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MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models(tech.slashdot.org)
1 points by mgenzel 17y ago|0 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
The article has little to do with Asimov's laws. Asimov's laws address "three fundamental Rules of Robotics, the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot's positronic brain", i.e., an engineering construct. The article mostly add
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by mgenzel 17y ago
It seems a good fit, but I always do worry when great grassroots-type great-culture great-customer-service company gets acquired by a much larger company (even if it's Amazon, which is much better than others - I worked there, I know). It's
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I think the point of asking such questions is to see whether they have even thought of the difficult issues. It's not the answer, it's the thought process (just like the questions they'll ask you, theoretically).
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Must say, for a parent & entrepreneur, there are many tasks on the plate that fit the focus, are in fact things that I like to do, and oh yeah, by the way, are things that I either absolutely must or really-really should do. And the tim
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Your Rights Online: Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship(yro.slashdot.org)
15 points by mgenzel 17y ago|5 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Obviously, any pithy observation is by necessity overly simplified :) However, there's a lot more truth to it than otherwise. E.g, your first point, the painful status quo. My previous company addressed the job search market, in which most
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I haven't thought of it that way, but you're right, it's probably a good investment. My fear is that acquisition often kills the very thing that makes the company what it is (including its long-term positive prospects), even with the best i
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Yikes. You've undermined my faith in the Google quick answers. I should be more skeptical, should've looked at the source. Still, the point stands even more firmly :) I suppose I don't think it would be worth that much to Amazon, proportion
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I'm half-joking. Obviously, there are benefits to domain names; however, I'm not sure how we can return to the egalitarian nature of web addresses, what with most normal domain names taken. We'll go through a few more years of Socialisrs, O
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by mgenzel 17y ago
It's an object lesson that in order to create a winning new product, it has to be 100-200% better than the existing ones, not just 10-50% better.
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Am I the only one who's thinking about pricing of this deal? Netflix market cap: $1.8 billion Amazon market cap: $35 billion Wrt future prospects, Netflix is not dying, but is in fact at the forefront of digital delivery. They won't sell it
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Seems like it's time to get rid of domain names period :) Why not go back to numbers? Most people use search engines to get where they're going anyway. Who's with me? :)
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Blackboard paint is cheaper. You can even mix it with other colors to make non-black colors. See: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/how-to/how-to-make-your-o... http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/another-color-twist-on-ch...
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I don't see why you should feel _obligated_ to give two weeks' notice. Now, it's possible that you want to finish the project you're working on, or for some other reason you don't mind doing it. But, honestly, most of the time if you decide
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Until there's a controlled, replicable method, all these studies, approaches, genius ideas are just blah-blah-blah exercises in pretty correlations.
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by mgenzel 17y ago
It's not about whether Flash is good or bad; or whether at some point in the future it's going to be outmoded. It's about the _fact_ that there are plenty of websites out there that do use Flash right now, and it would be, I don't know, kin
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by mgenzel 17y ago
This makes no sense. You should instill good writing, yes, but good linking should respect the original title. I come across the same articles from different sources; it would be nice to be able to quickly understand that it's the same arti
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Frankly, hiring managers and recruiters have little time to decipher the resume. Standard formats improve the speed of cognitive processing. Even if you're the candidate of their dreams, they'll curse you for making them spend more time und
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by mgenzel 17y ago
While his specific point is true, it is also true that delusion can be a valuable tool of progress (aka if we knew what having children is really like, the humankind may have died out). Obviously, you can't hash out a full-fledged system in
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by mgenzel 17y ago
And if you don't 'date' it, it's a flag to the person who reads your resume anyway, that you're old (which is why you would do that). It's tough.
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Run for Your Life: The Pentagon's Robotic Hummingbird Takes Flight(fastcompany.com)
4 points by mgenzel 17y ago|1 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I heard opposite advice: e.g., spend more time talking about the product and less on the size of the market. And while yes, "Investors don't want you learning on their nickel", I do think they're more forgiving of very early-stage ventures
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I think the Internet has and will continue to have profound effect on how we interact with the information, and most likely, on our cognitive processes as well. It is unclear, however, whether the overall change is progress-positive, progre
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by mgenzel 17y ago
On the topic of "The better you make the automation, the more difficult it is to guard against these catastrophic failures in the future, because the automation becomes more and more powerful, and you rely on it more and more." it's instruc
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Of course, it's to go along with the classic Web 2.0 BS Generator http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/ There's also web 2.0 logo, name & tagline (all together) generatorL http://www.blastone.com/games/generator/index.php
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Pfeh. The guy lost me with "For years, the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental shift of power from men to women". When I see an ERA amendment pass & when any woman running for office is not met with a sexist circus (like it
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by mgenzel 17y ago
On that subject, an absolutely must-read book is "Hard To Be God" (by Strugatsky; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God ), an absolutely brilliant meditation on the whole Prime Directive issue (basic thesis: it's harder to bring i
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I would also like to see how exactly they define "grumpiness". It could be that they view being argumentative, questioning, challenging assertions as being "grumpy", which would surely describe many of us. Also, weird how they chose only Is
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I do sometimes wonder if the people from ancient civilizations could see what we think about their writing and tools and culture, whether they would just laugh out loud. "No, no, that's just a spoon! And that little squiggle? That's a curse

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