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by wes-exp 14y ago
Ecuador falls into the same category as the US in the current Press Freedom Index. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Also, planes need to continually lift your weight against gravity. There is vertical force that needs to be produced in addition to the normal horizontal travel.
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A good start, but needs a way to distinguish between fat types (unsaturated/saturated/etc.). No way to minimize saturated fat consumption.
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We could define a "friends and family" database as a device-local database limited to recognizing up to n people. Any database that can recognize > n people, or is made accessible over a network, would be prohibited. This would allow fo
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by wes-exp 14y ago
This is what I meant when I said it wouldn't be perfect. There are serious challenges, as you have pointed out. In the case of kinect, perhaps small "friends and family" personal use databases could still be allowed. But large-scale databas
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If it turns out there is a compelling public interest, I think privacy could be protected by law rather than disappearing. For instance, it could become illegal to operate a facial recognition database except for research purposes. No doubt
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by wes-exp 14y ago
I'm not a historian, but my understanding is that within the context of the Nazi's rise to power, they were actually a right wing party.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
What about creating a system of income-based drug pricing? If done correctly, this wouldn't even hurt profits... it would maximize them. And, everyone gets treated. Win/win. Note that pharma companies already try to do this (because price d
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Databases are often excellent for interoperability. This happens all the time in business environments; e.g. a reporting tool can access an application's data using the database as the middle man. Files, on the other hand, often have peculi
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This. I would like to see the amortized costs of running reserved instances 24/7 for their full reservation period.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Actually, APL programmers do code with a screen full of symbols. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_triangle#APL I'm beginning to think your mom is smarter for not knowing how to code, because she hasn't been biased yet by exposure to
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by wes-exp 14y ago
For the record, I was mostly serious. I was half-joking about the Lisp part. This is not really related to your comment, but just to clarify: I'm serious that coding using just 's' doesn't sound that unreasonable. If you're a professional p
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I, for one, applaud Jeff's attempt at deflating the hype bubble around programming. There are plenty of useful skills in the world to learn. Programming is one.
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I don't think he means that learning plumbing is a bad idea. I think his point is just that a big hype cluster around learning plumbing would seem silly. There are a lot of useful skills in the world. Programming is one. Plumbing is another
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by wes-exp 14y ago
To be fair, all programs sort of get reduced to 1s and 0s. Given this fact, I don't consider the idea of coding only with the letter 's' that much of a stretch. You know, in lisp I code with parentheses!
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Well, whatever the population figures, something creates an overabundance of single men. This must create a drag on the reproductive rate. Also, what you're saying might apply to SF itself, but not necessarily to South Bay / Silicon Valley.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Also, not as many women => not as many babies supporting population growth.
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How do you make an idea portable?
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by wes-exp 15y ago
You had me at "The Slow Web Movement". I'm sold!
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On work, I believe Steve Jobs put it better: "You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to d
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by wes-exp 15y ago
IIRC, assuming Obamacare is still intact come 2014, health insurers will not be able to discriminate against pre-existing conditions.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
The currently front-paged Julia claims to have macros in a non-lisp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606380
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Seems like there have been a variety of attempts to introduce lisp-style macros into non-lisp languages that use traditional syntax rather than s-expressions. I can see how this can succeed for simple macros without sacrificing much. Howeve
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by wes-exp 15y ago
The US is still a great place for business, IMO, but sometimes I feel like I should be wearing one of those t-shirts that says "I'm with stupid", with an arrow pointing to DC.
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Whether iBooks is a good thing or a bad thing is beside the point. All I'm trying to do is point out the possibility that O'Reilly be could biased against Apple due to his business concerns as a book publisher.
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I raise the point that O'Reilly may have a business conflict of interest with respect to Apple and I get downvoted? Really?
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This is the second time recently that Tim O'Reilly has publicly blasted Apple. Before this it was something about OS X. I wonder how Tim feels about iBooks? Perhaps what's really upsetting is the thought that book publishers will become obs
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I made the assumption based on the idea that industrialization has historically provided better living standards than an agricultural way of life. If that is not actually happening, please forgive me for my ignorance of the situation. Maybe
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For all the focus on the negative, what about the fact that millions of people are being lifted up out of abject poverty? Even a long-hours factory job with some safety risks could be better than facing starvation. Not saying conditions cou
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For those with custom hardware setups like this, how much time do you estimate you've spent designing, building, and maintaining custom servers? I can see how it would be less effort than sharding, but it seems like throwing hardware at the

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