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721.
by ippisl 17y ago
Givewell does research on the effectivness of donations to non-profits , and recommends the best.
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by ippisl 17y ago
I'm not sure the singularity would make the change much faster. because in most industries the barriers to change are things like capital , time to test , and various human factors like risk aversion , politics , etc... So change will be s
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It's 'destination India' for top global schools(business-standard.com)
3 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments
724.
by ippisl 17y ago
isn't the need for population growth decline with the rapid rise in productivity and automation, and at some point population growth becomes a liability?
725.
by ippisl 17y ago
for floating point computations , GPU's beat FPGA. but if your calculation is fixed point(dsp for example) , FPGA can be better/cheaper.
726.
by ippisl 17y ago
An important part of basic income, is a research effort on reducing the cost of basic living. with reduced costs , pressure on taxpayers would be reduced , which should help both politically and socially for the acceptance of this ideas. Re
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Why Customer Service Jobs(esp. web based) Will Grow and Grow (forbes.com)
4 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments
728.
by ippisl 17y ago
Broadband speed is good enough. Like jsz0 said, it might be time to work on cost, latency , etc. And of course access(third of the u.s. don't have broadband). Also it might be a good time to look at other parts of the infrastructure, becaus
729.
by ippisl 17y ago
"In 2005, he(Eric Schmidt) threw a legendary hissy fit when CNET's Elinor Mills, in an article about privacy, published some details about his residence, his finances, and his politics that she had uncovered through Google searches. Google
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Why the industrial revolution is not relevant to today's economy
1 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments
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Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare(nextbillion.net)
29 points by ippisl 17y ago|41 comments
732.
by ippisl 17y ago
There are many things that had changed in the last 60 years. Trying to tell that the reason behind those changes was differences in power elite is quite shallow and not correct at all.
733.
by ippisl 17y ago
There are many interesting algorithms in academia, that never see the light of day. If such a service could motivate more people from academia to share software , this could become very useful.
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Video Commerce: The Quiet Revolution in Online Video[video+transcript](video-commerce.org)
1 points by ippisl 17y ago|1 comments
735.
How Skype Is Changing the Job Interview(time.com)
4 points by ippisl 17y ago|1 comments
736.
by ippisl 17y ago
There are tools to easily convert java .jar files to .net assemblies (and the other way around). for example IKVM. So this really equalizes .net and the jvm with respect of libraries.
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by ippisl 17y ago
His argument about of long tail item's value for sell of mass market items, is also true for any other market. Amazon uses this in a clever way. For long tail items , it lets merchants sell their wares at it's site , with little cost to ama
738.
by ippisl 17y ago
Another scenario of the automation vs jobs is, very unstable economy job-wise, for long terms. many many people would experience large periods of unemployment , a constant need to shift jobs and professions , and all the psycho-social negat
739.
by ippisl 17y ago
I do agree with your arguments, but regarding robotic scientists: automation is pretty strong also in science. combinatorial chemistry is used a lot in chemistry and chip fabrication r&d. And there's even a robot called ADAM that does b
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16 Key Augmented Reality Business Models(muvedesign.com)
2 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments
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The Friction Between Capital and Ideas(bendupont.yet2.com)
1 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments
742.
by ippisl 17y ago
1. while money flowing back to companies is important , job creation and unemployment are important components of economic power in my view. 2. There are several dozen Chinese companies that will eventually join the exclusive 500 club. That
743.
by ippisl 17y ago
I'm not sure universities and start-ups matter that much.Israel is great at doing start-ups , probably better than the u.s.(at least at start-ups per capita). but usually the start-ups get bought by multinationals, so they get the job creat
744.
by ippisl 17y ago
Building , as in assembling ? or building as designing those system ?
745.
by ippisl 17y ago
In israel the electric company is working on being an ISP. they use some kind of robot that lays fiber on top of electric cables.
746.
by ippisl 17y ago
But connections above 10 mbit/sec exist in many places outside and inside the u.s.
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Details and analysis of google's fiber project(pcworld.com)
1 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments
748.
by ippisl 17y ago
I don't understand why the go for the 1gbit fiber to the home. it would be more helpfull to their business if everybody in the u.s would have 2 or 5 or 10mbit/sec in a short time , then if everybody has 1gbit/sec in a much longer time. Also
749.
by ippisl 17y ago
He using amazon cloud services , instead of 80 legs for the crawling. Wasn't the economics of 80 legs was supposed to be much better then amazon ?
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Singapore:A Totally Do-It-Yourself Library without a Customer Service Desk(dbc.dk)
2 points by ippisl 17y ago|0 comments

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