turs0und

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Bill Gates: The private sector is completely inept(salon.com)
2 points by turs0und 11y ago|0 comments
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by turs0und 11y ago
Interesting, I didn't realize Bernanke's performance is considered a disappointment. It's interesting to read the phrase "full prosperity" used so casually; I guess there's a specific definition of that. It&#x2
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Wow. This is mind-blowing. I've actually seen the "No more buwwets" episode. I just can't imagine pointing a gun at someone and firing without having personally seen that there were no more bullets, unless you actually d
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by turs0und 11y ago
"Thanks to an intricate series of gears and dials, the mechanism could be used as a calendar, to track the phases of the moon, and to predict eclipses." That's pretty crazy. It would be really cool to understand more about ho
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by turs0und 11y ago
That's pretty cool. It would be even cooler if it weren't PHP, though.
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by turs0und 11y ago
Really insightful. I can definitely picture the person "listening" while they're really just waiting to sell the person on an idea once they've finished. Taking the mindset of true reflection, hearing something that you
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by turs0und 11y ago
It's incredible to me how Encyclopedia Britannica just couldn't conceive of it being a legitimate thing. I think that really exemplifies how larger companies don't bother to compete with startups that end up destroying them.
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by turs0und 11y ago
This is pretty sweet. A lot of people get addicted to OTC sleep aides. Maybe this will lead to better, more targeted help for people with sleep problems, and not have them get addicted to things that don't even really help.
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by turs0und 11y ago
Nice concrete walkthrough of an otherwise abstract concept. I'm not sure the source of code complexity that I worry about most is the number of possible state transitions, but that does seem like a legitimate source of complexity. It w
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by turs0und 11y ago
Assuming they did not do it, does anyone know why Islamic militant groups claim responsibility for this stuff?
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by turs0und 11y ago
"This is not a difference of degree, it is a difference of kind. It is why there is probably not an evolutionary path from the cruise/autopilot systems based on existing ADAS technologies to a real robocar." Really interestin
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by turs0und 11y ago
This doesn't strike me as a problem. Large companies also shut down initiatives and projects, and everyone knows that startups are inherently risky, because they don't have a business model yet.
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by turs0und 11y ago
Wow, feel the Google wrath. My view of Symantec is that it's an over-the-hill tech company that has its hands deep enough in enough enterprise stuff that it stays alive. I'd love to see someone animate a video of Google battling S
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by turs0und 11y ago
I don't mean this negatively, but I don't understand what point you're making...
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Haha, nice
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by turs0und 11y ago
Who knows, good old Microsoft may want to put more cash down than FB or others on an app that gave then a legit piece of millennial mobile activity.
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by turs0und 11y ago
Quoted from article: “You grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, b
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by turs0und 11y ago
Good old free enterprise competition! It's interesting that Amazon has decided that the strategic value of limiting access to these products by removing from Amazon is more valuable to them than the revenue and engagement from people p
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by turs0und 11y ago
It really blows your mind how it's all about the government trying to increase their power at the expense of everyone else.
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by turs0und 11y ago
Got rid of my facebook account a few years ago and haven't looked back since.
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by turs0und 11y ago
The extent to which an app can add something that seems like a non-feature (it takes a selfie of the viewer's reaction) then try to build a business out of it is truly amazing to me. Wow.
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by turs0und 11y ago
This feels like an over-simplification. Life doesn't fit into 4 quadrants, and the only thing models are guaranteed to do is be inaccurate. "One thing" and "well" are fundamentally subjective and based on a particul