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by monkeydreams 8y ago
I agree. One thought did occur to me is that he is basically daring AMI to release the pictures. What if he knows the providence of these pictures, knows how they got into AMI hands, and knows that if AMI publish them he can sue them, Gawke
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by monkeydreams 8y ago
So do I. Well, they did. Apparently listening to kids swearing and insulting Siri interspersed with the odd bout of assault and people trying to get Siri to call the police does finally get to you.
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> I don’t think any US president is going to be arrested anytime soon I agree, sadly. The problem lies with the fact that Trump (and the Republicans by extension) have caused so much damage to the roots and branches of democracy that cut
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by monkeydreams 8y ago
This article, if written by someone else, might be more impactful for me. This is the story of a woman who fled half-way across the world from a Twitter-storm, but who, when confronted by a refugee who had been shot and tortured in his home
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Trite, but not untrue.
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Australian farmers, suffering through yet another "unexpectedly intensive" drought, could learn a lot from this. I mean they won't, but they could. Instead they will whinge and complain and put their hands out and watch their
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by monkeydreams 8y ago
I wonder if it is mainstream because it is functional rather than because it mirrors reality. The ability to ascribe a moral weight to a choice and then punish or reward an individual for that choice, resolves issues such as nudging people
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This is a question of comparative specialisation. Why learn how to grow an amazing garden, invest hundreds of hours in working that garden, to save a few hundred dollars (and losing the opportunity to earn tens of thousands of dollars) if y
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In the same way that the supermarket is there to gobble money up from your inability to grow your own vegetables, mix up your own detergents, manufacture your own batteries, etc.
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Another important aspect of Gartner is that it provides a common language and common abstractions for the reality of managing organisations. Concepts like magic quadrants, et al, are not exactly correlated with the reality, but the correlat
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We regulate what we can measure, because what we can measure we can prove.
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The article assumes that the Euro has failed and goes on from there. I would like to see what realistic scenario could have produced the implied Utopian vision the author implies is the only criteria for success.
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Interesting ideas. Wouldn't this result in relative acceleration which correlates to the angle of the body being observed relative to the viewer? Anything aligbed directly between the viewer and a pole would move at a constant speed wh
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> Microservices have advantages but they also bring along severe complexity. Worse, often the complexity they bring is undocumented because it lies in the relationships between applications, accounts, infrastructure, and so on, and does
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> So speed is relative to the size of the task at hand. I think of organisational decision making like organic decision making - that the speed of the organisation's reactions are dependent upon its frame of reference. The frame of
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> You know how sometimes you love an article so much that you are annoyed you didn't write it? I love this article because it changed my mind. I was one of the redditors who urged FiletOFish1066 to fess up to his employers on the ba
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by monkeydreams 8y ago
I don't know how it works in the US, but in the Australian public system you cannot organise a medical intervention without the right results from the proper tests. The Apple Watch in this scenario becomes a symptom for the doctor to a
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> The best leaders in software and technical domains are also those who can write (either code or ideas) better than anyone else. Technical and programming skills have very little overlap with successful team management skills. It's
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Thank you. I'm one for thinking the Republicans are crooked but the headline claim borders on tinfoil-wearing conspiracy.
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> Foreign intervention with the clear aim of causing political rift doesn’t care about party lines other than the fact that they can be used to manufacture outrage and division. Putin said in Helsinki that he favoured Trump and directed
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Simple answer, no. Trained AI works (in the simplest terms) by incrementally tweaking coefficients in mathematical statements to best approximate a set of data points provided. Generally it does this by being able to measure how close or fa
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
I'll hop on the bandwagon as well. They are a great bunch of techs who give a shit about privacy, technology and service. In other words they work hard at things I give a shit about.
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
Is this before or after the UK serves their warrants for the contents of CA's servers?
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
Exactly - The fast learns, the slow remembers.
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
I agree completely. Email is a foundational technology within the business space. It exists in common formats, with slow-changing protocols widely compatible with their forbears, and similar across the marketplace. It is the deep, slow-movi
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
Game design is a form of expression which requires substantial investment both from the developer and also from the participant. The customers have serious skin in this interaction in the form of money spent on the game, time invested in pr
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
Keynesian economics was the driving force behind the period of lowest inequality in the 20th century. The drive from the 1980's toward privatisation, towards supply-side incentives (e.g. lowering wage costs, taxes on profit, etc) are w
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by monkeydreams 9y ago
I believe that looking at bitcoin as a currency suggests it is not worth its current high price. Looking at it as a service for circumventing local currency and legal controls, then current events suggests that demand for these types of ser
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We had something very similar only it morphed into an explosion of other games such as one where a person drew an obstacle course and a range of items the second player could use once or another game involved drawing a range of soldiers (wh