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by stuki 12y ago
The appeals court argument seems reasonable, if applied in a more typical context of creative end user content. Mickey Mouse is copyrightable because he's not just any old mouse, but rather a specific one. But as for API's? Althou
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by stuki 12y ago
How do you even go about measuring "total energy in the system?" Intuitively, adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere should, in isolation, increase energy in the system. But what if we really were heading for a new ice age as
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by stuki 12y ago
You'd have to put an unusually high value on air cleanliness to argue that oil, period, and the scale economies it has enabled, has not have a net ROI in total. Whether the marginal added "value" to some, of commuting in a hu
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by stuki 12y ago
I like that thought. Assuming the heat exchange plumbing and attendant sensors could be made efficient and reliable enough to be relied on, the ability of panel designers to optimize their panels for operation in a tighter temperature band,
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by stuki 12y ago
With solar still a tiny fraction of the total mix, and with plenty of paid for, weather independent capacity already existing, it's likely more efficient to lean on those for when the sun don't shine. In the Southwest, where count
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by stuki 12y ago
Why would the 99% of people who are able to exit and enter a regular car, benefit from being carted around in a "fully accessible vehicle?" What's wrong with simply providing a transportation allowance, or means tested reimbu
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by stuki 12y ago
In BI, a similar tradeoff between lots of fancy preaggregation, versus optimizing search across the raw, un- (or lightly-) processed base data comes up quite frequently. Commonly, the choice of approach is dictated by the number of end user
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by stuki 12y ago
I have to say I think crypto currencies is an area where the keep it simple approach is extremely beneficial. If it means fever optimizations, and leads to a greater dependency on off chain transactions, so be it. For genuinely wide spread
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by stuki 12y ago
The Germans will say you need to take your eyes off the road for far too long to be safe in order to operate a touch screen, compared to using a scroll wheel with tactile feedback........
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by stuki 12y ago
Because pretty soon you will deal with a non US currency..... For a "datatype" as commonly needed as "money", it has always struck me as strange that a more standardized and widely agreed upon approach to dealing with th
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by stuki 12y ago
The groups at Apple who engage in patent lawsuits, are highly unlikely to be "practicing" much other than patent litigation. Similarly, if IV started selling statues of Nathan Myhrwold on the web as a new line of business, and hen
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by stuki 12y ago
MS and Sony (And Apple) themselves are one part tech companies building salable products, and one part patent trolls. Sum total, the existence of usurious IP laws are, by their management, perceived as at least as beneficial as it is onerou
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by stuki 18y ago
Don't know how transformational it has been yet, but I feel the idea that all side effecting code needs to be specifically noted by the programmer, a la Haskell, will one day be seen as a watershed. We're only at the very early stages of th
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by stuki 19y ago
Hmm.... Marc Andreesen claims the whole world (or at least Hollywood, but he gives no obvious reason why to stop there) will be rebuilt in Silicon Valley's image.... Tim O'Reilly seems to think finance is some subset of web2.0.... Facebook
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MVC Framework for ASP.NET(weblogs.asp.net)
1 points by stuki 19y ago|0 comments
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by stuki 19y ago
No Indian university?
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by stuki 19y ago
A nasty side effect of using a terse language for apps that are split between a nice, algorithmic core and verbose, overly generic library calls for UI and storage, is that the algorithmic part shrinks to an almost nonexistent fraction of
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by stuki 19y ago
Isn't it more a question of how much of your computer you are willing to expose without explicitly authorizing it? As long as webapps don't demand much, you let them bypass explicit installation. Even Gmail 'installs' something to run loca
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by stuki 19y ago
It's worse than that. Simply by operating shitty public schools 'for free', the ruling riff-raff is crowding out investment in private alternatives for the less than well off. With no public schools available and minimal to no regulation o
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by stuki 19y ago
Does anyone know of any regulatory or institutional reasons why it may be easier for a hedge fund than a venture fund to make truly speculative investments like this? Or is this (if even true) just a one off outlier?
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by stuki 19y ago
Mike Shedlock has some interesting background data: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-fact...
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by stuki 19y ago
In the US, most motorists are going 55-65, swerving across lanes in tractors with tinted windows, and have never heard of leaving the left lane to faster moving traffic. Also, the way most of America is laid out, every trip, even 'local' o
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Microsoft to Productize and Integrate F# with Visual Studio(blogs.msdn.com)
18 points by stuki 19y ago|4 comments
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by stuki 19y ago
It's pretty sad that thousands, maybe millions, of people may be wasting away in cubicles partially due to silly regulations regarding depreciation schedules for cubicles vs. permanent walls. It's also telling that Microsoft seems almost
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by stuki 19y ago
up to 10x10" metal parts from files downloaded from myGun.com... I guess the 1st amendment will only apply to states too, soon.
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by stuki 19y ago
How about Tallinn? Hardly a tech hub, but from what I have heard (never been there), a bit of a startup scene.
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by stuki 19y ago
Part of the reason for SV's attraction for tech startups (besides Stanford) was that it originally was a much more 'family friendly' place than contemporary San Francisco. Naked people, free flowing booze, drugs and late night parties are
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by stuki 19y ago
Once you found a cure, you could pick up a sword, or boxcutter, and force scientists to stop coming up with new viruses.
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by stuki 19y ago
....Imagine how powerful you could get by finding a cure for that virus....
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by stuki 19y ago
Foreigners, who almost by definition have less local knowledge than locals (duh), are more likely to be stuck overpaying for less than premium assets, rather than getting the prime ones. The most talked about European investments in the US

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