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18 Oct 09
Turner Lost CNN, Fonda, Fortune, Feels ‘Like a Dummy’ (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
"if you economize and don’t buy new airplanes or long-range jets, or that sort of thing, you can get by on a billion or two."
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“War is obsolete,” Turner said. “The last time someone
surrendered was Japan and that was 60 years ago. The Afghans
will never surrender. We will just get tired and come home.
We’ve already given up on Iraq and there’s oil in Iraq, there’s
no oil in Afghanistan.” -
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you economize and don’t buy new airplanes or long-range jets, or
that sort of thing, you can get by on a billion or two.
16 Oct 09
danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?
"The way Google should have advertised Wave is: it solves the problems with email”
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The way Google should have advertised Wave is: “it solves the problems with email”
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn - Telegraph
"unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else."
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unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people's ability to notice the unexpected.
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unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.
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14 Sep 09
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
"there are two strands of libertarian thought. In somewhat cartoon terms, one strand takes liberty to be a (or in extreme cases, the) fundamental human good in and of itself; the other takes liberty to be a means to the end of discovery of methods of social organization that create other benefits. I’ll call the first “liberty-as-goal” libertarianism and the second “liberty-as-means” libertarianism."
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there are two strands of libertarian thought. In somewhat cartoon terms, one strand takes liberty to be a (or in extreme cases, the) fundamental human good in and of itself; the other takes liberty to be a means to the end of discovery of methods of social organization that create other benefits. I’ll call the first “liberty-as-goal” libertarianism and the second “liberty-as-means” libertarianism.
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there are two strands of libertarian thought. In somewhat cartoon terms, one strand takes liberty to be a (or in extreme cases, the) fundamental human good in and of itself; the other takes liberty to be a means to the end of discovery of methods of social organization that create other benefits. I’ll call the first “liberty-as-goal” libertarianism and the second “liberty-as-means” libertarianism
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Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
"IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart."
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for IT groups respect is the currency of the realm.
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IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart.
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29 Aug 09
Views: Criminal Incompetence - Inside Higher Ed
"A woman in Canada learned that there was a business in the American Southwest called Guns for Hire. She did not realize that it was a theatrical group that specialized in reenactments of Old Western shoot-outs and the like. She called its office to try to arrange the disposal of her husband."
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Facial tattoos are the ultimate abandonment of all hope of a life outside.
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In some lines of work, the forehead is a perfectly good place for one's CV. It may even qualify as proof of ambition.
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23 Aug 09
Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire | Arto Bendiken
"the Roman people, the mass of the population, had but one wish after being captured by the barbarians: that they would never again fall under the rule of the Roman bureaucracy"
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the Roman people, the mass of the population, had but one wish after being captured by the barbarians: that they would never again fall under the rule of the Roman bureaucracy
The Mediocre Returns of Extraordinary Technologies | Frontier Economy
"technological advance quickly turns the cutting-edge into the well-known. Today’s closely guarded trade secret is tomorrow’s boring line of work, their basic principles described in an introductory physics text, and as the universe seems to provide many different ways to achieve the same effect, patents are of little use."
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technological advance quickly turns the cutting-edge into the well-known. Today’s closely guarded trade secret is tomorrow’s boring line of work, their basic principles described in an introductory physics text, and as the universe seems to provide many different ways to achieve the same effect, patents are of little use.
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in a world that generally has few truly sustainable entry barriers — most of them being specific natural resources like fissionable material or fossil fuels — prices are driven by costs, not utility.
19 Aug 09
Behind the music: The real reason why the major labels love Spotify | Music | guardian.co.uk
"On Spotify, it seems, artists are not equal. There are indie labels that, as opposed to the majors and Merlin members, receive no advance, receive no minimum per stream and only get a 50% share of ad revenue"
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On Spotify, it seems, artists are not equal. There are indie labels that, as opposed to the majors and Merlin members, receive no advance, receive no minimum per stream and only get a 50% share of ad revenue
Majikthise : Protesters tote semi-automatic assault rifles at Obama event
"Taking a loaded assault rifle to a protest is naked intimidation. Whoever is organizing these militia mental midgets needs to call them off right now. They may be within their legal rights, but their behavior is profoundly anti-democratic."
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Taking a loaded assault rifle to a protest is naked intimidation. Whoever is organizing these militia mental midgets needs to call them off right now. They may be within their legal rights, but their behavior is profoundly anti-democratic.
