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by hga 10y ago
One issue is that presupposes you can recognize classified information if the markings for that have been removed. This came up with Sidney Blumenthal's forwarding of NSA Top Secret/SAP/SCI GAMMA intelligence, which by defin
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by hga 10y ago
I think that path still exists, especially in my native America, the problem is once you go beyond math and theoretical physics to experimental physics, most chemistry and biology etc. you need serious money and/or stature to arrange a
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by hga 10y ago
Wouldn't it be unfair to offer a deal that's significantly different in structure than the one that's offered to other types of knowledge workers?
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by hga 10y ago
But the way they quashed it is instructive: every few years they'd come up with some New, Improved way of doing it, and depreciating the old. People got sick and tired of learning the latest arcane, hard to program, generally with som
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by hga 10y ago
And our original host noted the sea change when Microsoft stopped being that 800 pound gorilla: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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by hga 10y ago
And funded the SCO Group v. The World lawsuit. On the other hand, in the early days IE beat Netscape fair and square in the technical domain, by engineering a vastly better browser, I think it was faster, and it was definitely a lot mor
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by hga 10y ago
I'm pretty sure food science and studies of nutrition have been around a lot longer than Soylent. I've only read about this in passing, in general histories, but this was one of MIT's early strengths, in the post-Civil War
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by hga 10y ago
Then the firm should be fired and blackballed for not have the sense that this was a special case that required upstream consultation. And the PR people in Samsung ... well, I'm not even sure they're having much input into what th
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by hga 10y ago
I have every expectation it's "ridiculously profitable" (they don't, for example, reveal all the details of achieving good power consumption in their patents), but it's clearly not a big enough part of the company t
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by hga 10y ago
Faculty at most universities sign the rights to their inventions over to their host institution as part of their employment agreement. I believe MIT is the same way. Yes, MIT does this quite explicitly, which while making some professors
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by hga 10y ago
For a technology company big negative changes like this can be very bad, they can in fact signal that the company will go bankrupt or essentially so, e.g. forced to sell itself at fire-sale prices, in at little as a year or two.
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by hga 10y ago
The debt can be secured against the assets its buying, and if not explicitly secured, debt holders are still pretty high on the pecking order in bankruptcies. A major reason to do it is that in the US debt is massive tax advantaged compared
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by hga 10y ago
Compared the the standard MVNO, they're less exposed because their system uses WiFi whenever possible. How much less that exposure is I have no idea. Disclaimer: I'm a Project Fi subscriber for the last half year or so.
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by hga 10y ago
In the Lisp Machine world in the early '80s, one guy's first car had HLRZ as his vanity plate, that's the PDP-10 instruction that implements the CAR (IBM 704 Contents of Address Register) operation, which gets you the first e
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by hga 10y ago
But this is not being framed as a lie by omission, rather, a bunch of good reasons (that I support) were made, when the real reason was nation building. Or so is the claim, which DenBeste is acknowledging in the cited item. And nation bu
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by hga 10y ago
Given how much difficultly so many software companies have in doing this, especially sustaining it, it seems unlikely companies from other domains are capable of succeeding, especially in this domain where sustained effort is required. And
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by hga 10y ago
I double checked your last cited claim, and it's indeed correct, e.g.: " And so it is in this case. If there were a way that the President could have revealed the true strategy for the war to us all without negative consequences,
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by hga 10y ago
It was our moral obligation to go to war with Saddam, ask for an outline of details as I and as I recall Steve saw them if you want, but the moral case starts with "you broke it, you fix it" ... and come to think of it we foll
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by hga 10y ago
Echoing some of the other comments, guns as dangerous things are remarkably easy to use safely, e.g. compare ~600 fatal accidents/year and ~33,000 as I recall for cars (both, through quite a lot of effort, making large absolute drops o
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, one of the things that needs to be kept topmost in mind when reading statistics like this is that people are going to die of something , and as we reduce or all but eliminate other causes, something or things are going to shift t
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by hga 10y ago
At some point, if the Internet is going to continue to function, one of the likely outcomes is that these customers wake up some morning and the only thing they can get is a web page telling them they have a choice of disabling their frid
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, and I have seriously considered them for their 71% lower price than AWS Glacier and now Google's Coldline, but I wanted to point out the apples vs. oranges difference in one way each does redundancy, or not in the case of Backb
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by hga 10y ago
As far as I can tell, they're still operating out of one data centers, and while they claim it's Sacramento location is outside of earthquake danger zones, I can still see one to the west impacting availability depending on fiber
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by hga 10y ago
But per this announcement Google's new "Coldline" storage hits the AWS Glacier 0.7 cents/GB/month price point, and without Glacier's mindboggling operational and billing complexity, long delays on retrievals, a
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by hga 10y ago
Both of them compare Trump to a dictator. Paul Graham compared him to Stalin. Both Altman and Graham believe, like I do, that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. If they truly believe Trump is "Literally Hitler" (as
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by hga 10y ago
Violence in response to violence . As explicitly stated in the article: One example of this was journalist Glenn Reynolds getting his account suspended for tweeting "run them down" in reference to drivers being in a situation w
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by hga 10y ago
If it's hubris, which I think is fairly likely, your question contains its answer: after decades in the consumer electronics business and years as the market leader for smartphones?
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by hga 10y ago
Wasn't political party support also a source of income? In those more honest days, papers didn't pretend they were "objective", and you'll see traces of this today in some papers that retain "Republican"
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by hga 10y ago
Looks like #1 for cable news right now, but compare e.g. http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-wednesday-october-... and http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/evening-news-ratings-week-of-... and y
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by hga 10y ago
And perhaps be forced to stop producing some drugs? I don't think I'm taking any made by them right now, but I know I have in the past.

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