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by ippisl 15y ago
This number is meaningless(and probably wrong) if you don't know the extra profits it would generate, and what's at stake here. Some estimates(read:guesses) think that 50% of kindle users will subscribe to to amazon prime. Prime users are e
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by ippisl 15y ago
Piano wizard uses color coding to teach playing the piano and reading notes.It's seems pretty successful at that. http://www.musicwizard.com/Music/Home/index.cfm
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by ippisl 15y ago
Great textual interfaces also try their best to externalize knowledge. That's part of the reason behind DSL's , Object-oriented-languages and good API design. And because they're better at this, they're more useful than GUI's in many cases.
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by ippisl 15y ago
legality is kind of codified morals of a particular society. No it's not. Law has many blind spots even in the most democratic societies. Some are: Is using smart advertising a moral thing ? some say it's manipulative, not in the best inte
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by ippisl 15y ago
There's a "profit spectrum". On the one side of it are money hungry wall-street bankers, who for them profit is the only motive all else be damned. On the other side of the spectrum, there are non-profit companies. Some live without profit,
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by ippisl 15y ago
Two data points: There is a robot manufacturing facility , i think by KUKA, that is totally run by robots. A robotics company is talking about producing a factory robot for $5000. if it's possible, it doesn't even makes sense to invest too
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by ippisl 15y ago
Why doesn't redistributing money from the rich to poor doesn't work? it works pretty well for many European social democracies.Maybe it doesn't create wealth(i.e. GDP growth), but it does create quality of life for citizens, and that's what
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by ippisl 15y ago
>> Those ARE affordable to anyone. >> jobs below a certain wage are illegal So everything is affordable to anyone , and jobs pay too much.Those lazy whining plebs! how dare they protest ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
>> Efficiency kills jobs. But what people want is not jobs: they want revenue They don't want revenue. they want decent housing, education, healthcare ,energy,transportation and food. Make those affordable to anyone , and there woul
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think you forgot the fact that we eat food that takes much more work to grow. if we will return to eating mostly rice and beans(like in india for example) - the work in those fields can be highly automated , and i'm pretty sure a farmer c
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by ippisl 15y ago
But people adjust to new stuff, so it doesn't contribute much to their happiness. But psychological things like lack of economic security,haviong time to be with yur kids and friends, being treated as shit at you're job, and you're relative
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by ippisl 15y ago
According to the article , intel's strength is in per thread performance.But most of today's heavy applications enjoy multi-thread performance: Multi-user servers, Heavy math applications and other applications written with today's better m
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by ippisl 15y ago
Google's customers do care about better targeting, and don't give a damn about google's reputation. If google gives them inferior product they'll lose money. But worse , they'll open an opportunity for a competitor. Google understands that
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by ippisl 15y ago
Google is being paid per click. They're probably also targeting the ads using their own data, so they can achieve maximum click and revenue revenue per ad shown.
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by ippisl 15y ago
There are solutions for the lack of local labor force.Importing workers, products and services(IT, call centers and others ) is one solution - in saudi arabia 50% of workers are immigrant workers. Automation is the other one - given lack of
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by ippisl 15y ago
The kindle's browser suck. i would be very interested in an opera version for the kindle.
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by ippisl 15y ago
E-learning doesn't prevent you from building a structure and motivational tools(i.e. peer pressure). You could, together with a few class mates, do a weekly/daily study group , using google+ hangouts.
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by ippisl 15y ago
How do you judge a new medicine? do you ask if does the correct things 100% of the time? or do you just want it to be better than the other drugs ? I think the same logic applies to other technologies: products generally have to pass the s
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by ippisl 15y ago
>>> a natural language query and have an AI agent fetch relevant data, sort it, and present it contextually. What about IBM's watson : you asks it a question: am i sick? it gathers symptoms from you , looks in the medical litera
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Fast python on the iphone(groups.google.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
This technology would also work great for nature movies and nature flight trips. Imagine you could rent rent an UAV , travel in Africa , from your home or a place with a giant screen , follow the great elephants crossing a river as if you w
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by ippisl 15y ago
We're sesame street creators the first to use content testing(borrowed from direct mail ads) in a systematic way for children TV ? wasn't this the source of they're success ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
This also true for other areas of embedded computing.It certainly offers a costs reduction and a lot less work on the hardware. But the biggest impact would be on the software side. By offering a standard platform with alot of performance t
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by ippisl 15y ago
The first step is to offer them to university students , they probably have WIFI and electricity. And yes, rural electrification is a huge challenge, but it's much easier to deploy a solar panel per school , to power some tens/hundreds of l
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by ippisl 15y ago
For amazon, the tablet is a also way to get many people to subscribe to prime. prime users buy 3x-4x than normal amazon users. So they might have better subsidy model than google. The future opportunities in controlling digital content and
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by ippisl 15y ago
In order to make some project popular, you need to show it's powerful in doing REAL work. Ruby on rails did it for ruby. Paul Graham's success and writing did help lisp. Is there some similar proof for ometa ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
It would be interesting to design a programming language around jewish logic.
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Ibm Watson will start working in healthcare in 2012(huffingtonpost.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
His story(second part) gives an example of a robotic system that did the work previously done by 50 pharmacists. so this is not just a theoretical case.
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think jinni.com had commoditized this.

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