josho

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by josho 10y ago
A trademark claim does not restrict you from selling your product it merely restricts you from using their name and logo (or confusingly similar name/logo)
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by josho 10y ago
What is the issue with S/MIME for secure email? It has broad client support (assuming you don't use web based clients). It is a pain to setup for end users, but that could be solved if we started to see increasing adoption. Yes, i
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by josho 10y ago
From a tech perspective? Likely none. From a PR perspective, it would seem huge. I doubt he would have had a write up on the guardian or this much exposure on HN if it was a web form instead of a chat bot. It should give us all some food fo
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by josho 10y ago
> I can walk about 50-60' while listening to music with no dropouts! What kind of magic are these things? My bluetooth connection from my phone to headphones or the car will start to drop if too much of my body gets in between the r
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by josho 10y ago
Someone on your team is a talented designer and has built a beautiful site. Unfortunately, the scroll-jacking and large visuals take away from the UX side of things. Ask yourself which of those images clarifies your service and which distra
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by josho 10y ago
If you had googled it for me then you'd have seen that much of the search results echo what you said earlier--that people take issue with Hansen's advocacy, but say very little about his science. When it does speak to the science
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by josho 10y ago
I hoped that on hacker news folks would provide a reason for why his research/conclusions are wrong, rather than simply offer up character attacks. Do you have an example of where his research is wrong or his conclusions were overly pe
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by josho 10y ago
Be careful, as your sources are suspect and don't speak to his research. Your mashable link is a summary of a piece from Glover Park Group, in their own words they turn 'strategies into outcomes', so they seem to be a firm th
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by josho 10y ago
An excellent introductory book is Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen. It speaks to the science and directly addresses the common objections that deniers bring up. What surprised me is that the science comes at this from multiple ang
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by josho 10y ago
I remember reading (probably about 2 decades ago) that if we were to loose the permafrost the resulting release of CO2 would lead to runaway warming. I haven't read that concern recently, so I'm hopeful that scientists no longer f
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by josho 10y ago
I'm not sure if the tax rate is the root cause, but they certainly came close to hitting the nail on the head saying "What sucker wants to earn $10 million/year at a 52.5% tax rate when you can get away with hundreds of milli
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by josho 10y ago
We've seen this before. Usenet was killed from spam as it didn't have a defence against those seeking to profit from the audience. This is today's equivalent of the same problem. The difference is it is now two monied interes
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by josho 10y ago
> I don't have much faith in humanity's ability to live within an anonymous I can imagine being comfortable with an anonymous free future. This future would require much strengthened privacy protections, and even a very differe
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by josho 10y ago
> If you take a dollar for every four dollars of corporate profits, corporations (meaning the compacts created between shareholders) will have less money to invest with Arguably that's not the case. If a company invests their excess
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by josho 10y ago
> I don't understand why there's such a drive for taxing high earners Because for decades we've allowed capital accumulation to grow faster than salary accumulation. That's yielded us a class of ultra wealthy. The des
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by josho 10y ago
If I understand our capabilities correctly we can't even escape the solar system without using gravity assist boosts from other planets, let alone sustaining thrust for a long period. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics&
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by josho 10y ago
Canada went through this a few years ago with a conservative government. It wasn't that scientists were not allowed to communicate with the public, it was that they had to work through the PR department. The PR arm of the institutions
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by josho 10y ago
This reminds me of the days of J2EE containers where we tried to write applications that never took advantage of vendor specific features so that our applications could be portable across application servers and databases. It was extremel
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by josho 10y ago
Going forward we should all have our minor children create accounts for us and be the ones to accept the TOS. Once you realize that is a reasonable workflow you've realized how unenforceable TOS are for everything but corporate contrac
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by josho 10y ago
This strikes me as an example of everything in the system working. -GAO analyzes SpaceX processes and discovers a shortcoming -Media reports on this to create public awareness -SpaceX is compelled to respond and fix the problem (something t
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by josho 10y ago
I saw Gravity in 3D and strongly hated it. One scene in particular killed it for me. In what should have been an emotional scene when the hero looses all hope and sheds a tear. The tear floats into 3D space and the camera changes focus from
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by josho 10y ago
If you look around, it obviously works. E.g. Triple-A games these days all have premium editions that add new character skins. What was less certain for me was if it would work for kids educational content. I was skeptical because kids ga
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by josho 10y ago
When you want to grow revenue past what ads support look into purchasable themes. E.g. have zombies or godzilla skins (targeting boys), and similar for girls. I had jumped on the app store bandwagon at the outset and did alright selling app
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by josho 10y ago
I don't follow. Even looking painfully close to my retina displays the picture still looks great. There is no point where suddenly skin pores become noticeable when they weren't previously. If you see skin pores in a movie then th
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by josho 10y ago
I've read that some theatres reduce the brightness to extend the life of the projector light bulb. I generally am not a fan of 3D, but my theatre seems to light 3D movies perfectly, while their 2D showings often seem dark.
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by josho 10y ago
What's a movie you can suggest that should be seen in 3D? Preferably one in theatres so that us nay sayers can give it another try.
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by josho 10y ago
And that's why I fail to see the value for this. Does anyone use this for reasons other than blocking license validation checks on pirated software? Because that's the only reason I can think of for getting this.
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by josho 10y ago
When I wrote my comment I was thinking long term (e.g. decades). Regardless, the disruption is going to be sufficient enough to force us to redefine our economy.
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by josho 10y ago
> You can't compete with something with perfect agency that never gets sick. Now, are there going to be new categories of work and new economies? Follow your own logic to its conclusion. If AI does that then what are the new jobs? W
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by josho 10y ago
> Except history has never had to content with automation and AI It's taken me awhile to wrap my head around this. I think I'm starting to understand the fundamental difference. In the past technology revolutionized processes.

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