mblakele

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by mblakele 12y ago
Lunatic? Well, I avoid making statements about my own sanity. But people sometimes decide that they are superhuman, or that others are subhuman. The ancient Greeks called it hubris. Nowadays we are more likely to say someone is out of touch
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by mblakele 12y ago
It looks to me like the "send to kindle" feature is broken unless you sign up for one of the free trial options. That fits with the email they sent out: "In order to upload new files you will need to pick one of the free 3-mo
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by mblakele 12y ago
Why are you so certain that I didn't mean what I wrote?
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by mblakele 12y ago
Yes, but working every waking hour is a good way to burn out. Cleaning your own toilet might be inefficient but it will remind you that you are human.
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Messaging apps: What’s up?(economist.com)
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by mblakele 12y ago
I thought http://ideas.4brad.com/uber-price-la-approaches-robocar-chea... was interesting in that light. In short: as the cost of a ride approaches the cost of operating a privately-owned vehicle, it approximates owning a d
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by mblakele 12y ago
If it's working: http://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20150206.asp... describes a head-on collision between two trains. Apparently a handy new automation feature on one train fooled the vigila
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by mblakele 12y ago
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2897717/security/researcher... talks about this paper.
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Beer sales: It's no longer Guinness time(economist.com)
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by mblakele 12y ago
I think of it as parochialism, but there may be a better word.
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by mblakele 12y ago
I wonder how that cap-and-trade system would be gamed by different interests? The city would have to zone for the growth, or trade for credits. But zoning isn't the same as construction. It's hard to imagine an alternative without
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by mblakele 12y ago
Are you reading "marginal" in the sense of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_concepts or in the popular sense of someone on the verge of poverty?
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Housing markets: The spectre haunting San Francisco(economist.com)
155 points by mblakele 12y ago|97 comments
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Bay Area Life Optimizer – Teleport(bayarea.teleport.org)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblakele 12y ago
One option that's missing is "gaming", although there's some overlap with "notifications". I've heard serious interest in applications for augmented reality games and team-based games.
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Daily chart: The market for wearable technology(economist.com)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|1 comments
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The Democratization of Cyberattack(schneier.com)
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by mblakele 12y ago
I'm using https://github.com/mjibson/goread now. Nice of google app engine to help me self-host it.
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Viv, Built by Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5M for AI That Can Teach Itself(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblakele 12y ago
"This release adds support for AWS CloudHSM, Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), Amazon Glacier, ClassicLink feature for Amazon EC2, dynamic fields for Amazon CloudSearch, and new encryption features for Amazon Relational Database Serv
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AWS CLI 1.7.0 Released(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by mblakele 12y ago|1 comments
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CES Day 1 – Mercedes concept(ideas.4brad.com)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments
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Kerching Companies’ takings, by the minute 2014-12-23(espresso.economist.com)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblakele 12y ago
Is this it? http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-monthly-plans "$30 per month — Unlimited web and text with 100 minutes talk... First 5GB at up to 4G speeds... This plan is only available for devices purchased fr
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Uber's legal battles and robocars(ideas.4brad.com)
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by mblakele 12y ago
If it says "Made in Korea" it's probably Dorco. If it says "Made in Israel" it's probably ASR, aka Personna, owned by Energizer Holdings. The "German factory" in this article is Feintechnik.
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It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source: Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1(kellblog.com)
3 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments
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Don’t Be a Metrics Slave(kellblog.com)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments
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Make a Plan That You Can Beat(kellblog.com)
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Why I’m Against Succession Planning at Startups(kellblog.com)
1 points by mblakele 12y ago|0 comments

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