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by jpadkins 13y ago
Reproduction of results sounds like a good area of AI and automation. Thankless toiling, not very gratifying work, largely mechanical (not creative). It would be very cool if someone came up with a unit test framework for various fields of
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by jpadkins 13y ago
correct. Which is how all dollar fractional reserve banks operate. The sum of balances they report to depositors is much greater than the currency they actually have.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
> Think of it this way: The abundance of money should somehow correlate with the abundance of real resources. When this correlation breaks down, bad things happen to the economy. citation please. The abundance of real resources in the c
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I have yet to see a scholarly article showing that productivity caused deflation (currency held constant while increases in population or productivity cause prices to drop) has caused economic problems. There is much evidence of currency r
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by jpadkins 13y ago
shopping.google.com
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by jpadkins 13y ago
See Bill Gates letter to Hobbyists in this thread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists Microsoft has always had animosity with the hacker crowd, and vice versa. This has been going on for four decades.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
because goog is a type of tech startup fund. Its a bet that google can identify, acquire, and integrate high quality tech companies and get better returns than any etf or hedge fund can. Some investors want google to take those profits fro
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. There is a reason corps like GE and Comcast buy up media companies, and it's not for direct profits. It's to sway public opinion.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
it's the washington post, what do you expect? It is a platform for influence and a method to suck up to those in power.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
why are you afraid of that idea?
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by jpadkins 13y ago
The newer EA boxing games, and the THQ UFC games use dual stick controls as the primary moving/fighting controls. Players seem to like it better than button mashing. I thought it was cool when I learned quick flip left was jab, hold
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by jpadkins 13y ago
They could make the trackpads modal (without changing the hw). So you could hold down left bumper and track left to right (or up/down) to have fine grained control of zoom. Only drawback of this is you couldn't control zoom and vi
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by jpadkins 13y ago
So how do you come up with a fair price to capture the carbon externality? And do you add the externalities to green power like solar? More people have died installing solar equipment than all nuclear accidents. Or what about environmental
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by jpadkins 13y ago
moore's law? Or more specifically, look at charts of cpu/$, gpu/$ memory/$ and flash/$ over time. They all go down over time.
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Why? What is the functional difference? Non-profits just funnel profits back to execs, instead of shareholders. Non-profit != lower prices.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I think when facing a choice of 'doing nothing' vs. working on an open source project or unpaid internship, a college student should choose the free exposure and experience. Sure, if you can get a paid internship or work in your
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I think the point is most college students don't know that most jobs are not filled through the 'traditional process'. This article helps explain that.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
a low probability, high impact tidal wave could be the switch to remote working. If remote working catches on in corporate america, it will wipe out the value of a lot of homes in higher priced areas.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
like the wifi market? Oh right, open spectrum laws actually create useful services for consumers. It is a fallacy to believe that frequency regulation is needed for services to come to market. Coopetition does happen in the real world (se
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by jpadkins 13y ago
My thoughts on this topic have also followed this same line of reasoning. My conclusion was to use the existing standard we already accepted for legal death. There is an established standard for when a doctor can declare someone 'leg
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SF is an amnesty city, with a lot of immigrants from central america. Many other US cities have an active deportation policy, SF does not. SF does not push out the homeless either. My point was if Stockholm had the same weather and immigra
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by jpadkins 13y ago
My implication is different (altho I agree some people use it as a racist argument). My implication is that social cohesion policies are not easy when you have a ethically diverse population with different cultures and values. It's p
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by jpadkins 13y ago
I was referring to the large amount of asian, mexican and central american people who live in SF. SF is known as an amnesty city (along with NYC, LA and Chicago). What is the racial/ethnic diversity of Sweden? Showing stats on high im
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by jpadkins 13y ago
so when is sweden going to accept open immigration from all of the poorer neighbors? I'll be impressed if it can keep social cohesion while allowing immigrants to make a better life for themselves. It's easy for an elite society t
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VB in excel spreadsheets is functional programming for the masses =)
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by jpadkins 13y ago
so you are saying marketing* is the problem, not technology. *marketing defined as clearly communicating the benefits of the product/technology.
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by jpadkins 13y ago
can't speak for the thread starter, but one downside to prematurely talking about something is confusion. Half formed thoughts, rambling imprecise language, etc can create confusion for his audience. The process of editing and prepar
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by jpadkins 13y ago
Actually, I think you are the product for free software. Think in terms of non-monetary rewards. Developers get satisfaction and sense of achievement from the number of users using their software. So your usage is actually the 'prod
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No, everything is not new on the internet. Historically, this has always been the Media business model (newspaper, radio, TV, magazines, etc). Editors have balanced users and customers for a 100+ years.
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To be convicted of anti-trust laws, you have to satisfy two conditions a) you have a monopoly of a large market b) you use your monopoly power to reduce competition. Many companies are 'benevolent monopolies' that never get broke

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