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by api 11y ago
Evolution is a type of intelligence. The two are not mutually exclusive -- memetic evolution is design.
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by api 11y ago
I use it a lot, and find it to be quite tolerable once you get it. Its verbosity is a wart, but it's understandable when you understand what it is. ObjC has [[similar syntactical] issues]. The trick to it is not to over-use or abuse
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Kore: a fast web server for writing web apps in C(kore.io)
271 points by api 11y ago|170 comments
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by api 11y ago
Real investigative journalism is expensive. To check your facts and avoid being led astray by cranks or disinformationists (professional cranks) requires something akin to a private intelligence agency. As long as nobody pays for news, ther
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by api 11y ago
The biggest difference with Vegas is the direct relationship between time and energy spent gaming and money spent. The Skinner Box phenomenon is directly harnessed to empty peoples' wallets in a way that you don't see as completel
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by api 11y ago
I'm also concerned about it, but I'll give you a slightly more optimistic possibility: I wonder if, over time, this addiction arms race might not harden us a little bit against these cognitive blind spots? I have absolutely no ide
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by api 11y ago
There's more cargo cultism in security than pretty much any other field of CS/IT that I am aware of. "Best practices" are cargo culted with zero understanding as to why they exist. "If firewall equals secure, then M
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by api 11y ago
Most human communication is oblique and symbolic, not literal. These are fairy tales, and fairy tales do say something. They just don't say what they literally seem to be saying. They contain layers of symbolism, often saying things ab
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by api 11y ago
Don't sweat the down votes. You're describing real things. A lot of people are still in denial about the fact that our industry has become populated in recent years by the sorts of high-powered uber-alpha sociopaths that dominate
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by api 11y ago
Agreed. I liked your post elsewhere... It was a bit cynical but spot on. I also did not mean to imply that all "hot young founders" fit into this mold, or that VCa are all dumb, etc. But this stuff most definitely exists. The real
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by api 11y ago
You don't have to be dumb, or a sucker. Anyone can be conned. In fact, con artists rely on this overconfidence to blind their victims. They flatter your ego, making you think you're too smart... to be their victim.
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by api 11y ago
"Chicken hawking is when a middle aged man takes a young sociopath as his protege..." O M G There is a term for this!!?!?! Clap clap clap...
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by api 11y ago
It's a figure of speech. It's also a bit derisive, since we humans like to think we are so much more rational than that. A more accurate term would be primate social instincts. But this stuff I suspect predates the neocortex.
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by api 11y ago
It's spooky. One of the examples I'm thinking of was basically crazy, not to mention a sex offender to boot. He had an endless track record of failures too. But when he walked into a room, you sat up a little taller. You felt bett
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by api 11y ago
Like I said: it must be seen to be believed. Work in business consulting for a few years.
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by api 11y ago
Can't speak with authority about Clinkle, but I strongly suspect that the founders have an "extreme alpha" personality type. I have seen people with that personality type be able to just basically tell people what they want a
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by api 12y ago
So all SIP phones, BitTorrent uTP, Skype, and pretty much anything P2P infringes?
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by api 12y ago
Look up some of the prime factorization prizes and do the math to see if it is achievable.
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by api 12y ago
I've always thought the free tunnel broker was a brilliant strategy for them.
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by api 12y ago
I prefer to call it "fundamentalist positivism" or "determinism" since it is not entirely clear that material behaves like this sort of materialist thinks, and there is abundant evidence that the right hemisphere has a l
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Ask HN: Approachable solution for multi-factor SSH authentication?
2 points by api 12y ago|3 comments
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by api 12y ago
So do I vote for s Republicrat or a Republicrat? Or maybe s third party with no chance?
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by api 12y ago
If you just need compute Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, and several others are all hands down better than EC2 for price/performance. I use Digital Ocean and Vultr and have had few issues with either of them in the reliability sphere eit
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by api 12y ago
Game theory as a subject is something I wish was taught as standard curiculum. It contains so many answers to so many deep and vexing questions and problems of our age, and it holds the promise of so many more. It is among the great intelle
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by api 12y ago
Now can someone please do the same for Oracle and ask.com toolbar?
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Investigation and Analysis of Anomalous Electromagnetic Propulsion Devices(slideshare.net)
4 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
I get the impression a good number of people are cheering it on. Hyperelitism and hatred of the poor or "stupid" seems a major zeitgeist of the age. People have given up on the idea that the human condition can be fundamentally im
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by api 12y ago
The studies behind this drug were done by the drug maker itself. You don't see a problem?
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by api 12y ago
But... He probably went to Stanford or Harvard. That certainly means he's entitled to get rich by 30, right?
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by api 12y ago
It seems obvious to me that giant valuation means insanely high bar before you see upside. I am a bit skeptical of the idea that it should be as high as possible, since if it's fundamentally ridiculous and there's no way you will

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