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• On the post: Stopping 23andMe Will Only Delay The Revolution Medicine Needs

  

  Krish ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2013 @ 12:00pm

  This "more information = more better" fetish has gotten a little over the top. More information isn't helping the NSA find terrorist; it's making it harder! What we need is more knowledge and converting information into knowledge is pretty hard, and especially hard in medicine.

• On the post: How The Legacy Entertainment Industry Poisoned The Well For The Innovation It Desperately Needs

  

  Krish ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2013 @ 04:47pm

  Even if you think "Apple island's" rates are too high, at least they don't try to destroy your business

  
  
  right up until the point where they do

• On the post: The Real 'Danger' Of Snowden And Manning: The US Can't Get Away With Its Powerful Hypocrisy Anymore

  

  Krish ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 02:23pm

  Re:

  What tech tree would Powerful Hypocrisy be in?

• On the post: Former NSA Boss Claims Terrorists Use Gmail, Anonymity Is Awful And The US Built The Internet, So Of Course It Should Spy On It

  

  Krish ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 11:04am

  Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide

  
  
  I knew it! Terrorists are flocking to Kansas City (and soon Austin) for that sweet, sweet Google Fiber!

• On the post: Cracked Shows How To Respond To Someone Infringing On Their Work

  

  Krish ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2013 @ 04:10pm

  TeqDert is my favorite blog!

• On the post: National Intelligence Lawyer Wonders Why People Are Fine With Sharing Data On Facebook But Not With The Government

  

  Krish ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 02:12pm

  it's about power

  Don't forget that there is massive power asymmetry at work. Facebook (and advertisers) isn't going to kidnap you and send you to a secret prison and torque you for years because of flaw/oversight/oops in their database mining. The government, on the other hand, can totally do that.

• On the post: Maybe The Answer To The $200 Million Movie Question Is To Not Focus On $200 Million Movies?

  

  Krish ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 01:03pm

  same for games

  The computer game industry is whining about the same problem these days.

• On the post: Maybe The Answer To The $200 Million Movie Question Is To Not Focus On $200 Million Movies?

  

  Krish ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 01:02pm

  same for games

  The computer game

• On the post: Will.i.am, Pharrell, Trademarks And Ham, Sam I Am

  

  Krish ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2013 @ 06:13pm

  entitled.i.am

• On the post: Why James Clapper Should Be Impeached For Lying To Congress

  

  Krish ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2013 @ 11:55am

  voyeuristically

  "[T]he NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that."
  
  Does it strike anyone else that he's saying we do read your emails, we just don't derive sexual gratification from doing so?

• On the post: Harper's Magazine Publisher Shakes Verbal Fist At Google; Romanticizes Own Profession; Quotes Teletubbies

  

  Krish ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2013 @ 12:25pm

  low balling it

  I'm only 2 paragraphs into the article and I can already see that Tim is low balling it. There's so much more in there that wasn't even covered. But I guess you can't spend pages and pages ripping it apart...
  
  Impressive troll is impressive. MacArthur really hits all the "high" points from neutral search to Google not having any cost to likening Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to Hearst.

• On the post: Harper's Magazine Publisher Shakes Verbal Fist At Google; Romanticizes Own Profession; Quotes Teletubbies

  

  Krish ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2013 @ 12:25pm

  low balling it

  I'm only 2 paragraphs into the article and I can already see that Tim is low balling it. There's so much more in there that wasn't even covered. But I guess you can't spend pages and pages ripping it apart...
  
  Impressive troll is impressive. MacArthur really hits all the "high" points from neutral search to Google not having any cost to likening Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to Hearst.

• On the post: Another Notch In 'Cyber Threat' Rhetoric's Belt: Former UK Head Of Cyber Security Brings 'AIDS Epidemic' Into The Mix

  

  Krish ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2013 @ 03:57pm

  herpes would make a better analogy

  While I do think that using HIV is not in the best taste, I do think the analogy with STDs is a good one. Your shitty password on Facebook makes it more likely that scammers will gain access to more of my private information. That puts me in more danger and, in turn, makes it more likely that I will be scammed.
  
  Then again, the analogy only makes sense if everyone is having sex with everyone else.

• On the post: Why The Press Is Getting The Wrong Message Out Of The 'Nate Silver Walloped The Pundits' Story

  

  Krish ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 01:43pm

  Bayesian

  As a Bayesian, I have to point out that not only does our mind have a problem with probability but it's also not trivial to even define what one means by a statement like "Obama has a 85% chance of winning". For spinning coins, we can define the probability of heads by the frequency of heads in an ever-increasing number of coin spins. But the 2012 presidential is a non-repeatable event and all that breaks down.

• On the post: Google Launches Patent Attack On Apple In A Disappointing First For The Company

  

  Krish ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 10:56am

  MAD

  I'm actually rooting for total mutually assured destruction.

• On the post: James Watson, Co-Discoverer Of DNA's Structure, Says 'Patenting Human Genes Was Lunacy'

  

  Krish ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2012 @ 03:17pm

  discoveries

  I like that you call the world wide web a discovery and not an invention. :) I can totally see Tim Berners-Lee digging up the first ever seen chunk of world wide webinum.

• On the post: Your Genome, Your Data

  

  Krish ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2012 @ 10:54am

  The very title of the article already shows a lack of understanding about some of the issues with genetic information. Your genome is not just your genome. It also makes up a large part of the genome of your parents and your siblings and your children. You might be ok with doing whatever with your own genome today but your brother or your children and their children are going to have different considerations.

• On the post: The New Elitism: File Sharing 'Created' Pop Music And Removing Gatekeepers Is 'Killing Culture'

  

  Krish ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 01:30pm

  ‎"People like me used to be auteurs... Now I'm supposed to beg for attention. It's completely counterintuitive to why I became a musician in the first place and the personality of someone like me."
  
  I'm sorry Billy Corgan, I totally didn't hear you there. I was too busy watching stuff on Hulu, listening to music at Spotify, planning my next gathering at MeetUp, reading interesting articles on PLoS, posting on Facebook, and learning things at the Khan Academy. Please whine at me more about having to beg for attention, these headphone are just so I can hear you better.

• On the post: Is It A Problem If People Only Discover A Musician Because They Have A Cool Kickstarter?

  

  Krish ( profile ), 25 May, 2012 @ 08:03pm

  This is all that went through my head when I read this:
  

  
  Record producer: Wow, your song at open mic night was great. I think you have real potential. I'd like to sign you to my label.
  
  Starving artist: Nah man, I want to be know for my music and not because I got lucky that some hot-shot producer saw me perform.
  
  Record producer: ...
  

• On the post: Boom: Jury Says No Patent Infringement By Google In Oracle Case

  

  Krish ( profile ), 23 May, 2012 @ 02:25pm

  New Doogle

  I think this captures my feelings accurately:
  
  http://t.co/LR7Xio1r

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