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by marvin 19y ago
And besides, the Facebook deal was "only" 200 million dollars. If Facebook tanks tomorrow, that is a small loss for a large business event. As others have pointed out, the numbers today are small by 1999-standards.
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by marvin 19y ago
Again, these are all transistent issues. All it takes is for one team to get its act together and make something that actually doesn't suck. There are no technical barriers for the electronic book to overcome. It's all politics. And ass-hat
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by marvin 19y ago
The author of this article mentions some nice philosophical elements of the question of electronic books, but he skirts outside the entire DRM issue, which is the thing that is keeping me back. What, the only difference between the Sony "Re
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by marvin 19y ago
Well...some of them are creating very valuable, tangible services. SpaceX is an obvious candidate, Sequoia is obviously doing very valuable things, Tesla Motors are successful outside of the ephemeral social networking world... I actually t
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by marvin 19y ago
That's a moot argument, that Mexicans are more productive in the US doesn't necessarily benefit the individual Mexican. It _is_ a great boon to the employer, though, if he can keep H1Bs with equal skills but lower wages than equivalent US w
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by marvin 19y ago
It's time the Mozilla Foundation starts talking out louder about exactly what they are using this money for. Very few free open-source applications are able to generate as much cash as Firefox, and the Mozilla Foundation therefore has a res
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by marvin 19y ago
I doubt those beautiful women would enhance your prospects.
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by marvin 19y ago
If we are only talking about creating an artificial general intelligence, this should do: Nature created a general intelligence through natural selection, which is a less powerful process than what humans are wielding (if only because human