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by zipdog 15y ago
Australia is an interesting point on that chart since less than ten years ago its debt was around the same as Spain or Canada. I think it had a minerals boom that brought in large surpluses.
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by zipdog 15y ago
Japan has had high debt for a couple of decades, and is an interesting example. From what I understand the debt has really hampered growth. However, the debt is mostly held by the Japanese (I think), which is a much different situation beca
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by zipdog 15y ago
The difficulty I have with this explanation is that the Earth is a big niche that we've come to dominate. At every point the sapiens sapiens migratated to a new area already populated by a previous human group (a previous wave of migration
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by zipdog 15y ago
These days it seems to be Facebook keywords
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by zipdog 15y ago
Industrial farming has its benefits, but one interesting data point is that the yield for small to medium farms is often higher than the super farms (ie of the US mid-West), around 1.5 to 2 times from the people I've spoken to. The ability
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by zipdog 15y ago
CSAs are more likely to be the future (Community Supported Agriculture). It combines pretty much all the benefits of growing the food yourself while still letting a farmer run a farm effectively. The general idea of CSA is that small to med
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by zipdog 15y ago
Some good points but the idea of Peak Attention seems to be conflated with focus. Its one thing to have the captive attention of a tv audience, but its a completely different thing for a team of people to have joint focus on a task. The lat
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by zipdog 15y ago
I think it's because the people within government who hired HBGary are living in the same bubble as the people who wrote the NATO report.
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by zipdog 15y ago
Apple understands that one of the core benefits that they give to consumers is consistency. The PC world is wildly inconsistent, while iOS provides enormous consistency - I can pick up any device and apps will function the same. This is rea
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by zipdog 15y ago
I question whether owning someone's data is really as valuable to cloud providers as the article assumes. Not that data isn't valuable, but if it becomes critically valuable and the companies refused to allow users to reclaim it to move to
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by zipdog 15y ago
Except that ads are not a core aspect of anything. Businesses don't need (many) ads if they can get targetted access to customers through other means (ie Facebook, Groupon). Applications don't need ads if they can get funding from other mea
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by zipdog 15y ago
What would really make this is split-screening instead of mirroring, with the device pushing one image to the tv while keeping another on the handheld. Then the iPhone/Pad could show a controller interface (like the lower screen on the DS)
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by zipdog 15y ago
The competitive advantage for Instapaper is the ability to iterate quickly. If Apple delivers a growing band of people interested in reading the web later, Instapaper is better positioned to find out what tweaks and features will work best
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by zipdog 15y ago
I saw the Gossamer Condor at the Smithsonian and was struck by how flimsy it looked. But now understanding that the plane was designed primarily to iterate quickly, that 'weak' design makes a lot more sense. It makes me wonder how many pro
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by zipdog 15y ago
Without libraries, there is also the loss of public librarians, who have traditionally been strong advocates for freedoms related to access to materials, etc. I guess online their role is replaced by the EFF or similar. If all tax dollars w
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by zipdog 15y ago
We could turn this question from the individual as themselves to the individual within an institution: for example an executive at Sony or a government official. Given the harassment Anonymous has given to Sony execs, its not surprising tha
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by zipdog 15y ago
Yeah, its a poorly worded error message for anyone running the latest version of Opera
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by zipdog 15y ago
Maybe he was harking back to the ancient Roman custom of using Vs for Us
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by zipdog 15y ago
Yeah, I vaguely recall Skype doing something in around 2008 that gave US govt some level of access. (No citation)
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by zipdog 15y ago
I've wondered what impact Zynga has on artificially boosting Facebook's active user count. Zynga's games provide an incentive to operate multiple accounts, and counts about 200m active users, so if only 5% of those users were each running m
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by zipdog 15y ago
It's interesting to jump between his opening comment on society 'tolerating' the uncooperatives (as long as they're not too numerous or too effective) to his end-point that the dishonest minority serves as a catalyst for social change. His
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by zipdog 15y ago
If China wanted to murder a million young men, it would simply invade Taiwan.
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by zipdog 15y ago
It could be an easy way to find work by a photographer you like. ie, if you see a cool landscape, just drop it in and find the photog and their works.
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by zipdog 15y ago
Two quick examples of double trademarks: Apple Records (Beatles) and Apple (Steve Jobs). They started with an agreement to stay clear of the others turf, but then Apple Computing got into music. I think they went to court before working som
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by zipdog 15y ago
Agreed, for many books. I'd also add the book digests (especially for Management books), and then diagrams and charts, which can convey so much more. But on top of that, I think the framework/lens you have when you're reading makes a big di
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by zipdog 15y ago
Germany has (or had) a system where you could work 3 days and get paid for 3.5 days. The government chipped in the extra, I believe. I think the idea was to encourage more part-time workers so the unemployment rate would drop. And for a cou
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by zipdog 15y ago
Clever use. But do you think it would scale? Doesn't it rely on bit.ly and/or hashify.me being able to convert the URL into a readable page?
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by zipdog 16y ago
Engaging the early users in a dialog is the best way to keep them motivated. Don't just email them (though, do that) but given them something to look at like a rough demo video, or a screen mock-up that helps explain the concept (and offer
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by zipdog 16y ago
Who defines the 'minimum number of people'? If it's not user-defined, I think you should make it clear what that value is. Otherwise, if I share this to my team of 7, but the minimum is 8, we'll never know. For smaller groups, you could add
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by zipdog 16y ago
Oh, cheers. I just read the article.

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