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by jsmcgd 15y ago
You could say that about almost every adjective. Your logic seems to imply that no one should ever dare hold an opinion or make an assertion.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
I've started to look at the new section more and more. I find the front page is becoming a bit dry. For me, the new section contains a lot more gems that get ignored.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Also I think part of the problem is that governments (and business) very often approach an agency or contractor and ask them to produce a design. We know in the software world that big design up front almost guarantees failure as the initia
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
"We contract all vertices whose corresponding public-keys belong to the same user." How?
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Buying and selling votes is common practice in many parts of the globe. The less secret a vote is the easier it is to trade.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Agreed. Supposedly there was 11 exabytes of internet traffic in 2008. It would require an extremely generous redefinition of my IP's fair use guidelines for me to achieve a 20th of this. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns34
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Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex(ted.com)
4 points by jsmcgd 15y ago|0 comments
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
For me this complexity problem could insurmountable. I think the best approach may be to side step this issue and try selective breeding of virtual (increasingly) intelligent beings.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
This is a good analogy. Unfortunately however things could be even worse. At least in computing their is some logical design to be discovered. Biology isn't constrained by this. It might well be layer after layer of spaghetti code.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Can we not now clearly see that this isn't a 'bubble' (an industry wide overvaluation) but a localised problem? Yes there will be ramifications if the handful of companies like Facebook's value implodes but it won't be typical industry/econ
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Don't you mean sarcasm or are you being ironic?
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Sometimes PR speech is directly symptomatic of executives' thinking. They talk like this because they think like this - i.e. vague, non-committal, detached abstract concepts that sound professional but are ultimately flat, uninspired and pu
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
check this out: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_bismark_e_voting_without_frau...
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
The funny thing is that until quite recently in the UK - and I'm sure other countries - this was pretty much how paying university tuition fees worked. Except that you might end up paying up to 40% of your earning. Sound bad? Well it got wo
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Exactly. From where could the USAF operated? I agree that the Americans would liked to have helped resist an invasion but at that time I don't think they would have had the required platform.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Point of order: In retrospect we can clearly see that the RAF was losing the Battle of Britain. It was within weeks of being completely eliminated by the Luftwaffe, when Hitler, quite unexpectedly for the British, switched to a strategic bo
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
7 possibly overvalued companies don't make a bubble. During the previous (actual) bubble there were many more companies with very high valuations and with 0 revenue. Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, LinkedIn, Skype and Color could go all go unde
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
What threat does the D-Wave pose to current encryption methods?
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
He may be dyslexic or he may just have rushed this to print and to hell with the typos.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
I think because the default setting is a log scale. If you change it to linear, it doesn't plateau but growth does slow.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
I'm surprised, I thought Larry Ellison wasn't sure what the cloud was. Has he finally worked out what it is or has he stopped spouting FUD now that he's worked out how to make it work for Oracle?</snark> I think this will prove to b
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Interesting. Personally I was disappointed there was no snowball earth. Granted, I can imagine what it might look like but it would have been fun to see the contrast.
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
Isn't a much larger data set needed to rule out coincidence?
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
A question for any cosmologists: how much of the 'missing matter' of the universe could this account for?
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'Free-floating' planets found with no star in sight(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by jsmcgd 15y ago|1 comments
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by jsmcgd 15y ago
SwellJoe didn't make any collective assumptions about their intelligence. Also the implication that 15 year olds aren't that smart doesn't seem that smart.
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by jsmcgd 16y ago
I really hope they release a workable VR console. All the individual component technology exists, we just need an innovative company to bring together into one affordable package.
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by jsmcgd 16y ago
You don't need to scale it some how. 200 million users isn't worth less today than 200 million users yesterday or tomorrow. EDIT: actually if anything, 200 million users today are worth much more as people are much more likely to spend mone
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RIM Co CEO, Mike Lazaridis, struggles with questions on devices' security.(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jsmcgd 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsmcgd 16y ago
That they should think through the consequences of their terms and conditions.

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