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by maeon3 16y ago
They would have us believe that cold calling, spam and banner ads, keep countries running strong by bringing innovative solutions to businesses. As if people who run businesses are not actively searching for ways to save money.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Malcolm Gladwell talks about this phenomenon in his book: "The Tipping Point". He calls it the 'stickiness factor'. He analyzes the phenomenon where children begin taking drugs even when they fully understand that it greatly harms them. T
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by maeon3 16y ago
The Yuan is pegged to the US Dollar at around 1 yuan = 0.15 USD cents. A graph of exchange rate for Yuan/USD over time produces a horizontal line. The current president 'Hu Jintau' controls the exchange rate through China's currency policy
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by maeon3 16y ago
"Palin went on to claim to the court that the email hack paralysed her campaign to become the USA's first female vice president." Palin has done 100x worse than this kid, but she doesn't get caught because she paralyzes other candidates cam
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by maeon3 16y ago
8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics is Amazing. Walter Lewin makes the bizarre properties and mysteries of the universe come alive in the classroom. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-...
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by maeon3 16y ago
Don't let your surroundings determine your mental state. The guys who survived the concentration camps in Germany were the ones who had found peace, meaning and value in their lives even in the worst condition imaginable. Practice being h
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by maeon3 16y ago
Require helmets with at least 2 inches of shock absorbing foam around the exterior of the shell of the helmet. But then the players will just butt heads even harder.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Already they are chipping away at net nutrality by sniffing around what you are doing on THEIR Internet. They are becoming gate-keepers for what kinds of content can pass through their shiny gates. It is only a matter of time until this tu
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by maeon3 16y ago
It's about freedom to tinker, It is wrong to seize some hackers computers and sue him because he was able to figure out how a device he owned worked. I don't want to live in a world where I become a criminal for even attempting to figure ou
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by maeon3 16y ago
This notion of owning a piece of hardware without the legal right to take it apart worries me. Close that car hood citizen, there are secrets in there, don't make me taze you. erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70
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by maeon3 16y ago
More important than getting the sleep is whether or not you are descending into the proper sleep stages and getting down into REM sleep. http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-06/rough...
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by maeon3 16y ago
After reading your post, I'm tempted to tell my boss to compensate me instead with hugs, rainbows, high fives and other family-like perks. Since family should motivate me more than money can. </s>
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by maeon3 16y ago
Money is a terrible motivator? lol. What's this nonsense? Give me your name and address, I'll write you a check for $1500 free and clear to take back what you just said.
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by maeon3 16y ago
I would like to live in Equal-land, I could live there, slouch around, work the absolute minimum and avoid work, and enjoy exactly the same benefits as those working the hardest to maintain that utopia.
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by maeon3 16y ago
"Can Google Get It's Mojo Back?" Loaded question, whether you answer yes or no, you admit that Google lost its Mojo. When did you stop beating your wife by the way?
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by maeon3 16y ago
That's actually a great idea, because I think suicide has a "good of the collective" component to it. If you get rejected by your peers too much, ostracized and made to feel like a burden, your mind comes to the counter intuitive conclusio
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by maeon3 16y ago
It causes me a great deal of stress when I hear non seasoned developers discussing "the cloud". Even talking about it now is annoying me. The people with the loudest opinions are usually managers who have only a basic concept of what it i
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by maeon3 16y ago
Was Gandhi a pansy? He spoke against violence and yet he changed the world with his salt march. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi It is wrong to say that "individuals who don't rush in the game with guns blazing don't get thin
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by maeon3 16y ago
This leak-protection system will turn all employees into brainwashed minions who will not act in the best interest of humanity, and instead act in the best interest of the person who controls the salary. Good citizens should leak documents
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by maeon3 16y ago
If the only skill you have is doing a job a computer can do in 10 years, get thyself to a bookstore immediately, pick up the fattest book you can find and read it cover to cover. I'm looking at you fast-food/convenience store workers. The
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by maeon3 16y ago
The next captchas will likely be "choose the animal" from a 2D picture. given the small images across the screen, choose the dogs. The people working to get through security measures will always be there, we might as well put them to good u
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by maeon3 16y ago
Facebook Fee: $.95 Youtube Surcharge: $1.53 blogging package: $.25 Roaming charge (non approved sites): $5.21 Wikileaks download penalty: $10.00 Destroying net neutrality, killing what made the Internet great in the first place: priceless.
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by maeon3 16y ago
You say it can't be done! 1. Create 100 trillion units of wealth in some kind of software system, generate keys with a strong algorithm. 2. Completely destroy the private key, give everyone the public key. So everyone can find out if a k
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by maeon3 16y ago
I'll have to read it, I thought I came up with the idea on my own.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Create a currency that cant be stolen/diluted without breaking 1024 bit encryption and a password. Entities like the federal reserve can just print money out of thin air, diluting my past hard work. It shouldn't be too hard to create a syst
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by maeon3 16y ago
Figuring out what time is may be what causes civilizations to go extinct. Once you figure out how to probe the earlier states of the universe you find everything vanishes, along with the evidence that the civilization ever existed. This m
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by maeon3 16y ago
Science says that humans have no special value over any other substance in the universe. Until science can proudly declare that humans are of infinite worth, and monkeys, chicken and my cow-burgers are less than that, people will embrace c
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by maeon3 16y ago
Self driving cars are 15 years away. The self driving cars will have to deal with the chaotic human drivers, and this will require Strong AI. Once we have this, driving around will be one of the small issues of the day.
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by maeon3 16y ago
The real comfort that faith can bring is one of the biggest neutralizers to science education I have seen. The willingness of someone's ability to take their deep-seated need to belong to a group is the first step to embracing science and
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by maeon3 16y ago
Why do I feel like I just got rick rolled by some trolls back from 1975?

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