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by sounds 15y ago
I have engineering training. But to really tell you whether the Prius is an improvement or not over a non-hybrid Corolla -- I'd need engineering data Toyota isn't going to release. And just narrowing it to that comparison is going to turn o
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by sounds 15y ago
I get really excited with the concept that our minds shape themselves around the tools we have available. I was going to start this reply with: where is there a forum/IRC/blog to work on this? And then I realized those might not be the righ
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by sounds 15y ago
It's debatable whether Jurassic Park is "great scifi" but Ian Malcolm says: "You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. There is no humility before nature. And because you can stand on the shoulders of gia
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by sounds 15y ago
Here are some places to start. You really need to research to come to a solid conclusion (your own conclusion). http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090419130916AA... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071028204335A
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by sounds 15y ago
If I can respectfully disagree, I believe content creation is unlimited. There's a quality-quantity curve, sure. Independent films make up for post-production quality by having great writing and acting. I feel this way because I'm convinced
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by sounds 15y ago
Although that's a fair first-order approximation, look here: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/1403529688x0x500... I'd break their costs down into per-byte costs and per-subscriber costs. The fixed content costs are only fixed u
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by sounds 15y ago
Might as well mention an earlier paulgraham.com: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html ("Great Hackers") - here's a tiny summary that misses a lot: - Some programmers (using paulgraham's term) are orders of magnitude more productive