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by qohen 14y ago
Might be time-consuming, but it shouldn't be too hard to find enough material to fill up an MP3 player, assuming you don't need the music to be top-40/name-brand/etc. Some ideas: * Amazon has free MP3 samplers (and a few free albums even) a
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by qohen 14y ago
The New Yorker had a piece about it all in very great detail -- turns out there's an official archivist of these Dead recordings and much, much more, if you're interested in this sort of thing: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26
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by qohen 14y ago
The provided github link 404's. But this one works: https://github.com/guillaumepotier/Garlic.js Another link worth knowing about -- perhaps even more so, since there are demos there: http://garlicjs.org
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by qohen 14y ago
Visit it now on YouTube -- in under 2 minutes -- in "Shit Silicon Valley Says": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR8zFANeBGQ&feature=play... "It's like AirBnB for Facebook games" "It's like Pandora for Cats" "Think of it like an Instag
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by qohen 14y ago
Quick FYI, if it matters: this is from 1958.
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http://33bits.org/about/
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by qohen 14y ago
Some context, from the intro section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_%28Aristotle%29 : Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, c. 335 BCE) is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical tr
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by qohen 14y ago
The Supreme Court apparently ruled overwise on this case, as discussed above, i.e. here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4219085
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by qohen 14y ago
Perhaps it's worth having both the maximal and the moderate positions -- the maximalists introduce the pure form of the idea, shifting the Overton window , so the more moderate version becomes palatable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over
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by qohen 14y ago
And this would seem to prove it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109 A guy named Roth wrote a post, that got posted to HN, about pg's essay on how to disagree. pg responds. Husafan starts a dialog with pg. There's a response back,
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by qohen 14y ago
nickb...as in Nicholas Bourbaki, perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki Edit: someone else who thought about this (much) earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428
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by qohen 14y ago
> One, you presume that advertisers are incredibly naive and don't measure returns. What if there were enough naive newbies to keep things afloat even in the face of advertisers who became disillusioned? http://www.jperla.com/blog/post
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by qohen 14y ago
Related: http://xkcd.com/1053/
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by qohen 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
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by qohen 15y ago
>> Civilized society? Not at all. Just organized tribal warfare. > The story may be a bit more nuanced that that: Make that a lot more nuanced: (From the same review cited above): "The Mongols' was the first modern army. It was
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by qohen 15y ago
> Civilized society? Not at all. Just organized tribal warfare. The story may be a bit more nuanced that that: From a review of "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" ( http://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/books/reviews/genghis
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by qohen 15y ago
I like this self-referential bit on the Terms and Conditions page (in the Disclaimers section): https://buy.louisck.net/terms-and-conditions "WE DO NO PROMISE THAT THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT, SERVICE OR FEATURE OF THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE
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by qohen 15y ago
> Okay, so what is the proper way to live then? Some (very) old school answers in: "The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus": About the book (including some pithy quotations): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations
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by qohen 15y ago
Actually, to be fair, the $233 price is for a prior edition--the latest edition "only" costs $192 (and $154 on Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/...
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by qohen 15y ago
A Noah Shachtman piece in Wired about tech for soldiers spends some time on this same device from Stanford and it describes how the device (in an earlier form) could also be used for warming: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore
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by qohen 15y ago
In a video about this tablet, the researcher behind it (or so I believe) said the goal is to have power-consumption be low enough to ultimately allow it to be solar-charged.
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by qohen 15y ago
FYI, a guy running this CD hustle (according to police)--in Times Square, as it happens--got himself killed in a gun battle with a police detective in 2009 (in brief, the guy ran after the detective asked to check his paperwork and then sta
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by qohen 15y ago
A friend tells me that for PDFs, the way to go is a Nook Color, which can be rooted to run Android, which has a good PDF reader. New it's $250 (which is what he has), refurbs are available for $180 from Barnes & Noble: http://www.barne
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by qohen 15y ago
In this vein, if you want this kind of functionality, the following might be worth checking out--a plug-in for WordPress that turns it into a version-control system for any type of file: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-document-revi
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by qohen 15y ago
But, it turns out that, the sewing machine patent pool may have inhibited innovation, according to this paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1308997 ). "Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appe
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by qohen 15y ago
BTW, while the government had to intervene in the aircraft case, there have been cases of various companies coming together to form their own private patent pool too, the most famous of which would be related to the sewing machine: http://
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by qohen 15y ago
FYI, this actually happened in the nascent aviation industry--the government had to step in to force the players to cross-license their patents (in order to have planes for World War I): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_pat
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by qohen 15y ago
Clickable github link: https://github.com/newhouseb/nls
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by qohen 15y ago
There are other JS FSM libraries, but I ran into this one recently, which has an online demo: The blogpost about it: http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2011/8/19/javascript_state_m... The online demo: http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2011/8/
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by qohen 15y ago
> Good old Larkin! Mmm...no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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