alwaysinshade

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by alwaysinshade 11y ago
beats didn't require much "energy" to produce I think the point is that the "energy" isn't what was required to make the product, it was the energy expended to acquire the it. Collecting shells means time spe
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by alwaysinshade 11y ago
Following identification of the beneficiary households through a participatory process in the village, the six activities are: 1. Productive asset transfer: a one-time transfer of a productive asset 2. Consumption support: a regular transf
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by alwaysinshade 11y ago
A recent article on HN made me realise that the U.S. might be on the right track for fixing this. The article was called Game Theory's Cure For Corruption Makes Us All Cops [0]. The solution is in your pocket. Imagine a city where pol
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
$249 is a lot of money - you're talking the cost of a subsidized high-end phone for something that has less functionality. My intuition tells me smart-watches wont sell in big BIG numbers unless: - It's a phone, therefore it can b
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
Charge a not-inconsequential fee for in-air calls so that people only use it if it's absolutely necessary. Perhaps make the charge go up exponentially with time so that calls remain brief.
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
Agreed, it would have been better to have the chief scientist discuss the core technologies, design and potential applications than watch an Elon Musk/Tony Stark ripoff drive his Tesla-S home to his sweet pad and knob around with a CAD
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
When the executive negotiates without Congress's participation, citizens don't get a say in the process. We don't get to review the agreement, or pressure our representatives into changing or rejecting it. However, special i
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
let's not forget the biggest lobby group of all: the American citizenry Does the citizenry have the same level of access to negotiating parts of the TPP as the lobby groups who paid admission? IIRC, the citizenry have been completely
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
I'd say I'm a hipster, but I still like Google. I think you would have been down-voted for shitcanning hipsters (the implication is that rage-quitting Google's services it's fashionable and they're sheep) rather tha
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
No, that's just Tony Abbott. Expect more hilarity in the years (days?) to come. If you can't wait, just Google some of his past statements. If you like prejudice, two-dimensional thinking and more meaningless rhetoric than you can
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
Good question - looking at the OECD Better Life Index [1] for the Netherlands: In general, 86% of people in the Netherlands say they have more positive experiences in an average day (feelings of rest, pride in accomplishment, enjoyment, et
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"So what do we think they're manufacturing with sapphire?" This is just fun conjecture, so take it with a grain of salt the size of a racoon's head, but considering you can make sapphire panels large enough for vehicle w
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"if "bigoted" ideas are delusional, shouldn't the fact that we have far more integration and exposure to different sub-cultures in sufficient time eliminate all bigotry" I'm not sure if delusional is the right
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"But that's exactly what Rockstar does" Rockstar acts as a firewall, sure, but the parent companies make things. IV made a mosquito-killing laser that no one could buy, then allegedly got down to business by flicking individu
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"I thought it was impossible to be more of a douchebag than Intellectual Ventures, but apparently, there's a new winner in town." What Rockstar is doing is very shitty, but IV takes the cake because they're a non-practic
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
I LOVE the fare adjustment machines at the train stations in Japan. Just buy the cheapest ticket, get to your intended destination, then go to the fare adjustment machine and slip the ticket in. Short by 100 yen? Dump some change in to pay
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"The law is and should be subservient to morality; people who've done something good but illegal are naturally lauded (and those who've done something bad but legal are condemned)" Really thoughtful response. I think tha
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"a man who wants to assert his ego, against others and the state, vs a man who entertains the middle class with whimsical, nostalgic, left wing drawings" I'd argue that Banksy achieves both - his work is treated as acceptable
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"banksy wouldn't even exist without what filtered out of upper manhattan and the southern bronx and was known as 'tagging.'" Fair, but we've reached the point where we can discern the difference between somethi
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> No wonder no one is buying it. "Months of rumors about order cuts and so forth, so let me take a moment to comment on these. No comment on any particular rumor. I suggest its good to question the accuracy of any kind of rumor abou
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"If the amount is greater than zero, then you're admitting that you're really buying an experience and set of emotional states in addition to a physical good." Absolutely, and I think that's the message being convey
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"I've always been a fan of Banksy's work. Especially the work he did at the dividing wall on both sides in the West Bank and Israel." And this is why I roll my eyes a little when people deride Banksy (not necessarily on
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> Ironic It's zero-day art. The people who try to preserve it by bolting glass plates over the top are missing the point.
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
Acquiring a high-DPI scan of a fingerprint from someone's phone, printing it to a sheet of plastic with a high-DPI laser printer, then making a copy of the print out of liquid latex doesn't sound easy unless you're in the bus
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
"Games are also universal. Girls and boys, young and old, physically fit and physically infirm, poor and rich: pretty much everyone can enjoy a game.[1] It is a form of entertainment that is capable of demanding zero to full emotional,
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> Jonah Berger at Wharton has done research on WoM and emotions that spread The study (8.3mb PDF) is here: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/files/?whdmsaction=publi... The main takeaway: "How do specific emo
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> Is the custom hardware so fundamentally critical to the experience that you couldn't provide it otherwise? You could spin the question around and ask why do point & shoot cameras (analog: consoles) or SLR's (analog: PC&#
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> wait till she goes to work or talks to her friends who expect to see it You can always game the system. My wife purchased a lab-made champagne diamond (colouring is from nitrogen IIRC). It was a pretty damn big rock, had only VVS inclu
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> Guy says it's not about benchmarks I think what he meant was that the current benchmarks are unable to quantify the benefit to users of having a GPU for computational power while the other is driving the displays. The new Pro conf
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by alwaysinshade 13y ago
> I think Apple has really dropped the ball with the new Mac Pro Guy English made some great points about potential for the new Mac Pro: "The CPU is a front end to a couple of very capable massively parallel processors at the end of

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