to "scale"? If he has already replaced his income he may not need much "scaling". Nice buzzword though. - is the first thing customers eliminate when tim
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by frogpelt 15y ago
Facebook is winning advertising because they have 750 Million users. Facebook wasn't created for advertising so much as advertising was the logical way to profit from having that many people use your product. Google certainly is motivated t