k2enemy

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by k2enemy 14y ago
I personally have high hopes for https://tent.io app.net is also an alternative, but I don't see how replacing one centralized service with another centralized service is useful.
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by k2enemy 14y ago
I would add one more item to that list. The more intrusive and visible the TSA is, the more they remind the population that there are terrorists out there trying to kill us. Keeping the population scared of a boogeyman is useful for getti
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by k2enemy 14y ago
In net, I think I agree with you, but advertising can also serve an informative role. There are times I've seen a well-targeted and unsolicited ad for something I didn't know existed but solved a problem or want that I had. Ads are also i
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by k2enemy 14y ago
I wonder if food companies will embrace a bottle that ends up decreasing the number of bottles of ketchup consumers need to buy? I suppose if one company adopted the bottle then it would give them an advantage in the marketplace over their
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by k2enemy 14y ago
I wonder if having such good predictions is ultimately harmful to the democratic process? If I were only voting on the presidential election, I would not have bothered going to the polls because my state was solidly on one side and the cha
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The Case Against Patents [pdf](research.stlouisfed.org)
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by k2enemy 14y ago
I'm very excited for git annex assistant. I've been looking for a few years for a "Dropbox with my own server" type of service that I can use to easily keep large files in sync. There are a handful of programs like unison that do the synci
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by k2enemy 14y ago
Decentralized protocols seem to work well for things like email and web sites though. I think the idea is that most people will use a provider to run the server, but it is possible/easy to switch between providers. The lack of lock-in and
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by k2enemy 14y ago
Boycotting Chinese produced goods in an effort to make Chinese workers better off seems a little misguided. The workers at Foxconn evidently find that job better than the next best job, or having no job at all. There's no doubt that workin
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by k2enemy 14y ago
There's a war out there, old friend, a world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information: ...what we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It's all about the information.
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by k2enemy 14y ago
TV: 1hr 35min There is a second graphic with a breakdown of "leisure" and "cooking, cleaning, etc"
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by k2enemy 14y ago
The iTunes video store bs doesn't end with AirPlay. I bought a full season of a TV show through iTunes but can't watch it because the monitor connected to my Mac Pro isn't "trusted."
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by k2enemy 14y ago
You've mis-understood my comment. It probably wasn't clear enough. I'm talking about Apple's motivation to bring the case in the first place. It wasn't because of individual technical violations of patents -- lots of other phones violate
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by k2enemy 14y ago
If you think "pinch-to-zoom on a mobile device with touch screen" is a reasonable thing to patent so that nobody except Apple can use it on a smartphone I agree that this would be absurd, but I think it kind of misses the point of the cas
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by k2enemy 14y ago
Pretty sloppy reporting all around. They aren't even looking at the correct statistics to address the hypothesis. The article cites the percent of new car sales that were from 21 to 34 year olds in 1985 versus 2010 and find that it falls.
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by k2enemy 14y ago
It actually is an interesting game (in the game theory sense). I make no claims about whether or not it is a good business idea, or how people will actually play, but a quick and incomplete theoretical analysis follows. First, some simplif
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by k2enemy 14y ago
Check out NerdKits ( http://www.nerdkits.com/ ) It includes all the hardware to build a simple microcontroller kit, along with step by step assembly instructions. The best part is that the instructions also explain why you are doing what