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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Here's the thing; this seems amazing. The big question is, what is the killer app?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Would hardly call it asinine. There is a difference between illegality and corruption, and many would argue that us lawmakers have legalized bribery in the financial sector. You may disagree, but that doesn't make the viewpoint ignorant.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I am surprised that they didn't buy boutiques.com too...
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
The hard part of replacing credit cards is not the magnetic strip. It is the ability to issue credit limits and charge interest effectively without losing all your money. That is the real challenge to make this work.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Someone always points this out in these threads, but HN uses tables...and we all love this site. Theres no morality in web design, just results.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
If this becomes a serious issue, my bet is that the government will be forced to start monitoring or background-checking GPU cluster use. This is one case where the cloud will hurt privacy, because Amazon will not risk their empire to prote
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Ignorance is very scary. I went to TEDxBrooklyn this weekend, and heard Richard Saul Wurman say that he lives by embracing his ignorance, because it is the only unlimited resource he has. I think that the only way to overcome this self-doub
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I have also seen Munin, which provides robust monitoring.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Couldn't this just be called "Google Places is Getting Better?"
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Aristotle (The Hillis Knowledge Web)(edge.org)
3 points by zoomzoom 16y ago|0 comments
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
All this does is make it easy for someone to package an app server full of malware for grandma to download. Never gonna happen.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
There is a chinese proverb that also says something along these lines: "In order to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand."
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Didn't you opt-in when you signed up for HN?
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Is This the Future of Food?(kurzweilai.net)
15 points by zoomzoom 16y ago|4 comments
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
It will be hard to build a general-purpose robot with the ability to diagnose and fix cars. Aside from the problems of teaching it how to figure out what is wrong and what the solution is, the simple physical dexterity is beyond any autonom
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Einstein and Bohr on Ultimate Reality(npr.org)
5 points by zoomzoom 16y ago|0 comments
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
you will probably get more offers of hospitality on this post than ever before.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I still don't know if this is to be taken seriously. What exactly could be going on?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
The scariest thing is the truth.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Sounds like you aren't that confident if you think you are going to lose it! Really though, the main consideration is this: can your dad afford to take the hit - and is he investing because he wants to help you or because he really believes
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Sounds like you love tools. Remember that if you don't want to become a tool yourself, you need to tie your identity up with shipping a product more than with using any particular toolset. EDIT: I do too! We can all use a reminder like this
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Does that make them a monopoly? If so, is it something we should fight? If the idea of a network-effect based startup benefits from a bigger network, we should all want them to own these ideas then, right?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Lincoln At War - History of Lincoln's presidency from the perspective of Lincoln as a general.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Just want to second ASHNE by Bryson. This is one of those books that you see in a lot of people's backpacks when you travel to hostels - meaning that when you cannot carry tons of stuff, people choose this book...Thought-provoking and inter
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
There are very few books that redefine the way people view the world. This book is one of them. It is one of those books we all get assigned in high school and then think we have read due to its ubiquity, but never really read. We should.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I have recently moved to a settings package like this and it has opened up a lot of doors in terms of workflow.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Apple's strategic purchase?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
no love without hate, though....
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Honestly, it all sounds like a crock. If these predators weren't allowed to treat these people like sharecroppers on their manor, then banks would step in at a lower rate. There is money to be made, even with the risk. It is only because fi
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I bet that Peter pretends not to care about taxes. But that is really besides the point. All I am trying to say is that tech is hardly failing us in the drastic way Peter supposes it is. My point is not to delay the invention of airplanes,

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