Prrometheus

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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Obama is smart enough to realize when he is veering into self-parody. Thus, the early campaign slogan of "hope" and "change" eventually gave way to "yes we can!" and other such rhetoric. He needed something fresh. I would guess he briefly t
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
There are different markets for "mobile general purpose computing devices" and "an easy device to surf the internet and keep up with the kids". Yes, it is that innovative. It's awesome.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Design is less of a commodity.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The french one looked fun and well-done, though I couldn't understand what they were saying. The first one on the page with the music and still images is unintentionally hilarious. They cycle through pictures of people that I guess are invo
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Except for there are 300 flavors, all named in a foreign language.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
You should read Patri's post on Dynamic Geography, which I linked to in a post above. The point is not to be "selfish", but to create higher quality government. Currently the government industry suffers from a high barrier to entry and high
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
To belabor a common libertarian point: one virtue of the marketplace is choice. Different individuals can make different choices. This has advantages over the political system, where one choice is made for everybody. Maybe you think Social
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Commercial vehicles have very large valuable goods/people and valuable goods/security personnel ratios. I doubt pirates find it profitable to attack seasteads, which are both more troublesome and less lucrative.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
No, not utopia. Just government with the incentive to govern well because its citizens' exit costs are dramatically reduced. See Patri's original post on the theory of Dynamic Geography here: http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/new_pages/d
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Save your money and spend it on something useful instead. Or buy a newspaper stock section blown up to wall-size, a monkey, and some darts. But seriously, Google "survivorship bias". The ones selling advice are doing so because they were th
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Also, "Fooled by Randomness"
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Babe Ruth started his pro career in 1914. We're almost a century past that. Other sports are newer and younger, but we will remember them, too. And what's even cooler, we will be able to watch them, for centuries.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Sports are knocked because they are low-brow and middle-class. But objectively, I think sport is a performance art that is every bit as wonderful as a great ballet or concert. Memories of the great sporting performances will last for centur
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
What features does a "modern" debugger have, as opposed to non-modern ones.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I'm not an expert, just interested in the subject. I thought of an idea, and this is completely fresh so take it with a grain of salt, but you could use social data from all users subscribed to the same feed to modify the prior probability
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Is there anything fancier than a naive Bayes classifier going on? Do you do any calculus on the relative values of false positives and false negatives? It seems that a person with a large number of feeds would put a greater importance on li
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I've heard rumor that there is a whole country that does this on some funny little island on the other side of the world.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Repeating something that has been said so many times that it has become popular wisdom is an easy way to fill word count.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I wonder how many of those who demonize trade realize that high volumes of trade are associated with good economic times and low volumes of trade are associated with the opposite.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
You assume that nationalizing health insurance will lower the cost without having too large a negative effect on quality. Or, like most people who advocate nationalized things, you assume that people above you on the income scale will be su
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Old media companies will probably die before they change. Then new ones will take their place. Sometimes change must occur through economic selection.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
This is because I started using it, obviously. But seriously, it's dead simple to use, which is why I use it but haven't gotten around to trying 80% of the web startups that come through here.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The 2000 election was "stolen" by the Supreme Court? I don't usually expect conspiracy theory on Hacker News.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Does anybody older than me remember if there was this much hoopla around the 2000 inauguration?
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I have no idea which kind of publicity this will end up being, by the way. Environmentalism itself is so popular that it would take a pretty big screw up for CO2stats to be irreparably damaged. There is certainly a market.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Publicity is good, as long as its not "cuill" publicity. On another topic: is there any goal quite so vacuous as "raising awareness" about something?
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A simple economic case against bailouts(austrianeconomists.typepad.com)
5 points by Prrometheus 18y ago|0 comments
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
This is exactly the kind of maintenance issue that makes me occasionally hate using Ubuntu. Oh look! My flash player suddenly stopped working! I get to do six hours of forum combing and troubleshooting, whoppee!
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
On a related note: Porn games for the Wii.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Taste is a very subjective thing. I try not to criticize other people's fashion sense. Obviously, many people are willing to pay for the designs of American Apparel.

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