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by codex 13y ago
Microsoft is still milking slow to change enterprises. That is the main story here.
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by codex 13y ago
I suspect that paying at the register cuts down on the amount of tips, which makes it hard for a single restaurant to buck the trend. That restaurant would have to raise menu prices to pay for the lost tips, which makes the restaurant less
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by codex 13y ago
I don't have hard information here, but I suspect the number is far lower. Each one of these requests is likely for a very small time period; keeping a single individual under surveillance likely takes a large number of requests. Furt
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by codex 13y ago
They're not committing crimes against the American people. Not one American has been found who has been demonstrably harmed by any NSA program. Without harm, there no criminal act. That said, something can be unlawful without being
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by codex 13y ago
I've always thought of Stripe as a "faster horse" in the world of payments. I expect Google, Apple, or Square will find some way to disrupt credit cards completely and move consumers over to a new method of payment for most
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by codex 13y ago
I'd like to see individuals split out. The variance in wealth for a particular individual over time is likely very high in these simulation--much higher than in reality.
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by codex 13y ago
Cryptography is not dead. Just because some motivated governments can theoretically attack your machine does not mean that cryptography is not useful, because for 99.9999999% of us, that outcome will never happen--and if it does happen, th
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by codex 13y ago
I doubt these post-mortems are accurate. If you can't create a successful company, what makes you think you know why a company was unsuccessful? It's just more mental masturbation. Even if the failure mode is identified, it doe
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by codex 13y ago
I don't understand. In the United States, there are no secret laws, only secret surveillance. There is a distinction.
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by codex 13y ago
So Emacs innovation is basically at a halt, then.
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Nissan Sells 100,000 LEAFs, Captures 48% Of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market(insideevs.com)
139 points by codex 13y ago|94 comments
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by codex 13y ago
Penrose has for years been advocating against strong AI, instead arguing that there "magic stuff" in the brain that prevents conciousness from arising in a machine. Great mathematician, but totally off his rocker here, which is o
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by codex 13y ago
Why would you want an open source Nest? Is there a market demand for something which is uglier, harder to use, takes more time to install, and works worse? Do you also build your own toasters or automobiles?
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by codex 13y ago
Very likely. There are several alien robots on Mars.
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by codex 13y ago
More outrage farming without supplying all facts and context. I will give the benefit of the doubt to the jury and save my rage for a cause I am certain is just.
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by codex 13y ago
This is another example of how Snowden has compromised national security by leaking secret information that has nothing to do with American metadata and everything to do with the NSA's charter and legal mission.
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by codex 13y ago
It has been my experience that some founders can jump directly to a seed or A round without spending all that much time unemployed--or any time unemployed. This means they can draw a salary from day one. In this scenario I don't see
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by codex 13y ago
Tesla was recently implicated in a garage fire, after which it emphatically denied that the charger was at fault: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-19/tesla-says-model-s-... Now we hear otherwise. This is yet
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by codex 13y ago
There are a lot more than that. Nissan will soon ship their 100,000th LEAF.
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by codex 13y ago
I see a $150M round as a failure: a company that has big dreams but can't make enough cash at what they currently do. Even Tesla only raised $200M at IPO, and that's for a car company with huge overhead and manufacturing capital
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by codex 13y ago
I have a hard time believing Nest sold due to scaling issues. I find an easier time believing that they did not have the money to achieve their (expensive) vision, and selling to Google was easier than raising a massive round. It's t
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Nissan LEAF Sales in Atlanta – Nearly 1,000 Units Sold in December(insideevs.com)
1 points by codex 13y ago|1 comments
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by codex 13y ago
Do you really think you can't solve both problems, or that fixing links hurts your ability to solve bigger problems? It's $500 to a contractor. You can even have someone else find the contractor. This smells fishy. I suspect th
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by codex 13y ago
Young children don't like losing caregivers. Too much change and the child starts to learn to stay emotionally distant from teachers (and new friends). It's heartwrenching to watch.
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by codex 13y ago
Visible signs of entropy considered harmful: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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by codex 13y ago
Is there value to maintaining this site yourself? I agree that you shouldn't spend the time to fix this issue yourself, but couldn't a contractor fix it for pocket change, at a low cognitive burden to you? Hasn't this issue
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by codex 13y ago
Twitter uses open source because they do not have the resources to build and maintain custom infrastructure, nor do they think infrastructure is what distinguishes their business. It's that simple.
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In Response to Garage Fire, Tesla Owners Will Receive Upgraded Charging Adapter(insideevs.com)
3 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
Does he live in SV? The culture of SV is the rat race with a small but showy percentage breaking free.
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UAW Looks to Unionize Tesla Motors(insideevs.com)
1 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments

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