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by token78 6y ago
Australia and Japan and a number of Asia-Pacific nations have joined the CPTPP - the reality is that the main driving force has been a mission to build a trading coalition in which the participating states can extricate themselves (and the
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by token78 10y ago
This makes the second or third piece I've read this week to suggest that the populism we're seeing behind Brexit and the Trump phenomenon is at some level motivated by a desire to actually cause the harm seems so obvious to expert
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by token78 12y ago
So, has it completely escaped the attention of the makers of mobile games that almost 60% of gamers on mobile platforms are women? Seriously - It's kinda odd that one of the defining characteristics of the mobile gaming market doesn&
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by token78 12y ago
For all the hyperbolae of the headline, this article reeks of sour grapes and conjecture, if not outright paranoia. In complete ignorance of exactly what qualities the company was selecting for in finding the best fit, he simply assumes tha
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No, Eugene didn’t pass the Turing Test...(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
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by token78 12y ago
Why does this have any votes? The talk clearly isn't banned or unavailable - that's a ridiculous and hyperbolic claim. It's a TEDx talk, which are independent events where speakers are not in fact vetted by TED. Meanwhile TED
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by token78 14y ago
When legacy media has become too voiceless to matter.
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by token78 14y ago
Bah humbug. By their very nature blog articles like this are reaching an audience of non-coders, to show them that a basic understanding of programming is within their grasp, that it's a worthwhile intellectual exercise, and yes, that there
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by token78 14y ago
Sorry, I have to ask why it is you're disinclined to pay the subscription fee for content libraries like spotify, or an audiobook collection of some sort? It's just that for me, Spotify has actually changed how I consume music, displacing t
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by token78 14y ago
"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots" -Billy Connolly
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by token78 14y ago
Hehe - I'm sure there's a middle ground somewhere!
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by token78 14y ago
Agreed. My point was simply that I don't believe it's prefabrication itself that folks are taking issue with. It's the fact that we're talking about a sterile, impractical and dehumanising box.
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by token78 14y ago
But the average consumer spends $60 odd dollars a year on iTunes, vs $120 a year on spotify... And it pays Artists waaaay better than that more popular streaming service, youtube!
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by token78 14y ago
> The problem, of course, is that Spotify doesn't pay very much to artists. False. The notion that Spotify just doesn't pay very much to artists is simply unfounded. The figure's close to 70% of their revenue. Relevant: https://www.tec
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by token78 14y ago
I don't believe that the objections come down to the principle of prefabrication itself, but the execution. In Europe and the Anglo-sphere, we've learned the hard way that when we try to regiment human lives to rigid efficient clean moderni
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by token78 14y ago
It's a pity his ambitions don't embrace even a hint of design thinking or aesthetic virtue. Seriously, they're butt ugly. Just phallic boxes that describe an obsession with size and haste that seems to have trumped even the most basic funct
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by token78 14y ago
In my own experience, casual or minimal exercise has done little to affect my mood and since my early twenties depressive periods have been a very real problem, even effecting my employment at one point. But going hard, and really pushing m
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by token78 14y ago
There is one technological invention, completely 'unnatural' and born of human artifice, which each and everybody on Hacker News has internalised so deeply that we take it for granted almost as natural thing. It extends our capacity for inf
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by token78 14y ago
But does that really equate to different "qualia" or is it more like the cognitive "shorthand" involved in the experience of driving a vehicle? Is there a difference? Meh, bloody semantics will get you every time.
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by token78 14y ago
Hearing about this brought a smile to my face & made my day. News like this gives you hope for a better tomorrow.
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by token78 14y ago
Is this for real? Sorry Kim Dotcom - you are not a figurehead of any movement, you are not a new Martin Luther King. Call me crazy, but I think I trust this mob more: http://internetdefenseleague.org/
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by token78 14y ago
All I'm getting is an error message when I try to chat... http://i.imgur.com/DTa8w.png
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by token78 14y ago
I don't know, market forces can be quite persuasive sometimes. If YouTube keeps up this heavy-handed approach, it's bound to lead to a climate of anxiety and resentment amongst its uploaders. In an environment like that, it wouldn't take th
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by token78 14y ago
It's funny, when you pour your blood sweat and tears into creating something you certainly feel a sense of ownership over the damned thing; it's your baby. But at the same time, witnessing much of the absurdity emerging out of the current s
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by token78 14y ago
But their payout is based per stream, not per track, isn't it? At amounts that still exceed that of radio? "For a 99c sale of a track on iTunes an indie artist gets 70c. At the time you need 140 Spotify streams to make the same 70c." (Sourc
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by token78 14y ago
Nobody in my household has pirated even one track since the advent of Spotify in our lives. I know it's not the best sample size, and it's only anecdotal, but I suspect that would be the pattern across the board if similar models became ado
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by token78 14y ago
One glance at Redfly is enough to tell you why it wasn't embraced! And by your logic, the iPad was destined for failure too, no? I'm not sure if this will fly, but I suspect execution and design will be major factors.
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by token78 14y ago
My sense is that while people across the world are polarised in their opinions of Assange himself, there's still a lot of disquiet about the question of his (potential/likely?) deportation to the U.S. only to face a Grand Jury, as opposed t
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by token78 14y ago
I guess 100% of the company I keep falls within that 44% then...
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by token78 15y ago
http://muse.adobe.com/index.html - built with muse. Whatever you do, just don't read the source!

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