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by msabalau 12y ago
Greece is running a primary surplus, so if they were given a clean slate they'd have a chance at a productive and growing economy, despite the damage that has been recklessly been caused. If you choose to consider the Greeks deadbeats,
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Governments have long had the ability to surveil activists and cultural figures. And activists have long understood this. Heck, Malcolm X joked about government hirelings back in 1964: "Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I ju
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Adjusted for inflation Glass was the price of an Apple One or the launch price of a Commodore 64 (which, if you preordered, came with a free cassette drive for storage: a $70 value.) It was priced correctly for for true early adoptors who
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by msabalau 12y ago
I read that more as personal attachments and enthusiasms led Brin to over invest and over promote the project in a way that was harmful. Perhaps the author also saw this as further evidence demonstrating fecklessness.
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Indeed. It was one thing to release a prototype to people interested in experimenting and playing around. It was another to push it through a retail channel alongside designer frames. Certainly the time they released it to the UK market Go
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So "we" cry antitrust whenever a company decides to enter a market? That seems odd.
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Comments are common, yet are hardly an essential part of blogging. Regardless, a more than cursory glance at the Dish would show that curated reader engagement is one of the most important parts of the site. One can easily make the case t
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If you found this encouraging, remember that donating to the EFF is a nice way to show appreciation. You can also set them up to benefit from amazon.smile if that strikes your fancy.
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I suppose if you are the type of person who thinks that it makes sense to be CEO of BlackBerry, you are the type of person who thinks it is reasonable to ask the the government forces developers to write apps for your failed platform.
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BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory(techcrunch.com)
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I can't say that Glass photos or videos ever felt like an important part of the experience--other than demoing it--then everyone wanted to take a picture. Given the design constraints of a worn device, it seems a wrong priority. Even s
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I wouldn't want to speak for other explorers, but if a next gen commercial product can build on the potential, create a better product, and create a way for developers to make money, that's a great thing. The current iteration an
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Regarding regulation, if, as the EFF suggests may be the case, Turn is causing the companies they do business with to violate their stated privacy policies, it would seem that the FTC could take enforcement action without new regulation bei
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With all the discussion about how "off brand" it was for Amazon to think that they could make a premium smartphone (despite making the premium e-reader), it's worth noting that they've just achieved something that's
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‘Transparent’ Wins Golden Globe as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Gets a Shout-out(geekwire.com)
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We are already making progress on both quality as well as the length of life. From the 2013 NBER working paper "Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population": "For a typical person aged 65,
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The mind reels at the thought that anyone could have led such a charmed life that they would characterise this as "such hostility"
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STEM as a term might have made sense if it had only been used to refer middle and high school teaching. Getting "more nerds" pre-career path would mean more people would at least be prepared to pursue whatever the subsection of te
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Any site can opt out of Google News. Publishers don't because to do so would be foolish--they'd make even less money without the traffic driven to them. If anyone is killing newspapers it's craigslist which ate classified ad
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>Why run a magazine if you're not even interested in the type of journalism it produces? Well, if your husband is a politician, owning a venerable institution has a cache that creating a media outlet from the ground up doesn't.
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Trade isn't identical to exploration. And the grant of a monopoly is a form of governmental support.
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It seems straightforward enough to understand that if you believed that there was a pattern of zombie memes recurring, that it would be helpful to have a structure to efficiently evaluate poor journalism.
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Actually, despite increasing chronic conditions and obesity, people are living longer lives, with morbidity compressed into a shorter period of frailty and pain at the end. Boring incremental progress has made real gains. And for dramatic,
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At an MIT Game Lab conference, Christopher Weaver, the founder of Bethesda, mentioned that they received a ton of registration cards for Morrowind from elders, and it turned out that seniors with limited physical mobility were using it to h
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Thanks for reminding me to avoid ever using Yelp and Expedia, to object their taking advantage of Europe's anti-American industrial policy instincts.
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To build upon that, it's worth noting the context: a public beta that's only a few weeks old.
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I would have expected this sort of comment in most forums, but not necessarily in a community where many members actually deal and grapple with questions of "what platform gets supported when" and understand that "effort not
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What is "lazy" is the assumption that Reuters ought to have comments.
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The people advocating for a metric ought to be the ones who are expected to establish that they are sensible. Nonetheless, education "reformers" have consistently been promoting metrics with enormous variation in ranking. Of cours
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Just imagine how much good that could be accomplished if the time spent simply on meaningless snark about photo-sharing apps was instead productively deployed.

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