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by ForrestN 12y ago
So much so that it justifies installing the app and then asking people you know to do so too? It takes no time to send a "yo" text with Siri, and if it's a person you have texted recently it's very fast and easy by hand
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by ForrestN 12y ago
http://people.bethel.edu/~steken/death%20and%20despair/holze...
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Ask HN: How much would ongoing part-time help cost us?
1 points by ForrestN 12y ago|1 comments
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by ForrestN 12y ago
I think we'll figure out how to make an intelligent being before we're able to figure out how to make an intelligent being that also harbors the subtle contradictions that make us human.
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by ForrestN 12y ago
I think the assumption that AI would have a natural motive to conquer things, or even to expand beyond the confines of its current resources, is flawed. The absurdity of simultaneously fathoming the eventual death of the universe and also c
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by ForrestN 12y ago
I might put it this way, just as a means of transferring my intuitions: it's very hard to imagine a large, successful company with your current scope using the name "Gittip."
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Young, rich and politically ignorant(salon.com)
3 points by ForrestN 12y ago|0 comments
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by ForrestN 12y ago
On the contrary. I think a big part of the identity of Y Combinator is a straightforward rationality that would support even more explicit support for the Democratic party. Pragmatically it would be inefficient to give resources to a third
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Straw man? "In a free society, people can unite in their business ventures even though they might be far apart in how they view the world generally." This is in contrast with what the author sees as the harrowing implications of u
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by ForrestN 13y ago
No one is proposing laws about who can hold given positions. There is no free speech angle here. What's happening on HN is exactly what our system wants to happen: answer speech you don't like with more speech! There's a lot
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by ForrestN 13y ago
I have no way of knowing if the author is lying in his reporting on internal conversations that happened at Facebook, but his argument isn't merely that he liked it better. Rather it's that user testing revealed that it function
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by ForrestN 13y ago
On the contrary, QWERTY is a great example to contradict the above comment. If things worked as we want them to, we should have moved to more efficient layouts a long time ago, right? Net productivity would be dramatically higher even if th
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by ForrestN 13y ago
There's a subtle distinction to be made here. The argument is that a better user experience was abandoned in favor of a worse user experience that generated more impressions per user. It might be true that users would have an immediate
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Why? What does intent have to do with causation?
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by ForrestN 13y ago
or their mothers, right?
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by ForrestN 13y ago
This is a confusing question if we are considering the results of someone's life mainly because of procreation. If Hitler, for example, can be thought of as being at the beginning of a causal chain that made a big difference, wouldn&#x
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Makes sense! Didn't think of that.
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Something's wrong with your setup I think. I have an iPad mini with much less power than an iPad 3 and there is never any lag to speak of with the ios7 animations. Parallax works exactly as it would in real physics to my eyes. Maybe ta
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by ForrestN 13y ago
You're getting bogged down I think. No one is talking about what's "possible." Theories don't become competitive by virtue of being hypothetically capable of being offered— you have to actually advance them and argu
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Same question: what makes you think just being a woman would make you less likely to be passionate or dream about building things with computers? If your theory is true, I'd assume its because young women are socialized to think that s
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by ForrestN 13y ago
I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Unless you have a compelling idea about why having been born a woman makes you not want the best available job in the current economy, what are we even talking about?
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by ForrestN 13y ago
I think you may have missed my point; I think the idea that women have any sort of cognitive deficiency is absurd. I believe that the reason there are so few women in tech has to do with systemic disincentives, rather than that they "a
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by ForrestN 13y ago
That's not really a theory, you're just deferring the question. Why wouldn't women be interested in this kind of profession? Do women not like comfortable, creative, high-paying jobs with lots of perks?
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by ForrestN 13y ago
I can only really think of two ways of understanding the extreme gender imbalance in these jobs. Either there are systemic discriminatory forces at work, or women are somehow inherently ill-suited for programming jobs (ie. because of cognit
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by ForrestN 13y ago
For context: Armin Vit runs probably the most important blog critiquing identity design and branding. From my vantage, this is the authoritative place for quick reactions to major new identities.
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30 Days for This?(underconsideration.com)
2 points by ForrestN 13y ago|1 comments
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by ForrestN 13y ago
I'm sorry but this vision of a "thinker" who is always imagining the future so he can "out-innovate" his competition is a little ridiculous. PG's point is a psychological one: many of the founders he encounters
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by ForrestN 13y ago
He's right because he 'feels "done?"' He feels done because he is paranoid and lonely and feels bad about himself, because he seems to have profound psychological pain. Glorifying his manic, grandiose justifications
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Everything, from the premise to the details. The grandiosity and self-obsession and narcissism, the delusions about his own motives (which were clearly emotional and painful rather than pseudo-philosophical). Even if you take his argument a
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by ForrestN 13y ago
Why is this here? A person with a mental illness created a shrine to that mental illness. Even if we meant for it to be public, his healthier agencies probably wouldn't have. It's disrespectful, even cruel to upvote this, gawk at

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