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by Sagat 13y ago
One advantage of this policy for foreigners is that it's remarkably easy to get into the best Chinese universities (even Tsinghua) compared to the effort the average chinese student has to expend to achieve the same goal. Source: a vis
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by Sagat 13y ago
I think we should start a cult around Musk.
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by Sagat 13y ago
The post was overly dramatic and mostly sarcastic, but not entirely. My point is that we are under the illusory impression that our opinions matter. If you are like 95% percent of the population who don't have a significant amount of c
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by Sagat 13y ago
I should have indicated that my post was sarcasm, but I think the underlying point is correct. Most of our lives are determined by extremely powerful people because power and wealth are distributed in extremely unequal ways. The point being
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by Sagat 13y ago
So far, laws that have tried to rein in software and the persons using them have been laughably impotent. Take Hadopi for instance. The legal profession and the people elected to the government are light years behind the current tech develo
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by Sagat 13y ago
This was a successful troll. I actually believed you were serious for several hours. Thanks for brightening up my day.
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by Sagat 13y ago
You might not use it, but the websites you frequent and the people you socialize with will do so, and in some cases will be unable to live without it. You can try to escape, but you will still be within Zuckerberg's grasp, no matter ho
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by Sagat 13y ago
No matter how many times people bring up privacy issues or the "haha users are dumb fucks" quote in order to characterize Zuckerberg as evil, the fact remains that he has absurd amounts of money and power and is likely to remain t
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by Sagat 13y ago
Why use the word "should"? Nobody is entitled to anything in our world. Working hard is not valuable in itself. The only reason it is encouraged is that it has the potential to bring about positive results. A world where people ar
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by Sagat 13y ago
I did, it's just that they didn't make it clear who the "community" was and how they had gotten wind of the problem, and what exactly they were demanding and how they were demanding it. In any case, I still think she sho
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by Sagat 13y ago
A tragic event but I really don't understand how making a public blog post is supposed to make anything better.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Off topic question: It says on your profile that you studied Bio and Philosophy at Stanford. How did you go from that to being a tech entrepreneur?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Why don't you give HN members a free PDF? I thought we were friends.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Does that mean that using a diceware password doesn't work?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Aren't libertarians supposed to consider liberty (whatever that means) as the highest political aim? According to this definition, you can't get more libertarian that Roberts since he put his personal life at risk in order to incr
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by Sagat 13y ago
I don't buy into it because most people don't use it for truly ground breaking projects, but rather as a social themed timewaster. They remain in their small communities (now more of a friends list) and don't "evolve&quo
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by Sagat 13y ago
"I'm a guy who created a profile minutes ago and by pure happenstance chose to make an enthusiastic but vague comment about a new product!"
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by Sagat 13y ago
Sounds really vague to me. What does "passion" even mean? It's a word that is overused, not unlike "leadership" or "vision".
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by Sagat 13y ago
It will never work because there is no apple logo on the phone.
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by Sagat 13y ago
But it's the teenagers who turn into those old folks. So they don't turn out alright.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Actually, I think something did indeed happen to your brain. Neuronal plasticity means that your brain prunes synapses that are left unused and strengthens those that are frequently requested. Your brain is literally being molded by what yo
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by Sagat 13y ago
I have a similar story to yours although I doubt I was as smart. In high school I could get the best grades in my class without much effort and got a near perfect score in the baccalaureate. Nothing to brag about though, since I then procee
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by Sagat 13y ago
Russia's stance on gays does not invalidate the argument. Syria is an unrelated topic.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Putin is badass enough not to need speechwriters.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Je dirais qu'il y a quand même une petite différence entre les deux...
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by Sagat 13y ago
Replace "Putin" with "Obama" is this sentence and there you have it, a perfect description of the United States. Waxing about freedom and human rights while manipulating and coercing the whole world according to their ma
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by Sagat 13y ago
depthhub is probably enough to suit your needs. I would however recommend leaving reddit for good. You honestly aren't missing anything.
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Ask HN: Any HN users in the 3D printing industry?
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by Sagat 13y ago
Judging people's "value" according to their wealth is laughable and has a whiff of protestant fundamentalism to it. There are a ton of people with absurd wealth who are in fact costly to the economy (drug kingpins, polluters,
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by Sagat 13y ago
That's an honestly laughable PR measure. It's the equivalent of a robber putting your belongings in a plastic bag before taking them.

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