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by wes-exp 14y ago
Besides lag, computerized vision could be seriously distracting. People already nearly get hit by cars staring into their smartphones.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
FWIW, I get (and got) the point. Restating the gp's arguments doesn't somehow make them more true. But let me clarify my own point. Suppose that industry X is the best industry to be in from a long term income and investment point of view,
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by wes-exp 14y ago
if you're in technology, you shouldn't be investing in tech companies Warren Buffett avoided investing in technology companies during the dot-com tech bubble because he didn't understand them. So according to the most legendary investor o
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Personally I think the world is drunk with "code fever". We are creatures of overreaction. Not too long ago it was "no one learn to code! it's all going to be outsourced to India!" Now, "I'm starting a non-profit to spread the gift of codin
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Lisp has had keyword arguments since at least the 80's. Ruby 2.0 adds them and this is supposed to be the "new" hotness? Get off my lawn!
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by wes-exp 14y ago
I appreciate a minimalist UI design. I really do. But I don't see it as mutually exclusive to providing genuinely useful features. IMO craigslist could add a number of features w/o sacrificing its core minimalism. Case in point: would you p
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Ask yourself this: how long did it take craigslist to deliver a basic feature, maps? Every scrappy web startup has had some kind of maps mash-up since 2004. Craigslist only recently added maps, seemingly because padmapper was so useful that
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Agreed. Craigslist masquerades as some kind of pseudo non-profit (".org") like it's doing the world a favor being a barebones piece of crap. But the reality is that it's an entrenched monopoly squatting on a huge piece of economic land and
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by wes-exp 14y ago
"we spend so much time of our days dealing with viruses and general Windows headaches" Rather than maintaining all this enterprise stuff to fight off the Windows tar-pit of viruses and dreaming of a day of MS Office on Linux, why don't yo
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by wes-exp 14y ago
As you've mentioned, Thunderbolt solves the problem. However, I don't consider being limited to one monitor much of a problem anymore. Years ago dual screens made sense when we had squarer width/height ratios and the economics of two screen
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by wes-exp 14y ago
College professors tend to be recruited based on their ability to do research and get grants, so measuring them on teaching performance is non-threatening. However, the situation is different in K12. Bill Gates has been able to apply his me
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by wes-exp 14y ago
No, it means they use Windows :)
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by wes-exp 14y ago
I've noticed the same thing. I apologize in advance if this is completely off-base, but, my personal theory is that due to tptacek's work in security, he is afraid to take a harder stance against government wrongdoing. Perhaps this would ri
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by wes-exp 14y ago
"While at Stanford, Swartz had worked with a law student to download all the law review articles in the Westlaw database, to map funders of research with research conclusions. The result of that research was published in the Stanford Law Re
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Kerr's writeup also relies on "pre-crime", heaping punishment on Aaron for something he might do (release the documents publicly), but, crucially, never did. I do think it's a strong possibility that Aaron intended to do so, but I also ha
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Yes, but the point is that allowing people to directly petition the government via gathering signatures, which then triggers a public vote of the citizens, does not lead to quagmire. Far from it.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
We have direct democracy in California and the world isn't ending. I think essentially you just gather enough signatures for an issue and it gets put to a direct vote on the same ballot as the presidential elections. Although it's by no mea
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by wes-exp 14y ago
What don't I like? For starters, the exterior is basically a knock-off of the Macbook Air. This type of crummy me-too design is consistent with other products considered cheap crap. Next, in terms of functionality, I am to understand that t
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by wes-exp 14y ago
What is it about the Chromebook that you prefer over the Air?
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by wes-exp 14y ago
One probably wouldn't think the "Better Business Bureau" (BBB) is a scam, either. But the BBB is known for shaking down businesses and having them pay up to obtain a good rating. As is Yelp. I think the real problem here is trusting ratings
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Never underestimate the selling power of cheap crap.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
No, they just "... ordered agents to wiretap and spy on his hotel rooms and his private home; ... pushed newspapers to publish sordid details about King’s relations with women other than his wife just before he won the Nobel Peace Prize". O
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Just takes effort Yes, but effort takes time. Time is a luxury that not everyone can afford.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Keep in mind it has been designed for tablets and phones though This actually highlights one of my pet peeves: that web pages need special "mobile enhanced" versions. 90% of the time, a "mobile web page" is just worse than the original.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
... participation in FB is voluntary. Facebook is used as the exclusive sign-on system for various services besides Facebook itself. For instance, Spotify uses it, and last I checked it is not possible to use Spotify at all without using
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Agreed! This happens with my own app as well! Apparently the app title , even when an exact match to your search query, is no longer considered important. If there is one thing Apple truly fails at, it is search.
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by wes-exp 14y ago
What does it matter whether the entities doing the suing have no other business? By analogy, what does it matter that mobsters are able to demand "protection" money from legitimate businesses? If it was their right to threaten and demand
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by wes-exp 14y ago
The law doesn't require you to do anything with your property rights. Even if true in some technical sense, the whole point of laws, government, and so on, is to structure society in a way that works well. If that isn't happening, the law
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by wes-exp 14y ago
Let's speculate: - People gaming the system to inflate "downloads" or whatever metric is used to determine payouts. - Politicians pushing their views on others reaches a whole new level when they decide which media should be produced. - For
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by wes-exp 14y ago
I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Google products lately, and stuff like this is a big part of that. Once a company gets pushy and in your face trying to get you to use their stuff, it can really backfire. It seems like we're a long

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