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by swombat 11y ago
I would be very surprised if Apple and Facebook (and Google, with GMail, GTalk, Hangouts, etc) didn't use this golden opportunity to swing their weight about and assert who's really in charge of technology around here, by simply w
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by swombat 11y ago
Of course, you're assuming that the undercover drug lords are intelligent. Is this the case? Have they figured out how to make efficient use of the information resources at their disposal? Intriguing question.
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by swombat 11y ago
I see, so in that case I guess prison guards should be sent to jail for kidnapping and holding people against their will. I mean, if you're going to take your reasoning to its natural conclusion... Hint: violence is not illegal per aw,
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by swombat 11y ago
I think there is a pretty strong case that those are different. In the case of selling drugs (assuming that drugs are harmful, and so on, which is obviously debatable), then selling and delivering the drugs to users causes tangible harm tha
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by swombat 11y ago
Good news, but it still can be appealed, isn't applied immediately, etc. In the meantime, the spy agencies have complete unfettered access to everything, as I understand it.
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Not much harder to produce than the current street view maps that are almost everywhere...
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by swombat 11y ago
"A long way away" - only true in terms of linear extrapolations of current progress. Think in terms of exponential progress, and we're about 5 years from the majority of trips being done by self-driving car, IMHO. The benefit
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by swombat 11y ago
Interesting article, though it forgets the elephant in the room: self-driving cars. The two will probably work hand in hand, but it is unlikely, in my opinion, that any electric cars will be charging at home very much, because most electric
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by swombat 11y ago
From this page: > The European Commission is negotiating TTIP as openly as possible. > A final agreement would have 24 chapters, grouped together in 3 parts: > - Market access > - Regulatory cooperation > - Rules > And as
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by swombat 11y ago
Based on ExpiredLink's comment elsewhere in this thread, it doesn't seem like the deal is secret at all? Here's the EU page on it: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230
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by swombat 11y ago
Some people who retire die of it. Being told by society that you are no longer useful can kill. Obviously, that's not true of most people, but it does happen. However, I do think the main reason it happens is also because it is accompa
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by swombat 11y ago
It's part of the idea behind basic income. There are two major angles I think: economic and moral. Economically, there are a lot of costs that are taken out of the system if we implement basic income, everything from means-tested sup
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by swombat 11y ago
Apparently it's a misguided attempt to protect creators by preventing others from profiting from their work. Most of the professional bodies being "protected" are actually opposed to this, as I understand from an article I re
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by swombat 11y ago
http://www.maxwells-equations.com/ will answer all your questions... :-)
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by swombat 11y ago
Pretty obvious to the HN community, but perhaps worth making it obvious before this becomes a public thing that this is definitely not even remotely law-enforcement proof, just in case someone thinks of using this to tweet something illegal
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86% according to http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/why-ray-kurzweils-pre...
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by swombat 11y ago
First of all, as dangoor points out, the presentation linked to here lists a dozen companies, some including thousands of employees, operating by teal, hierarchy-of-people-free principles. Secondly, teal does not mean "flat hierarchy&q
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by swombat 11y ago
To be fair, the only example "where they left" is AES, where the leader was forced out by the shareholders and replaced with a more traditionally minded leader, so it's not the leader's absence which caused the reversion
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by swombat 11y ago
I started a company (GrantTree) that operates (or tries to operate) largely by the principles described in this book, though of course we have our own unique vision of it. A lot of it is described at http://danieltenner.com/
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by swombat 11y ago
I've lived in London since 2003. When I first came here, I was making £22k pa. I am making quite a bit more now after working for 12 years, but before my last business took off (in 2010) I was living just fine on about £1500/m aft
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by swombat 11y ago
> london, it’s over, and it’s not me, it’s you (the title itself) > At what point do we say enough's enough and actually realise we'd rather live in affordable cities? > But in 2011 I had to say 'fuck you London, our
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by swombat 11y ago
But there is load of residential demand. The population living in London is increasing all the time [1]. Certainly, there's also speculation, but the speculation is not unfounded, like those empty cities in China. People do want to liv
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by swombat 11y ago
Whatever goes up must come down. And it'll probably go back up again some time later. And then come back down. And back up. And so on, until we finally figure out how to genocide ourselves. Until then, what do you want to do? Freeze ev
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by swombat 11y ago
Good god, what a bitchy article - and quite sad to see that most of the response here is equally whiny. London is one of the world's top cities. That presents some substantial upsides, in terms of things like night-life, art, business
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Yeah, but in one of the world's top cities, asking for a 3-bed house with garden and fresh air - wtf, why not ask for a hunting forest while you're at it? Do you ask for a 3-bed house with garden in Manhattan? Do you think a 3-bed
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Per calendar month.
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Apparently that's very common in the US. Innocence is certainly no guarantee you'll win in the US criminal court system.
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Looking at the other side of the coin, perhaps also worth asking (even if the answer is a negative): Given what we know about the coercive nature of the plea system in the US, which frequently forces people to plead guilty even when they&#x
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by swombat 11y ago
There's not a lot to read in that paper abstract, and I'm not spending money to support an organisation that charges for access to scientific papers (and especially not for an internet argument!)... Based on the abstract, I see th
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by swombat 11y ago
No, he doesn't have a point. You can't just splice some genes and add 'language' and 'intelligence' into an existing organism. And you know this how? Because of the copious amounts of experiments that have be

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