Tichy

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by Tichy 14y ago
Exactly - music in the future will be algorithms. (Edit: to clarify, I mean instead of something like an MP3, you could download an algorithm that creates music on the fly. Why bother with recordings when you can have the live composer?)
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by Tichy 14y ago
I still think it is impossible because nobody can be an expert in everything, and furthermore, it is something I personally don't want to do. I have other interests than politics.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'm not saying the current system delivers, just that I think politicians should do work that I then won't have to.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I don't see a way around it (doesn't mean there isn't one), because how would you identify the economics expert? Seems to me it would still boil down to marketing, the "expert" who advertises himself the best would win. Obviously that adver
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'm torn on the issue. In my view a politician is actually a service provider doing the mundane tasks I can't be bothered to do. It would be a huge waste of time if a majority of people had to keep up to date on all political issues. Most o
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What works, and what doesn't, on Kickstarter(economist.com)
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by Tichy 14y ago
Almost every web site has a Facebook button. That's how they do it. There is also the possibility of web site owners cooperating on the server side to track users. Maybe not as common yet, but not inconceivable.
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by Tichy 14y ago
How would Facebook know who likes porn (except assuming everybody likes porn, obviously)? Those who say so on their Facebook profile are presumably not very concerned about that information leaking out?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Frankly, I am not sure how many people actually have a good use for their Pi. I've got one, and I am struggling to find a use. I already have a NAS, so stuff like home automation and whatever I would first try to run via the NAS to limit th
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by Tichy 14y ago
While I also think it is sad if somebody decides to resort to that service, lets not forget that these "women" are virtual. No real humans are being hurt.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Web site doesn't really say what it is and why I should care.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I think the maker of the software they use to product their magazine should solve that for them eventually.
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by Tichy 14y ago
"“You make a beautiful magazine for the iPad, and then you dumb it down for Android’. That meant removing movies, sound, interactivity and content." Interesting, I wasn't aware that Android devices can't play movies or sound, and don't reac
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by Tichy 14y ago
Uh, no? Why bother sending them to school then? This is not about beliefs, it is about science.
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by Tichy 14y ago
"The FBI admits to infiltrating & disrupting peaceful political groups in the United States. The Womens’ and Civil Rights movements were among those targeted, with their members being beaten, imprisoned, and assassinated." Really? Examp
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by Tichy 14y ago
Most people choose the blue pill, a ka it seems Chomsky is not for everyone. It seems easy to debunk that whole criticism, but what is the point. People believe what they want to believe (which is what benefits them to believe). Just an exa
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by Tichy 14y ago
Teaching creationism would lend it credibility. A lot of people are just impressed by authority/teachers and will believe what they are being told.
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by Tichy 14y ago
That's too funny. Why would anybody stay on the site after gaining that piece of information?
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by Tichy 14y ago
I suppose they just followed another strategy for selling, which I personally don't like. It's just a shame because with the build to order thing, they would have been halfway there.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Aren't Dell and Apple still the only two companies where you can have a computer built to order? The difference is that Dell never managed to create a web interface to their shop that doesn't suck.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Which we don't need, because a bunch of HN commentators handily volunteered to conduct a trial on the spot, right? Forming mobs is really what humans do best.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Why do people move there?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Haven't they always had more people than most other countries?
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by Tichy 14y ago
I agree if you talk about a subjective feeling of purpose. It's depressing to feel you can not achieve what you aspire to. I don't agree that an external power that prescribes some random notion of purpose is necessary.
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by Tichy 14y ago
The problem with Referer is that only the server/host get's to see it. Often people publish their stuff on other people's platform, and can't access the stats.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I suppose for url shorteners to go away, the web standards should provide for some way to provide content providers with statistics. That is what URL shorteners are most often used for, and until there exist alternatives, they'll continue t
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by Tichy 14y ago
I think you are mixing some things together. For starters, you should distinguish between a "life's purpose" that you set for yourself, and one that you assume for other people. You can only decide for yourself, not for other people. You ma
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by Tichy 14y ago
So you don't understand humans. But what are your emotions, where does your pain come from? What do you miss?
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by Tichy 14y ago
What would it even mean? What if the purpose of life is to build as many feeling entities as possible and kill them all at once in a slow and torturous way, so as to maximize the amount of pain that can be dealt in a single moment? What I m
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by Tichy 14y ago
I'm glad it works for you, but I find it sad that atheism and life having no purpose depresses you. That life has no purpose effectively means that there is freedom. It is very scary, but we have to choose the purpose for ourselves. What we

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