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by thefool 16y ago
It seems like it would be very easy for people to get on the wrong mini train and end up leaving at the wrong place, because it would likely take significantly more time to get ready for a disembark.
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by thefool 16y ago
As someone who knows very little about compilers, is there any good place to read up on the very basic terminology and such (what a parser is, what they mean by code generation, and get a rough outline how code goes from language to somethi
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by thefool 16y ago
But this isn't govt mandatated right? Its just a printer manufactures internal policy as I understand it.
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by thefool 16y ago
The counter (counter) argument is that maybe college shouldn't cost so damn much in the first place (and for a large part aid structures at top schools (that can afford it) have been changing in line with this argument). She probably got th
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Why doesn't apple make its electronics under fair trade conditions?(zdnet.com)
2 points by thefool 16y ago|0 comments
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by thefool 16y ago
Exactly, in this, the rich only get richer if they continue posting valid comments. Otherwise they get poor real fast.
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by thefool 16y ago
Yeah, but its also really nice to have a decent sized screen when actually trying to read and think. I'm sure that it will make books cheaper, as it will remove much of the distribution overhead, but the fact remains that writing a text boo
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by thefool 16y ago
There will still be authors, its just that their income will come from speaking gigs and merchandising.
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by thefool 16y ago
I'd imagine that there is not as much of a hacker culture in terms of techy projects.
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by thefool 16y ago
Limiting unscrupulous funding seems like the better option. There's no reason for DARPA and NIST to be what funds all the coolest tech, it could be some other govt sector.
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by thefool 16y ago
Who are you kidding, the resistance is going to have open source versions of all these things shooting back.
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by thefool 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
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by thefool 16y ago
There were two great quotes from the math book i used last semester. The first was the most mathematicians equate geometry with understanding. In otherwords, if you can describe (draw) a picture that represents what you are talking about,
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by thefool 16y ago
I guess one argument that it would also counter this: https://www.foldershare.com/ , but I don't know if that has any widespread use. There are probably better fits than with apple.
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by thefool 16y ago
Exactly, they are different products.
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by thefool 16y ago
So whats the solution?
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by thefool 16y ago
The other alternative is to increase grants and incentives to push the breakthrough faster. I've heard people say that there is still much to invent in terms of making a better power source, which made it seem as though it was simply a prob
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by thefool 16y ago
What happens if it does (go bust)???
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by thefool 16y ago
Several people asked below what viable alternatives there are for small sites. I know that project wonderful ( http://www.projectwonderful.com/ ) is one that has a reasonably large following.
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by thefool 16y ago
One, of the many, interesting quotes: "We must shift America from a 'needs' to a 'desires' culture, people must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old has been completely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in Ame
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The Century Of Self: Happiness Machines. The Birth of Consumerism [video](video.google.com)
7 points by thefool 16y ago|4 comments
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by thefool 16y ago
honestly this is just frightening.
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by thefool 16y ago
He meant that if you ever catch yourself in a conversation where no one knows anything about the subject matter, you should end the conversation.
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by thefool 16y ago
Exactly, torrent-able, but not google-able.
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by thefool 16y ago
Haha, I actually think the spinner looks better in HTML5, so thats a plus.
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by thefool 16y ago
did anyone reading understand what problem the article is actually referring to? Some complicated differential equation?
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by thefool 16y ago
the sad part it, it seems as though this spill is getting comparatively little attention compared to other disasters. Hell, this will probably much more damaging than Katrina in the long term, but the difference in the levels of conversati
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by thefool 16y ago
I would possibly be interested.
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by thefool 16y ago
From my understanding, their plan was to first figure out what they wanted to do before they do it. If I was them, I would spend the next few weeks figuring out what it is their building. Having a blog is probably a great idea for them thou
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by thefool 16y ago
Thinking that what you are doing is "Serious Business" is a great way to be really inefficient. Good stuff comes out of organization, great stuff comes of inspiration, which only comes from playing with ideas. Theres a great Feynman quote f

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