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by ynniv 14y ago
Nah, Moore's law is still on schedule: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57541381-76/ibm-brings-car...
902.
by ynniv 14y ago
To think that there is one absolute best, and that it is the only version of something worth having is, to put it nicely, inaccurate. Curtis did not explicitly say that every other flatware was inferior, or that people who purchased them we
903.
by ynniv 14y ago
*The "monopoly" aspect isn't really relevant here. It's not If you're infringing it's because you're copying the design. Well that audacious. I'm will be less daring and say that with 500 patents, you are most certainly wrong about some of
904.
by ynniv 14y ago
The video would be truly compelling if he had repeatedly tapped from Romney to Stein. As it is, the video appears to show miscalibration, and only his testimony suggests fraud. If the video showed what he claimed, it would be lawsuit materi
905.
by ynniv 14y ago
So charging more for a temporarily scarce resource is what 'ruins societies'? Thoughtless adherence to an academic principal ruins societies. it would be much better for the government to give the poor person $60 to purchase the more exp
906.
by ynniv 14y ago
The parent wondered why the price of gasoline was not currently astronomically high to reduce demand to meet supply. My response is that this means of sharing a limited resource disproportionally burdens those less wealthy. Over the long te
907.
by ynniv 14y ago
The emphasis is on "strict", not on "capitalism".
908.
by ynniv 14y ago
No, substantive marketing campaigns are orders of magnitude more. And, it depends on how many new customers they get and how long drivers will cost extra. The just raised $50 mil, and the subways will be back in a week, two tops... do the m
909.
by ynniv 14y ago
If I were them, I would sink some of that massive VC into paying the difference as marketing. Keep prices stable, but ration rides based on how often people have used uber. ie, attract as many possible new customers.
910.
by ynniv 14y ago
Strict capitalism is heartless, and ruins society. If the only way to share is through dollars, the majority of the burden is placed on the poor. We pretend that capitalism is foundational because it is an easy way to control the vast compl
911.
by ynniv 14y ago
Amazing how people switch their principals regarding free markets when it suits them. Especially rich people. When consumer protection laws are drawn up, they will be the "end of America". When financial institutions have bankrupted themsel
912.
by ynniv 14y ago
You could have rsync'd it with a few days heads up, and freshened that in the last 90min.
913.
by ynniv 14y ago
Yes, some media players sound louder than others. I haven't verified, but I suspect that they achieve this by purposely increasing the gain and inducing clipping. That sounds dumb, but weak computer speakers can't compensate for low masteri
914.
by ynniv 14y ago
shuts down, has to reboot I don't think you understand how an EMP works. The article is about a microwave gun which is more selective but less effective than a nuclear EMP. The pulse causes extremely high voltage. Durable electronics (an
915.
by ynniv 14y ago
Or against the US... http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/07/22/Report-China-deve... Plus, I hear we don't practice the same kind of map-in-hand training that would be useful after an effective EMP.
916.
by ynniv 14y ago
[].slice.call(arguments) returning a new argument is fundamentally different because you would not want x.slice(1,2) to modify x in order to produce an appropriate sublist to return. Perhaps it's just me, but I expect a constructor to initi
917.
by ynniv 14y ago
a good time to point out that calling Object() without "new" returns a new object. This is often unexpected when creating inheritance schemes that chain the parent constructor. https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/pull/1269
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by ynniv 14y ago
Can't wait until self driving cars are Uber.
919.
by ynniv 14y ago
No, this post is the best kind of sales pitch. Instead of pitching his product, he uses it to create value for his clients. I found it an excellent read.
920.
by ynniv 14y ago
It's a niche definition that was long since co-opted to describe how people should be promoted. It now roughly means selection based on some manner of successful execution, as opposed to personality, or personal relation. The problem with u
921.
by ynniv 14y ago
I'm not sure why this person decided to redefine the essence of meritocracy to mean the biased notion of evaluated merit that keeps the powerful in power. This whole rant falls apart if you assume an honest desire to promote based on merit,
922.
by ynniv 14y ago
You're pandering, but you do raise the point that I should have said "worth considering". All speech is worth defending as free, but our time in life is limited and we must each be selective about what we spend it on. Whether or not you app
923.
by ynniv 14y ago
Most responses were zingers or did not show a basic understanding for what he said. They are noise, and noise is not worth defending. I take his argument as supporting individual merit, and condemning praise for the seemingly meritless base
924.
by ynniv 14y ago
Exactly. This is a ploy to spend money building our offensive weapons. Pork for a campaign contributor, sharp sticks for the intelligence agencies.
925.
by ynniv 14y ago
What the hell is a "defensive" "cyberweapon"? Are we going to shoot down an incoming SSH session? Poison a compromised SSL session? Like screaming aircraft in space, these people have no idea what cyber warfare looks like. How do they expec
926.
by ynniv 14y ago
Yes, this is a misstep for an app of this nature. Instapaper needs to support the iPad 1 for another cycle.
927.
by ynniv 14y ago
Are we really suggesting that people studying cosmic rays would not have already noticed a geometric pattern in their observations? If I were studying cosmic rays, and noticed what appeared to be pixelation in the universe, you would have
928.
by ynniv 14y ago
When pushing the envelope, anything better than catastrophic failure is success. That an engine exploded and both primary and secondary missions were still completed is fantastic.
929.
by ynniv 14y ago
... but you'll miss the joke on page 2
930.
by ynniv 14y ago
I think they were talking about touchdown. An aircraft that is landing approaches the ground quickly, levels off, and touches down at a couple of feet per second. An aircraft descending at 1,500 ft/min which no longer has control impacts th

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