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by yungchin 17y ago
That's nice rhetoric, but the fact is that there's no us and them, there's only us. We've had a monetary union for about a decade now - we opted-in on sharing each others pains. Krugman thinks the euro was a bad idea to begin with, you migh
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by yungchin 17y ago
Sadly you may well be right. I was just looking through Berkshire Hathaway's Annual Report 2008 the other night, and here's a crisp bit (page 18): "...only companies having problems that can infect the entire neighborhood – I won’t mention
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by yungchin 17y ago
For me the key property that defines spam is that it is unsolicited. I'm the one going to Google to receive a dose of that "scraped content with ads", they don't come and bug me with it. For the same reason, all the content this guy is rant
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by yungchin 17y ago
Well, in their defence, they're quoting an external source verbatim (of course, a footnote pointing out the error would have still been nice).
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by yungchin 17y ago
This sort of sums up why I care: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to...
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by yungchin 17y ago
Thanks - the AP link doesn't work (maybe because I'm not in the US?) and sends me to a page to select which state I'm in, but this link does.
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The lost souls of telecommunications history(arstechnica.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Identifying website visitors through "history stealing(identityblog.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Cisco's Backdoor For Hackers(forbes.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Sharing code between projects with git-subtree(psionides.jogger.pl)
7 points by yungchin 17y ago|1 comments
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Bradley Kuhn: I Think I Just Got Patented(ebb.org)
25 points by yungchin 17y ago|16 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
For everyone like me who didn't understand the difference between an individual in a high k-shell and a hub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-core clarifies it nicely. (it didn't help for searching that core and shell got interchanged :)) T
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by yungchin 17y ago
I'm not sure of how much value the anecdote of the Raphael painting could be to a more worldly product - I've never understood the "economics of art". But I thought I'd put it out here because it is intriguing enough.
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Why product doesn't determine price(blog.businessofsoftware.org)
4 points by yungchin 17y ago|1 comments
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Time-To-Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom(techcrunch.com)
13 points by yungchin 17y ago|4 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
I guess he forgot to add this corollary: If you can't make your product a frequent-use product, use somebody else's sign-on system (Google, Facebook Connect...).
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by yungchin 17y ago
> Since you disagree, how about providing a list of specific experts in political science or economics who you'd let run your life. Better yet, which politicians would you let control your life? If you put it that way, the answer is, of
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by yungchin 17y ago
I had similar thoughts when I saw this. It made me think of that old Audi case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#Unintended_accelerat...
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by yungchin 17y ago
That's all very true, I agree. But my point wasn't that they're good at what they do; my point was that they may still be better at it than we are for ourselves. You wrote "If you disagree with me about what's in my best interest, it's far
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by yungchin 17y ago
Exactly why is that more likely? When you're in hospital, would you say the same thing to your doctor? Why would a trained political scientist / economist not know what's good for you - within the domain of their expertise? I'm not saying y
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by yungchin 17y ago
I really wouldn't know if you're right or wrong about healthcare reform, but in the context of the BBC article, I wonder: do you think many voters made their decisions based on the sort of arguments that you put forward here? I'm inclined t
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by yungchin 17y ago
Yes, I realised it's old, but it occurred to me that the ideas proposed in it have aged well - don't you think?
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Open-source game development(talula.demon.co.uk)
6 points by yungchin 17y ago|2 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
Hehe, thanks :) I was hesitant whether this would be good HN etiquette, but then I figured that it's actually quite on-topic, and that it would be ok if I didn't spam a HN-thread link but a direct link to the article. I realise it's still a
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by yungchin 17y ago
In this more recent essay, Lawrence Lessig discusses how the copyright system might be reformed to prevent the same kind of issues Stallman exposes in the above: http://www.tnr.com/print/article/the-love-culture (Scroll down to "III" if y
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by yungchin 17y ago
Yeah well, all of us geeks complain about what this thing can't do and doesn't have. But in the end, Bray comes to the right conclusion: the iPad wasn't designed for us. The iPhone and the iPad are just what portable devices look like after
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For the Love of Culture (Lessig on Google book settlement)(tnr.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Overpaying for Green Power(reason.com)
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KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud(dot.kde.org)
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by yungchin 17y ago
I'm a bit disappointed by the marketing spin. They come up with a few examples where HT falls down, and use that to dismiss the whole idea? I wouldn't mind if they had put it in clear and honest terms: a 20% improvement in performance is no

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