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Nice, I like it.

Does BV.getPlayer().play() work on mobile?

Has wikileaks ever heard of bit torrent?

The announcement aside (line 1 of 20), this "letter" is some poor PR spew. Jack, if you're listening, you need a personal letter stylist. Letters are like jeans that people read.

A Patent for "tapping on something to make it do something".

Who owns the patents for tool use and fire brandishing?

Add a crowd funding approach for new device which a group of hackers would like to see produced...

Social networking services and APIs are not the utility. The Internet is the utility.

that is totally awesome

"We have also learned that a protocol which delivers the goods can replace all competition in virtually no time."

This is an argument for websockets eating protocol lunch.

This is incredible!

very nice!

Yay the game of life!

This doesn't look all that unwieldy. It looks like a concise library of choice front end utilities.

I will work at Prismatic.

Nice, don't mind if I do.

There is a font called Dyslexie which looks like a much subtler Comic Sans and was designed to be more readable for dyslexics.

www.studiostudio.nl/project-dyslexie/

You are right about the statement in question. I got mixed up, but I think the principal of "same difference" applies :D

He says, "If it [the statement] is proven, then a false statement is proven." (Proven true or false?)

I am not interpreting the statement "this statement cannot be proven" as true, as you do, or false.

What I argue is that one's interpretation has an effect, without which the statement is neither true nor false, but, as I claim, incidental. We can imagine the statement, but what we imagine is not the statement, even if it looks and smells like it.

Thus, the Schrodinger Card trumps the Goedel. The trick here is that I am standing outside of "the system", not permitting myself to enter paradox land. If you so much as look at me, I'll get sucked in.

Not so fast!

I am taking issue with the so-called "falsity" of the "this statement is false". If you imagine that statement, and imagine that what you imagine is probable in the extreme, outside of your imagination, free, and unmolested by your probings, then "this statement is false" is always, only, incidental.

And don't come back saying saying "false" and "proven false" are different. I can compare strings!

interesting and funny though for somebody who doesn't know Haskell

I like George Boolos' explanation because it plays with my paradoxic sensebrain, with something like poetry. Why not call it a poem?

But I like your explanations too.

However, I think that the Goedel card is counter-played well by the Schrodinger one. "This statement cannot be proven" is only a false statement because you inspect it with your system. It might otherwise be completely true.

Is the Elephant’s Footprint Clan hiring?

bookmarking this.

The claim of partisanship is an outright falsehood. The partisanship is in Chris Anderson's reason for not distributing the talk, not the talk itself. He is making it partisan, by cowing to that which we call partisanship, a thing he must surely take for granted. Maybe he is evil, too.

There is nothing partisan about it. The 1% are not a party, any more than a single senator is a party. The ability of the Corporate Rich to spin the public argument, and make it seem like there is a split conflict, that is the root of what we "end-users" perceive as partisanship. In this case, they have spun & won. The public discussion about this talk is partisanship, not the issue itself.

And Hanauer points this out. The spin of the conversation is influencing the outcome of policy. This is not new under the sun, but it is an idea worth spreading.

The authors says

"Federal spending has grown roughly as fast as the overall economy over the past 50 years."

And then immediately after that says spending climbed from 18% of GDP to 24% of GDP, which is a 33% increase.

If I were trying to break a torrent, I'd put thousands of peers in the swarm and share bad data.

I'm all for the culture spammers getting better at busting p2p, so p2p gets better and subverting the culture spammers.

Node.js is pretty "close to the metal", and HTML-as-a-GUI holds great promise for quality, and for cross-platform delivery. Maybe you can't touch the bottom and you can't reach the top, but you can get at the widening middle.

And you used to be just a front end hacker.

It is also time to stop writing headlines that start with "How".

Terrific

I'd like to see Apple or any company to do as they threaten and move their headquarters. Try asking all of your top talent to move from their nice property values and school districts to some tax haven.

I had imagined the linked page was going to say "We got DDOS'd and we're proud!" b/c DDOSing is a kind of free speech, like spending money.

He seems to be griping about all the best parts.

Now small businesses and producers can get financing from the crowd? I've been dreaming about this. Yet I really had no idea the jobs act was pushing it.

Whoever needs a developer partner to launch a crowd funder for private shares, hollar at me. I want to focus on local goods and manufacturing.