Snail_Commando

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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
>One lesson of this tale is that capitalism doesn’t really work when it relies on the profit motive alone. If everybody is just chasing material self-interest, the invisible hand won’t lead to well-functioning markets. It will just lead
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
In terms of depth of vocabulary, English is probably the most expressive language in history. I'm sure you can come up with a sharper instrument than "butt-hurt".
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
Another social news aggregator (the one frequented by crustaceans and disenfranchised Hacker News users) implemented a "story merge" feature yesterday. It is a really nice feature. https://github.com/jcs/lob
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
My comment may be lost into the aether. But if anyone is out there, I think Hacker News could really use a story merge feature. That would significantly reduce noise around "major" events, and likely prevent second order noise as
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
If there is a market for this kind of thing (I suspect there is,) it sounds like it would be a sort of "dumb terminal" as a service. You just buy a monitor, a keyboard, and a decent internet subscription. Everything else would be
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by Snail_Commando 12y ago
For context: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25376-dna-nanobots-del... http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano... Edit: I wasn't sure whether or
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DNA robots work in a live cockroach(nature.com)
2 points by Snail_Commando 12y ago|1 comments
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Focus on getting users and keeping them happy. Pass every decision through that filter. Right now is the only time in the potential timelines of your company where all goals and incentives are so neatly aligned (between users, employees, fo
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes Why does your app have this rating? Don't get me wrong, I love Lisps as much as the next person, but... More seriously, is it because of the video-chat feature?
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> Editing out inflammatory language is the low-hanging fruit of optimizing for signal/noise ratio. I'd like to gently suggest that you put that, or something to that effect, in the HN guidelines. > Be civil. Don't say
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
This is blatant blogspam, please link to the original source when posting to HN. Context in case of link change: The OP link points to a web page with a single link to another blog post.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
The stories you submitted on AWS-Google price wars and the UCLA medical diagnostics app are better examples of content to submit. This story is essentially: "Domain expires." And that is still two words too many.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
You may be surprised to learn that Colin asked him to write this post.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Well, I don't work for Apple and I'm not a professional UI designer. So I can't possibly be certain that I know the true motivation for that design decision. But I think it is a reasonable guess.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
So the user forms an association between the shape of the button and its function, that way they are easier to differentiate in the dark. Edit: I totally beat the stackexchange answer by 4 minutes :)
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
For what it's worth, Here is another place where I made a version of my argument (with some other context added): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7498742 Here is where I retracted the faulty assumptions I made in
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
It seems there are other solutions that are superior to the patent system and that some of my assumptions were flawed. I no longer think that "patents are the best system we have, given the alternatives." Elaborated in full here
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
It's worth reading chapters 9 and 10 of this: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi... I just came across it, and it makes a pretty damning indictment of my premise that patent incentiv
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Chapters 9 and 10 of this: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfi... Make a pretty damning indictment of my argument. Although I never really liked the patent system, I believed that it was u
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Edit: I'm mostly retracting my original comment below, my argument is flawed. See my sibling comment. ---------------------------------------------------------- Here is probably a better version of my argument: https://news.
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
This discussion is getting a little bit more political than I would have liked it to. I responded to another comment in a little more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7498742 Maybe you'd like to take a look
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
I do have experience in academic research. I'm not sure I agree with the assessment that pharmaceutical companies play a limited role in clinical research. > 3. The role of pharmaceutical companies is fairly limited to clinical rese
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
I strongly disagree with that. I spoke of the problems that abolishing pharmaceutical IP would cause in fundamental scientific research in my other comments on the thread. I could speak to the specific problems it would cause with respect
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> The reason is (or should be) to protect any investment that went into the invention; for the benefit of society as a whole - to make sure expensive research is still going to happen. This is critical. Not just to enable expensive inves
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
Your argument begs the question. > Ultimately, I'd rather society cope with the human potential that occurs without the limitations of patents, rather than society coping with the human potential that occurs with the limitations of
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> Abolish Intellectual Property. Period. > IP's time (if there ever was one) is over. There is no benefit for real inventors and artists anymore, merely for mega corporations to use the levers of government to maximize their prof
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Curiosity Stops to Thwack Its Instruments, Take Amazing Panoramas(wired.com)
2 points by Snail_Commando 13y ago|0 comments
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North Korea's realty market soars: Buying, selling becoming more sophisticated(japantimes.co.jp)
2 points by Snail_Commando 13y ago|0 comments
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
> He means drinking doesn't get better, so stop drinking. He doesn't mean "life itself." I feel like you either didn't read my comment or you didn't read OP's comment history. It's not as easy as &
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by Snail_Commando 13y ago
I don't know if you'll see this, but I hope you do. I've struggled with addiction and I've made decisions that I'm ashamed of and disgusted with. There was a period of my life when I was also hopeless. I thought th

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