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by DanI-S 16y ago
It's really quite a horrible concept - not knowing that you aren't yourself. But if you hot-swap one 'unit' of the brain at a time, so that you gradually go from 100% brainware to 100% software - perhaps that would help.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I love Nokia's hardware, and have great respect for Microsoft's mobile team. But I'm not sure whether two dinosaurs together can run faster than one.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
The 'tin foil hat' madness isn't really in suspecting that there are people out there trying to control your mind. It's in believing that wearing a tin foil hat is going to stop them.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
They definitely do; that's the whole reason why you are required to have a passport in the first place. RFID just makes the process more efficient; there's nothing on the chip that isn't contained within the combination of your passport num
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I'm pretty sure you don't have to install Dropbox; the app is just using it as local storage 'in the cloud'. It'd be nice if there were an interface to swap it out for other things, like Microsoft, Google, EC2 or Rackspace storage. Hmm - ne
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by DanI-S 16y ago
They'll also be a perfect match to the last nutjob who filed off his own fingerprints before mailing letterbombs to the IRS. It probably only increases your chance of being detained, probed and investigated. Unless you file off your face, t
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by DanI-S 16y ago
People would be better of putting their bountiful tin-foil-hat energies to use campaigning against the governments that introduce these laws. Writing a letter to your MP is far more meaningful than grinding off the ends of your fingers.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I want this to interface to GitHub. That would be badass.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
In the context of something like Chrome OS, stuff like this is vital to being able to do meaningful development work. It's also pretty cool to have your personal development environment, settings, etc. immediately accessible from wherever y
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by DanI-S 16y ago
It reminds me of the sci-fi concept of creating hyper-intelligent, benevolent AIs to run human life as optimally as possible. That's basically what capitalism attempts to do, except with hyper-wealth in place of hyper-intelligence. As anyon
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by DanI-S 16y ago
Care to explain the downvote? I'd be interested to hear the alternate argument. I'm not talking about censorship; I just think the idea that dying can make you more of a hero is counterproductive.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I feel we need to get away from the word 'martyrs'. It glorifies death in service, and turns it into something to be expected; even welcomed. One live freedom fighter is worth a thousand dead ones.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
"Our way of life is better." The fact that this has so many upvotes /really/ lowers my high opinion of the HN readership.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
For me, Facebook is a cool address book that lets me contact people I know in a less 'immediate' way to text/phone. I'm not friends with people that I don't know in real life. I look at it once a day to see if anyone has posted anything int
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by DanI-S 16y ago
The way I see it, there's a big difference between making fancy websites and making fancy web applications. Making a fancy website, presenting information to a user and maybe collecting a bit of data along the way, you're unlikely to collid
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I've got a family, and need to pay rent. This makes a huge difference to the feasibility of the whole adventure. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
Yeah, right. Tell that to America in 1770.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I'm sure most people at least in some way try to develop interests in certain areas so that other people find THEM interesting!
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by DanI-S 16y ago
Human civilization (and not just our current iteration) is like a gigantic, uncontrollable beast. It tramples thousands underfoot, growing fat on their fears and impossible dreams. Some people may be riding up on top, out of trample range,
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by DanI-S 16y ago
Plus, in France, you actually get some time off.
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by DanI-S 16y ago
'Cause nobody ever sold nothing based on mystery and exclusivity...
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by DanI-S 16y ago
One thing I always found slightly sad about this movie is the idea that humans can only advance through outside intervention. I don't believe that at all!
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by DanI-S 16y ago
Would it have been possible to raise $8m in VC funding for a glorified slideshow during the Great Depression?
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by DanI-S 16y ago
The die looks absolutely beautiful. It's like a city on Mars, or Burning Man or something. http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/UurGsklhtJRW2uuB.medium
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Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google(youtube.com)
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by DanI-S 16y ago
According to this article, elephants and hippopotamuses are the two of the most dangerous animals, and neither of those eat meat... http://www.blurtit.com/q6533369.html
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by DanI-S 16y ago
Nice! It'd be nicer if it used RVM, though. Might try rolling my own. If anyone else wants to try, or is otherwise interested, I wrote a step-by-step guide to getting Rails on Ubuntu with RVM: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2113525
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Getting From Zero to Rails on Ubuntu(bootstrapp.in)
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I think what it actually means is that, despite there being evidence that the set-up was intended for illegal hunting activity, there is no evidence that it was intended for anything else (i.e. shooting people).
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by DanI-S 16y ago
I mentioned the Facebook concept . It was obviously a concept that occurred pretty much simultaneously to a whole bunch of people across the world. The same is true for h.264; it's a system for compressing video that is convenient for 21st

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