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by Sagat 13y ago
Loud and assertive people get results in today's world. I applaud the EFF and their aggressive legal actions.
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by Sagat 13y ago
I learned early in life that it's better to work intensely and rest a lot than do more work of a lower quality. If you are sleep deprived you might miss insights and opportunities. Time is the most valuable resource in the universe: by
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by Sagat 13y ago
I don't understand the urge to create a new language to make a statement instead of trying to improve on what already exists.
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by Sagat 13y ago
One (admittedly cynical and disrespectful) hypothesis could be that some of the low-income people are low-income precisely because they disliked abstract reasoning in the first place, thus making them less likely to pursue their education.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Both ideas can be valid at the same time. You can know how to think or be able to autonomously change your life, but at the same time you can also be severely limited or constrained by your circumstances. Humans have a degree of agency (ass
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by Sagat 13y ago
Aside from the misleading headline, I think this is largely a symbolic move or a way to show that the government is doing something.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Perhaps the real value of the leaks was to show how vulnerable the spy agencies are?
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I agree wholeheartedly, but that's like saying we should make everyone use condoms all the time to eliminate AIDS. A perfect solution that is unfortunately unfeasible.
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by Sagat 13y ago
How did you figure this out?
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by Sagat 13y ago
I think it's better to avoid encryption unless it's for really sensitive information or knowledge that could hurt you if broadcast. Using Tor or Truecrypt essentially paints a target on your back: you are paradoxically more likely
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by Sagat 13y ago
I really hope this isn't a scam. I would recommend heading to Northern European countries, specifically the Netherlands and Sweden.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Where's Carlos Slim when you need him?
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by Sagat 13y ago
This is probably just a side effect of the legacy that led to this film being made in the first place... the mythology surrounding Jobs.
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by Sagat 13y ago
How much technical experience did Jobs actually have? Did he actually have a part in designing all the successful products or was he just a manager and marketer? I don't mean to diss Jobs or imply that he wasn't important, but I d
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by Sagat 13y ago
What makes you think the NYTimes isn't also biased?
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by Sagat 13y ago
I'd rather have a license violator than American tech companies selling my personal information or making it freely available to their government.
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by Sagat 13y ago
I know Musk is worshipped by the Hacker News crowd (and rightly so) but as with all things related to technology it's really hard to make predictions considering the fact that there could be a "black swan" type breakthrough o
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by Sagat 13y ago
Good luck to you and your endeavors. However I don't think promoting pseudo scientific diets such as the paleo and the gluten-free is very ethical, although it will certainly net you some extra dough.
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by Sagat 13y ago
My account is new but I'm a long time lurker. From personal experience it gets easier to skim over the low-impact parts after having spent some time using the site. It just happens naturally: you will soon be able to gauge a comment th
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by Sagat 13y ago
When I was a child I honestly wanted to be some sort of god, watching the world go by and knowing everything. Needless to say it didn't work out exactly that way.
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Ask HN: What computer skills should you learn first?
5 points by Sagat 13y ago|8 comments
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by Sagat 13y ago
In other news, Google trademarks the color blue. Smurf village foreclosed.
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by Sagat 13y ago
If you are interested in meditation but wary of the eastern mumbo jumbo, I suggest checking out Jon Kabat-Zinn and his works on mindfulness from a scientific perspective.
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by Sagat 13y ago
If you have never done this before, I think going on a six month trip is too ambitious. I suggest starting with two weeks first, and then continuing only if you still feel comfortable. An extreme change of lifestyle is more difficult than y
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Is it stupid to believe in the singularity?
1 points by Sagat 13y ago|1 comments
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by Sagat 13y ago
I've also noticed from personal experience that playing video games for long lengths of time reduces your ability to concentrate on real world tasks or simple things such as reading.
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by Sagat 13y ago
Starcraft is arguably a more difficult game due to the real-time element and the fact that the pieces aren't constrained by squares on a board (meaning there is more positional variation). As Bobby Fischer complained, chess between acc
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by Sagat 13y ago
This is perhaps off topic but my cousin is a tour guide in one of the villages close to the border with the Germans. Thanks to this I had the opportunity to visit some of the Maginot bunkers where the French troops waited anxiously for the
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by Sagat 13y ago
Excellent post. I was about to mention the same things but you beat me to it. However I think it's worth mentioning that games such as Starcraft offer the unique opportunity to taste glory (at least in Korea) at no personal risk. In th