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by johnloeber 10y ago
Regarding your first point: you can place an item into the public domain but retain the copyright. See some of the Creative-Commons licenses that allow free use but disallow commercial use of your IP. Regarding your second point: Getty is a
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Your criteria appear to be "I want the best possible for every component." The issue here is that there are trade-offs involved: e.g. a high-powered CPU will drain your battery life. With your criteria, only the Lenovo X Carbon se
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I would be hard pressed to think of things that "can't be tampered with." When you make something difficult to tamper with, you usually just increase the potential payout of tampering. There's an essential problem: all s
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Very cool. My list of recommendations included movies I greatly liked, as well as ones that have for a long time been on my to-watch list.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
That's the approach I took to hand-rolling my personal website. All I care about is delivering my content reasonably well -- the elegance or modernity of the underlying engineering seems irrelevant. (Not to mention that this minimizes
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Not quite on-topic, but I think that for a normal tech worker, it's usually easier to increase your revenue stream than to increase your savings.
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That's very cool; thanks for sharing.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
What cereals do you buy?
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That's what the nutritional label's "standard serving size" is. Of course the actual normal serving is much larger -- at least twice that.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
What confuses me most is the popularity of breakfast cereal. This stuff is ridiculously unhealthy, on many levels, but the easiest attack is on the sugar content: most breakfast cereals are around 30% sugar by weight. Frosted Flakes? That&#
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by johnloeber 10y ago
They appear to have mistaken "increase your capacity to do cool stuff" for "increase your intelligence."
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by johnloeber 10y ago
The basic objection here -- that Musk misunderstands the nature of simulation on a philosophical-technical level, and that even if our existence was simulated, it is still as meaningful as it would be if it weren't -- is nicely written
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Whenever there is a mass shooting, segments of the general public respond with "thoughts and prayers" -- you can see this on your Facebook feed, or in any run-of-the-mill news article. People make statements like "thoughts go
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by johnloeber 10y ago
A worthy submission to the "Found Prose" subsection of the Little Lytton Contest...
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I think this goes the other way: the use case is still so compelling that you try to do on the 3.5" phone what you would normally do on the 6" phone, and then just get frustrated by the subpar UX.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Frankly: why would anyone even bother publishing this garbage? It's obvious that "popularity" != cell phone call record frequency. (Note that age is a severe confounder -- the 50 year-olds in the study most likely did not eve
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Making analogies between Microsoft in the 90s and X without mentioning the huge antitrust lawsuit[0] always seems dubious to me. The evolution of Microsoft as a business is not purely due to its product strategy. [0] https://en.w
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by johnloeber 10y ago
...assuming they are able to retain these users. I am not entirely optimistic that Snapchat will manage to hold on to their users in the long term.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
> Ultimately college is about what you learn, not your classmates Some would beg to differ. The veracity of that statement is certainly variable depending on your field of study.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
No, there's no $5 base fee for UberPool (at least not in Chicago).
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by johnloeber 10y ago
When you refer to Scott Adams, are you referring to his vocal cord/speaking problems?
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It looks like Bill drove that dark-blue Model S that you could see around 0:50. You can tell that it's not a Model X from the interior seat configuration.
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Inferring meaning from data.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Republishing? I suspect you would immediately find yourself in boiling water with Wolfram's lawyers. See this nice story: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
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It is hard to understand, indeed. Wolfram is clearly extremely accomplished by all standards. We all know this . Why in the world does he pump all his written work with insufferable self-promotion? Anyone in a position to make good use o
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I think that might just be a (perfectly reasonable) desire for privacy... he is a fairly public figure, after all.
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What does that have to do with anything?
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Mixed feelings about this article: 1. A fine easy read about Ramanujan and Hardy. It was well-summarized and nicely written, with excellent pictures that I had not seen before. 2. A disgusting vein of self-promotion runs throughout the arti
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Concorde tickets, adjusted for inflation, often ran around $8-10k. No Concorde passenger would be taking the subway/train. They would use a fast private driver -- chances are they could even get some shut-eye in the car.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Probably not. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662666

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