MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Really great point. Wish it has occurred to me.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Because it resonates with everyone. Personal moments, privacy, intimacy ... these are things everyone understands, everyone can see how it might impact them. Talk about "misuse of power" and you lose the attention of the very pe
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
This could be interesting with an API to control pricing, that way it could be adjusted by BTC => local currency -- but also based on other things. I for example, would like a multiplier based on my backlog. I might start at 20 cents an
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
While we are getting good at proof-of-work stuff -- we aren't great a proof-of-power. Meaning, it would be easy for me to emulate 10,000 slow computers with one powerful one, doing 2 minutes of work 10,000x parallel (claiming each of t
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I think you might have misunderstand the Feynman Algorithm (alternative possibility, I misunderstood it). My understanding of the Feynman Algorithm was that it was basically a joke by Gell-Mann. Gell-Mann was pointing out that no one else
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Random aside about Unlicense. Unlicense depends on two core ideas that are not anywhere near universally applicable... public domain and relinquishment rights. This makes unlicense a non-starter in Germany, and most likely completely inva
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
"users" will grab the binary and be done.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Which was one of the core goals. Spread the load, avoid single points of failure, create a vibrant community of contributors, allow people in.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Thanks for letting the non OS-X'ers in! :)
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Hey, as going out rage quit rants go -- I honestly enjoyed it... it had a spark. I don't agree with (most of) what he thinks, but at least he did it with some style. Hope he enjoys the potato farming life, or whatever the heck he doe
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Good luck. I can say I sympathize with the pain that applying consistent logical principals can have on beliefs. The longer you have believed something, and the more intense the emotions around it are, the harder it is to give up on it.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Use some creative commons songs.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Exactly, it is silly to consider Erlang a "pet language", it is an industry hardened language designed for the a near cousin to problem domain of WhatsApp. 20+ years routing billions of calls a day under soft real-time, high reli
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
It is very annoying to me to hear Erlang referenced as a "pet language". It has been around as a language for 28 years, and it has been doing mission critical, soft realtime work of routing billions of phone calls a day for over
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Welcome to software development, where no one really knows what they are doing, the methodologies don't matter and everyone is wrong! Software is still a mix of art and science, there are a lot of ways to get to the right answer, and
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Indeed, it is the medallion holders -- who miss their extremely safe investment that used to return 7%+ (NYC medallions did significantly better than the 7% average) for years on end... it was a great place to sink a lot of money, very safe
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Aggressive? My post was mellow except my response to > I think it's not reasonable to blindly obey over-aggressive and unfounded requests which is a perspective that will LITERALLY get someone killed if they believe it. That is wh
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Interesting perspective (intelligence services as another form of back channel communication). "Forced transparency".
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
A lot of your post is you just saying things you think with no evidence, what your "gut" tells you, etc. Not going to respond to those, because they are not very interesting. Let me share one of my personal opinions with no basi
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
The reason astroturfing is "bad" is because it is beyond rational debate, look up the laws... they are about personal testimonials primarily. "I went to this car shop and they did an awesome job." "This one silly t
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
It doesn't work at all -- because regulation is meaningless without enforcement. The real conversation should be about enforcement... not what is written down, what is enforced. There are a lot of stupid laws and regulations on the b
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
The problem is people talk about "regulations" when what people should talk about is "enforcement". Inconsistent enforcement is a huge problem in a lot of taxi / black car markets -- yet people point to the regulat
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Invalidate the ideas, not the person (account, etc)... if they had a two year old hacker news account, how exactly would that change the content of their post? What they wrote would be exactly as valid or invalid as it is now. Account age
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
> I've known some engineers to argue that the number of languages on a CV is negatively correlated to the quality of the candidate. The song sung by old engineers who refuse to learn new technology, so they try to make knowing few a
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I actually own the dual-bowls keyboard. :) As a contractor working on laptops for years, it never become my "normal" keyboard.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I tried emacs for two weeks without evil -- I felt the nagging start of RSI in two weeks. I did rapidly teach me proper coording... but damn, the use of that many modifiers hurts. I experimented with god-mode, which seems like a good middl
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
q/ and q: are improved versions of : and / -- when you type q: or q/ it brings up a split with your : or / history in it -- so now you can use normal vim editing commands to edit an existing command or type in a new one,
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Spacemacs is interesting... it has the idea of additional layers on top of it, might be usable... still will take a lot to pull me away from my well configured vim setup.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I learned to touch-type playing Quake. So I can type in very short, curse-infused sentences before getting back to fighting.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Hangouts continues to build itself an Island as it sheds any even hand-wavy notion of being XMPP. Slack has a lovely web client and both XMPP and IRC gateways -- meaning most everyone can use their favorite interface.

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