captainobvious

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by captainobvious 18y ago
Uhh doesn't Eliezer Yudkowsky's account explicitly discount the envelope explanation?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Violates the EULAs of most of these programs. Someone should get it taken down if we have any respect for copyright law.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
But if your bet was placed as a CDS with Lehman, you actually may not have made money.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>- I agree you don't have any advantage. On the other hand the meltdown has already happened, so the prices have been corrected already. A couple of summers ago someone could just have easily said: "on the other hand, house prices have
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Only if you callously assume that the NFL player who gets his spot in the NFL won't do the same.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Seems like theft that isn't illegal. No thanks.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Are you trying to get excommunicated?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
beware looking for this on youtube; youtube is mono =)
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by captainobvious 18y ago
If it involves more than one patent owned by different owners it is a classic tragedy of the commons problem: each patent holder has an incentive to maximize his demands because the downside (risk that the overall patent cost is too much fo
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>sorry, but can't remember the source You'll have to do better than that; it definitely isn't like the immune system stops adapting after the age of 20; otherwise vaccines wouldn't work.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
False dichotomy.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
just run: firefox -ProfileManager
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by captainobvious 18y ago
The EU practically is a country. There are plenty of other counter examples, mostly countries that were formally some part of an imperialist empire, or essentially still are (many countries in the Caribbean).
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>* Depending on your site, you could hold a competition and submit it to whatever forums and BBS's you'd like to. The winner gets a brand new $200 iPod. Bad idea; there are strict laws about contests and they vary by state. You don't w
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by captainobvious 18y ago
skreet skreet
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Unfortunately my favourite one missed the '08 deadline: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417782
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Guess you are anti-ISP too?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>helps architects to work better Is that proper grammar (I have no idea, but it sounds wrong). I would have used: >helps architects work better
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Looks like paper mache made out of $100 bills, formed into a curvy box, and then painted with pure silver sprinkled with crushed black diamonds to darken it a bit and then laser etched inside of the Macbook factory to make it lose it's lust
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by captainobvious 18y ago
wait a minute, are you spolsky?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Human babies have similar innate behaviors (a quickly growing shape, say a circle, will cause a fear reaction in a newborn baby).* * Chomsky - Language and Responsibility - p52
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by captainobvious 18y ago
This dude has consistently nailed it: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Kind of nuts seeing that graph after just reading "Dear Hacker News, which 50k car should I buy" =P
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Damn, that is insane. I lucked out and made $110k my first year out of college and rewarded myself with an almost brand-new Camry that had a couple of scratches for $12k. Now I'm kicking myself after finding out about the Chevy Prizm thro
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by captainobvious 18y ago
interesting stuff on perfect pitch wrt chinese: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21/segme...
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by captainobvious 18y ago
It's a collective action problem. I'm just giving the my Ayn Rand-esque solution to the problem, whereby I look out for myself and end up unintentionally screwing everyone else. =(
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by captainobvious 18y ago
The problem with mentioning a few anecdotal examples to show why we need more government regulation in a given area is they are just that, anecdotal. Here's an (anecdotal) counter to your take on the FDA: Chicago Tribune - Stop the governm
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Are you talking about medicare or social security? If we took a little under half of the increase in defense spending in the ~2002-2006 period, social security could be made solvent for the next 75 years: http://video.google.com/videoplay
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by captainobvious 18y ago
It would be hard to find a 10-year stretch post Great Depression with less regulation on banks. Here's a video that was on CSPAN of the former CEO of Wells Fargo, with a detailed breakdown of every regulation that was lifted since he start
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Take something like day trading, where a company is out of all positions at/after the close each day. Every transaction they engage in is zero-sum. No wealth is being created, but tons of people are wasting time on it (destroying potentia

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