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by jp555 12y ago
Did you know credit card companies have been selling the data about what, when, and where we buy everything, and have been doing so for decades? I just don't understand the outrage about collecting data on what happens in the church ba
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by jp555 12y ago
I read it as: Aspire to make things people want. the things you're interested making may require extensive education, but that should always subordinate to making things people want.
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by jp555 12y ago
You are the younger version of your parents; this is how we have beat death for billions of years (you are just a branch of a much bigger genetic program). It's really easy to activate this feature, I bet you won't even need the d
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by jp555 12y ago
Any other company who's language runs over 1.3 million apps used by hundreds of millions of people on average every 6 minutes?
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by jp555 12y ago
I think you hit on the key point so many are missing; apparel is rarely about functionality. Technologists understand the comparative value of functionality; they generally do not understand the value of fashion. For example, I see so many
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by jp555 12y ago
Do you consider theatre movies at 24hz "worthless"? Or is there some other difference?
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by jp555 12y ago
Money is just the unit we use to measure what we value. The less we value space travel, the harder it is to do. It's a marketing problem, not an engineering one.
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by jp555 12y ago
There's an easy fix; get an iPhone. If you find yourself constantly feeling this... that may be a sign you're not in the most suitable walled garden.
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by jp555 12y ago
Even with alcohol, it's the indirect mechanism of storing consumed fat when consuming ethanol-energy rather than turning the ethanol into fat. Ethanol is a VERY poor fat precursor. Converting ethanol to lipids is an extremely inefficie
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by jp555 12y ago
Here we see 163 grams of dry white rice contains 123 grams of sugar -> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+cup+raw+rice All non-fibre carbohydrates are metabolized as sugar, and it's VERY rare for our bodies
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by jp555 12y ago
Sugar is a real food. Rice is >70% sugar and so are most potatoes. Why fear 50g of cereal when you eat it with 200+g of milk, which is about the most perfect food available? Sugar is the preferred energy of almost every cell in our bodie
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by jp555 12y ago
A family would share one or two X86 CPUs replaced every 3-5years. But very soon I'll probably have at least half a dozen ARM CPUs within a few meters of me wherever I go, all with much shorter replacement cycles.
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by jp555 12y ago
I imagine him then moving to California and rarely going outside. Vancouver weather is pretty close to London England, except sandwiched between an ocean and majestic mountain range.
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by jp555 12y ago
Which may appeal to you as a developer, but from a user perspective, that isn't a good thing. Consider this analogy: Would you buy an "open-source" deadbolt for your house? Great feature for aspiring locksmiths! But very like
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by jp555 12y ago
That popped into my head as well. I have a similar hypothesis about moderate alcohol intake. Maybe it's not the flavanoids etc. in wine that provide the most benefit, but rather the stress-reduction effect of regular moderate alcohol c
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by jp555 12y ago
If you think Android isn't a walled garden (unless you mean non-Google Android?) then the devil has convinced you he doesn't exist.
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by jp555 12y ago
Ah that clarifies it thx!
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by jp555 12y ago
Even at 40 cents a kilowatt/hour, how can $1000/kilowatt ($1/W) solar panel compete? Is the $1/W price the one time purchase price or the marginal cost of output over its lifespan? Most of my electricity bill is transmis
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by jp555 12y ago
Even if we had the batteries, where would you put the kilowatts of waste heat that would be generated by it's use? That would be like storing your super battery inside a toaster that it's powering. Yikes.
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by jp555 12y ago
It's 1m3, larger than your average plasma torch.
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by jp555 12y ago
Wasted? We're only here because of where we came from. Even if we somehow did responsive design from the beginning (although I recall "progressive enhancement" was a hot thing back in the early days) we would just have a whol
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by jp555 12y ago
Exactly. My point was that "the things people want" is true wealth, gold is just another measuring stick for converting billable hours of work into diapers (or whatever). If Bitcoin is perceived as a superior measuring stick it wi
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by jp555 12y ago
Aluminum was more expensive than gold until a cheap way to purify it was developed. Now we wrap our food in it. Gold is only valuable until the first metallic asteroid is placed into high Earth orbit. Not tomorrow, but probably sooner than
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by jp555 12y ago
A fitting cartoon analogy for cartoon logic. I am reminded of an Alan Moore quote: “In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murk
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by jp555 12y ago
Why do you think your perception bias is more important than other's?
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by jp555 12y ago
in-vivo or in-utero? Garlic kills cancer cells in petrie dishes, but not at all when you eat it.
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by jp555 12y ago
boring... compared to what? Being dead?
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by jp555 12y ago
I love old-style numbers. Why should letters get all the ascender & descender fun! :P
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by jp555 12y ago
It is really hard to see people we care about struggle with addiction. But WHAT they are addicted is not the problem; it's their broken brain that needs fixing. Spending $1.5 trillion trying to stem the supply of a substance is about a
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by jp555 12y ago
But if OSX has evolved that way... Why not just use OSX?

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