philippoi

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by philippoi 8y ago
"They have a monopoly to counterfeit money." No. That's not what counterfeiting is. Counterfeiting is creating imitation money to be passed off as the genuine article.
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by philippoi 9y ago
I just walked by this place the other day. Haven't had a chance to look into how they're doing what they do, but it sounds like they could be what you're looking for: http://beawear.eu/
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by philippoi 9y ago
Were you looking at the French text portions? This reads like a study conducted and first published in French and then translated into English. Where I could find "extorsion" the context was French.
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by philippoi 9y ago
Don't know what coffee roaster(s) they were getting their beans from, but pictures show a Synesso espresso machine. Given it's Portland, that's probably not as remarkable as it would be in other restaurant/bars around th
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by philippoi 9y ago
The story of the $29 chicken dish that should actually be $40 because of its preparation cost...why pour your own money down the drain? There has to be a market fit, and this is deliberately ignoring that. He writes that he didn't want
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by philippoi 9y ago
Agreed. It's a pretty silly oversight by the author. And a meaningless measure. What if the segment of Stanford students whose area of study is comparable to that of Olin? What would the ratio be then?
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by philippoi 9y ago
It's not journalism, though, in the sense of an article meant to factually cover what's happened. It's not representing facts. It's representing an interpretation of a situation and that by an author interested in and hi
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by philippoi 9y ago
It's not an article, though. It's an editorial, which simply isn't the same format. It's a self-promotion for an author critical of Silicon Valley. It's not reporting news, but an author representing his views on a
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by philippoi 9y ago
"Only through the act of imagining..." Be careful with the only. I've read and enjoyed plenty of books while neglecting sympathy for the characters and their experience; looking at the interplay of ideas and theories, for exa
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by philippoi 9y ago
There's a popular study result that says it does: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377
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by philippoi 9y ago
Completely arbitrary is probably an exaggeration. I wrote a paper on this case for a Digital Cultural Policy class over a year ago so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but the previous commissioner almost settled the case and thought he
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by philippoi 9y ago
From the EU Commission's perspective, they're different categories and one of the reasons for the case in the first case was due to complaints from EU-based comparison shopping companies who claimed Google was unfairly suppressing
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by philippoi 9y ago
Usually. Drunk and sleepy drivers blur this distinction, but you still make a good point.
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by philippoi 9y ago
"An act to grind" sounds so playful! But normally it's "an axe to grind"...a little more sinister twist to it.
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by philippoi 9y ago
There's a good deal of variation. Without digging into how that figure was produced, it could be worthwhile to mention that the production process Jay Ruskey says he's interested in cuts a lot of water out of the process. Once cof
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by philippoi 9y ago
I agree! Good points. Financial literacy is next on my list, personally (any recommendations?). As charged, it is a utopia I was picturing, but I often like to mentally dabble in that terrain as I find it can expose potential paths forward.
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by philippoi 9y ago
I'd suggest most people who excel at bike riding approach it with the same enthusiasm and drive as you attribute to the programmers who excel (to your credit, you mention "everything else" is the same, which would include cyc
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by philippoi 10y ago
> Governments won't do anything since Uber has tons of positive externalities such as... ...They think in terms of net welfare and a few Californians having some issues at work is the least of their worries. That's not all that
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by philippoi 10y ago
Not really technology-free; retrogressive rather.
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by philippoi 10y ago
Denmark has gotten a lot better at encouraging business growth, lowering the capital requirement for registering a private company and introducing a new "start-up" business type that costs 1-DKK to register. With that business typ
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by philippoi 10y ago
"Unfortunately, when it comes to current event interpretations, I think overall Pinker is out of his wheel house (compared to, say, Chomsky or Ed Herman), and he should be concerned that the media, which is sympathetic to corpoarte and
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by philippoi 10y ago
I haven't read "Better Angels" yet or gone through this interview, but if he actually ignores the forces that are aligned toward making the global situation worse, that would surprise me. I have read "How the Mind Works&
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by philippoi 10y ago
But, if you have a genetic advantage, you still do. Everyone starting at the same time, some are clearly in a different class. I guess the marathon analogy with regard to socioeconomic opportunity, then, is this: everyone gets to start at t
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by philippoi 10y ago
Biking in New York City taught me that. I know it wasn't the programming, because that came second. Funny how many pedestrians look the wrong way when crossing a two way street...maybe they're going with 50/50 chances?
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by philippoi 10y ago
Did you see the XKCD infographic on that from just the other day? http://xkcd.com/1732/
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by philippoi 10y ago
The point Morozov didn't make explicit that would have helped his argument: the internet is turning into a perfect Panopticon, a total environment of confinement for control and subjectification as highlighted by Foucault. I first read
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by philippoi 10y ago
InBev is not American, and it could be you're only hearing about the cases relevant to American news companies' customers.
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by philippoi 10y ago
The nature of a Competition Commission case often requires more than just disruptive/innovative startup status. That's their starting point in this case as well: with Google's often cited 90% market share of European searches
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by philippoi 10y ago
Some things are written to be clear only within the proper context and with the reader's ability to see into them. I remember being blown away at learning the political context of the early modern English literature cannon in college b
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by philippoi 10y ago
I have 50GB from Telia in Denmark and pay roughly $50, but that includes Spotify and HBO Nordic subscriptions in the bundle. Most everything else in Denmark is pretty expensive though.

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