wunderfool

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by wunderfool 15y ago
no, this is major fail from all the financial people involved. you want your company going public when there are expectations of substantial growth. instead facebook is flattening...just what i'm looking for in an IPO, low growth facebook s
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by wunderfool 15y ago
it will be disastrous for facebook to go public if their network is seen as being in decline or even flat. investors care more about losing users in the US than they do gaining users in developing markets. facebook needs to IPO yesterday. f
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by wunderfool 15y ago
these lackluster IPOs can truly be put on the backs of their financial partners timing matters. the investment banks are taking companies public in a new downturn in the markets that could last a while. they should have gone public a year a
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by wunderfool 15y ago
true, but also, these schools are more than adequate to equip a society to function the top-tier universities of united states cater to the top 1% of the world, have incredible research records, nobels, etc... yet by almost any measure, the
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by wunderfool 15y ago
> Canadian universities don't really have entrance requirements, and they have a very low workload i'm fascinated that all universities in the nation of canada have low workloads, regardless of program, and that you have been able to me
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by wunderfool 15y ago
agreed. i'd rather have a genuine conversation with a real human. as an aside, i think the interior design motif of the stores has grown stale
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by wunderfool 15y ago
> "Guideline: The keyboard interface must not dictate the design of the > visual interface" that is only a "guideline" because it follows from their axiom that the UI must be driven by the mouse if you remove that axiom, this no lo
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by wunderfool 15y ago
yes, the mouse may indeed be faster in a mouse-centric UI like that of osx/os9 but i use xmonad and/or dwm. i can tell you that keyboards are faster in interfaces designed for keyboards
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by wunderfool 15y ago
but most stuff i access is content...and the web is great for content i mean....does anyone actually install pointless web-in-a-box apps like the rotten tomatoes app (for example because it bugs the hell out of me to decline it each time)?
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by wunderfool 15y ago
"Can Apple topple the web?" well, then assuming a web page === a web "app" the number of websites available to users is probably one million times the number of apps... the number of new web sites that are started each day is probably one t
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by wunderfool 15y ago
"URL discovery is still a major problem" come on, google search is smarter than the app store search
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by wunderfool 15y ago
it is important to note that half of the CO2 in our atmosphere is produced by our exhalations and those of our animals [source:gaia's final warning]...so indeed not only would ceasing all industrial activity be required to stop increasing C
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by wunderfool 15y ago
some interesting food for thought. in james lovelock's last book, he discusses how recent volcanos have indeed had a measurable cooling impact (abeit short term)...he suggests that it may indeed be the case that humanity, in a fit of desper
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by wunderfool 15y ago
oddly enough some climate scientists (james lovelock, in this case) take it as a given that most animal life is already doomed, and that humans will have to engineer a food source in order to survive. green goo might be in your future
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by wunderfool 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
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by wunderfool 15y ago
you don't need a study. most of the population of canada is situated far further south than most americans understand. the lowest point of ontario, for example, is south of the most northern point of california. most of the inhabited areas
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by wunderfool 15y ago
"notwithstanding the couple hundred extra ppm of CO2" if you're saying that ppm will be in the 600-700 range then humanity will be on an irreversible express train to extinction, so not much else in your post matters
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by wunderfool 15y ago
no one. we do not have the technology to rapidly alter the climate. our current climate change is the result of thousands of years of population growth and industrialization. concepts for extracting CO2 from the atmosphere in short course a
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by wunderfool 15y ago
do people really believe that rapid climate change will reveal some new mass of desirable farm land? maybe in 5000 years as the soils adapt to new climates, but not fast enough to feed a hungry planet. there are some lands on the periphery
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by wunderfool 15y ago
why do people throw these arguments around? i don't know of any nation whose scientists find any rapid climate change desirable. who are they? the notion of a polar thaw is tossed around as being desirable for canada as a shipping route....
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by wunderfool 15y ago
you raise a bunch of economic issues, but the poster to which i replied simply stated that there was "no where else to go", which is absurd the rest of your points are dubious. your point B) has been proven false since the launch of the spa
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by wunderfool 15y ago
wrong. that bottle of organic shampoo from whole food commits about 98% of the sins as a bottle of a nonorganic varity from safeway. both are put in plastic which may or may not be recycled but was certainly made from oil (like all plastics
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by wunderfool 15y ago
nowhere to go? really? last time i checked most of the earth's surface was uninhabited. why do people want to go to mars when the land can be had in the mojave desert for practically no cost? its just as dry but has an oxygen atmosphere, an