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by roc 13y ago
At that scale, I don't think there'd be an appreciable difference between the two.
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by roc 13y ago
> " Is it worthwhile to redo the effort?" Last time around certainly wasn't the first time around for this issue. So if HN was in the habit of retiring subjects, there wouldn't have been any of those brilliant comments you referr
483.
by roc 13y ago
But the "some form of contact" that's most likely is rudimentary communication with whatever small cross-section of people they kidnapped for study/captivity. The rest of us would never know and just go on wondering "where is everybody".
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by roc 13y ago
They're the ones who built their industry to revolve around hyper-promoted singles. All iTunes did, was let people easily and economically acquire only the tracks they cared about. That those people turned out to not be interested in the 'o
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by roc 13y ago
Looking at the level of interest/affection we have for intelligent animals on our own planet isn't exactly reassuring. We know/strongly suspect dolphins/whales/etc are intelligent. But we don't care enough about what they might have to say
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by roc 13y ago
Break the fan/performance thing out into a separate event entirely? Playlist Live/Playlist Creator? Some fans would undoubtedly still buy tickets for the 'creator' event, but I've got to imagine their willingness to pay is mostly a function
487.
by roc 13y ago
Boolean projections are fundamentally different than numeric ones. Consider the distinction between cell phone penetration rates and device sales projections.
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by roc 13y ago
You think game developers have time for friends who aren't colleagues?
489.
by roc 13y ago
> "It is forecast that the typical American will have 5.8 devices by 2015" http://xkcd.com/605/
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by roc 13y ago
Only if you're stuck treating people as one homogenous glob. If you let people self-identify by interests (+french food, -foodie, +fine-dining) you can easily get actionable recommendations and minimize noise. The trick is that adding spec
491.
by roc 13y ago
The cost to Twitter of even re-discovering what it is about his API and analytics that his customers prefer to Twitter Ads could easily outweigh the cost of an acqui-hire.
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by roc 13y ago
“The Mac user interface was a 10-year monopoly,” says Jobs. “Who ended up running the company? Sales guys. At the critical juncture in the late ’80s, when they should have gone for market share, they went for profits. They made obscene pro
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by roc 13y ago
A "good" old-school parent would ideally have limited after-hours work as much as was reasonably possible and imparted solid lessons about meeting commitments without compromising family values as well. All of that sounds like a separate c
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by roc 13y ago
> "generationally, [men] seem to have (quietly) decided that we don't want to be like our absent fathers -- that we want to be home for dinner and available on weekends." Maybe we're not as physically absent, but I'm having a hard tim
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by roc 14y ago
It certainly isn't perfect, but the liability is there. Particularly the organizational liability. People's careers get ruined when they screw up. They certainly don't get promoted for leaving cities on the hook for massive payouts. (Hat
496.
by roc 14y ago
Legal liability. Everything else flows from that. They can't be careless and ruin lives; they're on the hook for what they do. But a bunch of people on a forum? Will they even feel responsible for their individual small part of partic
497.
by roc 14y ago
> "The best GUI's and UX considerations for video games are a completely different kettle of sushi" Not to mention Japanese games are notorious for their inscrutable, awkward and sometimes downright user-hostile controls, menus, save
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by roc 14y ago
You don't. You can't, really. You just let synth collect things into geo-locations to speed up the sorting process. You still have to manually sort all images that overlay a 'point of interest'. But the real boon is that you can quickly,
499.
by roc 14y ago
Photosynth still around?
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by roc 14y ago
> "So we can expect a bunch of half-assed software with no support? Awesome." I'd rather expect we'll see a bunch of data collection and notification apps for services (ad-supported or freemium) that are primarily consumed elsewhere [
501.
by roc 14y ago
You dislike walled gardens, but you're very happy with Google's API?
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by roc 14y ago
> "I wonder if google would consider this a violation of the ToS since someone could offer an app that does not work at all except if you pay for a membership somewhere else." Isn't one of their go-to app examples a headline feed from
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by roc 14y ago
I was looking at the pictures on the site. The first image and the fifth. The fifth, specifically, makes Microsoft's campus look like a dime-a-dozen corporate/suburban landscape. Granted the images don't show any parking structures or buil
504.
by roc 14y ago
How many campuses have you seen, that are covered in that much concrete? While greenery is great, I'd rather be able to walk to a proper park than have it in the form of a glorified berm between parking lots.
505.
by roc 14y ago
I'd contact a lawyer before communicating with them in any capacity. You wouldn't want to risk giving their attorneys an angle.
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by roc 14y ago
> "its possibility of payoff is consistent with the rest of what we know about the world" What we know about the rest of the world is that this does not work, it will cause extensive damage even if it could work, so it would not neces
507.
by roc 14y ago
But is there a scientific basis to prefer this bet to, say, death-bed religious conversion?
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by roc 14y ago
But by the time you've physically perfused the brain and frozen it, substantial cell death would have begun. So if we have to freeze until the scanning/storage tech arrives, we'll have a compromised source, at best.
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by roc 14y ago
If the concept only works when we're relying on full-brain scans and future nano-bots with the capability to reconstruct brain tissue, the freeze/thaw would be completely superfluous. Why not cut out the middle-man? Just do a full brain sca
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by roc 14y ago
> "so there's a real emphasis on only hiring perfect "A"s. Which means that you'll miss a few As and lots of B+ people." It's actually worse than that. When you exclude huge swaths of a sample like that, you have no context for the t

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