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by rvkennedy 14y ago
When this story comes up, it serves me as a timely reminder to check The Oatmeal for new material. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
It's really only an accident of history that there's such a sharp division between humans and other animals in terms of intelligence and advanced culture. If we'd developed technology while there were still intermediate species like Austral
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
They had the right to self-determination, just as the 13 rebel colonies did in seceding from Britain. But they gave up that right a-priori by enslaving an entire section of their population. The same could be argued about the American Revol
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Princess Leia hologram could become reality(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
The property prices, and thus rents, are why Silicon Roundabout will have a very hard time building a true startup ecosystem in London. Young people just starting out are paying most of their monthly income on rent. How can they be encourag
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Now this is getting interesting. For a decentralized virtual currency: A person that creates units of this convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods and services is a user of the convertible virtual curre
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
The point is that if cancer and heart disease are disease of aging, but were rare in paleolithic times, then a life expectancy lower than the age at which they are expected to strike does not preclude the possibility that there were other f
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Reading through the sci-fi tropes of this article, they could have just gone with "2013 is the same as 1988 but with networked computers", and saved a great deal of paper. 25 years is not remotely long enough for a city in the developed wor
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Rome conclave: New Pope chosen by cardinals(m.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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Not A Cloud In Sight(gamesindustry.biz)
1 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Tim's key quote: "If we don't put the hooks for the use of DRM in… people will just go back to using Flash." - this underestimates the momentum at play, and the fact that developers have already found ways to monetize HTML-based content.
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What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM(guardian.co.uk)
15 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|2 comments
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
They are paying out: Settle all open positions and calculate the settled account value of all Member accounts immediately.
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Hype Cycle(gartner.com)
1 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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Make Apps that Make Products with the New Shapeways 3D Printing API(shapeways.com)
3 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
> "Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement." -- pg [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347 ]. As I can find no reference to this in the guidelines, I guess this unofficial statement is the best we will get. Not a go
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Yes. Create your solution, if it's better than what exists. But if the existing solution is mature, yours must not only have better ideas, but it must also be mature and functional if you hope for others to use it. To create a product , no
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Deploying PHP Apps to Heroku(gravitywell.co.uk)
1 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
It improves their behaviour. I have lost count of the number of mailing lists I have had to unsubscribe because I simply used their product, without explicitly asking to be put on the list. That's spam, whether they bought my email, or ju
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Have I "abused" your internal mental rules of email behaviour? I don't care. Perhaps it's analogous the way that you have abused the downvote feature on HN to express your disagreement with my point, but I think I have more justification. A
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Energy backed currencies? Energy is in a constant state of flux from low to high-entropy states. And 50-100 years from now, energy will be the one thing that isn't in short supply, given that the sun sends more of it our way per year than w
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
When I click "unsubscribe", I expect to be unsubscribed. If I just get a page that invites me to enter my email, which the page should know already, I find it's easier, and vastly more satisfying, just to mark the mail as spam.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
And a big HN welcome to the Pets.com of the second internet bubble!
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Italy's web guru tastes power as new political movement goes viral(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by rvkennedy 14y ago|0 comments
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I have to say I've been wondering for a while what happened to LinkedIn - what used to be a great service has lately taken to a great deal of UI misbehaviour and dysfunction - to the extent that I'm now relucant to go near it for fear of it
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
It is by no means clear that this is the accepted view of the mainstream of climate scientists - the linked papers seem to be the work of a couple of groups banging the drum against the Gulf Stream. I'd wait a while before accepting this as
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Actually it's because so many cyclists break the rules that do apply to them: running red lights, cycling on the pavement (sidewalk), and so on. And this is why pedestrians often feel the same animosity towards cyclists that drivers do.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I also attended some HN meetups in Munich and those worked very well. You show up, you talk to people. The organizers set aside a short time for anyone who wanted to talk about their project to do so, apart from that it was just a meetup, f
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I enjoyed the last one of these I went to, but it's not much of a networking event. You can get a bit of meet-and-greet in between the speaker talks, but everyone pretty much left after the last one, as the venue closed down. Anyone who wan
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
For 18.5 billion, I'd be surprised if they had anything left.

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