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by jimmybot 17y ago
Yeah, I mean, if anything, I much prefer those acting on knowledge to those acting simply on just observing moves of others. Decreasing the incentives of the smart money doesn't seem to do anyone any favors.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Nice, I have found EtherPad to be really fast, and if it remains that way I think that's a pretty good advantage.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Yeah, so it would be equivalent to swap out any of the colors, which is why I stopped for a moment to think about why I automatically assumed black represented the series. It does make some sense visually, being the only of the three to oc
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by jimmybot 17y ago
In the original, the (1/4)^n is more obvious to me, while in the second, the 1/3 part of it is more obvious. But the coloring scheme in the two are different too. The first uses three colors, the second two colors. What if the light gray
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by jimmybot 17y ago
What I'm curious about is why they bothered to do the myth busting. What's the motivation to do this? If everyone thinks even the mighty Google can't get YouTube to break even, then no one else will try to compete with them in video, and w
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I'm not sure it's a utopia. An increase in longevity coupled with an increase in age at which you have kids would put enormous pressure on government welfare systems. Actually, this is already happening in many places in the world--Europe
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Here's an interesting alternative to Hadoop using two HN favorites, Erlang and Python: http://discoproject.org/ Seems simple enough, though I haven't used it myself.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Maybe I'm a little to obsessive with the original source thing... I was going to complain again about the link being nytimes.com instead of the original from gigaom.com (From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog pos
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Although Twitter is minuscule compared to Facebook, because it's always been public by default, its influence may be greater in some ways than Facebook. That's the whole point underlying this article: clearly Facebook has been having some
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by jimmybot 17y ago
For an article syndicated from a blog, wouldn't it make more sense to use the link from the original article? For one, the domain will show up properly, and for two, you can't comment on the New York Times syndicated version. Last, I didn
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Interesting. But what causes such memory in real life may also create a limited ability for abstraction. That capacity for abstraction may or may not be affected by this method of enhancing memory. It may very well be that enhanced memor
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I knew of the Site Finder incident, but I am not very familiar with the details. That said, isn't the big difference with OpenDNS that it is opt-in? You don't have to use it if you don't like the advertising component, but they are provid
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Haml, SASS, Compass all look really neat. Anyone have experience with integrating them into Django or other Python framework?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
http://www.dogpile.com/ doesn't make sense on two levels to me. First, they republish results from a bunch of major search engines, including Google, and they are all okay with that? My understanding was that Google doesn't generally al
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Me too. And almost none of my friends use Facebook chat either. Is MSN/Yahoo something that caught on among younger people in the US?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
So I did the where do you want to go on vacation one and got back Tokyo and Italy, which really are my top two choices to vacation next time I have the chance. A similar deal happened with movie suggestions. Hunch seems like it's really go
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Haven't been testing out Bing like some of the others out there. Just took a quick look at Bing news search--they incorporate news results with top blogs? That seems interesting to me. Is that unique, anyone know? I don't see it in Goog
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Device where every time you mutter a complaint it records it and attempts to match it up and send it to the correct recipient. The complaints are anonymous, but tracks whether the complaint was responded to or not. If so, the complainer g
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by jimmybot 18y ago
But you know, the whole custom chip "advantage" thing didn't work out so well last time for Apple, now did it?
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by jimmybot 18y ago
I actually had something specifically in mind. Google Taiwan had to fight to get special options onto the search page that could limit searches to Taiwanese websites ( http://www.google.com.tw/ ). Otherwise, most Mandarin language searc
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by jimmybot 18y ago
I'm not sure what I'm missing, but what's so special about an Aeron chair? It sounds like it's real comfortable, but what does it have that other chairs don't?
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by jimmybot 18y ago
What? Google makes a custom political map for China? A couple of years ago, they used to claim that they don't make custom products for any market and product rollouts are always worldwide. Compare with: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#