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Prisen | 9 years ago | on: Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationships at Work

Denmark doesn't have any oil, you're probably thinking of Norway.

Prisen | 14 years ago | on: The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's evolution, stupid

>> Music is so cheap. All of the original demands 10 years ago have been met. Guess what? piracy is worse than ever. It reminds me why you never negotiate with terrorists.

All the news I've read regarding streaming services (they have existed a lot less than 10 years, mind you) is that they are decreasing piracy. Do you have any other data points?

Prisen | 14 years ago | on: The "overlearning the game" problem

The problem with this is that all issues regarding taxation/government spending are non-orthogonal, and can't be uncoupled easily (or at all).

Prisen | 14 years ago | on: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F)

"/" is also not a single key on all keyboard configurations. On a swedish keyboard it's shift+7, hardly any easier than ctrl+f.

Prisen | 14 years ago | on: The Arduino Solution to Selectively Mute Over-Exposed Celebrities

Why would you use firsthand experiences when the actual statistics are freely available?

Prisen | 14 years ago | on: When Children Attack...

The birth rates in the western world are already low enough that populations are decreasing excluding immigration. If your suggestion was implemented, they would literally go extinct in not that long a time span. Not sure I'd call that outcome a bingo!

Prisen | 14 years ago | on: Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

PS3s are only vulnerable with old firmware, and hacked ones can't play new games nor play online.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: The future of old: If you’re 30 now, what can you expect at 80?

Sounds more like you treated the symptoms of atypical cystic fibrosis than the symptoms of aging.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Kurzweil: 3 Supplements To Let You Live Until The Singularity

So, according to the article, there is: 1) No scientific consensus whether these supplements will make you live longer or not. 2) A web page where Kurzweil sells these supplements.

Can someone explain why I shouldn't think of this the same way that I think about homeopathy etc.?

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: How do you use 1Gbps Internet links? Chattanooga residents find out

Symmetrical downlink and uplink is the really exciting part to me. Imagine being able to transmit GB-sized files point to point in a matter of minutes. There are so many opportunities for stuff you can do with that :)

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: How to build toddler app UIs.

It's pretty obvious that iPhone games designed to be controlled by tilt work well with tilt, it's not at all obvious that other genres of games work well with pure tilt controls.

It's also a bit premature to draw conclusions from kids at an age where their fine motor skills are still developing. They could be getting frustrated because pushing buttons is hard for them.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: How to build toddler app UIs.

Motion controls and button controls are not mutually exclusive. And buttons are essential for games that require more precise controls, in the same way that a physical keyboard is essential for writing long texts.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Why Experts Get It Wrong

Ravi Mehta is not vaguely surprised that most high-profile basketball "experts" screwed up their Final Four predictions. Overall, of 5.9 million brackets submitted to ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge by those following the games, only 192 had Butler meeting Virginia Commonwealth in Saturday's semi-finals.

This is like asking people to predict the result of a slightly skewed coin flip, without giving any odds, and afterwards proclaiming them wrong if the less likely side happened. In other words, this does not show that the predictions were "wrong" in any meaningful way.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)

If the landlord leaves the master keys unprotected, he most definitely shares some of the blame when the apartments of his building are broken into.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles

Did you know that Mirror's Edge is built using the current version of Unreal Engine? Tech demos are built to showcase as many features as possible, in a very limited time. In order to show shadows/lighting they are often dark.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Nearly All US Universities Lose Money on Sports

I see no numbers for individual sports. Athletic departments losing money does not mean that the football team is losing money.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code

They probably have to specify exactly what percentage of income is given out in winnings. Not to protect the lottery company, but to protect lottery buyers.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism

Tragedy of the commons. It's one of the most fundamental reasons that we have states.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General

Would we really be saying that for a lawyer who defended the Catholic church in the sex abuse scandal? No, b/c anyone with _any_ integrity would likely walk away from that...or anyone with any political smarts.

Very poor example... The right for everyone to have a proper defense in criminal trials is a cornerstone of the legal system, and I'm really surprised anyone would argue against it.

Prisen | 15 years ago | on: Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme

One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in.

Facebook doesn't have this feedback loop.