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by kopo 8y ago
You can find versions that are 50GB if you dig around the kiwix download page! The entire stackoverflow dump is around the same size.
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by kopo 8y ago
We don't really need a lot of the leadership positions we currently have. Hierarchies are possible/required when networks aren't fully connected up. As an extreme example to convey the point, Genghis Khan and Napolean play a
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by kopo 8y ago
Check out kiwix or zeal. Allows reading entire archives of wikipedia/stackoverflow/ted talks etc etc offline. Plus search. Throw in elasticsearch and you get really powerful customizable search. You can also create your own archiv
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by kopo 8y ago
Yeah...but maybe in the ideal world the addiction gets kicked and the drug dealer get rehabilitated. Isolation will probably create its own consequences.
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by kopo 8y ago
Just glad to see someone within McKinsey has a conscience.
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by kopo 8y ago
Well...all that Saudi oil money has to go somewhere and isn't it just better most of it flows into the US instead of China or Russia or wherever? Wielding soft power doesn't have to be tightly coupled to it.
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by kopo 8y ago
It doesn't make much sense. There are other journos who have died in custody or are still rotting away in custody.
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by kopo 8y ago
Ya right. I work with politicians day to day. You have no idea how much society would benefit if they all died in their 60s.
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by kopo 8y ago
The only problem I see with this kind of pitch is these days hospitals, docs and the pharma industry keep physically inactive people alive decades past their expiry date.
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by kopo 8y ago
Also note, most adults are little kids.
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by kopo 8y ago
What's missing is a Bezos level character on the other side of this debate laying out a vision where drone strikes and mass surveillance are not the only option for defense.
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by kopo 8y ago
Doesn't matter. What matters is whether the idea has engineering utility. Jeff Hawkins is not a Biologist or a Neuroscientist (though he would probably qualify) trying to explain how the brain works. He is an Engineer using whatever bi
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by kopo 8y ago
Interesting. Just wondering whats the size of the entire dataset download?
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by kopo 8y ago
What does "close to DC" mean? And "end facets of the optical filter"? What is being thrown around?
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by kopo 8y ago
Also practical things like live conversation speech to text for deaf people. Pretty sure it will be cheaper than what gets spent on hearing aids.
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by kopo 8y ago
Cool study. Ant hills don't have influencers. They are still able to run billion individual colonies. The more connected we get the more we resemble an ant hill imho in terms of info dispersion. Feels like its also why news/journa
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by kopo 8y ago
Just pointlessly trying to exist way past its date of expiry. Facebook reminds me of Edison pushing his DC power distribution model on everyone. Telling the world nothing else will work. Trying to get them to build an Edison Power station e
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by kopo 8y ago
Do you know what the "basic math" said about electricity and magnetism before Faraday's experiments?
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by kopo 8y ago
With all that oil money do you really want them to be propping up the Russian or Chinese mil complex?
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by kopo 8y ago
I think communicating your do-gooder status in a hyper connected society is highly over rated. Its like trying to figure out who is the best ant in the ant-hill. Not because there is some value to it to the ant hill, but because the data al
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by kopo 8y ago
I like Signal. They don't store much of anything. Code is open. A friend got me onto it by one day going cold turkey off all his other messaging apps. It works. I Have tried that on some of my family.
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by kopo 8y ago
The number of weaknesses we have are huge. Anyone you see at the top of any hierarchy has usually mastered taking advantage of some of them. Here is just one collection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_
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by kopo 8y ago
LinkedIn brings in more rev that Windows products seriously? Is there a table somewhere showing what they are spending on different product groups?
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by kopo 8y ago
On Star Trek doesn't everyone have their own Replicator than can churn out anything? Why does someone even need to get paid? Just make one from your replicator and ship it to a friend in need.
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by kopo 8y ago
Any idea what they are doing differently from the Vuzix Blade?
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by kopo 8y ago
Population wide effects MLK dreamed about too. Reality is a different story. I think the whole end goal is misguided and is going to lead to a whole lot of frustration and disappointment and divisiveness. Helping individuals to overcome bio
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by kopo 8y ago
I have been reading a Micheal Faraday bio. It's such a great story. This guy had zero mathematical knowledge and just loved tinkering. And purely through hundreds and hundreds of experiments developed such an astounding intuition of ho
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by kopo 8y ago
Good points. It feels like we are in some kind of "learning" phase, developing our ideas of what is useful and what is not. Who knows whether it will take 2 more years or 20 before the final verdict is delivered.
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by kopo 8y ago
Buddhist thinking does give people narratives/rituals/methods to detach, that are without doubt of great value in today's hyperconnected world. And hyper connection does make us all vulnerable indeed. But on the other end of
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by kopo 8y ago
You need to use some imagination here. They are clearly giving Google a list or a process to follow. Make them own it. Publish the rules and regulations and let the world and Chinese people see it. Let people also see what Microsoft or whoe

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