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Weekly payments, motivated by gratitude, for GitHub projects and other works(gratipay.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
I could see actually this working at a larger scale -- e.g. put a server room in the basement of a low-income housing project in a place with cold winters like Chicago or Toronto and heat the building with waste heat during the chilly month
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by api 12y ago
All governments to varying degrees seem to operate with a number of hidden imperatives, with one being "maintain the status quo." There will always be some within the government bureaucracy who see anything that deviates from th
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The “War on Drugs” and Crime Rates(econlog.econlib.org)
2 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
Wow. The new Microsoft indeed. If there are any MS people in this thread: I would pay for Visual Studio for Mac and Linux if I could also use its GUI designers on those platforms. If I could write a GUI front-end in C# and design it with VS
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by api 12y ago
So you'd say that the median performance is higher from the top schools, but that the difference appears less pronounced at the extreme ends of the curve? Basically this would mean that an average person from Stanford would probably be
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by api 12y ago
That's been my suspicion for some time too. "Nobody ever got fired for hiring someone from Stanford."
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by api 12y ago
"We hire from these five schools, period," right?" I'm so glad they brought this up. This is the elephant in the living room, and is a root cause behind a lot of these issues. The "top ten universities" fetish
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by api 12y ago
If a pattern were found that allowed primes of arbitrary size to be computed trivially, how would this impact cryptography?
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by api 12y ago
Hmm... I wonder if his old colleague Peter Thiel is going to give seasteading a try. :)
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by api 12y ago
"They are mostly not about the Culture itself. Because it's boooooring." This is why if we had the technology for a post-scarcity society on Earth there would be sets of people who would use this level of technology to do thi
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by api 12y ago
That's so far the best counterargument of this thread. This is why I'm not a fundamentalist. Human economic systems are unbelievably complex, full of feedback loops and paradoxes. Anyone who thinks they can take a system like that
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by api 12y ago
I'm so sick of that retort. Nobody ever asks for citations for something they agree with. You don't provide any citation other than a reference to a spurious lack of correlation on a graph. Just as correlation doesn't prove c
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by api 12y ago
Exactly. I'm a fan of markets -- they are excellent systems for allocating resources and allowing permission-free innovation. But I am not a market fundamentalist , nor do I agree with the naturalistic fallacy argument that "beca
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by api 12y ago
This creates a problem though: If you are a highly intelligent and motivated person, you have many choices about what to do. This suggests that doing the kind of basic R&D work that might lead to the invention of the WWW is a sucker&#x2
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by api 12y ago
What's left of the middle class is sort of becoming a "lower rich" class. While this is somewhat anecdotal, what I see emerging is a kind of banded stratification: a tiny "superclass" holding a majority (>50%)
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by api 12y ago
The title is misleading -- it was customer servers on OVH that were exploited en masse and then proceeded to flood the network with DDOS and bot traffic, not OVH itself (apparently). This has likely happened to loads of VPS and dedicated
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by api 12y ago
To argue that this is purely meritocratic requires you to argue that some individuals are thousands to tens to even hundreds of thousands of times more productive, intelligent, or hard-working than everyone else. While differences do exist,
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by api 12y ago
They don't host on that. It's just a how to post.
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by api 12y ago
The practice of skepticism -- lower-case S -- is generally a good thing. Skepticism goes off the rails when the S gets capitalized and it tries to style itself as a Movement(tm). It can never be a movement or a belief system because... it i
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MiniNodes: ARM/Linux hosting on dedicated hardware(mininodes.com)
19 points by api 12y ago|11 comments
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by api 12y ago
I wish. I really wish people cared.
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by api 12y ago
"Someone" is now arresting dozens of dark web black market operators too.
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by api 12y ago
They should be regulated and taxed in proportion to their harmfulness, and addiction should be treated as a medical problem not a criminal one.
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by api 12y ago
> Quality has gone out the window and it's all about blowing up bullshit metrics because that's all these short-attention-span man-child types can deal with. Not for everyone. Some people spend a lot of time building really hig
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by api 12y ago
That's what makes prohibition so ugly. It's like YCombinator for psychopaths. Combine that with the psychological acclimatization that it offers and it gets even uglier. It creates this on-boarding process for hell. Dealing drugs
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by api 12y ago
> Most people don't care because they're not culpable enough to feel paranoid. It's going to take a high-profile case to show people how wrong this is. Wait for it. Here's some potential scenarios: * An author who is
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by api 12y ago
A microphone that uploads all my ambient sound and speech to the cloud. No thank you, ever, under any circumstances.
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by api 12y ago
The part about her MMO account read like it was lifted directly from the pages of William Gibson's 80s cyberpunk novels. Your whole post kind of has that feel, as does the original article. Incredible that we are there.
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by api 12y ago
I'm not that familiar with Strauss, but if this is what Strauss argued then... umm... what's the controversy? I'm a bit surprised that anyone would deny the existence of esotericism for various reasons including defensive.

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