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by bolder88 13y ago
Next you'll be telling me that speech recognition works. It doesn't.
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by bolder88 13y ago
"There won't be a setting to turn off to achieve an outcome whereby the car touches any other object. It just won't happen while you're driving on public roads." Can you not see the idiotic flaw in your plan. You&#x
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by bolder88 13y ago
If you're a "city" person, that may be the case. But it's a terribly big generalization to make about all younger generations. The younger generations I know can't wait to drive, and have the freedom to travel whe
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by bolder88 13y ago
Not really. The first rule of driving a car, is assume that everyone else driving a car is trying to kill you, is blind and is absolutely rubbish at driving. If you keep that rule in mind at all times, you'll be pretty safe. I would ab
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by bolder88 13y ago
They can react quicker, but can they react correctly . What if a cow starts ramming the side of the car? Did the programmers account for that eventuality?
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by bolder88 13y ago
Just to give a counterpoint (I know this opinion will be extremely unpopular on HN) I'd explain how there was a time when we were free to drive our own cars, and make our own decisions. And simply hop in a car and drive. Not like now w
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by bolder88 13y ago
Lets not pretend that anything web startup related really changes the future that much. Is twitter really improving peoples lives and happiness? Probably the reverse. Has Reddit proven itself as a net gain for us, or have billions of hours
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by bolder88 13y ago
Not at all. I am happy to live now, just as happy as I would have been to live 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago. My happiness is not tied to technological enhancement.
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by bolder88 13y ago
I think the ambition on HN is generally * Make another useless timewasting webapp * Sell it for billions * Solve world hunger, philanthropy, make the world all better again
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by bolder88 13y ago
I do consider myself conservative. But I don't understand why some feel the need to "progress". Why not just live and enjoy your life instead of constantly wanting to progress to the future. Are you that depressed about your
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by bolder88 13y ago
I'm sure it would benefit people in a few generations time. The issue I have with it is that I don't want to be forced to pay for it by my government. I would rather not force the public to fund scientific research.
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by bolder88 13y ago
Certainly not. I'd rather see taxes lowered, so people can make their own decisions about how they want to spend their own money. I'm perfectly happy to live my life on Earth. If they suddenly colonise Mars, and it's fantasti
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by bolder88 13y ago
Love how theguardian has a massive banner ad at the top of this article. God I hate the guardian.
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by bolder88 13y ago
why depressing? I've never understood this fascination some have with spending billions going on a fun trip to mars. That sort of thing should be funded by rich people or corporations who see market value in doing it. Not paid for by t
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by bolder88 13y ago
It also instantly removes the concept of personal responsibility, or any incentive to try. Communism failed. Remember? Why bother getting a job when you can just vote in whichever party is going to raise the 'basic income' the mos
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by bolder88 13y ago
There's trying something new, and there's complete idiocy. This is the latter. It's dangerous and very worrying that people are trying to repeat mistakes.
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by bolder88 13y ago
OR , those people are wealthy because they have a high IQ, and are likely to give birth to children with a high IQ. I would bet that's far more likely.
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by bolder88 13y ago
My alternative would be firstly to legislate that any network can only send packets that have a source address owned by them. This would drastically cut down source address spoofing, which is the worst type of DDoS to try to cope with. Seco
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by bolder88 13y ago
FWIW, This is fairly standard. Linode for example will null-route your linode for 24 hours if it's attacked. It's quite irritating that hosting companies seem to see null-routing as a solution to a DDoS attack.
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by bolder88 13y ago
demeaning and offensive? Don't you think animals or other possible future species should have rights too? Shame on you. "It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives
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by bolder88 13y ago
Why not change it to include interspecies marriage next? Man+sheep+frog. What about inanimate objects! A man and a lamp? May as well allow people to marry trees while we're at it. I am suggesting that yes.
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by bolder88 13y ago
The majority of people against redefining the word marriage to include same sex unions, aren't against it because they want to deny anyone any rights. Waitress - a woman who waits on people Marriage - The union of one man and one
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by bolder88 13y ago
Is the word "waitress" discriminatory and sexist as well? Should we campaign to get that word redefined so it includes men? People who say yes to the above are the ones sapping all the fun and enjoyment out of the world in the nam
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by bolder88 13y ago
In what possible way is it relevant? Why would it even be something anyone attending would care about? The conference is about programming, not gayness. Good on him for standing up for what he believes in, and putting his money where his mo
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by bolder88 13y ago
Disagree. You wouldn't say "Wow you invented a lovely picture of a house" to your kid would you. They drew a picture. Just like a programmer writes a program.
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by bolder88 13y ago
Why is he "inventor of..." and the others are just "creator of..." Personally, I think using "inventor" when related to writing software is a little over the top. Still, not as irritating as when people call Cr
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by bolder88 13y ago
You probably posted something slightly critical of startups, or a YC company at some point in the past.
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by bolder88 13y ago
Polls like this are the equivalent of asking a builder if he likes wood, metal, concrete, plywood, slate, etc. Or if he likes a saw more than a hammer. Which only a complete moron would do.
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by bolder88 13y ago
Take the twitter valuation, and say to yourself "well even if I'm only 0.1% as successful as twitter is...." and go from there.
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by bolder88 13y ago
500m tweets a day is nothing . That's only 5,700 tweets a second. An average IRC network for example does more than that.

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