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   by api 13y ago

   Knockout gets excluded by many people because it comes from the .NET ecosystem, but that's completely unfair. It's pure JS and has nothing in it that ties it to .NET or Microsoft in any way. I just picked it for a new project. It's very, ve
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   by api 13y ago

   Big cities without the big city real estate hyperinflation is very, very appealing.
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   by api 13y ago

   Probably her biggest fallacy was in only considering the most extreme of views, such as fanatical religious altruism and authoritarian communism, and then contrasting them with her own. To her anything between was simply a compromise, a mix
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   by api 13y ago

   Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The West is full of self-righteous superficial Randians (who have never read her nonfiction in most cases) who in reality are welfare beneficiaries on a massive scale. It's only socialism if it's going into someon
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   by api 13y ago

   I have a strange hypothesis: sociopaths / psychopaths are not inherently evil (or good for that matter), just different... one of the many variations in human wiring that exist within our collective gene pool. Chief among their differences
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   by api 13y ago

   As George Carlin said: "Stop talking about saving the Earth. The Earth is fine. We're fucked." One of the things I hate about green ideology is that it frames this issue in selfless religious moralistic terms when it's really all about pure
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   by api 13y ago

   Real estate hyperinflation is really, really damaging to a city's culture.
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   by api 13y ago

   Hmm... so you think it's changed that much in 5 years? I'm not surprised. I lived in Boston from 2005 to 2010 and thought it was fairly bad, but I can imagine the Valley being much worse.
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   by api 13y ago

   I'd personally pick Austin if I were looking for an already established major tech hub that is not one of the coasts. It's got a fun atmosphere too, lots of music and good night life. I would also look at Atlanta, Boulder, Pittsburgh, Phila
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    by api 13y ago

    HN's editors (it has people designated as such) should replace blogspam submissions with the actual submission.
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    by api 13y ago

    There's a ton of circumstantial and anecdotal evidence that LSD, psilocybin, and similar compounds can -- under the right circumstances and in some individuals -- serve as "steroids for creativity." Think of all the people who have said thi
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    by api 13y ago

    I think the Valley's insane wealth is a temporary thing, indicative of a comparatively new industry. Detroit once had the highest average income in the United States. Cars are still as popular as ever, but the auto industry eventually shift
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    by api 13y ago

    This applies to business and marketing too. A big problem is that innovators lacking business experience are easy prey for self-promoting douchenozzles who pretend to be able to "accelerate" them. In reality they don't know what they're doi
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    by api 13y ago

    Thanks for reminding me again why I'm not in The Valley. Seems to me the place has become a very trendy echo chamber, more of a hot fashion and marketing center than a center of innovation or creativity.
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    by api 13y ago

    Very, very interesting. Evolution has been trying things for billions of years, and chances are it exploits all kinds of very subtile properties of matter. It's probably found all kinds of uses for quantum effects too. It would be a rather
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    by api 13y ago

    I have done consulting for the fed and what you describe is exactly accurate. It also describes the situation in many huge corporations, since as corporation size approaches infinity its internal political reality approaches government. It'
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    by api 13y ago

    I sometimes wonder if that's a clever joke on his part -- put out this crazy-sounding sci-fi idea by name only and never tell anyone what it is.
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    by api 13y ago

    I hate the whole "leeching off the fed" argument. Every large-scale business venture in this country leeches off the government, often in multiple ways: * Free use of state-subsidized infrastructure. * Free use of state-funded research
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    by api 13y ago

    I hope you're right, and that this perception just comes from startupdom. Actually, come to think of it, I think you probably are correct. But a more accurate quote would be "the most well paid best minds of my generation are busy getting
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    by api 13y ago

    "The best minds of our generation are trying to get people to click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher I think this is the quote of our generation, at least. It manages to summarize a huge part of what's wrong with the economy, politics,
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    by api 13y ago

    Mass-production of anything cost-effectively at gigantic (100M+ units) scale is an engineering problem in and of itself, a whole other layer on top of the difficulty of designing the product in the first place. In some cases it's considerab
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    by api 13y ago

    A very good, low-cost, consumer electric car that can compete with gasoline cars and hybrids is a harder problem than putting cargo in orbit. It's also a harder problem than intercontinental fiber optic networks and supersonic flight. That'
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    by api 14y ago

    TL;DR: do you expect to make more than your student loan interest investing? If not, then paying off your student loans has a guaranteed rate of return equal to your student loan interest. Same goes for any loan.
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    by api 14y ago

    The HN hivemind thinks that corruption and elite deviance doesn't exist. Maybe we're trying to be different from the Reddit hivemind which sees a conspiracy under every rock.
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    by api 14y ago

    I think you missed half the argument. Windows is noticeably slower than Linux or Mac on the same hardware. Isn't that a problem? And if optimization always hinders evolution, boy should Windows be evolving... I mean... the NT kernel shoul
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    by api 14y ago

    I've even seen this mentality in startups. It does have some business rationale, provided you are thinking short term and focused only on near-term goals. One of the reason businesses have trouble really innovating is that it's hard in a
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    by api 14y ago

    Part of why it may not be true is that we lack the language or conceptual vocabulary to describe how living systems really work. When we engineer things, it's one-part-one-function. Living systems are every-part-every-function network graph
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    by api 14y ago

    I'm becoming pretty convinced that the human future depends on the disruption and obsolescence of bureaucracies.
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    GNU libmicrohttpd: tiny embeddable HTTP server, only ~32k compiled(gnu.org)

    3 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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    by api 14y ago

    After decades of publish-or-perish sweatshop science I'm sure the great shining archive of scientific truth is sort of like an inbox with no spam filter.