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by gbhn 13y ago
Something I think often is left out of success accounting is an advantage almost everyone born in a large, well-functioning society enjoys: access to a large, well-functioning society. If the civilization into which Bill Gates sold software
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by gbhn 13y ago
I don't understand why we still mint a $100. It's the prime counterfeiting target, is mostly used overseas, and is too big for real commercial value. It seems like just having the $20 be the largest bill would overcome all these p
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by gbhn 13y ago
2-factor can be done in the post-password sense (require the second factor after this SQRL step), or alternatively, the algorithm the phone does could use a second factor at that point.
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by gbhn 13y ago
Being careful in reforms is good, but I think the heightened pleading concern is not that big an issue here. The plaintiff is looking at their own patent and saying "this thing you did violated this part." If they don't know
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by gbhn 13y ago
That's probably true in some cases. I think another thing that is true is that mobile visual vocabulary is stabilizing, much as the desktop visual vocobulary of menu bars, window title bars, etc. did. That makes for a more boring app w
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by gbhn 13y ago
Yes, I definitely get the feeling of "breaking news! multi-million dollar logo consultant believes everyone should buy logos for 10 million dollars!"
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by gbhn 13y ago
The graph in the article suggests the bank's cost for a checking account per year is $250. Wow. That seems like a huge opportunity to provide better banking service. Driving that cost down to $100 or so would be a very big deal.
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by gbhn 13y ago
The article focuses on what can hardly be considered a complicated good: salt water. Medical grade saline is highly regulated, and must be one of the most commodity products that exist in the country today. (The article takes pains to estab
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by gbhn 13y ago
Who's Kanye? But seriously, there's a lot of people who care. I think we have to shake the habit of concluding that what the celebrity insider press reports on is what people at large care about. Most people don't read the pa
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by gbhn 13y ago
The counterpoint to this is that the folk understanding of computers is, when you consider it, often more compelling than the expert understanding. The notion that all the computers somehow mysteriously talk to one another, or that if you c
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by gbhn 13y ago
Yes. The Obama fiasco has been a huge disappointment. I'm interested in ideas about what could have been done differently -- Obama talked a very good game during his candidacy about issues of this sort. The really big indicator he was
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by gbhn 13y ago
Yes. Stories like this are a root cause for why people often welcome federal law enforcement -- the centers of federal enforcement may be vulnerable to other forms of coercion, but they are outside the reach of whatever racket is currently
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by gbhn 13y ago
The obstacle would simply be recompiling from IR. That doesn't seem like a big challenge in today's environment for a large swath of devices -- nearly mobile devices, for instance, have nearly-complete top-to-bottom source code fo
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by gbhn 13y ago
you need a torch
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by gbhn 13y ago
And if you look at poll data from similar scandals in 2006, a very healthy (about half) of people who objected now, when a Democrat is in charge, thought it was awesome then, and vice versa. If you were an intelligence professional, how cou
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by gbhn 13y ago
The title, though reflective of the article, is misleading. It should be "Some speculation about what might happen in the unlikely event that many Kenyans started using Bitcoin".
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by gbhn 13y ago
The charity will almost certainly receive more money through this mechanism than donating the car -- the intake businesses keep the lion's share of the money. My dad donated a car a while back -- the charity got like $150.
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by gbhn 13y ago
For better or worse, the way software delivery has evolved on the web is that documents contain applications. I think that if we had known where we wanted to go, it may have been better to start the other direction, and make a web app API t
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by gbhn 13y ago
Agreed. He made the point many times in the video that yes, he could get a movie funded, but he thinks that a Kickstarter funding mechanism is a superior alternative. He presents some arguments to that effect. I have no idea what the state
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by gbhn 13y ago
Froyo is very boom/bust. There's been another big boom (around the tart yogurts from Pinkberry et al) recently.
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by gbhn 14y ago
I think that's the whole point: professors as a body should fear that if they go off and work to normalize a torture regime, they'll be fired by their universities. Hopefully that encourages them to not do such things. What's certain is tha
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by gbhn 14y ago
I have a question. I read on the bitcoin site that currently the transaction rate is limited (at 7tps). This seems like a good precaution, as otherwise someone could try to flood the network, but what enforces that limit? Is it that by and
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by gbhn 14y ago
Next release name: "' && rm -rf /"
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by gbhn 14y ago
Another comparison: Yahoo Finance says Time Warner Cable's income in 2011 is ~$20B. I'm not sure I understand why $2B/year for five years is a big obstacle. Reaching 15% of the US cable market (60M households in Q42011 per Nielsen) is 9M su
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by gbhn 14y ago
Thank you for telling your story.
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by gbhn 14y ago
I think that's the OPs point -- recoverable gear could potentially make fuel a limiting factor. (Although I don't know if this is realistic: there must be a lot of personell and equipment involved with refitting and firing a rocket into orb
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by gbhn 14y ago
Yes. This is what I find horrifying and humiliating. The person experiencing this kind of thing is the best judge of appropriate escalation, but if you think she over-escalated, then stop escalating even further! And much of the resulting f
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by gbhn 14y ago
You need cross product if you want to know sign. Dot product won't tell you which side of the line you're on, and that sounded like a big part of the algorithm.
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by gbhn 14y ago
Yes. Malpractice insurance isn't super costly, but knowing many doctors (my father was a doctor as well), the adversarial relationship that malpractice suits sets up is a heavy burden. We know that overtreatment is a huge source of the cost
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by gbhn 14y ago
"If it comes in a package, it's candy" is probably the correct rule. It's not that eating candy will kill you, but if you eat a bag of chips, drink some soda, and eat a packaged snack, the reality is that you have almost certainly just had

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