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by asdflkj 18y ago
Well, I say we exist in the non-abstract. Or don't exist in the abstract. Or non-abstract. Or whatever. A radically different "view", and yet the implications are the same (non-existent, that is). This isn't too far removed from arguing abo
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by asdflkj 18y ago
From what I can tell, this is just a restatement of The Anthropic Principle, which itself is not a theory, but a trivial answer to a trivial philosophical question. He says we can make "all kinds of predictions", but I wonder if he has ever
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Do you think the word "lagom" characterizes Sweden? It has just now occured to me that words that are hardest to translate often seem to characterize the culture of origin as a whole.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Food and medicine programs are making the standard of living higher in the short term and lower in the long term. That was exactly my point: if you want to feel good, then short term is important. If you want to solve real problems, like un
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The real problem is not what children need, but what societies need. Tragically, these two are are in opposition. If you give Africans (for example) their Levels 1 and 2, in 20 years you'll have a tripled population that's just as destitute
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by asdflkj 18y ago
There is no sequel to SICP. It's just a course, not a book. There was already sort of a sequel ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/ ), but it's far from new.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Yikes. The second one sounds like a passive-aggressive jab more than anything.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
I'm all for real life and for meeting new people, but it's important to make a distinction between meeting a particular kind of people and meeting random people. There are already many cities and neighborhoods in the US where particular kin
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by asdflkj 18y ago
And why would that be a good thing? How would these "real" communities be superior to our current "unreal" ones?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Unless, of course, she had it coming.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Travel is not a thing that you try, say to yourself that you've done it, and be done with it (like coke, say, or S&M). It's more like college; you do it in large part because it will benefit your life from then on. Traveling at the end
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Here are some real playas, for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyuSk0KILB0
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by asdflkj 18y ago
It's brilliant. At $48/year, only real playas will want to sign up, so no one will be discouraged by playing against someone much better than them. And no one (without spare $48) can verify whether any given member is any good, which helps
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by asdflkj 18y ago
How are you supposed to know a person's Myers-Briggs type, when you're trying to understand that person's behavior? It's not exactly listed on the nametag. So the best you can do is infer it from what you already know of that person. But if
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Your home country is Norway, then? In any case, I'd really like to know which cold, overpriced country is not geek friendly (and why).
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Interesting! How did the housing surplus come about?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Wouldn't breaking the rules, if it were truly that general, result in something more substantial than goofiness? And if it's just goofiness, perhaps a better way to put it would be "break the social conventions". It might seem like I'm bein
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by asdflkj 18y ago
What rules do they break in Berlin that are not broken elsewhere?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The formal features of natural languages (and their power) are irrelevant, because using language in idiosyncratic ways is almost always bad. If everyone else wrote Java-style code in Common Lisp, you could still write Lisp in Common Lisp.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The major difference between information and material goods is that material goods also serve as indicators of status. If we evolve toward some other way of indicating status, then one day stuff will be just as free as information is now. B
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Yes, you have had that link pasted to you. By me. When you sign your posts. you waste time of people who read them. Your alleged free-thinking and anti-totalitarianism wastes others' time, for no reason. Think about that.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
What exactly is original thinking, and what kind of "creatively worthwhile thinking" is not original? I was going to disagree with you, but what you said is too vague for me to even know whether I disagree or agree.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Have you ever met anyone who both mods classic cars and builds robots? Those seem like hobbies for drastically different minds. And, one is decidedly provincial, while the other isn't.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to think well with noise?
6 points by asdflkj 18y ago|20 comments
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Precisely. And he'll teach you how to be one! It all works out.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
DRM is common, and it never works. Valve's single player games are as easy to pirate as anything else. Has there ever been a single player game where DRM succeeded?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Could be because life was better in the (relatively) short term, but ended up worse overall. Maybe it also seemed better than it actually was. Evolution had prepared us to see and fear the hazards of hunter-gatherer lifestyle (such as hunge
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Does it make you laugh because it's unlikely, or because it's a bad idea? Because it strikes me as a decidedly good idea. Mood disorders are a medical problem, and the source of those for many people is in not getting laid. In a system with
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by asdflkj 19y ago
You left out: >He is a contributing editor to FP. That should make clear both the quality and the nature of this publication.

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