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Radiolab: a short cultural history of nihilism(radiolab.org)
1 points by jordanpg 12y ago|0 comments
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Definitely check out the rather weird site at the oldest domain name in the list: http://symbolics.com/
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by jordanpg 12y ago
How does it follow that companies will turn to building a new network due to concerns about the NSA in the US? This takes for granted that the privacy concerns outweigh the economic ones. Foreign countries have just as much to lose as the
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Boredom. There is perception that police work is exciting and fast-paced, presumably from television, movies, and books. I've heard more than once that police spend a huge fraction of their time waiting, filling out paperwork , and
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I wonder why it was released as a new app instead of as a series of updates to the old app? This seems like a risky rock of the boat for your most popular product. Also, I notice that the old app is no longer available for iOS or Android.
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Can Someone Be Too Smart to Be a Cop?(mintpressnews.com)
43 points by jordanpg 12y ago|54 comments
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Strongly agree. Isn't this testing the "knowledge box", voice recognition, and NLP at once? It seems like the bulk of this could have been done in a desktop web browser.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Sometimes it seems like the entire Snowden debate is ultimately reducible to one's belief about this. In a phrase, one's belief that given N people with power P, q will eventually abuse it. I think that as N grows, the probabilit
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I did mention that I was speculating, so yes, I'm not at all familiar with Microsoft Research. However, I've yet to work at a place where I wasn't surrounded by p* managers who weren't falling over themselves to get invo
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Here is the only bit in the campaign text about why this is so important: "Today, it's equally fundamental to learn to "dissect an app," or how the Internet works. Every young person deserves basic knowledge of how the
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Keyword being "direct". Publicly no doubt they have mission statements that read like they're trying to save the planet. Privately, they are tasked with exploring the margins of new paths to revenue. (NOTE: pure speculati
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I have to imagine that this is part of a larger plan to rope people into an MS ecosystem by getting folks to use useful utilities one at a time. I can think of another company that did this a few years back with disparate utilities: Googl
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Some baseline level of knowledge is always needed. It may or may not be the case that you have enough knowledge needed, as a beginner, for any given project. For a simple website, it may be possible to just poke around in a tutorial and gl
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Schneier 5 days ago: "Ah, but that's the thing: You can't build a "back door" that only the good guys can walk through. Encryption protects against cybercriminals, industrial competitors, the Chinese secret police a
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Also worth noting that in the case of cryptography, virtually no one "blaming strong cryptography" for anything actually understands much about complex cryptographic protocols aside from what they know from watching television. It
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Related: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/26/351515481/episode-... "CHACE: Doctors Without Borders tried to tell stories like this all summer, but much of the public wasn't lis
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Agreed. This reads like the book jacket. A short advert for another Atlantic author's most recent book.
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This is the crux of the matter. Stated differently, why would universities want to shake up their proven business model? For vaguely defined virtues like creativity, wisdom, and well-roundedness? They are interested in the bottom line, fi
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An app that further abstracts the problem of simply being alerted to interesting things happening in the world that you might be interested in. This sort of thing seems like an inevitable consequence of a rapidly expanding network filled w
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This is more a statement about bureaucracy than about institutions generally. I might state it as "Bureaucracies will tend to preserve the process to which they are the solution." There are lots of other reasons that technologies