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by rohern 14y ago
The original article specifically mentions self-driving cars and augmented reality sunglasses as "geek toys", FYI.
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by rohern 14y ago
> "Given that it is "easy" for people to leave, I would have thought the policies would be forced to change?" I wish this were true. Certainly, if people were more careful about how they spend their lives, this would be true. However, y
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by rohern 14y ago
I think you are correct for the most part. When I lived in China, my experience was that most people felt the way that you describe or they simply were not going to embarrass their country by admitting to a foreigner that they felt that thi
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by rohern 14y ago
Now that article I would read.
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by rohern 14y ago
Moronic and supercilious article.
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by rohern 14y ago
Or they are lying.
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by rohern 14y ago
I chuckled a lot at this headline.
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by rohern 14y ago
If they have access to the internet, they have had plenty of opportunities to read about it. The shameful behavior of Zynga is public knowledge and has been for years. Also > (with all that tracing going on...) :D
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by rohern 14y ago
Write him good letters as this situation is terrifying. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...
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by rohern 14y ago
It seems to me the way to get around this (for the nervous government) is to attack the iphone itself and capture keystrokes, nay?
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by rohern 14y ago
This is spot on. There was a certain irony to the outcry over employers demanding Facebook logins when the victims had already volunteered all of their information over to another company, Facebook. On the other hand, these bills are disast
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Wired Confirms Planetary Resources is Asteroid Mining(wired.com)
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by rohern 14y ago
This article is spot on in its thesis, though not always in its arguments. Everyone is convinced -- because the people who work in marketing are happy because they can sell ads -- that social media is an important thing. It is not. Social
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by rohern 15y ago
They also love the free market, respect their natural resources, and have great sea food.
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by rohern 15y ago
It is very beautiful.
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by rohern 15y ago
The gist of this whole story is that CNN is a lousy source of information about anything. Most of us have known this for at least five years. Cable journalism is an industry in which a group of people with no specialized knowledge at all,
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by rohern 15y ago
At first blush, targeted advertising seems scary. Upon a second look, who cares? This isn't the Gestapo, they're trying to sell you hamburgers. So what if they know that you like Orson Scott Card? I like that Amazon occasionally introdu
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by rohern 15y ago
I agree entirely with magicalist. I've tried to get my head around the stink about real names on Google+ since it first went crashing through the internet, but it seems like people shouting about teacups being too small. The point of Googl
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by rohern 15y ago
I do not think it is VC inspired, but this article does take a strange tone. "glut of Web start-ups"? "A fundamental mismatch is now starting to show: While scores of Web companies were founded in recent years, there isn't enough venture c
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by rohern 15y ago
Give us another 417 days of your silence.
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by rohern 15y ago
The large-scale computational analysis of genomes both animal and vegetable is going to create an epoch in which it will be possible to cure or make chronic cancer, HIV, and some genetic disorders. Whether or not Monsanto's the devil, that
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by rohern 15y ago
I see. It would have been preferable for Cloudant to do business with Monsanto as long as they never talked about it. What possible difference could that make in the moral calculus? They're a small company that has found financial securit
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by rohern 15y ago
They're selling them data analysis. I cannot find in that a great moral question or hazard. I'm sure when Monsanto employees go about their daily lives they also are sold food, clothes, computers, cell phones... Nick O'Niell's analysis of
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by rohern 15y ago
I didn't submit an application for this round, but I filled one out just to try it out and I found the process very useful. It made it clear to me what needed to be done to make my idea appealing to an outsider and it made me realize one o
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by rohern 15y ago
He seems like one of the most lovable guys around. I've heard tales of students running into him buying hotdogs on campus at Berkeley. That's enough to make any engineering student's semester.
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by rohern 15y ago
I'm curious if anyone knows of any developers who now regularly use something like an iPhone/iPad (more likely the latter) to program. I know Paul Graham has written about this stage in the evolution of mobile devices, but is anyone doing
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by rohern 15y ago
Ha, and I thought I might have to time get ahead in my studying this week. This boom in programming contests for students is wonderful, but it's turning me into a huge nerd who does nothing on weekends but code and shout about algorithms.
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by rohern 15y ago
First time I've heard etiquette equated with ethics.
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by rohern 15y ago
Spawn more overlords!