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by mckoss 15y ago
It's a compelling story, BUT, are libraries really the best way to solve this social problem? Most tax payers don't realize just how expensive their library system is. In my county, we spend $90 million per year for our libraries - about
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by mckoss 15y ago
Works great on iPad -- well done!
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MRI's have shown that humans are able to do this because of a dedicated site in the brain called "Scott's region". Once activated, this linguistic region is constantly searching for linguistic cues, surfacing signals to our conscious thoug
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by mckoss 15y ago
Why is copyright infringement a crime? It seems to me we should be asking Congress to recategorize copyright as a civil matter; companies and individuals would be able to sue for damages, but we should get the precious resources of our pol
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too late :-(
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I think there is a valid argument that Bitcoin is an asset class , not a currency. As such, governments would have to make possession of BitCoin a crime. I would think any democratic state would find it very difficult to make possession
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A good book covering the subject is The History of Money (Jack Weatherford). Money was has had a tradition of being valuable in its own right (gold and silver coin), and eventually banks created paper money that represented an amount of go
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Agreed. The back button is made almost useless since it is stuffed with each intermediate typed character.
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While humans will be fooled, the researches have not attempted to fool computers. I would think there would be some simple filtering you could perform on the image to detect the inserted objects.
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I seem to remember an Apple earnings call, around the time of the iPad launch, where they disclosed that they were spending $1 Billion+ on some undisclosed manufacturing facilities in China. At the time it seemed to me that they were invest
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Too bad this is flash based. An html5 version would have been more interesting to me.
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Thanks for the link. Amazing show.
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I wouldn't worry much now. Natural self replicators abound. The synthetic one described here require very specialized conditions and resources. I think the man-made replication has a long way to go before outdoing Nature.
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by mckoss 15y ago
Very cool idea. Did you notice the patent pending? What's your thought on the patentability of this "idea". I know when I first saw just the picture of the ball camera, my first thought was, "oh, if you throw the ball in the air you could
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by mckoss 15y ago
The application here is write once, read rarely. Would it be possible to unpower drives once they are full (until needed)?
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Two things I don't like about Dart, just from reading the tutorial: 1. Consuctor syntax requires repeating the name of the class when yor define the constructor. So if you change a class name, you have to carefully find all your constructo
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by mckoss 15y ago
Naive question. Can the cycle structure of two groups be used to optimize comparison, just as the Poles used in WWII to catalog all the possible rotor configurations of an Enigma machine?
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I'd call BS on anyone saying the investment climate is going to be markedly different 3 to 6 months from now. no one has a crystal ball, and neither does he have inside information unavailable to everyone else.
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Why not use a lotery? I don't see why any public district shouldn't be available to any state resident. What would be the rationale for any preference to residents or district workers? Any other policy serves only to preserve the inequali
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This seems like a gross privacy violation to not honor the logout button, and continue to track the account ID of the user. I would be very surprised if Google were doing this too. And I would be surprised if Facebook were not hauled into
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by mckoss 15y ago
Many users would be annoyed to lose their persistent login. Disabling 3rd party cookies globally will break many sites that use 3rd party services and may be against the site's TOS as it would negatively impact their ad revenue.
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What do you call someone who continues to believe a falsehood in the face of all evidence, reason and logic? "Stupid" seems pretty spot on to me.
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Unlike astrophysicists, climate science has some very vocal members trying to form policy decisions. The result of these decisions can mean spending Trillions of dollars. So we don't get to have dispassionate debate in the facts, as the st
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by mckoss 15y ago
POST semantics can be used to CREATE as well. And PUT can also be used to UPDATE. PUT semantics are more like "update_or_create". POST is like "create_child". http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630453/put-vs-post-in-res...
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by mckoss 15y ago
If you can invest capital to increase productivity, demand for labor goes down, and wages will be kept down. The only way to increase wages is then to proportionately increase demand for goods and services so that, despite the productivity
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Lacking tangible skills, it's hard to evaluate whether someone is a "great computer scientist". Can you be a "great artist" if you can't even draw? How about a "great architect" if you don't know how to build a house? Possessing the basic
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by mckoss 15y ago
The article reads like a press release from Strobe. Is there any Journalism involved here?
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Very fun thought experiment. It reminded me that we did a problem in calculus to compute the effect of gravity inside a hollow sphere. It turns out to be ZERO. So, if the Earth's mass, was all densely concentrated in a, say, 1 mile thick
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Thanks for the insight. I think most people want to do the "right" thing. The competition to be "THE" way people play media was very intense between Real, Microsoft, and Apple. There was a lot of trickery on all sides uninstalling other
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by mckoss 15y ago
Digg really shot themselves in the foot when they tried to make the site "personalized" - most in their audience wanted there to be just "one" primary home page. Reddit seems to have been able to create many successful smaller communities a

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