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n0rm

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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n0rm··on At Uber, the inmates are running the asylum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRNYqsMIbg0
n0rm··on Intel's Xeon Phi Is Being Sold for a Low Price
TR here.

:(

n0rm··on Imagotag – Electronic Shelf Labelling
Biggest product killer for these is the need for IT management.

Prove to retailers that your product is install-and-forget or they'll shy away from the unpredictable maintenance costs.

n0rm··on ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices
> range constrained if you are working with power constrained devices

Could you elaborate on that? Why does the narrow frequency drain power?

n0rm··on Plastc Card
smells fishy
n0rm··on Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
Entrepreneurship in the making?
n0rm··on Pants: Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square
Twitter is going to make the internet a better place.
n0rm··on Physicists find a new way to push electrons around
TFA talks about a neutral zone. I assume there is a flow of equal number of (+) and (-) particles there.

If that is utilized, heat savings might prove to be true.

n0rm··on Physicists find a new way to push electrons around
There is something about there being 4 electrons in the outermost shell of an element.

What is it?

n0rm··on Meet the Apple Watch
Terrible design.

The high-end customers you desire will never abandon their shiny Swiss watches for this.

The low-end customers will (once again) be claimed by Samsung.

I didn't really like him, but Jobs was indeed a visionary. Apple is losing ground (alarmingly rapidly, I might add) after him. May he rest in peace.

n0rm··on Economics education can shift people in a selfish direction?
Not quite.

Economics teaches you that there is no logic or system to this chaos, and after a threshold, it's no man's land.

Then, natural instinct takes over.

Welcome to the jungle.

n0rm··on A Single Div
This is wizardry.
n0rm··on Finding a cure for hate
Hate is an illness?

How is that different from sharia muslims who say gayness is an illness?

Anyway, reading TFA is a waste of time.

n0rm··on The time one of my colleagues debugged a line-of-business application
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194791.The_Old_New_Thing
n0rm··on Piri Reis Map
In BBC's Museum Mysteries docus, in the Topkapı Palace episode, they offer their theory for this.

They think that Piri Reis (commander of the navy at that time) obtained maps from ships that passed through the Bosphorus. He was then able to draw a current map of the world from all the diverse information.

They basically explored the world without ever leaving home.

n0rm··on Offer HN: Free Use of Agricultural Land 30 miles Northwest of Chicago
This guy can populate all the land with cool projects which will eventually benefit research - http://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/smayfield
n0rm··on Robot Journalism Is Great for Journalists
I expected it to ask for my email address and tell me when they go live.

Do you know of any trick to automatize the lookout?

n0rm··on Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance
> Before even opening the menu they take their phones out

> 26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking photos of the food.

It's like instagram and pinterest and all the other feel-good platforms are making us less efficient.

n0rm··on The Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
any TL;DR?
n0rm··on This is a blog post that’s incredibly confusing and painful for me to write
This is from his e-shop;

> Sorry, foreign person, but our store is not yet available in your inferior country.

He is a d*ckhead, after all.

n0rm··on Google Glass hack allows brainwave control
To clarify; it doesn't enable one to hack your brainwaves. Rather, control things with your brainwaves.

Not very reliable unless you are willing to risk unloading serious voltage through your subject's head.

n0rm··on MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
How can I get an inbox?
n0rm··on Do you believe we will ever find missing flight MH370?
transparency:

No

n0rm··on U.S. military grounds F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after fire
Maybe they are still in denial?
n0rm··on Of Two Minds – A neuroscientist balances science and faith
This (short) book gives a sense of the "faith" required for scientists - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574594-ignorance
n0rm··on Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading?
No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
n0rm··on New Technology That Could Cut Public Restroom Wait Times
Fixing lights on doors is new technology?
n0rm··on Why I’m No Longer a Professor
Do you really think Obama is where he is today out of merit?

He won't rock the boat. He won't go JFK on people and cause a ruckus.

Do you really believe an upper-middle-class lawyer can breeze past the multi-billionaires?

Look at what's happening in Detroit. Who the scapegoat is for the downfall of an entire city.

n0rm··on Why I’m No Longer a Professor
Exactly. You should be learning things in college, not kissing ass. That's the very definition of the downward spiral education is in.

Those contacts you make in big-name schools are mostly wishful thinking. Those places don't train you to be a friend. They train you to be ruthless, efficient "winners".

Make your FU money and bail. Nietzsche explained why;

> He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

p.s. a white collar mcjob makes more than an adjunct "professor".

n0rm··on Why I’m No Longer a Professor
When you try to get it accredited, you'll have a better understanding of the problem.

Only when you threaten to rock the boat do the esteemed gentlemen show their mafia qualities.

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