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by Gargoyle 9y ago
There's no reason that government can't be vastly reduced in a world that is capable of sustaining UBI. The only way UBI works is with massive increases in automation and productivity. At that point, why is a large, powerful gove
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
You're downvoted, but this has been exactly my thought all along. The people who saw these ads weren't going the other way anyway.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I recently read the non-fiction book Command And Control by Eric Schlosser. It's structured around an incident when a Titan II missile blew up in its silo in Arkansas, throwing the warhead out of the silo and into the air. Anyway, it
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
"We went to Zabriskie Point to see Venus appear. Michael placed speakers all around us, as no one else was there, and we listened to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sing Richard Strauss’s, Four Last Songs. I saw tears in Foucault’s eyes. We went
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The interesting thing about a school at the top of the pile is that even the dropouts will have their educational background described as "MIT dropout" for the rest of their lives, and it will mostly be used as an oddly positive d
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
This makes the case that colleges are not those places in the same way they used to be, and so colleges are now missing some of the utility they once provided. Both to students and to society at large.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Sounds like you've identified an opportunity to make billions of dollars.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I did some work for a company doing this for home improvement contractors back...geez, it must have been a decade ago. The problem is they don't respond to middlemen like this any more than they do end customers. It's a lot of wor
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Do these companies let existing sublease their own space on say a seasonal basis. Some companies need lots of space in their own buildings at certain times of the year and not others. Limited time subleasing seems like it could be a win.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
TechCrunch's top 7 picks of this group of 50: Pyka, PullRequest, Zendar, Gopher, Modular Science, Escher Reality, Forever Labs. With the exception of Gopher, I think that's a solid list. I just can't get excited about another
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Surely you're aware of the tremendous potential for unethical uses. Do you have any concerns along those lines? Any steps to take to prevent it?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Or private detectives stalking client's spouses. There's a lot of ugly directions for this technology.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Also featuring A Preview Of The Motorola 68000!
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I don't work at uber, but this letter communicates nothing but drama and uncertainty to me. I can't imagine it put anyone's mind to rest.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Adam Gorightly, author of a couple of books about Kerry Thornley, has been documenting the early days of discordianism at Historia Discordia. Lots of gems from era, info on various Illuminatus Trilogy related things, etc, on that site. ht
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Edit- No, it's actually not counties. There are more divisions on the map in Northern Arizona than there are counties there. Not sure what the divisions are. Zip code maybe?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Even more specific, you can see the Black Belt very clearly in a lot of the maps. Some artists correlate very positively, some very negatively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Why are people living in their homes a 'problem'?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I'm at a loss why anyone is expected to sell their home.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The SEC has been dipping into crypto regulation since at least 2013 when they shut down BTCT for running an exchange that traded shares in various bitcoin mining companies. There are people there who have been working in the field for years
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Which jobs cannot be automated?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Do this with an ICO, with your space verified via smart contract. It's all in the marketing!
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The early webcomic "Delta Thrives" from the same artist is still one of my touchstones for a utopian vision of the future. http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/delta/heartoft...
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
My brother did a fair amount of mountain climbing in his 20s, but stopped around the time he had kids. He specifically said "I don't want to go again until they're old enough to remember me." Done properly, the risks are
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I just can't see going to law school without have a very clear career plan starting immediately on graduation. If you can do well at one of the top 5 schools or have family connections that definitely lead somewhere, that kind of thing
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
>It's hard to argue that it hasn't been an unalloyed good for founders. I can't agree with this without knowing who is on what list and why. There's way too much room for bad judgement to get in the way. Having said t
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I favorited this post because the top level comments are a perfect HN self-parody.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
> "I am the primitive of my way." Thanks for this. This is the best thing I've picked up here in a very long time.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I don't know if it's still true, but the system used to let you either comment or downvote, but not both. That is, if you replied in a comment any downvote to what you replied to would not be counted. Always struck me as a bit of
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Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman Launch Group to Rethink the Democratic Party(recode.net)
5 points by Gargoyle 9y ago|1 comments

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