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Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream(rally.stopwatching.us)
6 points by zmanian 13y ago|0 comments
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Stop Watching Us – Find a Viewing Party or Satellite Protest Near You(rally.stopwatching.us)
36 points by zmanian 13y ago|4 comments
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Freedom train to Stopwatching.us NSA protest on 10/26(freedomtrain2dc.net)
2 points by zmanian 13y ago|2 comments
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by zmanian 13y ago
Live Stream: http://youtu.be/vbMf9sc1NL0
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by zmanian 13y ago
We are also going to live stream. Link around 11. Speakers at 12:45
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by zmanian 13y ago
The Fat/Cholesterol diet to Heart Disease explanation has always been based on correlation and the work to find an physiological mechanism has always been weak. It is still early days on the gut bacteria/TMAO hypothesis but it doe
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by zmanian 13y ago
I'm thinking hard about what the next steps should be on driving policy change. The basic mechanism needs to stripping policy makers of legitimacy because they have undermined democratic norms. One approach might a recall campaign agai
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by zmanian 13y ago
It always seems to be my look Google is heading in the direction of a WebRTC based messaging service/client and then suddenly the product group veers off into another direction. WebRTC has been nearly here for several years now but it does
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by zmanian 13y ago
Dennis Ritchie demonstrated the social value of tooling beyond all doubt. The Life Sciences hasn't had its Dennis Richie moment yet and it is a reason why cancer therapy hasn't advanced as far it could. Life sciences is in a crisis where a
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by zmanian 13y ago
If there is widespread adoption of the Otoy's technology, it will be because their encode technology efficient enough to enable a multi-client per server low latency applications that are not possible because H.264 encoding is a compute and
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by zmanian 13y ago
Part of the question about the Obex technology is where should the computational cost of video transmission be born? Client side or on the server side. Decoding in general purpose compute is expensive for client devices in comparison to cod
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by zmanian 13y ago
I've found a wealth of talent by swimming against the Silicon Valley tide of favoring youth. There is an annoying pathology at work though. During the 90's most experienced developers were incentivised to move into management or sales roles
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by zmanian 13y ago
I'm a bit surprised that the iphone version of Google Now beat the Chrome version of Google Now. In my mind, Google Now is about carving out a space on devices where they can actually show high value contextual advertising outside of searc
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by zmanian 14y ago
I'll point out that it is very clear that there will be BLE support in stock android(Samsung supports BLE via a device specific SDK) after the Google IO release of the Android. Google's Glass supports BLE based on the FCC approval documents
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by zmanian 14y ago
Triggered a preorder... Without a doubt I'm going to use a product less if I have to boot into Windows...
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by zmanian 14y ago
I was hoping for a different fate for Google Reader. - The feed digesting functionality could have been merged into Google+ -Google Reader could have become a news reader skin on the of G+ As long as Google Reader remained a stand alone ser
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by zmanian 14y ago
Google has a structural advantage over Apple and MSFT in natural language. Apple has plenty of cash to buy Nuance to integrate Voice Recognition technology but lacks the management bandwidth. Microsoft Research has done a lot of path breaki
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by zmanian 14y ago
Key Pieces of history in the Siri vs Google Voice Search - Siri is a commercial spinoff of a DARPA AI project called CALO which was primarily designed to help the military handle information in the form of MS Office documents/Outlook email.
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by zmanian 14y ago
This is a complicated cost benefit analysis for Canonical. All of the device manufacturers with the exception of samsung are at the mercy of Qualcomm/Intel/Nvidia for the core drivers for their SOC. If a device manufacturer wants to experim
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by zmanian 14y ago
I'm terribly excited about this interface. I've been hoping that this is right path towards a Rainbow's End( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End ) kind of interface. I was worried that this kind of approach would languish inside MSFT
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by zmanian 14y ago
I've never understood why Mark Shuttleworth and Cannonical never built a halo laptop for Ubuntu. If they knew this was in the works, it starts to make sense
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by zmanian 14y ago
One strong point for installing arbitrary Linux distros on the pixel is that the Intel linux gpu drivers are fully open source. The downside of the arm chrome book has been the Samsung binary blob
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by zmanian 14y ago
It depends on the buildings amenities and staffing levels. You can find multimillion dollar properties with no staff but generally there is a dozenfull time staff members is a 100 hundred unit building
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by zmanian 14y ago
An apartment in a condo in NYC will be about $100k+ per year in fees and taxes. Dozens of people will be employed in the management and maintenance of the building. I've also got the impression that consumption of various luxury goods and s
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by zmanian 14y ago
My impression is that Bloomberg has consciously chosen the strategy of encouraging second home ownership in Manhattan as an attempt to decouple New Yorks service and consumer economy from the financial services sector. This trades off the p
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by zmanian 14y ago
If there isn't a connection between a procedure and outcomes, it just becomes garbage in/garbage out.
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by zmanian 14y ago
The primary theoretical advantage of Larrabee's descendants on Intel side over the GPGPU lineage stuff from Nvidia is that GPUs were never designed for things like branch heavy code, or debuggers. Compiler support for CUDA is further ahead
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by zmanian 14y ago
The largest societal impact of quantum computing would be to solve the 3d structure of biological molecules from sequence data. This would be produce an almost immediate revolution in all areas of biotechnology whose implications would be d
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by zmanian 14y ago
What many self taught software engineers lack is the shibboleths of the computer science community. The interview process at many large organization's like Google and some startup's seem to use many of these factors like obscure algorithim
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by zmanian 14y ago
Anyone have a hypothesis on how Google's offline line voice recognition works? it definitely seems like they have moved more voice recognition work onto the client even in the online mode. My understanding of Google's approach to voice reco

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