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   by api 13y ago

   This is IMHO bigger than Apollo. The moon missions were an expensive one-shot, while this has the potential to truly open the frontier.
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   by api 13y ago

   I think the real problem is that Americans identify cars with freedom and rail with "socialism" or something. Throughout much of the U.S. there is a profound anti-public-transit sentiment. It's viewed as a waste of money, a b
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   by api 13y ago

   It's also thrown out as a red herring pretty often around here.
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   by api 13y ago

   The technology of cryptocurrency is cool, but Bitcoin has definitely been in a ridiculous bubble. Seems to be popping, but you can never be sure.
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   by api 13y ago

   I must confess to statically linking my Windows binaries. It's better than making the user click through extra installers-within-installers to install the right MSVC redistributable. It also seems to paradoxically improve load times. S
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   by api 13y ago

   This is part of what's driving the rise of feudal app store models. Users like them too-- at least most users who aren't concerned with (or don't understand) things like openness and freedom. They prune the ecosystem of shitw
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   by api 13y ago

   Doesn't matter. If you have no leverage you don't capture any of the upside regardless of whether the overall system is growing.
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   by api 13y ago

   Capitalism is an adversarial system. People forget that.
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   by api 13y ago

   Then let's ban for-pay lobbying.
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    by api 13y ago

    IMHO actively helping launch an unnecessary war that killed tens of thousands (a very conservative estimate) of civilians while costing hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been spent in ways that benefit the American taxpayer is
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    by api 13y ago

    Funny the reaction of so many against this. If it's okay to vote by ballot, why is it not okay to vote by dollar? They're your dollars. It's perfectly fine to choose not to give them to companies that do things or whose leade
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    by api 13y ago

    Another factor is that if you do get into illegal hacking, you're jumping in a pool that now contains a lot less kids who are learning and explorers and a lot more real criminals. Hacking (sense 2, the illegal-stuff sense) is a lot d
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    by api 13y ago

    It strikes me as flagrantly lot of things. There's been a nice string of NYT articles in which people from planet trust fund try to comprehend disadvantage.
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    by api 13y ago

    I'll just leave this here: http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html
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    by api 13y ago

    Only for Windows store? So who thinks walled gardens and feudalization are coming to all desktop OSes in the next 5 years? In the future, a store / certificate authority will be able to arbitrarily revoke your right to run anything on
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    by api 13y ago

    This sort of thing underscores how economic interdependence promotes peace. It's bad business to declare war on your suppliers or customers.
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    by api 13y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7vySQbgXI
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    by api 13y ago

    The whole idea of Bitcoin was that you wouldn't use banks, but as we can see convenience trumps that.
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    by api 13y ago

    The Go language certainly is, but with Node I can do things like "npm install passport-google" and have OAuth in 5 minutes. The Node ecosystem is full of incredibly useful components for getting up and running quickly. Unfortunate
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    by api 13y ago

    Libertarian != anarchist. (I am not either of these, just pointing out that this is a straw man.)
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    by api 13y ago

    While what you say is certainly true, I also wonder about political aspects to this. To what extent is the extreme hockey stick here indirect evidence of the existence of an oligarchy with the ability to subvert or sidestep (e.g. access to
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    by api 13y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
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    by api 13y ago

    Who are the top 0.1%? More importantly: what is it that they do that is that valuable?
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    by api 13y ago

    I'd love to see data on this. I've long been of the impression that the world of high-profile backed startups is an after school club for top-tier universities, and that if you didn't go to one of these schools you're ve
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    by api 13y ago

    I think there are two things here. First is the suspect notion that mere statistics can supplant understanding. It sort of boils down to "with enough data, correlation now equals causation." But the second I think is AI. I'm
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    Experiment.Com: Crowdfunding is Coming to Science(experiment.com)

    1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    There is no magic bullet but there are bullets. Certain programming practices can dramatically reduce the risk, as can certain environments vs. others.
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    by api 13y ago

    I look forward to the day when this ideology goes the way of Communism.
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    by api 13y ago

    That's not why communism didn't work. Communism didn't work because they tried to micromanage every aspect of the economy. It was central planning that failed, not guaranteed minimums. A guaranteed minimum income without ec
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    by api 13y ago

    I think the real fallacy beneath the surface is that if we do something like this people will just totally stop working. A few will, but most will use their newfound flexibility to shift what they work on: explore other career options, crea