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by genmon 10y ago
Honest question (as a Brit): why call out nationality when talking about the blockchain in your PS... Have you noticed the meaning vary outside the US?
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by genmon 10y ago
PSA: This isn't about Cory Doctorow's sci-fi novel of the same name
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by genmon 10y ago
Feedbin does this! (Though not with as much cleverness as your suggestion.) https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... "You can now receive email newsletters in Feedbin."
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by genmon 10y ago
Rogue Amoeba do a good collection of audio apps: http://rogueamoeba.com -- it's possible to add effects, mix, etc. Nothing as simple + dedicated as Background Music tho.
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by genmon 11y ago
One of the special qualities of the web has been that the New York Times is suddenly on a level playing field with some random blog... some random blog that might grow into, say, Buzzfeed, and eat its lunch. This breaking down of the moat a
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by genmon 11y ago
Last and First Men doesn't feel enormously optimistic to me... [Spoilers] It's a long history of struggle, humanity barely existing, occasionally bursting into brief civilisation before destroying itself through accident or hubris
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by genmon 11y ago
BBC income last year... From the license fee, £3.7B GBP; from commercial activities, £1.0B GBP. Details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/repo... The BBC is in a difficult bind. It
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by genmon 11y ago
It's not about paying 40% more -- tax already paid to foreign governments is deducted. So the total tax is 40%, with any tax not paid to foreign governments going to the US government when the profit is repatriated.
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by genmon 11y ago
Makes me think of what this would look like generalised... drawing with lines and shapes that have their own programmable constraints. See Sutherland's Sketchpad demo (1962!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=495nCzxM9PI
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by genmon 11y ago
One important datapoint is that Jack Dorsey did something very similar at Square in December 2013: http://fortune.com/2013/12/20/squares-dorsey-returns-10-of-h... Judging by how strong the Square team is, and
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by genmon 11y ago
:) I'm not going to defend their branding!
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by genmon 11y ago
So just a small point because I think the names cause some confusion -- the organisation "Tech City UK" is based out of a small, desks-only office somewhere near Moorgate. Used to be a similar set up just north of the Old St round
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by genmon 11y ago
That sounds more like TechUK, which afaik isn't government funded and is a membership based lobby group. They did a bunch of events together with GDS last year. Different from Tech City UK which is more like PR to help the UK, and free
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by genmon 11y ago
What are they trying to charge you for? I didn't know they had any non-free programmes, although I assume they do look for corporate sponsorship
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by genmon 11y ago
I see what you did there
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by genmon 11y ago
Definitely, but there's still a core of summarising the story. As an example, check out the headlines on this local newspaper: http://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk TORY TRIUMPH AS VOTERS STAY BLUE Jon runs 50k to mark
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by genmon 11y ago
Off-topic, but these kind of headlines drive me nuts... the Partial Clickbaitisation Of Everything. Like, "Mountains Aren't the Shape You Think," are they not? How do you know what shape I think mountains are? The headline is
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by genmon 11y ago
Unrelated to Sony, but related to WikiLeaks... Andrew O'Hagen was tapped to ghostwrite Julian Assange's autobiography. It didn't work out. The story behind why, and the insights into workings Wikileaks and the personality of
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by genmon 12y ago
I think the UK is catching up. TechCrunch has some good stats [0] -- from that piece: London startups received $1.35BN in VC in 2014; US-based Internet companies took $11.9BN that same year. A big gap, definitely, but I wouldn't say ba
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by genmon 12y ago
Good point. My examples should ideally be the same scale. For 4.0, I think it's about a single point of failure that, when rectified, recovery is simple. For 6.0, some kind of permanent and cascading problem. The difference between the
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by genmon 12y ago
I get super concerned when I hear reports like this -- what I'd like to hear is that the Netflix chaos monkey method is being adopted for critical infrastructure to increase resilience. Instead I can totally imagine a software fault th
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by genmon 12y ago
that's the kind of thing. the one that comes to mind for me is the 9 hour AT&T long distance outage of 1990: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html -- it's these kind of emergent outages that really interes
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by genmon 12y ago
I'd love for systems theory (cybernetics or whatever) to have gotten to the point where we could have an actual measure of disruption. Severity seems to come from both what the outage is, and also from our failure to build resilient sy
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by genmon 12y ago
I didn't realise there was an effect-focused earthquake scale, that's definitely more what I meant
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by genmon 12y ago
Author of linked blog post here -- would love to hear what you think!
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by genmon 12y ago
Ha, neat! I remember using amstracker to jump forward in iTunes by bumping my laptop. Literally the first time I'd encountered physical UIs, it felt so natural. And now there's Wii and Kinect and Leap etc. Ancient code: http:&#x2
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by genmon 12y ago
Dopplr went after the conference/business market, and at least in my crowd it had critical mass. That might be because I know the founders... But it cracked OP's issue of needing daily use so you remember the service. I would chec
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by genmon 12y ago
Then they should call it Big Site Markdown. Calling this a standard takes regular, varied, simple, use-case-specific, optimal Markdown away from the rest of us.
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by genmon 12y ago
Looks like the UK's figures got updated from the 2012 stats to the 2014 stats, just after I commented. Thanks for pointing this out!
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by genmon 12y ago
Wikipedia has a list of countries by traffic-related death rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re... Road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km (factors out the distance driven): USA is 7.6; S

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