HappyFunGuy

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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
I sure you'll think this way, until eventually you grow up and develop some empathy of your own. Then come back and tell us how much you appreciate a world where no man can afford to own his own home, and all homes are owned by banks.
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
Why should an industry that has existed for thousands of years have a high premium? Why would you want the houses of the world to cost more, so less people could have them? Low house prices and low land prices allow humans to actually use t
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
I think this is what they call throwing the baby out with the bath water? We didn't need immutability right?
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
How decentralized is a platform that hardforks via human intervention? What happens when the 51% choose to take the money of the 49%? If your blockchain changes the rules, because someone followed the rules of the code, but following thos
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
Dude, we could even name it something cute, like when you're trying to get a girl to marry you... Courting, yes, we could call it a Court!
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
If you want uncensored search results, you need a decentralized search engine. (Your human friends and fellow hacker news bros are such an engine.) As long as search engines are centralized, state power will bend them to their will.
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
It's a good thing that smart contracts have allowed us freedom from human error and bias.... I guess we can just call them "contracts." now.
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
Being safe from terror attacks is 9 parts not being attacked, and 1 part catching people beforehand. If you state you are safe, because you're doing the 10% right, you're mistaken. Would you also state there's no planes blowi
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
Sue in a corrupt jurisidiction to read enemies email? Accidentally violate a privacy law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Applicable_law Honest jurisdiction complies quickly and completely, less reliable j
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
How is this better than searching youtube auto closed captions?
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
It doesn't produce any useful search results for me?
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by HappyFunGuy 10y ago
I know they're sabotaging their newer versions :(
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The worst job ad. Please, treat your employees as customers.
3 points by HappyFunGuy 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Transcription software that actually works?
1 points by HappyFunGuy 10y ago|0 comments
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by HappyFunGuy 11y ago
It is a national security issue to have cash available for use during a time of war, or general internet failure, or natural disaster. Tying your national security to the health of the internet is unwise.
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by HappyFunGuy 11y ago
I found the answer. It is called the Framing effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology) I would posit that there could be benefit in naming the more specific form of discount/increase, as i
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by HappyFunGuy 11y ago
This list is rather daunting to check for a match against this example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases It's either in this list, or we should describe this bias as new?
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by HappyFunGuy 11y ago
If we don't discover a name, I guess we could call the first one the "Small discount, large increase equivalence?" sounds pretty bad. Anything with the word numerator or denominator in it would be far worse. On the second o
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Does this common math misunderstanding have a name?
3 points by HappyFunGuy 11y ago|7 comments