Hyena

6 ms·

1.
by Hyena 12y ago
I proposed something similar to this as a way to handle fraud or non-performance in Federal contracts: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+StevenFlaeck/posts/BNzLK4wwwPY
2.
by Hyena 14y ago
I would think that certs would be useful in signaling commitment for people wanting to join that workforce.
3.
by Hyena 14y ago
There is no real difference. The term "capitalism" is felt to be dissimilar from "free market", but no one is usually able to articulate a coherent difference. The central problem is that "capitalism" took on negative connotations over time
4.
by Hyena 14y ago
Groups tend to have fewer free speech rights than individuals. A person can usually shout whatever he wants from a street corner; 100 people will probably need a permit and relatively few people see this as problematic.
5.
by Hyena 14y ago
That would be beyond awesome if they could tack down karma weighting.
6.
by Hyena 14y ago
They don't need to generate a profit and it would be preferable if there was no profitable business model for it. Donations to both MIT and Harvard are considered charitable; making more of their classes freely available online would justif
7.
by Hyena 14y ago
Well... there's also a right to asylum (14), group rights for families, to some form of social maintenance (22), limitation of working hours and minimum wage (24), full and free education (26), to copyright (27). Lastly there are vague du
8.
by Hyena 14y ago
Except that's how this is usually done. Federal loans can be deferred and payments scale to income. The counterargument to the high cost of college is that she, or her parents, should have looked at how much it would all cost and chose a ch
9.
by Hyena 14y ago
Or "macho cultures" have a lower percentage of male college graduates, creating more opportunities for women at the top. Or they correspond to fast-growing underdeveloped countries which, because they are developing in an equal(er) rights e
10.
by Hyena 14y ago
Housing doesn't need to disappear. If we tried to move everyone in California closer to the center of its major cities, we'd see prices increase dramatically.
11.
by Hyena 14y ago
A state can have population growth and net emigration.
12.
by Hyena 14y ago
It took me a while to realize that you were probably talking about television. My instant thought was "channels" as in communication channels.
13.
by Hyena 14y ago
Life is easier when everyone else is a failed version of yourself, amirite?
14.
by Hyena 14y ago
What's the actual advantage to the game ? Why would a company want to create a research server for people to perfect their bot programming?
15.
by Hyena 14y ago
No? Money simply has a signature. The major reason why cash is "anonymous" is because there is no attempt to track the serials beyond initial deliveries to financial institutions, etc. Money already is simply pseudonymous; if, for example,
16.
by Hyena 14y ago
Actually, I think the ACA does improve the situation he describes. Small companies, like start-ups, wouldn't be required to purchase health insurance and people whose earnings teeter at the edge of "ramen profitable" would likely be eligibl
17.
by Hyena 14y ago
Note that the criteria are weighted heavily towards luminary faculty and not towards student results.
18.
by Hyena 14y ago
Those same universities have selection criteria which predict success after college independent of the college attended. So it's not like they are masterfully teaching anything; rather, it seems very much like they are simply rebranding the
19.
by Hyena 15y ago
<I>This isn't possible. A person can either spend money or store money.</I> This isn't quite accurate. You note later how markets work, but you're not seeing how much that's in tension with wealth concentration. At its furth
20.
by Hyena 15y ago
You are basically describing the LXTHW model.
21.
by Hyena 15y ago
The irony being that Spotify has a social strategy.
22.
by Hyena 15y ago
Even if that's correct, that doesn't mean that what Kim did wasn't illegal or wrong. Kim wasn't simply engaged in "file sharing" he ran a multimillion dollar parallel distribution system. He wasn't sharing, he was basically using file share
23.
by Hyena 15y ago
It's worth noting that Kodak was a leader in digital cameras even in the 1980s. It's also worth considering the impact of vertical integration: companies like Samsung and LG also make phones, giving their own CCD makers a boost. In order fo
24.
by Hyena 15y ago
I often wonder about these findings. To what extent are we seeing a neurologically-driven phenomenon vis-a-vis one generated by a host of factors causing relatively common skill atroph? By 45, many people might be working largely on autopil
25.
by Hyena 15y ago
The article is actually about Brent council and the use of digital media as an excuse to remove libraries from poor communities--where they are popular as free Internet cafes and provide books for people who couldn't afford readers--and dub
26.
by Hyena 15y ago
Then it seems like there isn't so much a problem and the course is plausibly performing its intended function. Obviously the course was designed by Stanford to fill some role; unless you think that the course had a design flaw only detectab
27.
by Hyena 15y ago
This post needs a comparison with CS229a prior to the online courses. Was the course harder before online classes and then got significantly dumbed down? Or was the course easy enough that it was a good candidate for the project?
28.
by Hyena 15y ago
This is a step in the right direction, actually. Instead of just filling the internet with keywords, they're filling it with information. Now we just need to train the SEO companies to make it good information and advertising will, for the
29.
by Hyena 15y ago
Best to hold off on boycotts as it's coming out that the committee and other groups have been claiming support they don't have.
30.
by Hyena 15y ago
Unless you're spending immense amounts of R&D, that tends not to be as severe a problem as constricting development because of patent thickets or creating aggregately large legal problems (Lodsys, et al).

More ›