Androsynth

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by Androsynth 14y ago
I disagree. They patented a scientific process, which is what patents were originally designed for. This is a case where patents are actually not disgusting. (If I am misinterpreting the patent, please let me know) Should chemists have not
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by Androsynth 14y ago
I think it would be possible if the forum tracked what you have viewed and then greyed out or made it noticeably different than what is new. local storage would be sufficient to store the viewed pages without cluttering up a db on the serve
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Chill out dude. If you want to live in the bay area, you have to work for it. If you want to live on $10 a day, the point is you dont want to work for it. You can't have both. Living on $10 a day can be done. Go build an earthship in Taos.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
If anyone else wants to find out more about Edward Bernays, and how he created the field of public relations, I highly recommend the bbc documentary The Century of the Self . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self It is ver
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Its easy for entertainers to make that joke. But history has shown that in general, people prefer independence over technology.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
The US is experience the type of issues that all empires experience as they transition from plateau to decline (crushing bureaucracy, close ties between business and state, overwhelming federal debt, etc etc). Whats interesting is that the
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by Androsynth 14y ago
The product is the method. This is also true of MMOs, what would happen if you removed the xp bar from those games? The 'game' would practically cease to exist.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
I know a lot of middle aged women who use fv as the main method of keeping in touch with friends and family. Their games are addicting, but no more than WoW or LoL. Those are considered 'real games', but there is a lot of crossover in the a
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by Androsynth 14y ago
>before everyone migrated for the cushy disease and war-ridden life agriculture offers Cushy unless youre a peasant. >Survival was a bitch until we figured out farming and trade I think this is a misconception leftover from earlier
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by Androsynth 14y ago
note: this comment isnt directly about this post, it is comparing the comments of this post to the comments of one of yesterdays posts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006368 . Yesterday there was a debate about whether the spewing le
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by Androsynth 14y ago
no, he is saying that video games give him the simple pleasure of watching stats go up as he performs repetitive tasks. He derives pleasure from simple, yet ultimately hollow achievements because that is the type of praise he was raised on.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
The joke is that there is nothing sci-fi about this :)
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by Androsynth 14y ago
A lot of libertarians respect Marx. In general, he had a good understanding of the problems of a capitalist society and bad solutions to those problems. If you are talking about his vision and insights, like oscilloscope, you get respect. I
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Fantasy Flight makes some good examples of american style games. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17226/descent-journeys-in... http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59294/runewars
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by Androsynth 14y ago
You are setting yourself up for failure using these methods. - You're being misleading by asking them to write a concat method when you really want unit tests for that method. Just be straightforward. You're being too clever for your own go
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by Androsynth 14y ago
> It seems clear that good people need to band together, get some serious firepower, and create a safe haven where the One Rule (no destruction) is strictly enforced. This almost exactly describes what the Taliban did. Except in their m
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by Androsynth 14y ago
The Civil War is an excellent example, and the best example of the ones I gave.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
> a military which does not use bureaucracy loses wars to ones that do. You couldn't be more wrong about this. The decentralized Vietnamese beat the (by-then) bureaucratic US. The US army during WWII was defined by its ability to delega
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Which is much, much safer than driving drunk. Even then, it will be illegal drive while under the influence of marijuana. This is basically a Wont someone think of the children! type argument.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
I agree with some of what you are saying (healthcare, educational arms race..) but you live in one of the most expensive areas in the US (the world?). That is a personal choice. (also buying a car thats ~5 years old is much more cost effici
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by Androsynth 14y ago
dishwasher and washer/dryer? Dont you mean smart phone and tablet?
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Long after Steve Jobs is relegated to the dustbin of Past Industrialists and Apple has regressed to the mean, Stallmans work will still be moving both technology and our society forward in ways that are meaningful and positive.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
taking attendance doesnt allow you to boast about how you are being proactive. It also isn't a reason to ask for a big budget increase.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Its interesting that theres another thread right now about how being unwavering on political issues. Isn't A/B testing about as far from that as you could possibly get? If you are trying to get elected at the national level and you are A/B
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Thats a valid theory, but only going back to the dawn of TV/Radio. Before that politicians actually had to have some content in their messages. for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates The format for each
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by Androsynth 14y ago
> You mean the movies made about people who were unwavering in real life? .. Lincoln I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know how he is being portrayed in current pop-culture, but the only thing Lincoln was unwavering in his support of
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by Androsynth 14y ago
The author of this gist is also one of the developers of http://appjs.org/ . It looks like they may be related.
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Obligatory link to Irwin Schiff's 'How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesnt' http://freedom-school.com/money/how-an-economy-grows.pdf But regarding your original point, foreign govts and banks hold the US dollar because historically it has
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by Androsynth 14y ago
Dynamic systems tend to runaway by themselves, whether there is resistance or not. At the very least they tend to become unrecognizable from the original system within a short time whether there was resistance or not (which is chaos theory
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by Androsynth 14y ago
They are able to kill with relative impunity in Mexico because the Govt isnt big enough or strong enough to stop them. If they killed an American politician, regardless of which side they are on, it would draw the focus of the US law enforc

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