chadmalik

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by chadmalik 16y ago
No, it is because the moderation policies on this site are absurd and comments saying "it sucks" get modded up while a reasonable comment gets modded down. Bottom line the world is running out of hydrocarbons. Things that look "energy effic
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by chadmalik 16y ago
I'm seriously tired of getting downvoted for good comments. Later hackernews, have fun with your circlejerk.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Saying "it sucked" doesn't address ANY of the points I made. Wake me up when you can make a serious rebuttal.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Maybe vertical farms are a crock but at least people are starting to realize that local food production is a better idea than shipping factory farm food thousands of miles. Eating local, seasonal food is how it has been done for 99.99% of h
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by chadmalik 16y ago
then why did the BP people need to dump untold gallons of corexit in the gulf? that was idiotic.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Corporations write the laws in the US. Politicians are just order-takers.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
I agree. This type of SEO business is nothing new and mainly monetizes naivete of web users. It does not add real value to the world.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Interesting comment.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
...but of course Gates is an ubercritic too and only "appropriated" from the best (Zerox PARC), just like Jobs.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
In that light, how about "eartop" or "fingertop"? or maybe "palmtop"? (that one might have some tm issues).
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Doesn't that just beg the question?
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by chadmalik 16y ago
I think what he is saying make sense. For instance there is a huge mountain of evidence for anthropogenic global warming and the need to cut down our emissions. I'd say on 9/10 things I probably agree with the scientists, with the exception
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Funny how that works eh. Yet all we hear is whining about "soak the rich" etc.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
"You can't dodge a sales tax" You're kidding right? Replacing income tax with a national sales tax would immediately create a massive black market that didn't exist. Its always humorous to me when people claim that a national sales tax wou
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by chadmalik 16y ago
We're ridiculous sometimes. I was at the farmers market and wanted some strawberries. I noticed none at the stand but the vendor had some stacked on a table behind her. Why weren't those being sold? She said she'd forgot to wash them off
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by chadmalik 16y ago
There seem to be two models to success in a field: learn as a youth or learn once you are an adult. These two approaches are equally valid from what I have seen.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Great post. I don't understand why people have to trap animals like jellyfish and put them in prisons / tanks. Just let them live where they are meant to, the ocean.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
proof: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/03/eveningnews/main67... Enron also pulled power out of states like California, causing emergency conditions to worsen. "Sorry California," an Enron trader says. "I'm bringing all our power ou
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by chadmalik 16y ago
No mention of Prop 13 eh? PG&E etc. are able to pay insanely low property taxes, often creating shell companies so the property can be passed between owners, while regular working schmoes pay sky high property taxes. And what about Arn
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Actually if you followed the whole looting of California by Enron & friends, the final conclusion was Schwarzenegger taking office and refusing to pursue a serious lawsuit agains the perps and letting them off with token payments to the
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by chadmalik 16y ago
its not fair to store owners that online stores are tax free. level the playi g field.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Somewhere, Ted Turner is smiling.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
This is an interesting blog post because I've noticed that often the apps that solve the most "mission-critical" problems have the worst UIs. Maybe its the complexity of the task as much as lack of effort? I'm not sure. On the other hand
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by chadmalik 16y ago
I would post the obligatory "patent the process of patent trolling" joke here but that ones been filed already.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Ultimately the criticism of hard AI that sticks is that its enthusiasts are using a faulty "brain as computer" metaphor as the basis for their theories. The brain and digital computers do NOT work the same (the brain is not digital) and as
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by chadmalik 16y ago
I disagree. Love him or hate him, Larry Ellison interviews are consistently very blunt and informative. He often gives a very clear definition of what Oracle's strategy is/will be. For instance he called the enterprise sw consolidation a
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Your thesis is contradicted by a massive amount of real world data.
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Because their goal is to disadvantage internet properties they don't own or tax and turn the internet into something more like cable TV?
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Yeah but come on, the decision-making is not "public". The average shareholder, if he even holds shares directly, really has no way to seriously influence corporate strategy other than to sell the stock. In any case, the whole premise of
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by chadmalik 16y ago
Uh, you stated the answer yourself. Corporations are accountable to their shareholders. They maximize profit, that is the only thing they do, and that is in fact a legal obligation that public company boards can be sued for breaching. Yo

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