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The principle here is people can agree to surrender some of their privacy for safety. The problem isn’t that searching my bits is a greater violation than searching my atoms, but t…

Twenty years ago, Nicholas Negroponte pointed out the irony that when he passed through Singapore customs, they searched his atoms but not his bits. Is being searched before you ge…

They used it for WoW patches.

Of course America got all its technology fair and square.

It's definitely not easier to manually set a timer than it is to use Siri. Also, you can do multiple timers at once and they follows you around (versus being screamed at because th…

If there’s one thing Apple did, with Steve Jobs, other than build fantastic user experience out of mature but unapproachable technologies, it was communicating the fact that it had…

If I understood the details I would never have signed the contract. At the time I was pretty desperate for a job (I’d moved to the US from Australia and my own company had gone bel…

A healthy human diet is 8700 kJ/ day. A gallon of gasoline has 120,000 kJ. So, we are very energy efficient. But no so awesome in terms of energy storage density.

The exit was in 2005, and several hundred million was not bad (although it came after a failed effort to go public for somewhere north of a billion). I was very new to the startup …

I joined a successful startup about ten months before it was acquired for several hundred million. The deal somehow led to a lot of employees losing their options (myself included)…

Um, CO2 is the problem. Also, no actual fuel you can buy just produces water and CO2.

Energy storage technologies are all about nasty chemistry. Nasty chemistry is where the energy is. Commercializing the chemistry isn’t easy or everyone would do it.

It doesn’t lose energy density in cold weather. Batteries have all kinds fo thermal issues too.

No clue if these guys are viable but the science is solid. You do understand that the whole point of hydrides is addressing hydrogen’s storage issues (energy density and need to st…

Interesting idea. But is the cloud version a complete image (perhaps out of sync)? If so then it’s a performance disaster, if not it’s very fragile. It seems to me what we really w…

Wait, isn't that just Arial?

Is there a single example in business of someone taking a huge amount of money, and plopping a famous CEO in charge of a dozen people and saying "go" and generating a successful bu…

My favorite result was “should I propose?” -5!

More like he’s extrapolating from differing bumps on two populations of nautilus that evolution is less important than individual variation.

Node he's making about that much a month, which is apparently around the average income where he lives. Still, it seems low.

Upvoted based on your selection of Lotus Notes as the apotheosis of good ideas wrapped in awful implementation. I've never used Leo but just looking at the installation process tur…

Actually it told me that simple stuff is unnecessarily complex, so that’s not nothing. [this todo list]( http://bindinator.com/#source=todo.component.html ) example is shorter and …

He has a lot of competition.

FB was able to obtain SMS data from some android handsets. Tons of people found this out when they obtained their data from FB.

Yes. Unlike FB they don’t do secret backdoor deals with phone manufacturers to spy on you. Also they don’t spy on you. Also they don’t make ALL their money from advertising creatin…