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wheremiah | 5 years ago | on: Chrome Is Bad

Maybe you are right. A lot of comments here are complaining about the post in terms of scant evidence. Someone could pretty easily myth-bust this, but I have not seen that in the comments here yet.

wheremiah | 12 years ago | on: On Hyperloop

Yeah, this was my initial confusion with the article and many of the comments. When I read the doc by Musk, I assumed, that the tube 'floated' over the pylons. The author seems to have assumed the opposite. The problem is that they are both assumptions.

When making an argument, sometimes it is good to make an assumption and then prove the assumption is false... sometimes it is just a straw man.

wheremiah | 12 years ago | on: The Physics Behind Traffic Jams

I agree with this observation. I cringe when I hear other comments talking about people driving through traffic trying to smooth out traffic waves. I am very suspicious about the claim that this speeds things up for anyone.

People accelerating hard and braking hard is not good for traffic, but if there is some guy moving slower than possible on a highway with a lot of commuters, many people will need to change lanes to avoid that obstacle. That is not good for traffic either.

wheremiah | 13 years ago | on: The eBook – Déjà Vu All Over Again?

And... whats the f-ing title of his book. I understand he is not self publishing but I thought that he said that in todays world he was still responsible for promoting his book. If so I think he failed a little bit here.

wheremiah | 13 years ago | on: Xiki: A shell console with GUI features.

Yeah, I love the idea, but I had to hunt for the install for a while too.. For a second I started to wonder if this was another good kickstarter idea that was unlikely to ever come to pass... very happy that is not the case.

wheremiah | 13 years ago | on: Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it.

Yeah, I agree. As a for profit company it seems like a really immature thing to write.

I think it's pretty clear there is a problem in education finance. That problem affects a lot of people of different racial backgrounds. Comments like that create discord among the very people you are claiming to want to help.

wheremiah | 13 years ago | on: MIT's Infinite Size CNC Router

I think that the magnet idea could work if you added 3 electro-magnets to the router chassis and made another chassis (to ride around underneath) with 3 corresponding ferro magnetic pads.

wheremiah | 14 years ago | on: Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets

This article just doesn't ring true to me at all. I am a developer in the Bay Area. I have helped recruit other developers from Google and other dominant Bay Area companies. I have not yet encountered the idea that developers ever feared career reprisals when leaving Facebook, Google, etc. Could be selection bias, I guess.

wheremiah | 15 years ago | on: France announces action on Libya

Did La France actually do a better job defending freedom than the U.S.? Whoa, the world has changed... that's like the U.S. leading France in croissants and afternoon sex.
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