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by padobson 13y ago
"A thousand years before—-in 800, say—-the technological and civilizational cutting edges of humanity were to be found in the Caliph Haroun al-Rashid’s capital of Baghdad and the Tang Dynasty Emperor Dezong’s Chang’an, rather than Lond
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by padobson 13y ago
This is great, you summed up every idea I had while reading this in a way that was far more articulate than I could have. I only have one thing to add: If there is an economic and even, possibly, a societal benefit to specialization, and T
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by padobson 13y ago
Most people mainly have their labor to invest. I'd say the people who understand this and diversify their investments are the entrepreneurs this article is talking about.
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by padobson 13y ago
+1 for buying the moon strategy. I hope my next iPod comes bundled with green cheese.
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by padobson 13y ago
I think he means that because more people have broken espionage laws under Obama's watch, doesn't mean it was Obama's fault.
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by padobson 13y ago
The prison system isn't big because people think it's a good idea to have a lot of people in jail, it's because the private prison lobby ensures that various laws (like possession of drugs) keeps prisons full.
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I don't know. If the venture finance industry has taught us anything, it's that one big win can pay for a whole mess of failures, and then some. If you tell a bunch of rich people they've got a good chance of financing the ne
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by padobson 13y ago
I haven't thought about buying razors or blades since I became a DSC member. Any service that frees my brain up to think about other things can count on me as a subscriber. Here's to their success, and to the surplus brain power w
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by padobson 13y ago
Here's something sort of related in Deuteronomy 24:5 - If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has
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by padobson 13y ago
I have to say there's a good chance that society is already moving toward Russell's ideal. If you just look at accelerators like YCombinator, you'll see that two successful startups (Dropbox and AirBnb) are by-and-large payin
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by padobson 13y ago
The method of a leisure class without duties was, however, extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of the class had to be taught to be industrious, and the class as a whole was not exceptionally intelligent. The class might produce o
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by padobson 13y ago
Yeah yeah, work backwords from the user experience and find/build the technology to make that happen. Peachy. What I want to know, is, where can I get a pair of those acid-wash jeans with the stark, black patches on them?
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by padobson 13y ago
You could always try selling commodity type stuff. Pick something you know there's already a market for like cell phone chargers or dry erase markers. Find a good supplier, preferably a drop-shipper ( https://www.google.com&#
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by padobson 13y ago
To ensure the Bug hit its target, a mechanical system was devised that would track the aircraft's distance flown. Before takeoff technicians determined the distance to be traveled relative to the air, taking into account wind speed an
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Kettering Bug(en.wikipedia.org)
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Now that all of these perspectives have come together, the implications for how we think about poverty – and design programs for people impacted by it – are enormous. So you mean it might be a bad idea to endlessly complicate the tax code
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by padobson 13y ago
That could work in a full conversation, but it needs to be packaged up more for our sound-byte/online-comments/tweet culture. You could circulate a hashtag on twitter like #things2hide to get popular conversation about it going.
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by padobson 13y ago
Almost anything can be crowdsourced nowadays. 237 years ago, the founders of the US tried to crowdsource power. I don't see why we can't reboot that whole idea. Political candidates, lobbying initiatives and legislation can all be
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by padobson 13y ago
Sounds like we need a campaign against the "Nothing to hide" line. You could probably point out to them that there are so many laws now, they probably broke 10 of them before they left for work in the morning.
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University Business Incubator Global Top List 2013(ubiindex.com)
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PunkSpider(kickstarter.com)
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by padobson 14y ago
But will they have a web player that doesn't require Silverlight? To me, that would be a huge differentiator. I'll also be interested to see if their performance is near as smooth as Netflix, which may be some of the most reliable software
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Redbox Instant headed to iOS, Android costs $8 per month for streaming and discs(engadget.com)
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by padobson 14y ago
I don't see why developers think they can't make money from an open source project. There's always support and consulting related to the project that can be sold. If the project gets lots of adoption, then there will likely be a few well-pa
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by padobson 14y ago
Doesn't say anything there about defending internet freedom or net neutrality. Not that Romney would have, but it can never be pointed out enough that we're not given real choices with these elections. Given that 98.5% of the electorate vot
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by padobson 14y ago
Don't do this with your own money. Found a startup building HFT tools, and then raise money for it, and use other people's money to test your tools. If the tools work, sell them. If they don't, tweak them, try it again, and sell them until
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by padobson 14y ago
Tl;dr Silver is an agent of disruption, and the incumbents are terrified of him.
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by padobson 14y ago
Link seems broken, page fails to load.
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by padobson 14y ago
You may want to avoid sharing your ideas with anyone who has a keen understanding of the patent system. If you get out-executed, its your fault for not executing. If someone steals your execution because they patented your idea, then it mig
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by padobson 14y ago
I couldn't upvote this hard enough. I've been using my Transformer Prime for 10 months, and it has changed the way I do many things. I still do my consulting work on a laptop, but almost all of my side-project coding is done from my Prime.

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