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by marze 17y ago
This seems like a situation where knowing a certain phrase might help. I don't know what that phrase might, but a lawyer or someone else familiar with the medical industry might. Something like "I will not authorize you to perform this pro
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by marze 17y ago
Is it possible to create an equally powerful modern programming environment with reduced complexity (as measured in pages of documentation or whatever)? If Apple, or someone else, were able to it would be a competitive advantage. I'm not su
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by marze 17y ago
Remember, only the dumb ones get caught. Fake reviews put up by clever PR firms would not be discovered so easily. This also shows that Amazon doesn't even do the most basic of automated checks for fakes.
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by marze 17y ago
The best bit is at the end, where it is pointed out that Cipolla's descendants are trying to prove the point of the essay thinking if they restrict the publication of the essay on the web they will somehow profit.
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by marze 17y ago
Seriously, does anyone really believe they "accidentally" put all of the 3D horsepower into the iPod Touch / iPhone without intending it to be a great gaming platform?
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by marze 17y ago
That sounds like a worthy approach. Any practical ideas on how to actually do it? One possibility would be to allow a section of a country to secede if 60% of the population votes to do so. That might eliminate a popular reason for war in
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by marze 17y ago
A startup opportunity? Video cameras are incredibly cheap, a PC with eight webcams, software to do initial editing of a lecture with final edit done by a human? I can imagine a lectures could be put on video for much less than $2000 each w
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by marze 17y ago
What is interesting is what the article doesn't say. It doesn't contain the words "Apple" or "iTunes". In the US, Apple has about 90% market share for legal music downloads. They have 25% market share for all music sales, physical and d
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by marze 17y ago
Those who feel that if global crude oil production continues to decline there will be great economic disruption base this on two unstated assumptions. The first is that alternatives for crude oil will be much more expensive than the curren
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To those who feel that human exploration of the solar system is something they'd like to see near term, if a govt. agency tasked with the job is doing an incompetent job of it while spending billions to develop capability that already exist
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By comparison, that is less than 1/50000 of the $5,300,000,000 spent on the US presidential race.
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by marze 17y ago
Any statisticians care to estimate the probability a firm could do this without gaming the system? If you ask a startup to create a simple computer-based trading system that allow the buying and selling of stocks, how much would capital wou
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by marze 17y ago
Wow, so just because the current design of hospitals is so bad it breeds microbes that cause incurable diseases, nothing else that isn't that bad should be improved? If someone can afford organic food and doesn't wish to partake as a guinea
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That's all good, but if you read carefully you'll see I made no mention of the environment in my post, which was focused on the national security benefits to being less reliant on foreign oil.
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What we have here is a wasted opportunity. This program could have required a 10 mpg improvement and could have been set up to require at least 28 mpg on the new vehicle, by using two different numbers, and it would still be very successful
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In the late 1600s, Nicolaus Steno published his book laying down the foundations of the science of Geology. What prompted the work was the fact people found sea shells and fossil shark teeth on mountains and in mines and embedded in rock ev
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Stories like this make me think of Haldane quote: "I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but que
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by marze 17y ago
Whatever your opinion on griefing is, it can sure be humorous. This link was in the comments from on NOLA article, "FANSY THE FAMOUS BARD": http://www.notacult.com/fansythefamous.htm
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It is silly because beta/no beta is a binary decision, and the actual beta-ness of a product is a scaler. So today they decide it has passed some arbitrary beta-ness threshold and the label goes away. This and the fact it took five years wi
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by marze 17y ago
There is a lot of things the government spends money on that I feel are completely stupid. Since we live in a democracy, the spending decisions are made jointly through the democratic process utilizing elected leaders, etc., and it is very