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by pjlegato 13y ago
We're already seeing that effect in chips, somewhat. The market has gotten to the point where relatively cheap chips are good enough for most people's purposes -- looking at webpages and viewing streaming video on a mobile device.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Yes. It'll be like looking back on the long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man... -- the early 20th century was a hotbed of innovation and technical progress, being carried out by hundred
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Tivo's annual revenue is 406m, and the company is worth 1.45bn. ( https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATIVO ) Respectable? Sure. But not even close to Netflix. Netflix's annual revenue is 4.3 BN (i.e. over 10x
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by pjlegato 13y ago
I have a BA with a double major in philosophy and history. Turns out that nobody will pay you to do either of those, so I am a programmer. I had started programming many years earlier, as a child, so there wasn't really any transition.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Sandboxes are a good idea. The bizarre hoops that Apple makes you jump through to actually use your app's sandbox if you're not an Objective C programmer are not.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Since we're being technical, Japanese does not have any alphabet as such; an alphabet has, by definition, a 1 to 1 correspondence between a single character and a sound. Japanese uses syllabaries ('kana' in Japanese), where a
907.
by pjlegato 13y ago
Scare quotes are unnecessary; nobody would confuse you with a cultural imperialist. The country is called "The United States of America," so its people are "Americans." Similarly, people from "The United States of M
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Once, there was a peaceful anarchic village, where everybody was perfectly equal and there were no laws or rules. People shared everything freely and never fought. Then, one day, the neighboring village invaded, killed all the men, raped al
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by pjlegato 13y ago
This is Armenian Radio. Caller asks us, what is difference between capitalism and socialism? We reply, under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, it's just the opposite.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
'This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: "We are told that Communism is already seen at the horizon, when the state will wither away." Then, what is a horizon?” We’re answering: “Horizon is an imaginary line which mov
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by pjlegato 13y ago
I've come into the US many times, and personally witnessed thousands of people being granted entry into the US with nothing but professionalism. Cases such as this are certainly rare. There will always be a few people in any large grou
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by pjlegato 13y ago
I didn't say they weren't respectful. I said they cannot be described as hospitable or friendly, which is true. German border guards are very professional and respectful -- they follow the rules exactly -- but they're not fri
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Try Russia or Germany - neither country has border officials that could be described as "hospitable" or "friendly." They make US border guards look like teddy bears.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
I could speculate that space aliens secretly landed in Roswell and took over the government 60 years ago, but without evidence, it's just a story.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Actually, the site you linked lists 3 goals. Weapons research is only one of them. The other two are commercial and scientific research. Those are not mere byproducts, but explicit goals of the facility.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Speculating about their "real" motives is just that; speculation. I'm sorry your project was defunded, but that in itself is not evidence that the facility is actually a sham.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Then, they'd reset the stairs exactly like they were before and tell you to just keep using them for a while, and let them know if it happens again.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
SFMTA estimates that 30% of SF traffic is people circling while looking for a parking spot. http://sfpark.org/2011/04/04/sfmta-announces-improved-sfpark...
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by pjlegato 13y ago
While banning cars altogether might work fine in a city that has extensive and efficient public transportation, San Francisco's Muni is an unmitigated disaster, so getting rid of alternative modes of transport would make living here a
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by pjlegato 13y ago
At least in California, employers are statutorily prohibited from claiming rights to IP that was created on the employee's own time and using the employee's own equipment, and agreements that purport to waive this prohibition are
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by pjlegato 13y ago
Half the value of a house? That's barely a down payment in the SF Bay area, where Berkeley is.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
The "postmodern" conceit is a bit of a stretch; link bait to lure in readers with liberal arts degrees.
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by pjlegato 13y ago
And yet, these people are perfectly free to buy (goverment run) lottery tickets, or walk into a casino and put their entire life savings on the roulette wheel, both of which have a guaranteed negative expected value. At least with a startup
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by pjlegato 13y ago
It varies wildly depending on exactly where you are and how much money you're spending, from "not available except via satellite" up to "widespread wifi." Economic development is extremely uneven in South America co
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by pjlegato 14y ago
I'm surprised that more people haven't mentioned ZFS! It's a stable, cross-platform filesystem, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are stable implementations for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and BSD (at least). You can export a file
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by pjlegato 14y ago
Life is most definitely not "punch who you want"; that's illegal and will get you thrown in jail. There's a specific rule against that in most places. In certain designated areas of life, such as during a boxing match, the rules are differe
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by pjlegato 14y ago
There is a place for those things in our society, and indeed a much larger place in today's society than there has ever been in the past. Even 100 years ago, the study of any of those things was mostly limited to a very tiny elite who could
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by pjlegato 14y ago
Sounds good. I look forward to seeing the marketplace, thanks.
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by pjlegato 14y ago
The site appears to handle logistics only. The comparison to AliBaba implies that you can also find sellers/exporters. Can users source goods (i.e. find exporters) on HD, or is it only for managing logistics once you've found a supplier som
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by pjlegato 14y ago
This very ladder-pulling-up is written into law as rent controls. Although typically presented as a way to ensure that widows and orphans are not priced out by gentrification, rent control is actually a tax on 'people who have moved recentl

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