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Kai Krause: It is a near impossibility to define quality of life, a deeply personal set of values, judgements and emotions. But in recent years there have been breakthroughs, a new sense of empowermen…

No, ambition and sloth did this to us: Ambition in the scope of the systems we build, sloth in our willingness to give in to whatever gets the job done. As Alan Kay said, "The revolution hasn't happen…

That's a good idea but it could have the consequences that a poor person would have to front money to go to trial, just in case he or she lost. I think getting rid of the large settlements (replaced w…

I think part of this talk is directed at the messed-up American legal system which has trickled down to affect a lot of life in America. You can't make an exception for fear of a lawsuit. The rest o…

No, you don't get to play with "preferred definitions". here. In 1989, the companies came in and put an extreme back into balance. In 2009, the government came in to put an extreme back into balance. …

I never tried to be smug. Why don't you elaborate instead of down voting?

But "National Socialism" was the name because that's what sold at the time; the ideology was Facism.

After '89, there were some who said, "Communism didn't fail because this wasn't /really/ Communism." I answered, sorry, but that's how Communism is rendered. There are those now who are saying, "Lais…

That's funny, because I submitted a business plan with the idea that 5% of anything is better than 100% of nothing.

what about something like this? http://www.me-vc.com

> Facebook on the other hand has serious revenue potential if it can survive the recoil from its sudden popularity, and if it can survive the onslaught of competitors. But those are both big if'…

Thanks, Apu. I understood that these were their reasons and I certainly find them valid; we're talking about an amazing group of people here. What I was trying to say was: to be brave, That it would…

eat the rich

I really applaud they're effort, and I'm an incredible fan of Alan Kay, but I think they're jumping the gun. They weren't required to change the stack. It's helpful, sure, but I think they should ha…

I've been working on something for a while that I think could represent a fundamental shift in constructing software. It's essentially an environment that takes collections of nodes and assembles the…

I think we're already at the start of the revolution in education he's asking for. With Google, Wikipedia and YouTube, if you want to know something, you can get that knowledge more effortlessly with…

Could you elaborate on that?

I'm also interested in writing and shooting short films. I've only shot one so far, a 3 minute Super8, but I have some more scripts and would like to shoot the next one, a digital short, some time th…

Send me an email at david927 at gmail dot com.

You can be sure that the US Senate got their information from US Military and intelligence sources. I'm asking the source for a good reason: what's the more likely scenario? A) The US invades Iraq an…

That's what the U.S. Military says. I think you should check a better source. This discussion isn't appropriate for this forum; feel free to email me if you want to discuss this further.

For start-up jobs there's startuply.com For start-up tech news and information, there are a million sites for every taste and size.

What terrorists went there after the invasion? How do you define a terrorist? As someone who shoots at an American?

This is how I would go too. And if/when he really likes it and wants to move on, LISP.

s/type/typo/ That's exactly what I deserve for being pedantic.

There's a huge type on the front. It should read: Function Programming: Has Its Ship Come In? Yikes. That's a bit awkward.

Actually, I take that back. I was trying to be funny. I think the people that work with such a goal are heroes.

A lot of patents about nothing?