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by jgon 8y ago
I also think having that a big part of it is that at least the characters had a high point, even if they paid the price. Like Jordan Belfort eventually loses his wife and access to his kid in The Wolf of Wall Street. But that can happen to
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by jgon 9y ago
I read the Ben Thompson link, and honestly I have to disagree that it offers any insight as to the future of Google or Android. It reads like a just so story, and seems to be crafted according to the following recipe: 1) Talk about a compa
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by jgon 9y ago
Yes what you're missing is that the CBO is trying to give people relevant and accurate information and the Tax Foundation is a think tank founded by wealthy businessmen whose goal is to generally protest all tax increases and work to m
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by jgon 9y ago
There's a big pattern at work if you look at the author involved in both articles. I've basically stopped reading anything by Annalee Newitz as she has basically had a run of 5 or 6 articles at this point that use hyperbolic lang
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by jgon 9y ago
How is it more difficult for reporters? If you are not posting actual libelous material obtained illegally, which has no value to the public, you are in the clear. If you are doing those things, then yeah I guess the Gawker case should mak
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by jgon 9y ago
The point is that trying to claim that being held to account for posting the illegally obtained sex tape of a celebrity which has no actual news value outside of the lurid value of watching a public figure have sex is literally, and I canno
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by jgon 9y ago
The biggest thing you can, in my humble opinion, is to make choices predicated on a long term view instead of what is most convenient for you, in the next five minutes. It doesn't require you to code up some sort of amazing app, or ded
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by jgon 10y ago
iOS devices routinely ship with batteries ~60% the size of flagship android devices and have competitive amount of battery life. If apple chose to ship an iphone with a 3000mah battery like what can be found in Android flagships it would ab
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by jgon 10y ago
Blockbuster failed for many reasons of their own doing, but I think that it is overlooked that they also failed because they couldn't outlast several years of Netflix dumping VC cash into a fire for good content. Now, in the classic S
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by jgon 10y ago
If you're looking for a continuation of OMeta check out what Alan's previous research lab CDG (I believe it is largely being folded into HARC) is working on with ohm: https://github.com/cdglabs/ohm
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by jgon 10y ago
Alan has done work that I believe is directly related to this idea of recorded, atomic object states at VPRI under the name "Worlds". Of course Alan may chime in and let me know that it is totally different but these following tw
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by jgon 10y ago
Incorrect. If Firefox had not put it in, nothing would have happened because programmers have (largely) decided to give chrome a majority market-share amongst them, and advocate it to their non-technical peers, increasing its market share
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by jgon 10y ago
As I understand the reason they switched to the year based naming is because they plan to do yearly standards now, switching to a release date based model rather than a feature based model. C++ has kind of switched to this model too, where
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by jgon 11y ago
To call "The Wrath of Khan" generic action is pretty unfair, especially when compared against it's clone/reboot "Into Darkness". TWOK opens with Kirk pondering his own mortality and some of the universal concer
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by jgon 11y ago
Doesn't this essay absolutely bury one of the most important parts of this scandal, that RSA used DUAL_EC as the default random number generator in their FIPS certified encryption product for almost a decade!?! I note that this is glo
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by jgon 12y ago
Thank you for the reply. Although my last sentence was probably unnecessarily combative, I hope that people reading this don't get hung up on that, how exact the math is, or how much nutrition a loaf of bread can truly provide. I mean
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by jgon 12y ago
If you really want to blow your mind/weep uncontrollably a little bit of math is just the ticket. The F-22 costs $150,000,000 per plane [1]. The price of a bushel of wheat is $6.52 [2]. This means that a single F-22 costs ~23,006,134 b
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by jgon 12y ago
Yeah but there is one thing that people doing quick mathematics ignore when they pronounce Basic Income unworkable. And that is that it will absolutely have to work in some manner. That's why I am working to mentally adapt myself to
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by jgon 12y ago
What you can do to truly contribute to making Basic Income happen is to actually get yourself ready to support it. I'll explain what I mean by this. I think that a lot of people hear Basic Income, and if they have some form of compassi
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by jgon 12y ago
Oh my god. I don't think you could have misunderstood this article more if you had tried. I can't even comprehend how you could read the article and come away with this conclusion. I can therefore only conclude that you either d
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by jgon 12y ago
This is easily the most important article currently on the front page. At times its poignancy reminded me of some of the talks by Maciej Ceglowski, aka the guy who runs Pinboard, but this talk is a bit more direct and a bit less funny. The
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by jgon 12y ago
Oh man, I find your responses to this thread hilariously ironic. A week ago on a thread concerning H1B's and immigration to the US, you refuted someone's claim that America could accommodate almost unlimited migration because thi
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by jgon 12y ago
What an incredibly disingenuous reply. Chrome is truly this decade's IE, and watching Google try to play this kind of crap off would be disappointing if it wasn't so insulting. "There's no intent to exclude Firefox&quot
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by jgon 12y ago
I think that you should just hold off buying it for a bit and wait for apple's response. This is admittedly anecdotal, but I know one person who bought the new 6 (not the 6+), and although it is a great phone in every respect he said
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by jgon 12y ago
You should try fleksy. It's what I currently use after running into the same issue you mentioned. Fleksy let's you swipe up and down to scroll through the list of suggested words, so if the keyboard ends up picking the wrong wor
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by jgon 12y ago
The rise in income recorded almost directly tracks the entry of women into the workforce which is why the article explicitly mentions household income. The average middle class wage earner has not seen a pay raise in a long time, and thus
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by jgon 12y ago
I would say that Bob Ross being the running ironic joke of the painting world says a lot more about the painting world than it does about Bob Ross. Every episode I watched contained a man with the calm manner of Mr. Rogers guiding his watc
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by jgon 12y ago
For what it's worth I was hoping that my post would give substance to my following two feelings, but based on your response I am not sure if I succeeded. 1. Working to be more inclusive is a worthy goal that should be pursued. 2. Looki
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by jgon 12y ago
Andy Wingo is a mensch and he does yeoman's work on a number of great open source projects, such as Guile and V8. I look forward to every one of his posts because I know they will be thought provoking, well written and aimed at making
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by jgon 12y ago
For what it's worth I entirely agree with you about people who dislike this and are also unsurprised by it. Andreesen makes it very clear he not the latter. He is claiming both that we should be unsurprised by it, and that because of

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