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by rndmize 14y ago
> Voters are not too "dysfunctional" or ill-informed to make reasonable decisions. Approval of the US Congress was at %10 in August, the lowest in 38 years. The electorate isn't smiling through the failures of government. The 10% approv
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by rndmize 14y ago
I don't really see a slowdown in technology - not even the empowering kind. The most obvious example for me would be drones - the military is notoriously slow to adopt new technology, and yet drones have gone from nonexistent to core infras
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by rndmize 14y ago
A lot of this sounds like typical congested city problems, and I don't know how much reporting it would do. I would hope the cops have better things to do than watch videos of people tailgating or changing lanes without signalling, frankly
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by rndmize 14y ago
I'd agree with that. For the elections, it's hard to rev up the base when someone points to the numbers and says you have a poor chance of winning. Rove has an editorial at the WSJ right now that's their #1 article, about how Romney has goo
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by rndmize 14y ago
It's hard not to feel a bit bitter when I read things like this. I had a one day introduction to programming in 6th grade (was 10 or 11), and I absolutely loved it. I was ridiculously driven to learn programming for a span of time, starting
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by rndmize 14y ago
I wasn't bothered by the colors so much as the layout. Almost every news source I read has the article all the way to the left, with navigation at the top and secondary content on the right. Having the navigation on the left and the content
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A sense of place(economist.com)
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Some details on Freeloader can be found here - http://www.inc.com/magazine/19980515/1128.html (1998)
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by rndmize 14y ago
I don't think it's like that at all. A startup that gets a lot of hype and carries that far enough to get acquired or IPO before crashing means that someone else is left holding the bag. TV, movies, games and music are invested in by the co
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by rndmize 14y ago
I would think if Google started getting big enough as an ISP, they would also implement the six strikes. Google has it's fingers in a lot of pies, among them selling media on Google Play. They'd have more to lose if the media conglomerates
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The Case Against Auction Houses(eldergame.com)
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Unlikely. The entire reason the US telecom market has so little competition currently is because of the cost of infrastructure. Touting that you won't follow the six strikes plan will give you a minor market of techies at best.
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by rndmize 14y ago
So you expect serious government action from an online petition system?
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I found this to be an excellent read. He highlights and breaks down several things that have bothered me for a long time, such as the share of money taken by iTunes, and provides perspective not usually heard in the labels vs. pirates/techn
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Simplesafe - self-hosted password & credential management(simplesafe.net)
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by rndmize 14y ago
I don't find it appealing. The surface version of the logo, especially, bothers me; it feels off-balance due to the size of the geometric block and its placement. Personal issues with the design aside, I also don't think the overall idea is
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by rndmize 14y ago
Given that the idea of the 10x programmer seems to be considered bunk by most of HN (as per the above post), I'm curious about the idea of a Free Electron described here: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/03/20/free_electr... . W
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by rndmize 14y ago
I agree. I've never had any problems with newegg, they were ahead of the game as far as shipping/order speeds for a long time, and the times I've had products that had problems they were replaced efficiently. Newegg has been the standard fo
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by rndmize 14y ago
I also rely on youtube a good amount of the time. My main problem is that I mostly listen to electronic music that often can't be found on amazon (and I haven't ever really liked iTunes, much less bought anything on it). If DI.fm had some w
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by rndmize 14y ago
Yes, but it doesn't take lots of experts and billions of dollars to build an API, I would think. And yes, we've seen tremendous innovation from SpaceX - but where would they be without that knowledge and experience from NASA? Just because N
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by rndmize 14y ago
They seem to be noting their third anniversary on that, in fact: http://www.data.gov/
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by rndmize 14y ago
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your use of the term technical innovation, but weren't the Manhattan Project, NASA and many military projects innovation by mandate that were extremely successful?
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by rndmize 14y ago
Having worked at a library providing computer tutoring and assistance, I can absolutely believe such studies. You say "using the mouse right-button shortcuts" - the vast majority of people don't know these exist, or if they do, no idea how
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What’s a QA team without a spec?(eldergame.com)
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Understand(infinityplus.co.uk)
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by rndmize 15y ago
The material we currently have on the site is indeed hand-selected, and on multiple levels. We currently do all the research for the articles, which means the preference of news sources that my partner and I have comes into play. On top of
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by rndmize 15y ago
Thanks! Currently, I wouldn't consider us much more trustworthy than any other news source, but this is something we intend to combat with user feedback/corrections. Every fact we list or paragraph of analysis has a small [!] link after it,
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by rndmize 15y ago
The links being clickable is a CMS issue, and one that's been on the "get to it eventually" list for a while. It's definitely something we intend to have though.
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Thanks, fixed.
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We're aiming for a subscription model ideally; we've seen a good number of complaints about how a lot of ad-supported news often has link-bait titles, excessive internal linking, is sensational/poorly researched and so on, none of which is

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