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by swombat 12y ago
Well, let's not be harsh before these guys even have a chance to get off the ground! Nice idea. Very competitive space, hard to make a dent. Good luck, see you in a year or two!
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by swombat 12y ago
It's really notch's business rather than anything we should be interested or commenting on. Feels very gossip-rag-like to see this on here. Let the man splurge on a flashy house if that's what he feels like doing. I don'
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by swombat 12y ago
Both avenues must be pursued. One without the other is useless. Pursuing the technical-only approach will fail if the use of such technology is made illegal.
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by swombat 12y ago
One possibility I've heard aired on Twitter, which I find somewhat disturbing (it's telling of my current distrust of state actors that I even consider this highly paranoid scenario a possibility), is that this will be used as a s
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by swombat 12y ago
> AFAIK that barrier of good taste has never been crossed by Hollywood before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_%282006_fi... I'm sure there are earlier precedents too, but this one comes to
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by swombat 12y ago
Are you saying you're not currently very concerned about the future of the human race?
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by swombat 12y ago
We're only "golden" until an unfortunate gamma ray blast occurs somewhere nearby and wipes out life on Earth in moments.
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by swombat 12y ago
> Taken to the extreme, you could even reason that all life on Earth could be the product of one of these machines. Hah, hilariously ironic. "Where is alien life in the universe? Are we the only ones?" continually bemoan the
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by swombat 12y ago
For those eager to read ahead, they are very, very careful in this article not to imply in any way that this is definitely from any sort of living sources. > Organic molecules, which contain carbon and usually hydrogen, are chemical bui
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by swombat 12y ago
The case you mention is clearly exceptional. It does not explain the huge rise in obesity over the last few decades. To clarify: when I say "obesity is a moral disease" I'm talking about obesity as a social trend, not a speci
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by swombat 12y ago
Obesity is absolutely a moral disease, in the sense that you don't get fat without eating yourself fat, as well as a disease of our society, in terms of our society producing foods that encourage people to eat themselves fat. Broader f
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by swombat 12y ago
One might not have encountered Shanley Kane and her lot then.
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by swombat 12y ago
Thanks for clarifying your statement. Imho it's worth reading through both sides of the case with an open mind. I believe the only sensible conclusion is that at least one side is lying very unashamedly. So on one side you have a multi
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by swombat 12y ago
Ah, so you're one of these people who flag things you find objectionable on ideological grounds, rather than spam/idiocy/etc? Because dissenting views should be silenced. I'm sure you think you're a nice guy too.
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by swombat 12y ago
Actually a surprisingly data-rich article, though a bit overly polemic...
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by swombat 12y ago
> as found as fact by a court of law That is false. There was no court of law. The internal investigation found that there was no substance to the allegations of sexual harassment, but there was evidence of other inappropriate behaviou
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by swombat 12y ago
Firefox is already pretty heavily customisable through XUL and, of course, is open source so you can modify every aspect of it...
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by swombat 12y ago
This seems to be the summary of every tech flame war ever, and applies rather well here: A: I've used tech X in a lot of Y contexts, and I find it's not great. I will generalise slightly imply that tech X is not the panacea that i
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by swombat 12y ago
> Isn't that what KickStarter does? And a whole bunch of other crowdfunding sites in the UK - Crowdcube, Seedrs, etc. I don't know what the equivalents are in the US, but I'm sure they exist...
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The concept of work/life balance is toxic to your personal progress(danieltenner.com)
9 points by swombat 12y ago|1 comments
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by swombat 12y ago
I for one totally trust the US military leadership to see things from this point of view and move all those troops out, rather than figuring out excuses and pretexts for keeping the bases there.
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by swombat 12y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't read through the entire thing (just the first 3 pages or so), but I have been on the receiving end of entirely spurious threats of lawsuit. All of this needs to be read with some measure of skepticism. However, th
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by swombat 12y ago
Except that's easily solved, by going there with someone who's been there before...
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by swombat 12y ago
How did you end up with $1m of personal debt? That seems like an epic disaster, worth telling the tale to allow others to avoid making that sort of mistake. For my part, in 2 failed businesses I never went more than £10k or so into personal
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by swombat 12y ago
Of course I (and the OP) can build one ourselves... but I want one that's easy to use. Ideally, just plug it in and configure its wifi access, and create some kind of "peer group" for it that my friends can join remotely with
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by swombat 12y ago
I actually wrote an article on the topic, funnily enough... http://swombat.com/2010/12/6/get-better-at-writing
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by swombat 12y ago
Looks like your learning is still valid for another couple years - this isn't being released any time soon, and in fact won't run in most of today's browsers. Two years in internet-time is a long time! For all you know, civil
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by swombat 12y ago
We're in England, the NHS pays for most of this stuff here. Obviously no one is being forced to share their personal issues. All I'm arguing about here is whether someone's needs should be a part of the equation determining t
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by swombat 12y ago
> I don't believe you have any reason to pay people more than they are worth. That would be bad for your business and is not credible if we exclude nepotism. > So, by admitting that you pay people different amounts for the sam
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by swombat 12y ago
Educating doesn't always come from expensive schools and degrees.

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