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by asdflkj 19y ago
I've read elsewhere that he doesn't want to let people invest in his ideas--only to donate. Is that reasonable?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Are you a biologist? There are respected biologists today who do see "dramatic advancement". It must be discouraging to them to have their work dismissed by people who aren't even familiar with it.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
My first thought was, "that's cheap". But then, it certainly does the job. You aren't likely to confuse it with any other icon.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
You could always just search through a proxy. Am I missing something?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I think he is talking about not a "new profession", but new achievements within your profession. Good artists, architects and novelists constantly strive for that. But startups is not a profession. It's a way to get from "zero" to "financi
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by asdflkj 19y ago
You must not be very familiar with UK press, then. The Daily Mail is famously bad. It's like The Sun for people too pretentious to read the real thing.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Seems to me like the difference between bad and good. Experience doesn't always make you good.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
cglee probably meant to say "Columbus discovered that the world is round part", which is what the article says, essentially. Matt Taibbi is a smart guy, and he probably didn't mean to say that, but considering how arrogant his tone is, it's
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Dear rms, I'm sure you're read PG's What You Can't Say. This is evidently one of those things (surprising in a place like this--I know). Just look at all the comments that claim that this is spam or that no one wants to read it, despite the
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Because a man's genes have a better chance of carrying on when the mother of his children is primarily focused on his children and not on her business. Duh. A better question, with a less obvious answer: why is an article from Daily Mail on
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by asdflkj 19y ago
This reminds me of www.archub.org
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Did you make a typo with your 6000 figure? It's actually more like 2000 or 3000, depending on the newspaper and your definition of "well". Also, could you give some examples of ugly urban environments that were built in the last 20 years?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Apple is not "worse" than Microsoft because Microsoft is a monopoly and Apple is not. Not having your life affected by Apple is as easy as not buying Apple products. Not so with Microsoft.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Because of cartoon swearing. What are we, in kindergarden?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Many good things look ugly to people at first, because their instincts steer them away from the unfamiliar. If you find yourself thinking, "this is objectively good, but ugly", give it a little time. Unfortunately, much of what is called mo
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I don't see any swearing, though. How is this relevant?
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I take it the admins don't edit submission titles anymore...
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Yeah, I see where I went wrong now. I was talking about tech startups, but it didn't occur to me that a company whose market is off BigCo's radar is by definition not a startup. You know, I've learned something today. Thanks for this conver
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by asdflkj 19y ago
So basically, the reason not to try to go for revenue is that BigCo will crush you, unless they buy you. But will they every time? In Zenter's case, it was inevitable that it would come to that. But are BigCos after every market that exists
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by asdflkj 19y ago
"good design these days." Isn't good design supposed to be timeless, or something like that? Maybe the word you're looking for is fashion.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Let's assume you're right. Then essentially, startups are primarily making money by exploiting the irrationality and inefficiency of modern corporate decision making? That's not very nice. I wouldn't call it stealing, but it's a far cry fro
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by asdflkj 19y ago
"All these companies will keep getting bought up, but the acquirers are not going to see great returns." This struck me as the thing we don't talk about here--not unlike certain topics you don't talk about with old German people. Is there d
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by asdflkj 19y ago
It doesn't have to be 100%-same-as-face-to-face or nothing. In fact, it would be misguided to have imitation of "real life" be your guiding principle when designing stuff on the internet. Your ultimate goal, then, would be to create an extr
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Contradiction, there. If you can't modify or fix the code, it's not "killer".
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming that it's "the whole explanation". It's only an explanation for why people don't care about other people, which sometimes has violence and suffering as a side effect. In other cases, violence and suffering i
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I see more and more sneering references to reddit here lately. I wonder if this will turn into a cliche some day.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Yeah, but we're not talking about people here. We're talking about one guy, who possibly did a stupid thing by buying it. If someone mistook glass shards for diamonds and bought them for $10k, it doesn't mean the glass shards are worth $10k
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Actually, there already is stuff that's far more refined (and empirically true) than Ayn Rand. It's called evolutionary psychology. Unfortunately, understanding it leaves one feeling rather unedified. It's like realizing that you've been a
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by asdflkj 19y ago
I wouldn't. There are many flaws in this book, but the main one is he gets facts wrong, both biographical and mathematical. For example, he writes that Turing died of a lab accident when in fact he committed suicide. He also tries to define
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by asdflkj 19y ago
A great point, but it is perhaps already economically viable on a small scale, if done correctly. Consider a place like Manhattan. Getting around in a car is already extremely impractical. Because it's easy to suspend a rail in the air, com

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