squonk

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by squonk 14y ago
I am not sure if it is irony, or destiny.
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by squonk 14y ago
How much of Japan's population syndrome is directly assignable to Japan's unique policies, versus the nature of first world countries in general? Japan's population has been essentially flat for the last 6 years: 127,773,000 in 2005, 127,81
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by squonk 14y ago
That's pretty disingenuous. 23 million Americans have used drugs/alcohol to the point of needing treatment: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/08/study-22-million-am... That's 7% of the population, including children under 12. Take th
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by squonk 14y ago
I keep imagining the technology used with recreational vehicles. Spend a day as a tourist in Chicago. Hop in the RV and go to sleep. Wake up in Memphis. Visit Elvis, enjoy waffles & fried chicken, then hit the hay and wake up the next d
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by squonk 14y ago
Here's another Internet Fiction Discovery. You may recall it: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...
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by squonk 14y ago
For 10 years I've been driving home from work in Silicon Valley thinking, "I am living in the future."
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by squonk 14y ago
Not sure about the logic of this: "They will live in a world where China and India will have 50 percent of the world GDP. They will live in a world where, if they cannot function successfully in the Asian culture, they will pay a heavy pric
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by squonk 14y ago
Data Points: Since 1970, global population increased by 91% Since 1970, global aggregate GDP increased by 540% (in constant $) I think that means that 540/1.91 = ~2.8x increase in per-person productivity on a global basis over the last 40 y
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by squonk 14y ago
Retail is not going away. It is evolving. Big box stores killed the mom & pops. Online retailers killed the big box stores: Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Blockbuster, Tower Records. WalMart is right to be concerned. Consume
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by squonk 14y ago
Facebook will apply the data from each account to the Turing Test. Start with a database of 67.5 years of e-mail, tweets, photos, voice mail, video mail, geo-location, blogs, purchase history, social networks, all from one person. Then add
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by squonk 14y ago
Maybe not a surprise, but definitely unexpected, was the number of systems where, over time, the incremental features had overtaken the original architecture, but the vendor would not fund a new implementation. I've seen 15 year-old systems
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by squonk 14y ago
There are attributes of American society that enable the country to excel, and which have nothing to do with quality of public education. First, parents in general are less active in managing their kids' time than other countries. Kids have
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by squonk 14y ago
First, this is a message to middle school kids. It is a solid message: Determine what you love to do and give it all you have. It is true that what you achieve in that pursuit will be mitigated by your actual talent for it, life circumstan
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by squonk 14y ago
You need to call. Recruiters are verbal. Reading? Not so much.
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by squonk 14y ago
There is some truth to this. I've been receiving 'delayed' notices on mail to aramco.com e-mail addresses for several days.
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by squonk 14y ago
Going from Kickstarter/prototype to China is too big a step. Small companies can not manage the constant hops across the Pacific to keep things moving. Prototyping shops like http://www.techshop.ws/ are/will feed directly into US-based c
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by squonk 14y ago
It is a compassionate approach.
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by squonk 14y ago
It's really about management. Companies evolve as they grow and the magic sauce that took them from Start up to Successful is not the same sauce that takes them from $1 Billion to $10 Billion and then $10 Billion to $100 Billion. Moreover,
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by squonk 14y ago
I told her not to move and dashed for the camera. Then we talked about what she wanted to sell (ice cream) and who she wanted to sell it to (people from Germany [I was traveling there frequently at the time]). I work from home when not trav
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by squonk 14y ago
There is an awesome one at Tokyo Station (Chuo line?) Up about two stories, then horizontal for 10 meters, then up another two stories. Ya, I could spend hours on that one....
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by squonk 14y ago
Implies that conversations will no longer center on facts. Will we find ourselves talking more about politics, love, art and philosophy?
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by squonk 14y ago
I've become interested in evolutionary psychology. Not at all expert, but when one considers the survivability of children in ancient (pre-historic) environments, seems logical that children increased the likelihood of survival by mimicking
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by squonk 14y ago
Haven't played it, to my regret. Seems like, loosely speaking, chasing down sunken treasure, or possibly wildcatting for oil can offer precedent in some form. The notion of 'international waters' perhaps can apply to space. However, someone
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by squonk 14y ago
The technology to discover and retrieve minerals from asteroids is likely to be simpler than resolving politics and economics of it: In order to sell the minerals, there must be a way to attain ownership. How does one come to own an asteroi