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by kubrick 18y ago
I haven't even heard of that one -- I'll check it out. I'm almost done with The Power of Babel, which covers a lot of the same ground as his TTC lectures.
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by kubrick 18y ago
This article smacks of hard-right bias.
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by kubrick 18y ago
When you buy it (I just did) you get a message with a $5 discount code in it ("for your friends"). I'd share it here (aren't we all friends here?) but I'm not sure if that's OK with the authors. Is it OK?
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by kubrick 18y ago
I love that this board is intellectually curious enough to vote up articles like this. (I'm a word wonk, so this is especially interesting to me.) FWIW: If anyone is interested in the history of language and how we got to talking this way,
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by kubrick 18y ago
If it's your company, you know what results are (you'd better!). No, you can't track that, but I'm not sure it's meanful to compare startup progress.
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by kubrick 18y ago
How about milestones achieved? Anything but hours. I did the startup thing (worked at a successful startup) 10 years ago, and we did work long days -- but spent most of that time creating things from whole cloth that exist as commodities to
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by kubrick 18y ago
It's probably just me, but the 10 reasons to buy seemed to far outweigh the reasons against. Someone I know is getting a Kindle2 soon, so I suppose I'll get to judge for myself.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Ahem. There are, uhm, ways around that. Not that I condone it. Just wanted to state a fact.
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by kubrick 18y ago
1) "The USA will emerge stronger than before" That's a tall order. I'd settle for we will recover... I wonder if that's a promise the President should be making. I took this to mean we'd be stronger in the sense that we wouldn't be so vul
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by kubrick 18y ago
It's not much when you a) have to split it 2 or 3 ways, and b) have to watch the VCs take home several times as much, when you did all the work. My point is that there is a value judgement here. VCs are being overvalued, and founders are be
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Songbird Loses CEO [warning: popup](venturebeat.com)
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by kubrick 18y ago
My point is that it doesn't have to be that way. The VCs are behaving in a predatory way, and they don't need to. I've worked at such a startup, and taking funding isn't just a nice option; usually it's a matter of survival. Of course a VC
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by kubrick 18y ago
They're being screwed: after developing a workable idea and putting years of work into it, they come away with practically nothing. If that's "the game" then no wonder founders are turning away from VCs. That's why I'm suggesting VCs change
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by kubrick 18y ago
In a word: yes.
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by kubrick 18y ago
I am not an expert on this. However, it's probably worth mentioning here what I've understood from economists: the banks are not nearly as broke as they say they are -- the ones that are still in business, anyway. If they were really that b
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by kubrick 18y ago
Two thoughts come to mind: 1) the VC system needs to be reformed. If founders are being screwed like this (and I think it's reasonable to say this is a screw), they're going to find other ways to raise capital. (And they are!) VCs should be
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by kubrick 18y ago
Working in the security field for some time now, and having dealt with malware infections myself, I have to admit he's probably right. Especially if you use the PC for serious purposes. Save your data on a separate drive, keep program insta
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by kubrick 18y ago
Do nothing. It'll be everything you knew it could be.
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by kubrick 18y ago
California is a big state. If half of the state has no stations within 100 miles, that's a great start, considering the geography to be covered. The Tesla sedan goes 220 miles per charge.
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by kubrick 18y ago
French revolution, a certain Marie A. is said to have responded to the question of the fate of the masses with "let them eat cake". It's paralleled here by this guy's suggestion that we should just let the market do its work, human conseque
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by kubrick 18y ago
It seems like everyone's a prophet these days. I understand why, I think -- we all hate uncertainty. But no one knows the future; this is all too chaotic to predict. Let's hope that fact actually works to our advantage.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Hey, it's a start.
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by kubrick 18y ago
It's a technicality. I did a thesis on the movie, and that's why I suppose I'm picking on a nit. Clarke wrote the novel later, but he and Kubrick wrote the screenplay together over the course of maybe three years. Clarke did always intend t
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by kubrick 18y ago
He's distorting the truth, though. What he says happened: we helped prop up banks when they needed it most. What actually happened: we gave banks money to prop them up, and they used to do things like buy out their competitors and give uppe
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by kubrick 18y ago
Fun list! He's got some facts wrong (e.g. 2001 was not made as a companion piece to the novel, which came later), and he apparently never understood Jacob's Ladder (think Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge as a full-length movie). But who
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by kubrick 18y ago
Isn't that saying "let them eat cake?"
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by kubrick 18y ago
California has an infrastructure project that will put charging stations all over the state. http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/11/20/electric-car-infrastructu... As goes California, so goes the rest of the country.
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by kubrick 18y ago
As long as you don't mind getting a loan instead of straight funding, apply on, my brother.
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by kubrick 18y ago
It must be nice to be so rich that you can afford to think this way.
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by kubrick 18y ago
Speaking of P2P technologies, I was interested to run across a KaZaA server: HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found X-Kazaa-Username: anonymous_user X-Kazaa-Network: KaZaA X-Kazaa-IP: xx.xx.xx.xx:1348 X-Kazaa-SupernodeIP: xx.xx.xx.x:3699 It looked like it

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