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by quoderat 18y ago
Here you go: http://www.patents.com/Generating-paralinguistic-phenomena-v... But that said, it mostly just sounds like a way to insert a bunch of annoying "umms" and "ahs" into artificial conversation.
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by quoderat 18y ago
This reminds me of the equally-doomed idea during the '60s to build underwater homes.
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Social changes, not all bad, accompany recessions(nytimes.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Interesting, but the main problem with Linux (and mainly the distros) is that until you have someone making someone else or many someones do the unsexy, janitorial tasks that no one enjoys doing, then there will always be exceptionally shod
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by quoderat 18y ago
Reasons I don't use it: 1) I'm not terribly concerned with anyone reading what I send, because I've never personally observed any negative consequences from that happening, so that concern is external to me, even if real. 2) It's another co
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by quoderat 18y ago
Are you being deliberately daft? One bomb -- not millions of firebombs requiring thousands of planes -- does a pretty good job of destroying just about everything at ground zero, and after that as the radius increases, yes, the destruction
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by quoderat 18y ago
They seem legitimate to me, at least reference the guidelines for the site. It's not like you have to read them.
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by quoderat 18y ago
The suddenness and completeness of nuclear annihilation is what makes people fearful -- even though, yes, fire-bombing can do the same thing. There's a reason "nuclear" is a fear-word and "fire-bombing" just isn't. He picked it as a point o
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by quoderat 18y ago
Not the typical method I use to detect assholes, but it is interesting technology.
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Visualizing the growth of Target(projects.flowingdata.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
I don't see anywhere in that quote where he references those events at all. Not mentioning something (time is finite, emphasis is important) is not the same as claiming it never happened. Strange interpretation. BTW, I've read Slaughterhou
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by quoderat 18y ago
Reminds me of this Kurt Vonnegut quote: “I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would ha
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We live in public (and the end of empathy)(calacanis.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Almost certainly high time preference rather than what the study claims to show.
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by quoderat 18y ago
We seem to be both infantilizing children and simultaneously expecting them to work and behave like adults. Though I don't know the effects (no one does), it can't be anything good for them or for society.
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by quoderat 18y ago
“It could be a symptom that you’re leading an inauthentic life,” he said. “You should take a look at the goals in your life and say, ‘Is this what you want to do?’ ” Sounds like a good indicator, and exactly why I am about to quit my job an
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by quoderat 18y ago
And it would have been worse, were it not for the inventory component: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/30/economists-react-p... That'll change in Q1, so expect a really, really bad quarter.
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by quoderat 18y ago
You're probably right. This is the same bank that would email around escrow account information. These accounts sometimes had $295 million dollars in them, and they emailed this info with complete account information, wire instructions and
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by quoderat 18y ago
That's my whole point. It didn't prevent it, but the lack of it sure contributed greatly to it all. The biggest single example: the exempting of the four largest investment banks from the previous 12-to-1 leverage rules, allowing them to le
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by quoderat 18y ago
Ah, the old gold standard canard again. Not even worth refuting these days, so I won't try. " As for CEOs if they were acting wrongly then their board, or shareholders should revolt." Hasn't happened yet, but it's a nice pie-in-the-sky fant
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by quoderat 18y ago
Reminds me of the part in Crpytonomicon in prison, when Waterhouse is hacking something up but using similar noise techniques to conceal it.
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by quoderat 18y ago
This is only tangentially related to your post, but why does corporate America have such an aversion to telecommuting? I was by far the most productive employee in my group at the large bank I worked for previously. I outproduced others, ev
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Workforce shifts to part-time and gig work(newsweek.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
And meanwhile, what happens to the people who are bankrupted, ruined, cannot eat or get health care, while the system self-corrects? Reasonably happy, non-malnourished people make better employees, you'll have to admit.
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by quoderat 18y ago
Working like it was supposed to during, say, the Great Depression? That was a likely outcome if we'd followed the prescriptions you seem to advocate above.
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by quoderat 18y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460555
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What aliens can tell us about evolution(scientificblogging.com)
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by quoderat 18y ago
I agree with you. Well-stated. And that's why I feel that even if regulation isn't perfect, and even if it sometimes is counterproductive (which it is!), it can often help to stave off such things as this.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I personally don't think it was caused by those things, though I am sure that there are those who do. I think the five major factors that contributed to it, in rough order of importance: 1) Too much leverage, without understanding the risks
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by quoderat 18y ago
"This is excellent evidence that the system regulates itself." As it regulated itself with the current financial and economic crisis? Like AIG regulated itself? Like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, et al.?

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