18 Aug 09
Falkenblog: Review of Taleb's The Black Swan
"Legislators and personal-injury lawyers eagerly hype risks with negligible real impact, like secondhand smoke, or getting cancer from trace amounts of chemicals. Sometimes they create considerable public concern about risks that don't exist, like that of contracting anti-immune disease from breast implants, or cell phones causing cancer."
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Legislators and personal-injury lawyers eagerly hype risks with negligible real impact, like secondhand smoke, or getting cancer from trace amounts of chemicals. Sometimes they create considerable public concern about risks that don't exist, like that of contracting anti-immune disease from breast implants, or cell phones causing cancer.
The Technium: The Most Powerful Force in the World
"by tapping the [fuels of the] Carboniferous Formation and spewing it up into the sky, we've become a volcano that hasn't stopped erupting since the 1700s."
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"by tapping the [fuels of the] Carboniferous Formation and spewing it up into the sky, we've become a volcano that hasn't stopped erupting since the 1700s."
31 Jul 09
Daring Fireball: Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline
"Car enthusiasts lost interest in GM’s cars long before regular people did; the same is happening with Windows."
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Car enthusiasts lost interest in GM’s cars long before regular people did; the same is happening with Windows.
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It seems clear that Microsoft’s stance on the Mac’s sales growth
is that there’s nothing wrong with Windows or right with the
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Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew
"if we did not have the good points of the West to guide us, we wouldn't have got out of our backwardness. We would have been a backward economy with a backward society. But we do not want all of the West."
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if we did not have the good points of the West to guide us, we wouldn't
have got out of our backwardness. We would have been a backward economy
with a backward society. But we do not want all of the West.
23 Jul 09
Author of Torture Memos Pranked in Classroom | Threat Level | Wired.com
“Actually, professor, I’ve got one question. Uhm, how long can I be required to stand here ’til it counts as torture?”
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“Actually, professor, I’ve got one question. Uhm, how long can I be required to stand here ’til it counts as torture?”
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“If this is awkward for you, it’s very uncomfortable for me, I can tell you…. I’d love to move but every time I do my balls get buzzed.”
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20 Jul 09
FT.com | Tech Blog | App stores are not the future, says Google
"We believe the web has won and over the next several years, the browser, for economic reasons almost, will become the platform that matters"
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We believe the web has won and over the next several years, the browser, for economic reasons almost, will become the platform that matters
18 Jul 09
Firedoglake » Where David Cameron Is Now, the GOP Wants To Go in 2012
"conservatism is nothing of the sort. All that matters is to be anti-technocratic. Decentralization goes hand in hand with corporatism, in that with no government there is nothing to stop the corporation from taking what it wants"
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conservatism is nothing of the sort. All that matters is to be anti-technocratic. Decentralization goes hand in hand with corporatism, in that with no government there is nothing to stop the corporation from taking what it wants, and then demanding multi-trillion dollar bailouts on command.
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conservatism is nothing of the sort. All that matters is to be anti-technocratic. Decentralization goes hand in hand with corporatism, in that with no government there is nothing to stop the corporation from taking what it wants
13 Jul 09
Talvez não sejamos muitos e muitas…
"vejo pela primeira vez, no PS e sobretudo em Sócrates, sinais de um projecto de modernização para o país que se diferencia quer da tentação miserabilista da maior parte da direita, quer da tentação revolucionária da maior parte da esquerda."
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vejo pela primeira vez, no PS e sobretudo em Sócrates, sinais de um projecto de modernização para o país que se diferencia quer da tentação miserabilista da maior parte da direita, quer da tentação revolucionária da maior parte da esquerda.
08 Jul 09
Murdoch papers paid out £1m to gag phone-hacking victims | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures and to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills. Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators."
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The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures and to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills. Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators.
06 Jul 09
In defense of DHH & the Rails comminity - David Pollak's Blog
"let's look at the ASF crap pile. Well, there's the HTTP server... so bogged down in commityism that Nginx blows it away. Struts... the ultimate piece of crap web framework. ActiveMQ... junk compared to RabbitMQ. Tomcat, consistently behind Jetty"
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let's look at the ASF crap pile. Well, there's the HTTP server... so bogged down in commityism that Nginx
blows it away. Struts... the ultimate piece of crap web framework. ActiveMQ... junk compared to RabbitMQ. Tomcat,
consistently behind Jetty
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