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by gbhn 13y ago
> I don't think you get to be a senior engineer or doctor solely because your parents were. True enough. But yet... I'm a senior engineer. My parents were in the medical profession. I had a lot of help going to school (not all
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by gbhn 13y ago
I enjoyed watching the demo and reading the post. I hope you continue to think about this and innovate. Something that I feel like is missing is the abstraction quality of programming. That is, the idea that I typically have very little use
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by gbhn 13y ago
Specifically, once you've played puzzles of this sort, it is easy to see that the core of the puzzle is that all the tiles move as far as possible on a move. That threes doesn't do this makes it look like the prototype, no matter
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by gbhn 13y ago
I've played both games. It's definitely true that 2048 appeared in a world where threes was popular. But it isn't the case that a bunch of effort improved threes over the simpler 2048. Yes, it is simpler, easier. Sometimes th
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by gbhn 13y ago
I'm stuck on the "don't anthropomorphize institutions" and then "Harvard is in the business of..." Is there a particular Harvard person(s) you think is responsible for this?
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by gbhn 13y ago
Definitely unbundle your life insurance and investments. The only reason I can think of for coupling them is just shy of fraud. -- someone who once got sold a whole life policy
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by gbhn 13y ago
This is a good point. Someone doing mostly-not-effective volunteering isn't there 99% of the time. But that's kind of the point -- they've made a connection and now care about the project. That's got to have ongoing valu
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by gbhn 13y ago
It reminds me of dimensional analysis in physics. That works really well when the number of possibilities are low and the system as a whole is contained enough and well-constructed enough that there aren't many pitfalls. But everyone k
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by gbhn 13y ago
It looked similar. Can you highlight the differences from Raft? Is it just that state is small so it can accompany the various voting/heartbeat messages?
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by gbhn 13y ago
"Apple"
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by gbhn 13y ago
Read the bottom of the linked thread.
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by gbhn 13y ago
http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ A nearby supernova would definitely be sterilizing to the kind of life found on Earth, and to a lot of other imaginable forms. Of course, "nearby" in astronomical terms is sometime
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by gbhn 13y ago
By "countless" I think you mean "half a dozen, with perhaps a 25% success rate." Its important that we realize that the upper end of the impact scale isn't an endless string of success, but "a few." One is
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by gbhn 13y ago
Not to mention that terrorists aren't the only thing the president is charged to protect citizens against.
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by gbhn 13y ago
My reading is that ESE is intended to work in much the same way -- the main work is done by the Content Decryption Module, which is more plugin-like. And indeed, the way existing DRM-using systems work in the browser is with the embed tag.
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by gbhn 13y ago
How about the embed tag? What big differences do you see between implementing EME vs the embed tag?
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by gbhn 13y ago
Except that these quotes are also about coding as the mreasnsd to an end. The ends may not be as elevated, but employment, pride, security and such are powerfully motivating ends. I think its really amazing to think about the intellectual p
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by gbhn 13y ago
That matches my recollection as well. Also see http://www.gizmag.com/snappycam-iphone-app/28558/ A really nice technical achievement. Not at all simple or run-of-the-mill.
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by gbhn 13y ago
I think this is a good point, but for Paul Krugman, the discussion of the role of the central bank in the stability of the dollar is absolutely, well, central, to the question of desirability. That is, the central bank is in some sense &quo
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by gbhn 13y ago
I didn't read OP's comment as saying Feinstein wasn't serving any industry's interests -- but that she was being actively and passively hostile to the tech sector which comprises a significant part of her constituency. I
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by gbhn 13y ago
I just finished paying 2x market for an electrician who had the following invaluable skill: 1. Physically appearing at job site.
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by gbhn 13y ago
Frank Herbert wrote this story 30 years ago (White Plague -- 1982). I'd be surprised if he were the first to worry about it. So we may be well along in the 50-year progression is all.
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by gbhn 13y ago
This is an excellent point, and I also think that Victor's interpretation of Engelbart's priorities is really interesting: what if we made computer tools powerful enough to enable high-bandwidth creative cooperation? Would that op
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by gbhn 13y ago
Home schooling is usually more structured following inspiration from a traditional curriculum. Unschooling can be structured too, but is usually looser and more responsive. Wikipedia has an article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org&
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by gbhn 13y ago
I have a question about the terminal state. In your blog post it is phrased as a takeover which is inherent in the proof-of-work protocol in the currency. It seems to me, though, that as soon as a cabal of defectors successfully captures th
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by gbhn 13y ago
It's probably good to try every so often, anyway, even though it's impossible. :-)
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by gbhn 13y ago
The amount spent on patents and related litigation is massive. There are other large costs as well of course, but the patent fiasco is a large drag on the industry. Something I'd like to see in addition to the now-pending reform is a l
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by gbhn 13y ago
See this link about energy density: http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-1/p20.html Even liquid hydrogen doesn't come close to the volumetric energy density that seems like it'd be a soluti
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by gbhn 13y ago
One motivation for such taxation would be precisely to encourage people to spend money closer to the time it is earned.
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by gbhn 13y ago
I'd like to see a principal components projection. Are there clusters? The buddies are interesting, but it seems like there's more here! :-)

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