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by api 12y ago
I sounded rough on Peter, but I loved Zero to One. It's one of the best non-fiction books I've read in years. I think he's right on most things. I still sympathize with the end goal of libertarianism: a society in which force
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by api 12y ago
> is more proportional to ones's proximity to financial transactions Wow! I had precisely the same realization years ago -- compensation is based in part on proximity to the transaction and the relationship seems exponential. That&#
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by api 12y ago
Are audiophiles the most irrational consumers? They seem to be quite a bit more sillypants than the new agey alt-med crowd. Homeopathy is almost certainly just a fancy placebo, but the attempts I've read at putting a modern theory unde
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by api 12y ago
I see what you did there.
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by api 12y ago
... and the Microsoft perestroika continues. :)
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by api 12y ago
That's like saying you can dispense with all the members of a football team except the star players. Science is an exploratory discipline. You don't know what's most valuable until you've got the benefit of often 20-50 y
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by api 12y ago
It's simple: we have de-funded science just like we've de-funded other liberal pursuits. People like Peter Thiel are right about the drought of fundamental innovation since the early 70s, but they are wrong in other ways that ulti
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by api 12y ago
Crime.
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by api 12y ago
Yup. While there's no sharks, there probably is a cat.
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by api 12y ago
I agree. I posted this a while back around here talking about music piracy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743310 In short: what's rebellious when you're a young kid operating at the margins becomes tyranni
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by api 12y ago
"Human SEO." I like that. Hadn't thought of it that way before. That's mad disruptive bro. Other industries have it worse though, or have different issues all their own. Finance is a real shitshow.
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by api 12y ago
It depends a bit on whether companies like Facebook are paying for this, and if they're paying a reasonable rate. My guess would be that they're paying something. The real problem re: network neutrality is a lack of competition an
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by api 12y ago
IMHO consciousness is an area where science is "chickening out." "This is too puzzling and bizarre and possibly spooky, so let's pretend it doesn't exist even though we are experiencing it right now..."
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by api 12y ago
That's a bad analogy. Networks are more akin to social spheres, especially if they are "sub-networks" like Tor. Imagine you walk into a hotel. There's a guy in the lobby with a visible gun on his hip, and he's not a
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by api 12y ago
Good points. Intel's ability to pull it off seems a result of bucks and brute force. They've got the money to fling suicidal hordes of rampaging Ph.Ds at the problem for decades.
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by api 12y ago
There's far too little bold speculation and question-asking these days. It wasn't always this way. When I go back and read eminent scientists from the 50s and 60s I am pleasantly shocked by their fearlessness. You can go further b
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by api 12y ago
Once code is loaded sure, but there's the initial load. There's also a lot of context switching on most systems, especially if they are VM hosts.
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by api 12y ago
Probably not highly probable, but upvoted because I love stuff like this. We really don't know very much about the distant past or the "big questions," so radical stuff is always within the realm of possibility at the very le
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by api 12y ago
It's my understanding that memory bandwidth has always held back RISC. Memory is considerably slower than CPU. CISC can be thought of as a kind of data compression for code. The article does mention this, but kind of glosses over its i
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by api 12y ago
This shouldn't be down voted. It's a good point even though it's a tangent. There is abundant evidence that physical abuse is as harmful as sexual abuse. Why is it okay to hit your child, but you go to jail for hitting an adu
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by api 12y ago
Hrm. Maybe more hidden then. Honestly this doesn't bode well for darknets. The problem is that even if darknets have a legitimate reason to exist, non-creeps will avoid them if they see much of this kind of thing. I've also heard
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ZeroTier Networks Is Looking for a COO/co-founder in Southern California(angel.co)
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by api 12y ago
Oh lordy, where to begin... (1) The startup world is full of creeps and psychos. There are a lot of sociopaths, vapid fast-talking wheeler-dealers, and people who are just flat out bat nuts crazy. There's also been a huge influx of dou
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by api 12y ago
I've never personally tried Freenet, and there's a reason for that. Everyone I've spoken with who has has told me that it's basically a kidporn network -- absolutely riddled with the stuff. If you dedicate storage to F
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by api 12y ago
"So are those countries that are lawless and violent that way because the citizens are just bad people?" Look at the history of urban conflict -- it's virtually impossible even for a high-tech military actor like the USA to e
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by api 12y ago
So much opposition to something other first world countries have in abundance. I guess infrastructure is communism to American right wingers, or more likely there's a very strong automobile lobby still active to block any move toward b
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by api 12y ago
It's like citing Bible verses for fundamentalist positivists, so yes. Never mind that the quality of published research itself varies wildly, or that this requirement creates an intrinsic tunnel-vision bias toward premature convergence
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by api 12y ago
I met a "prohobo" once. Chatted with him at a coffee shop. He was living in a squat, had 4G/LTE Internet, and a solar panel for his electronics. Rode Greyhound and/or the rails around the country (the latter, he said, is
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by api 12y ago
Oh totally. Transhumanism is older than civilization too. Humans have been trying to go beyond themselves ever since they started thinking about the concept of self, and augmentation with technology began with clothing, tattoos, and of cour
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by api 12y ago
This is generally pretty awful. The first point about default allow is moot today since nearly all protocols encapsulate all others. HTTP for instance can do anything via web sockets. In addition, most malware is now "pulled" in v

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