alexjeffrey

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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
yes actually you're right - maybe not as much as in chess due to the depth and variation involved in openings, but still a hell of a lot.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
in my mind, eSports is psychological/dexterical, and chess is psychological/memorization (openings). The challenge is getting to the point where the world at large considers these types of competition to be equally valid to physic
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
I'm a keen transhumanist, so yes I am familiar with the state of cryonics. I'm not a cryogenicist and couldn't put an actual number on the probability of success (neither could anyone else) but I'm aware of the serious c
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
did you even bother to read the conversation I had with blueskin_ before posting this? I clarified my position quite a lot, specifically against the particular straw man you've just raised.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
For those Alcor members who do donate to charity, good on them! Charities could always use more money, however - pledging $10/month to water aid is a great start but pledging $100,000 or more from a life insurance payout would make a m
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
your criticism is correct of the argument that you're countering, but that's not the argument I was making - see my reply to blueskin_ for a clarification/rebuttal. [edit] just so you know, I upvoted your comment to counter a
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
if you'd like to re-read what I wrote, it's more along the lines of "when looking to spend a large amount of money on a very unlikely attempt to extend one's own life, after having lived a full life, maybe consider using
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
the thing I find most depressing about cryonics is that the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs for one rich person to desperately attempt to cling to life, in spite of the odds that cryonics is not reversible, would actually save hun
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
> The current level of discussion is unworthy of us. I'm not usually one to be a buzzkill, but I should point out that Hacker News is largely filled with startup coders and small business owners, not trained academics - you can&#x27
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
ignoring your frankly unnecessary sarcasm, I'd have to point out that some of us are held to the expectation that websites should look almost the same in older browsers. My previous employer, for example, required full support of all f
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox Until most IE users upgrade to 11, it's not usable by those of us who can't exclude a large chunk of our users.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
I believe the implication is that this is the procedure on a per-group basis (considering each group has 12 members).
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
these are beautiful - a real sensory portal to a time gone by.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
it should, but it doesn't benefit the conversation to point out grammatical errors - plenty of HN users are not natively english-speaking so it's probably best to just let it slide.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
this has to be one of the most ironic pages on wikipedia.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
while I agree that details matter in design, a. it's not a big deal and b. mentioning it doesn't really add to the conversation at hand. I thought HN was all about trying to ensure that comments were useful to the topic?
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
seriously? that's all you have to add to the conversation?
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
how about we imagine a world where neither accused rapists nor women in tech were harassed? that seems like the ideal we should be aiming for, not trying to belittle the case of one group just because another is in a similar situation.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
or perhaps you don't realise how privileged you are in that even $1 million is attainable.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
I'd be wary of how this would affect call quality - if you were adding delays to sending call data to the tower you might end up with a laggy/glitchy phone call.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
triangulation is performed by analysing response times from cell towers - the FBI doesn't just call yourphone.getLocation()
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
it's a mark of respect, like dedicating a movie to someone. I think the community raising a symbol of support for Meyer in such dark times is much more important than strict naming of CSS colours and I hope you feel the same.
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by alexjeffrey 12y ago
Let's play! http://www.retichess.com/play/NDUzOC45MDg3a2NNQlNN/30/0
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Two big announcements from 37signals(37signals.com)
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
it sounds like cannibalism, but they use a modern design and minimal iconography so it's probably fine.
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
If I ran a business that turned over $1.05B, and you and I had some form of relationship be that employment or friendship, of course I would. If I had any reasonable number of resources I would prioritise saving lives over building a collec
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
You place more importance on $1M than on a human life? What if it was your child, would you be doing a cost/benefit analysis and turning to your wife and saying "sorry honey, it will cost more than $100,000 to save our child. migh
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
this story has been told 1000 times - the canonical outcome is that more technical jobs (programming, repair, etc) will be created to maintain and create the robots. I'm pretty sure that the dynamics of the economy and governments woul
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by alexjeffrey 13y ago
> CNN has a lot of nerve to use a racial slur such as 'pasty-faced'. I believe the correct term is Caucasian. I really hope this is sarcasm - pasty-faced quite obviously implies Caucasian, but specifically those with a lack of

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