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by jacoblyles 13y ago
That's actually brilliant. I've been waiting for someone to come out with a UI like this.
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Stealth payments startup Clinkle raises $25 million(allthingsd.com)
2 points by jacoblyles 13y ago|0 comments
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Google reader had an amazing dedicated mobile phone app that shipped with Android on the Nexus 4. It was perfect .
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Feedly is an example of an app that is extremely over-designed in a counterintuitive way. It is a remarkable case of form over function. "There's a list of articles, one per line, stacked vertically on the screen. After you'v
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
git treats every paragraph as a single line. That seems like an annoying default for english text.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I like this blog post better. It goes more into the radical innovation (for academia) of the authors' process: "But more importantly, the spirit of collaboration that pervaded our group at the Institute for Advanced Study was trul
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Culture war is inevitable when a country moves from having a single dominant culture to no longer having one. Call it diversification, Balkanization, or personalization depending on your ideological lean.
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Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub(math.andrej.com)
309 points by jacoblyles 13y ago|98 comments
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I'll tell that to the CEO of Sears Roebuck. He probably doesn't read "the history of the XX-XXI century and the news.."
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It seems unnecessary to belabor a common point while trying to make a counter-intuitive one.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Capitalism tends to monopolies? This is not true at all in the common case. Have you read "The Innovator's Dilemma"? Highly regulated industries, industries with network effects, or industries that require very rare natural r
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It's weird that a few people are challenging short-term thinking, and they're all friends with each other (Thiel, Musk). Also, it's weird how short-term thinking has infected the government. Nobody's forcing them to meet
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It was actually a very close ruling (5-4) that hinged on whether "regulating interstate commerce" gave the power to the government to compel people to participate in commerce. Personally, I disagree with the Wickard v. Filburn rul
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Part of the NSA's surveillance program was already found to be illegal and the executive branch classified the court's ruling: http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/06/court-finds-nsa-surveilla... How screwe
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It's time for a "Tea Party" of the left to take down pro-surveillance Democrats in the primaries.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I don't see how freedom can last in a country for long with secret laws.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Is there any good example of a modern country transitioning from a high-corruption country to a low-corruption country? Call me cynical, but I haven't seen a mass protest movement do a whole lot of good lately. The arab spring seems to
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Because people in history were different from us, we can learn nothing from them? This is one of the most anti-intellectual non-sequiturs I regularly see, and it makes me sad and fearful for our democracy.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
As an ex-Jehovah's Witness, I agree this article gets a lot of things wrong. But they also are a crazy cult. I suggest the book "Crisis of Conscience" from an ex-governing body member if you're interested in JW's se
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I hated most literature when I was 18, then magically fell in love with the same novels I hated when I was 24. Still, there is more nuance I can pick up now at 30 with more study of history. If you haven't read the Iliad and a majority
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Bitcoin and Unbreakable Law(athousandnations.com)
1 points by jacoblyles 13y ago|1 comments
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5862676
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I think what Snowden did is a great thing, but it probably isn't great from the NSA's perspective. The NSA probably wants smart people who can do what they're told and keep their mouths shut.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It may be true that people without traditional education credentials are likely to be less conformist/more likely to cause trouble.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
You live in a Democratic country. Is it any surprise that the majority of educated people are committed true-believers in the Democratic process, despite all evidence that it may be broken?
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
The American people would never stand for a dictator in name. But they would stand for powerful permanent bureaucrats that no elected official had the ability to push around. 6 of one, half-dozen of the other.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Are you going to get the President's party to support the impeachment of his elected officials? USGov is broken.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
If we were writing a Constitution nowadays, I would certainly support explicit protections for the right to privacy in all forms of communication and the right to use encryption technology. The principles of the Constitution are very good b
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Now what will you do when the Supreme Court finds the NSA's programs to be unconstitutional and they keep doing it anyway?
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Enough people can stomach them in their districts to elect them. Progressives would turn a lot of stomachs off the blue coastal areas. This site has an overrepresentation from California and Europe, which skews our perception.

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