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in theory it's stealing something very very very abstwact?

interesting that that's interesting enough for you to research and note. (please re-read the original article.)

yet FORTRAN and COBOL do and so do reams of magnetic tape around the Beltway who will maintain old code? you?

I don't know why you've been grayed out. Skills are skills. Even if you don't have the latest iPhone or Android flavor TangoUniformVoo 8.9. Considering that i'm a bit rusty (no all…

"Maybe I am reading too much in to it...." No, i don't think that you're reading too much into it. In fact, i like your analysis. I'll have to rewatch it, again. LOL especially con…

"It's a big boy's game for large nation states...." The Koreans have a saying: "...like a shrimp between two whales...."

"Protectionist trade policies are common in Japan too...." There are advantages to the way Asian economists do it. For example, not only in Japan, but especially in Korea, cell pho…

(edited) xxx....xxx (end-edit) ref. Yale (wash your hands aftah ya piss...lol). FacebookIsEvil $C$C$C....CCC...ccc... ... __ _ '

"Ayn Rand's ideas come from a propaganda campaign launched eight years after she published the Fountainhead?" Yes, I have to wonder how much of "Rational Choice Theory/Philosophy" …

I'm not sure I'd dismiss your argument so quickly. If one considers the "just" to be the best decision, given the circumstances, then most criminals are trying to be just. They may…

What struck me was close to the opposite. The proposals in the article make me fear a future dystopia, where no one believes in free will, where the average person is degraded by a…

"that's why you should train your mind" henryw's summary is good, but it misses that point: an important part of the article is developing the mind over time. The same way one grad…

Most of the things that I thought made it interesting are actually done by Java's Robot API: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.... For example, being able…

Mario on my computer's desktop. (A proof of concept written in Java.)

I think the number 107,000 is the number of janitors and cleaners with degrees, not total janitors and cleaners. Note the author says "Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have coll…

TechCrunch assumes the answer is a phone number. But maybe you're on to something. And the answer is something like "QUIT MIT JOIN STANFORD".

Maybe it shouldn't be that surprising that most of the big ideas seem to be behind us in computing. Automobiles have been fundamentally the same for decades (speaking broadly). It …

I feel vindicated: http://afeeblemind.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-you-think-in-goog...

That too. In various programming languages, Lisp a few weeks ago. Luckily not the parenthesis part for me, though. (edit - curiously it's most often when waking up also)

I hope that's it. I don't want to become any more incoherent than I already am.

Do you ever find yourself thinking in keywords when away from the internet, as if Google were an extension of you? I think I did too much research online over the past few days and…