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beats didn't require much "energy" to produce I think the point is that the "energy" isn't what was required to make the product, it was the energy expended to acquire the it. Coll…

Following identification of the beneficiary households through a participatory process in the village, the six activities are: 1. Productive asset transfer: a one-time transfer of …

A recent article on HN made me realise that the U.S. might be on the right track for fixing this. The article was called Game Theory's Cure For Corruption Makes Us All Cops [0]. Th…

$249 is a lot of money - you're talking the cost of a subsidized high-end phone for something that has less functionality. My intuition tells me smart-watches wont sell in big BIG …

Charge a not-inconsequential fee for in-air calls so that people only use it if it's absolutely necessary. Perhaps make the charge go up exponentially with time so that calls remai…

Agreed, it would have been better to have the chief scientist discuss the core technologies, design and potential applications than watch an Elon Musk/Tony Stark ripoff drive his T…

When the executive negotiates without Congress's participation, citizens don't get a say in the process. We don't get to review the agreement, or pressure our representatives into …

let's not forget the biggest lobby group of all: the American citizenry Does the citizenry have the same level of access to negotiating parts of the TPP as the lobby groups who pai…

I'd say I'm a hipster, but I still like Google. I think you would have been down-voted for shitcanning hipsters (the implication is that rage-quitting Google's services it's fashio…

No, that's just Tony Abbott. Expect more hilarity in the years (days?) to come. If you can't wait, just Google some of his past statements. If you like prejudice, two-dimensional t…

Good question - looking at the OECD Better Life Index [1] for the Netherlands: In general, 86% of people in the Netherlands say they have more positive experiences in an average da…

"So what do we think they're manufacturing with sapphire?" This is just fun conjecture, so take it with a grain of salt the size of a racoon's head, but considering you can make sa…

"if "bigoted" ideas are delusional, shouldn't the fact that we have far more integration and exposure to different sub-cultures in sufficient time eliminate all bigotry" I'm not su…

"But that's exactly what Rockstar does" Rockstar acts as a firewall, sure, but the parent companies make things. IV made a mosquito-killing laser that no one could buy, then allege…

"I thought it was impossible to be more of a douchebag than Intellectual Ventures, but apparently, there's a new winner in town." What Rockstar is doing is very shitty, but IV take…

I LOVE the fare adjustment machines at the train stations in Japan. Just buy the cheapest ticket, get to your intended destination, then go to the fare adjustment machine and slip …

"The law is and should be subservient to morality; people who've done something good but illegal are naturally lauded (and those who've done something bad but legal are condemned)"…

"a man who wants to assert his ego, against others and the state, vs a man who entertains the middle class with whimsical, nostalgic, left wing drawings" I'd argue that Banksy achi…

"banksy wouldn't even exist without what filtered out of upper manhattan and the southern bronx and was known as 'tagging.'" Fair, but we've reached the point where we can discern …

> No wonder no one is buying it. "Months of rumors about order cuts and so forth, so let me take a moment to comment on these. No comment on any particular rumor. I suggest its goo…

"If the amount is greater than zero, then you're admitting that you're really buying an experience and set of emotional states in addition to a physical good." Absolutely, and I th…

"I've always been a fan of Banksy's work. Especially the work he did at the dividing wall on both sides in the West Bank and Israel." And this is why I roll my eyes a little when p…

> Ironic It's zero-day art. The people who try to preserve it by bolting glass plates over the top are missing the point.

Acquiring a high-DPI scan of a fingerprint from someone's phone, printing it to a sheet of plastic with a high-DPI laser printer, then making a copy of the print out of liquid late…

"Games are also universal. Girls and boys, young and old, physically fit and physically infirm, poor and rich: pretty much everyone can enjoy a game.[1] It is a form of entertainme…