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by temphn 15y ago
Technological cul de sac and subsidized investment, yes. But looks like the Air France Concorde crash was due to debris on the runway rather than the plane itself. Or were you thinking of something else? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipe
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by temphn 15y ago
Yes, probably so. Facebook means that you can keep up with people (who's getting married, who moved, who had children) without emailing them. If you have 500 friends, each with a feed with 50 posts, you are talking about 25000 possible emai
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by temphn 15y ago
The craziest part was mentioning Guy Kawasaki (Guy Kawasaki!) in the same context as Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Ellison. Wow. Just goes to show the power of self-promotion.
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by temphn 15y ago
Sure. That's one of the best ways to visualize what Moore's law actually means in concrete terms. What used to take a room is now in the palm of your hand. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
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by temphn 15y ago
People have physically handled $100 bills and visited the WTC and Statue of Liberty. You want to explain abstractions in terms of concrete things like this, rather than in terms of other abstractions. And "GDP" is as abstract as it gets.
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by temphn 15y ago
Anonymous is leftist, not libertarian. They don't actually oppose government power when it comes to taking your money. Had they hacked the IRS or the SSA or the NYT or harvard.edu, we would see true gloves off behavior from the authorities.
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by temphn 15y ago
Of course there are. But I gather you doubt that there is significant variation in intelligence in the population at large, due to factors just as biological as those leading to the child/adult differential. That is the purpose of all this
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by temphn 15y ago
The US government (and governments in general) has/have killed many, many, many more people than Google (and corporations in general). Not sure why you think of them as so benevolent. Maybe you trust the agencies entrusted with our transpor
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by temphn 15y ago
It's always funny to see this kind of selective deference accorded to biology. Though there is no mention of an adult control group in this "study", I guess we are to extrapolate that one group (children) has neurological advantages over an
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by temphn 15y ago
Highly implausible "study". In reality unintelligent kids in gifted classes do very poorly. This is not about hope, it's about convincing kids who would be perfectly happy as mechanics to go into debt quixotically pursuing a degree in mecha
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by temphn 15y ago
I'm saying that it gives a sense of vertigo when an otherwise rational man propounds such laughably conventional PC views as if they were bold insights. The assumption of biological egalitarianism underpins the idea that all inequalities of
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by temphn 15y ago
You say "harassed", but the correct phrase is "hit on". Which makes all the difference in the world from a legal and moral perspective.
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by temphn 15y ago
> I am always conscious that I am being objectified sexually ...fat, bald guy Again, lack of introspection. You complain about being objectified sexually while dissing fat, bald (and no doubt short) guys. Of course men are going to obje
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by temphn 15y ago
Everyone, including Randall Munroe, is free to note the "obvious fact" that men make most unwelcome sexual advances. No one is free to note the "obvious fact" that men make most of the welcome technological advances.
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by temphn 15y ago
Exactly. You don't seem to be introspective enough to realize that your problem is thus not with "men", but with unattractive men. Pretty obligatory link: http://www.dailyhaha.com/_vids/sexual_harassment.htm It's not unwelcome if Tom Brad
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by temphn 15y ago
Randall Munroe is unfortunately often a professional white knight. Really bizarre how he understands that people differ in programming ability, but cannot countenance the possibility that there is not a completely uniform distribution of ab
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by temphn 15y ago
All your friends are on Facebook, so you don't have to search/find them on Skype. N-to-N video communication is now much easier. Default will be to use FB rather than the Skype client, especially once they add voice calls, conference calls,
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by temphn 15y ago
And the thought police come out. Tell me again who has power here: the people writing the headlines for the New Yorker? Or the poor HN engineer being forced yet again to don the sackcloth and ashes for having a Y chromosome? Women in gener
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by temphn 15y ago
Keynote's one minor-but-annoying limitation is that you can't change default parameters globally for animations.
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by temphn 15y ago
LaTeXit is pretty good for this purpose.
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by temphn 15y ago
Dissent and diversity in a company sounds great...till you realize that way leads to Yahoo/MSFT while hierarchy/command'n'control leads to Apple, Facebook, and the newly invigorated Google. Serious dissent between companies is good, but str
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by temphn 15y ago
1) OP's opinions about flight attendant pay are his. Others think it's a bit more exciting to fly around the world than to manage a McD's, and that pay isn't the only measure of comp. 2) There are many things OP could do besides starting hi
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by temphn 15y ago
> Its utterly ridiculous that some of the nicest, caring people in the airline industry have to deal with such people as the general public (myself included, of course) and yet make less money than a manager at a McDonalds franchise. Da
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by temphn 15y ago
Regulators were not MIA, they were all too present, forcing banks to extend risky loans by threatening anti-redlining lawsuits. The non-existent common sense was the premise that you shouldn't loan to people who can't pay. This common sense
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by temphn 15y ago
Re: the last point, under Clinton and then Bush, the old Carter era CRA law got new life poured into it. Deval Patrick (now MA mayor) was one of the key guys on this when he was at Justice, using a number of laws (including the CRA and othe
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by temphn 15y ago
Huh? Are you arguing that the italicized passage disproves what happened? The actual practice associated with the CRA had nothing to do with safe/sound operation, and everything to do with a system of penalties and incentives intended to ar
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by temphn 15y ago
The article lionizes prosecutors and demonizes Wall Street, even to the point of quoting Eliot Spitzer on honesty. It also goes on and on about the ethnicity of the accused in this case without ever mentioning the ethnicity of many of the p
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by temphn 15y ago
In their defense, the problem with U-deals is no where near as obvious as the problem with spamming. If they just offered a white label U-deal (get 20% off ice cream) without saying the brand, even if they had the particular brand in mind,
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by temphn 15y ago
You paste that link over and over again. I do not think it means what you think it means. And if you look at Thompson's 200+ papers, including the linked one that is the subject of the press release, you might be enlightened. For whatever i
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by temphn 15y ago
The Western European nations were developed before the Marshall Plan. The Plan did not build the countries in the first place. Re: colonialism, our fundamental difference may be that you may not believe wealth can be created (or destroyed)

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