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by philk 17y ago
1) A more exhaustive list of faults can be found at wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Adminis... ) 2) The liquids threat has been overblown; there are doubts that they pose a significant threat and in the 2006
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by philk 17y ago
Given TSA screeners have failed to detect most fake bombs I think you can put their success rate down to terrorism being incredibly rare rather than competence on their part: "Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75%
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by philk 17y ago
No. 1) The TSA is a farce. They've done more damage to the US economy than the terrorists themselves. 2) The changes themselves aren't intended to stop terrorism. They're intended to satisfy the public that "something is being done". 3) T
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by philk 17y ago
Having played a few web based games in the past (although thankfully nothing from Zynga) I can attest that the analysis is spot on; for the first few weeks the novelty keeps you there, but after that it becomes dull and you go back to real
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by philk 17y ago
It wouldn't be too hard to phrase it in such a way that it seems completely legitimate. For example, pull one of the Russian Mafia guys in and offer him a deal to inform, but tell him it's a limited time offer "because we'll have this guy
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by philk 17y ago
I've never looked at a book and thought "wow, I wish I had video here". I have looked at a video and thought "I wish I had a transcript instead".
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by philk 17y ago
There are keyboards out there that support more than 3 keys at once (for example the Gigabyte GK-K8000 which has support for 'n-key rollover'). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(key) http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Keyboard/Pro
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by philk 17y ago
Awesome project but I don't think this really counts as solving the problem of plastic bags: * Ideal conditions are unlikely to be encountered in the wild. * Plastic bags are spread out throughout the environment. How to get the plastic-mu
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by philk 17y ago
Even though the genome hasn't unleashed a flood of new cures, it's still a great thing that we're getting excited over each new potential avenue of fighting disease. That way, one day we'll get enough knowledge together to make medicine as
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by philk 17y ago
It's probably two things: a) The foreign students and their families have had to sacrifice more and faced more uncertainty to get an education in America. When people have to suffer and struggle for something they value it much more than i
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by philk 17y ago
I think the problem with these productivity methods isn't that it's bad to track what you're doing but that: a) They impose a mental tax on you; it's hard to get into a flow state when you're busy thinking about whether you're doing what yo
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by philk 17y ago
I'd call heavily reduced costs of distribution progress. Ultimately (when the dust settles) it will mean that a greater proportion of your music dollar can go to artists who create songs and less to the intermediaries. Really, the idea tha
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by philk 17y ago
Entrenched interests have always fought progress, whether it was French button makers in the 17th century ( http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070110/004225.shtml ) or Big Content today. Thankfully economics always seems to win out in the e
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by philk 17y ago
This is a perfect demonstration that you don't need a sophisticated or compelling idea to build a successful start up.
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by philk 17y ago
Australian Sex Party first, Democrats second, Greens third. The Greens lost a whole lot of credibility after they ran Clive Hamilton in the Higgins bielection. Clive Hamilton, for those who don't know, is a strident supporter of the conten
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by philk 17y ago
The thing is we shouldn't be having to work around the filters, and we shouldn't have to put up with degraded performance just because some non-technical people think that it'll protect their kids from the Scary Internet. Also we shouldn't
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by philk 17y ago
It seems that nowadays you can get pretty much anything through by playing the "think of the children" card even if it won't do anything to protect them. I'm not adverse to interventions that will keep children safer (although I think their
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by philk 17y ago
This was more sad than funny. I like Dilbert but Scott Adams seems unpleasantly wed to the past.
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by philk 17y ago
I foresee a whole lot of people making themselves look awkward and stilted if they try to integrate the techniques from the book. People naturally adopt confident, outgoing, friendly body language when they're feeling confident, outgoing an
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by philk 17y ago
The traditional media gets their facts wrong again. I suppose it was better than the NYT article on Zynga.
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by philk 17y ago
Just because we're hackers doesn't mean we have to be cut off from everything else. Personally I find the movements of someone who's been so successful in business for so long interesting.
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by philk 17y ago
It's a nice idea but I think they'd be better off teaching impulse control overall as: a) Curriculums are already overburdened, and b) Lots of people have a handle on financial management, they just don't implement what they know. c) Impuls
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by philk 17y ago
Given how heavily the Californian budget process is constrained I'm not sure they had any better options. Hopefully this can serve as an added impetus to finally reforming the broken budgeting system there.
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by philk 17y ago
Academia in the humanities field is particularly calcified and corrupt because it's so hard to measure the quality of the output (or even if anyone wants it at all). At least with things like maths or computer science research can be verifi
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by philk 17y ago
I can't help but think that we'd be better off if the "financial engineering" field was was regulated back to a much smaller segment of the economy. I'm not normally a fan of government intervention but we've wound up requiring massive amou
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by philk 17y ago
As someone who likes actually buying and owning things, I'm getting sick of legitimately purchased content being worse than the pirated alternative.
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by philk 17y ago
This seems like a bit of a nothing article. He's just taken a standard thing "when things fall into place", given it a catchy name and then added an almost unrelated anecdote from his life. There's no effort to explain how to achieve "the
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by philk 17y ago
There are some cool elements to this system - the algorithm for determining what content to create and the ambition of the founder but overall the system seems to be designed to produce the video equivalent of sludge. Incentives are structu
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by philk 17y ago
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, the "smile or die" crowd at the breast cancer support groups sounds insanely creepy. Particularly the part where they've ostracized members whose cancer has metastized because they'll bring the

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