xophe

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by xophe 11y ago
Post is a total fail at semantics, because the following two statements differ in meaning. "All x is not y" "Not all x is y".
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by xophe 11y ago
..reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/
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by xophe 12y ago
Tom Wheeler for president
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by xophe 12y ago
>> The tank filled with hydraulic fluid that powered the fins enabling them to rotate and steer, ran out of fluid before landing. Nit, but this is the most difficult sentence I've had to parse all year.
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by xophe 12y ago
Guys aren't really hitting it on the head. It's about the level of behavior that companies release analysis on. See, there's another company that occasionally releases interesting data analytics: Google. See: Word frequency o
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by xophe 12y ago
This was really touching. Not only a physicist, but a poet as well.
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Data breach at Santa Rosa Medical Center – up to 4.5M exposed(pnj.com)
1 points by xophe 12y ago|0 comments
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by xophe 12y ago
We're all missing the most important point here: >> Bike helmets discourage cycling. Yes! We should require all CAR drivers to wear helmets. Imagine how less likely drivers are to engage in road rage when they're wearing dor
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by xophe 12y ago
lol @ 5k a year depreciation, 3.5k maintenance, and 3.6k parking, i.e. the majority of this analysis. In conclusion, paying someone to take you in their Toyota Prius is less expensive than paying for your own Tesla. Still, I see sama's
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A Start-up Guru Has Enraged Israeli Techies(nymag.com)
4 points by xophe 12y ago|0 comments
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by xophe 12y ago
You must have missed the main point of this essay, so I'll reiterate here. "take a deep breath, count to ten"
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by xophe 12y ago
This is why no one wants to work at [Your Stupid Hedge Fund Here]. A while ago there was an article about how Wall Street was bemoaning the difficulty of recruiting top talent from tech. Surprise: It isn't the money. There's plent
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by xophe 12y ago
Yes, exactly this. If they lose, then there's going to be precedent for when the stakes are high. And I can't see how they can totally escape culpability, since they can't even turn over the source if they wanted to. The anon
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by xophe 12y ago
>> Suing a revenge porn site. Fair, next. Oh wait there's more. From https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en >> Tor aims to provide protection for ordinary people who want to follow the law.
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by xophe 12y ago
>>But the people that had to carry out the scheduled work took a while to get used to the idea, as they didn't like not knowing why they were doing certain things. There's some real Asimovesque worship of technology here. Wi
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by xophe 12y ago
>>"I am told that the courts are trying to make a distinction between mathematical algorithms and nonmathematical algorithms." As Knuth implies, this is a fool's errand, and this is the reason why courts should not awar
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by xophe 12y ago
>>Is this right or wrong? Only if rent-seeking is right or wrong. The patent system is working exactly as it should be. This is a fatal oversimplification hiding in economist jargon. Is making money wrong? As an economist, the answer
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by xophe 12y ago
"Optimism is often dismissed as false hope. But there is also false hopelessness." A poetic touch from a tech genius of our generation.
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by xophe 12y ago
1) web design is an engineering discipline because you have to make things fast and fault-tolerant on top of making it look good. there's a lot more moving parts to a website than there is to an InDesign export. 2) any tool sufficientl
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by xophe 12y ago
No. Neither the old design nor the design dcurtis mentioned are current. But the current design is more similar to the old design.
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by xophe 13y ago
Well, you took a swing at it and you missed. You can give yourself credit for that at least. Everything else is managing your expectations. There's something about being 22 that's tough -- lots of people are advancing in their car
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by xophe 13y ago
arent these guys supposed to know a thing about valuation?
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by xophe 13y ago
Isn't this "Bridgegate" Christie?
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by xophe 13y ago
"How did the late-Victorian-era British do it? Foresight, humility, compromise for the sake of alliance, and expert diplomacy and statesmanship. [Excuse me for a moment as I wipe the tears off my keyboard in my woe at contemplating w
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Request cash with Square cash(vine.co)
1 points by xophe 13y ago|0 comments
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by xophe 13y ago
"Watching a bearded man and friends obsess over fat. Bacon fat."
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by xophe 13y ago
North America's online trend: Watching a bearded guy and his friends eat bacon and amalgamated fast food http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FRSghXhDM
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Square open sources Shuttle(useshuttle.com)
2 points by xophe 13y ago|0 comments
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by xophe 13y ago
Incorrect. This is what happens when you confuse objects in the physical world with those in the information world. Physical rights don't expire because it entails deprivation of use. But copyright expiration doesn't eliminate you
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"Inventor of the Mobile Internet" sues Square for patent infringement(online.wsj.com)
1 points by xophe 13y ago|0 comments

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