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14731.
by api 12y ago
Heh... posting Less Wrong at HN is kinda like posting Encyclopedia Dramatica at 4chan. :)
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by api 12y ago
Are probiotics bunk? Or do they only include a few species and not the complete biodiversity really needed in the human digestive system?
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by api 12y ago
I recently read a contemporary one I'd add to the list: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson. http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Lake-Robert-Charles-Wilson-ebook... It reminded me of classic Asimov, but updated, and the writin
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by api 12y ago
Again I wasn't arguing that DRM works, just why people keep wanting to use it.
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by api 12y ago
I love it! Lovelovelove! I thought "what a nice wind sound effect" until I realized it was the CPU fan in my laptop. Heh. But that's not really a big deal, at least for now, and I'm sure you can optimize. Experiments lik
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The White House Joins Medium(medium.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Deep subject. The block chain solves the distributed consensus problem in a way that is robust against attacks. That's what is so costly. Paxos requires that every node be trusted. The problem the article is getting at is emerging as a
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by api 12y ago
Marginally more effort makes a huge difference. Linux on the desktop takes marginally more effort to use than Windows or Mac. What difference does that make in popularity? Effort also introduces time lag. If the next episode of Walking De
14739.
by api 12y ago
I used to think this way until I met more people in music, art, entertainment, etc., and generally learned more about how the world actually works. These people aren't dumb, and they pay a lot of attention to customer behavior just lik
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by api 12y ago
Without DRM, someone will write a script to suck down all new Netflix videos and immediately post them to e.g. Popcorn Time. Then Netflix will drop Linux support. It's a shame that so many people in the OSS community have such an asymm
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Docker + ZeroTier(github.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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13 Year Old Aims to Be First Person on Mars, Is Approved by NASA(craveonline.com)
3 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
TL;DR on the blog article I posted: in any complex fitness landscape there are points unreachable by simple gradient ascent. Innovation simply cannot be 100% incremental. Leaps must occur, and these are qualitatively different from hill cli
14744.
by api 12y ago
I fundamentally disagree -- there is a difference between incremental and revolutionary advances. They are qualitatively different types of steps. http://adamierymenko.com/c/ Nevertheless this Bloomberg article makes a
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by api 12y ago
Hype is a double edged sword. Without it, nobody pays any attention and you can't raise money. With it, everyone ends up disappointed and you can't raise money. :)
14746.
by api 12y ago
> If it was easy, it would have already happened. I'm sometimes a tad skeptical of this framing of things. Everything always seems "easy" in retrospect, so our definition of easy based on what we've already done is hi
14747.
by api 12y ago
Users don't care about security or privacy. This has been demonstrated again and again, with Dropbox as a premier case in point. By "care" I mean "change buying habits" or "plop down money." Talk is cheap.
14748.
by api 12y ago
Citing a single example isn't evidence. Also movies have been less affected than music, which got the brunt of it due to Napster's VC-funded normalization of bulk music piracy. Movies have their theater runs, while musicians can o
14749.
by api 12y ago
That's exactly what I meant: a viable profession. I also disagree with the OP about cost vs. quality. The key difference comes later when you're managing the artist. If the artist has talent then they also have a certain amount of
14750.
by api 12y ago
It didn't go away. It just dropped the trappings of a counterculture because counterculture itself has lost relevance in a world where there is no real mainstream to be counter to.
14751.
by api 12y ago
Piracy is a really huge part of it. Nothing is free. Pay for it or it finds someone who will pay for you. ... And If neither occurs, you won't get it at all. I've started to become increasingly convinced that huge scale piracy rea
14752.
by api 12y ago
Computing isn't a hobby anymore. Everything changes when big money is on the table. Back then the virus said "your PC is now stoned" and everyone just laughed. Now if your computer isn't totally locked down it's roo
14753.
by api 12y ago
Cool at first glance but I do have skeptical questions: (1) Durability was my biggest question -- how much flex and bend can this thing survive? How about being chewed on by a toddler, put through the washer and dryer (high heat), taken int
14754.
by api 12y ago
It's hard to stay completely rational when you're angry. I'm not perfect, and occasionally say inflammatory things. But at the same time I realize this is something you need to try to do, especially when you're dealing
14755.
by api 12y ago
It took a public outcry for Reddit to ban kiddie porn. This is not a site with a history of caring much about such concerns.
14756.
by api 12y ago
IMHO you and the parent post are both right: this is all around bad behavior by all parties involved. I was let go once. I've told the story, but I have never mentioned the name of the company and I won't tell you if asked. I al
14757.
by api 12y ago
If Cuba is a brutal communist slave state, so is China. Do you own any Apple products or anything else manufactured by Foxconn?
14758.
by api 12y ago
I've had the same thought -- the history of the last 100 years of processed foods definitely supports the "don't know what we don't know" suspicion. One hidden assumption behind Soylent immediately jumps out at me:
14759.
by api 12y ago
Can we end the stupid sanctions now? The USSR is gone and we trade massively with China for F's sake. Cuba doesn't have the best human rights record on Earth, but neither does China or Saudi Arabia to give two other examples with
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by api 12y ago
Huge problem with these schemes: If my data is valuable, I have two fears: (1) theft, (2) loss. If my drive is built to self-destruct, it decreases fear #1 but increase fear #2. What do I do then? Back up my data elsewhere? But that defeats

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