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Extending life span through directed evolution of the microbiome(mariakonovalenko.wordpress.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I was just arguing that hackers, hacker culture, and programmers/hackers as a socioeconomic class are far more powerful than artists as a socioeconomic class. They're also arguably more powerful than the RIAA, MPAA, and even gover
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by api 12y ago
Your assumption is that producing a recipe is easier than producing food. It's not. Writing a novel is incredibly difficult. It often takes years of absolutely thankless work. Your friends and family think you've gone mad, or you&
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by api 12y ago
Culture is not free. It's hard work! I guess if you want nothing but ad supported culture and skill-less rage comics and stupid blob cartoons maybe, but the kind of culture that really inspires, challenges, and uplifts takes real effor
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by api 12y ago
Hardware isn't free. Code isn't free. Electricity isn't free. The zero marginal cost of copying bits is only true if you look at the copying of bits in isolation. If you take a whole system view, it isn't free.
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by api 12y ago
No. I feel like a loner howling at the moon on this one. I would look up a series of talks on YouTube called "free is a lie" by Aral Balkan. They deal more with the free service bait and switch than piracy, but I found them influe
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by api 12y ago
Edit: I deleted my original response because I figured out why we're arguing. "Free" is really a punk idea. It's a counterculture idea. "Steal this book" and all that. But ideas like that undergo a strange tran
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by api 12y ago
Oh I get it. I just think it's not relevant to TPB at all, and that the linking of the two things is a giant exercise in changing-the-subject. (1) Destroy old business model. (2) ... hand wavey magic happens here ... (3) Utopia! I ques
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by api 12y ago
"There is exactly 0 danger of running out of creative people, regardless of whether or not they get paid." I consider this abusive, exploitative, and mean spirited in the extreme. "Yeah, we enjoy their work and it enriches ou
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by api 12y ago
I generally agree, but I hate to be one of the only people on HN who ever brings this up: If there is no way to restrict piracy, and if piracy is generally normalized and socially acceptable, then how on Earth to artists, musicians, journ
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by api 12y ago
https://mailinabox.email
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15-line hash table in C(pastes.archbsd.net)
168 points by api 12y ago|97 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'll take a look, but it was my understanding that almost everyone incorporates in a couple states (Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming) for both tax and standardization reasons. Is there a good reason to just incorporate in your home state inst
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by api 12y ago
It's actually a very complex subject. Start with things like outbreeding, heterozygote dominance, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcrossing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding_depres
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, that which does not kill you beats the crap out of you. :) Actually I think the situation is more complex. I do entertain the notion of hormesis to some extent-- it makes biological sense (I studied bio) and I can see examples of it
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by api 12y ago
The best simple explanations I've heard for the Flynn effect are better nutrition and outbreeding. The world today is seeing a historically unprecedented degree of migration and genetic mixing, which typically produces stronger not wea
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by api 12y ago
I'm a liberal who kind of agrees with you. If you want to change some miserable condition of the world, you don't start by denying reality. You start by acknowledging the way things are, and then you start thinking creatively abou
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Ask HN: Standard incorporation documents for startups?
6 points by api 12y ago|7 comments
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by api 12y ago
That's kinda like saying the problem is clouds, not rain. :)
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by api 12y ago
Yeah that normally seems to be the case, but the domain was evolutionary information theory so he probably did mean a distinction like the one in the link above.
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by api 12y ago
Not sure, but in my experience GDBM is a bit on the slow side. MDBM uses mmap(), so for that reason alone it should be faster.
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by api 12y ago
Sure. I don't think I'm the only one who's said something like that though.
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by api 12y ago
Yes, that's definitely true and is a big reason I would have been primed for a negative interpretation of what might have been a simple comment. Boston is really aristocratic. I think that's the best word. Pedigree, status, and ..
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by api 12y ago
Whack! Wow. I'm not even sure where that ball went. :)
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by api 12y ago
It's weirder than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect
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by api 12y ago
This kind of makes my evening in weird way. Perhaps it shows a lot about my own psychology at the time. Events that had nothing to do with the fellow I was talking to had biased me to interpret it that way. People who say failure and hardsh
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by api 12y ago
"Then again, the old thinking (reinvented using fratty Young Republican types who get funded) is invading the Valley." Oh yeah. I'm not even in The Valley, and I can smell it from here. It's also obvious in the way techn
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by api 12y ago
Rifkin's comments are creepy. Yes it's true-- throughout most of human history privacy didn't exist and people lived their lives in public. Yet it's also true that much of human history was utter stagnation and conformit
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by api 12y ago
I read this headline as "is Lyft not sociopathic enough?" Honest question... And you are all free to laugh... Do you have to be a narcissist or a sociopath to succeed big in business? I have never met any of Uber's founders
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by api 12y ago
Excellent post. I also think this applies more broadly. If you're an engineer, learn about marketing, etc.

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