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by chroma 12y ago
What's next? Drones. No matter how strong one's industrial base, warfare has always been limited by the number of boots on the ground. Eventually, one side sees enough body bags (or simply runs out of draft-eligible men) and disen
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by chroma 12y ago
It's not a bad idea to ask yourself that question, but I think the advice is double-edged. Disregarding money and pursuing whatever you're passionate about at age 20 can ruin your quality of life and stunt your future. In general,
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by chroma 12y ago
I'm curious. If you've wanted an SSD for so long, why haven't you bought one?
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by chroma 12y ago
That ship is in the Guinness Book of Records under, "Longest distance sailed." These days, practically every university student is there to better their job prospects.
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by chroma 12y ago
Can you imagine if people could actually turn their karma into straight cash? The incentive will be even higher to simply echo back to the group what you think it wants to hear. Sure, but this is differs little from cable news, content mi
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by chroma 12y ago
Far too often, people anthropomorphize AI or draw from fiction. Bostrom does his best to dispel these notions. The algorithm just does what it does; and unless it is a very special kind of algorithm, it does not care that we clasp our head
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by chroma 12y ago
Interesting article. The CIA sounds like a terrible place to work. No smartphones, definitely no BYOD, and you can't talk to coworkers about your projects. You don't even know if you have old friends who work at the same place. Th
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by chroma 12y ago
It's an interesting article and I can certainly get behind the sentiment of making software more accessible to non-english speakers. That said, if another language already has a word with the desired meaning, why not use it instead of
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by chroma 12y ago
This is a bit of cultural inertia that I don't understand. An accident of history could have easily made the debate over private ownership of mountaintops. After all, why should we let rich people restrict others from experiencing the
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by chroma 12y ago
If only mobile devices supported some sort of wireless protocol for keyboards. I agree that tablets and phones prioritize content consumption over content creation, but that's what most people want. As Steve Jobs said: Tablets are cars
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by chroma 12y ago
Backups only do so much? Could you elaborate on what your backups don't do? My backups allow me to recover from theft, hardware failure, accidental deletion, and more. If my computer were to burst into flames right now, I would only lo
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by chroma 12y ago
Even if I am confident that pushing a fat man onto some tracks will stop a trolley and save lives, it is much more likely that I have gone insane than that actually being the case. If this dilemma happened in real life, hopefully I would re
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by chroma 12y ago
I'm glad alcohol helped you, but have you ever tried psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, or MDMA? The effects are fundamentally different. Psychedelics have a much higher chance of triggering profound and transformative experiences.
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by chroma 12y ago
I'm not sure where you heard it, but your your statement regarding flashbacks and "crystals dislodging" is simply incorrect. Judging by your submissions[1], you are not a fan of many drugs. While this position is understandab
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by chroma 12y ago
If you haven't tried MDMA, I strongly recommend it.[1] I've used it twice in the past six years, and it has completely changed how I interact with others. Rolling on MDMA drastically curbed my social phobias. All of my negative so
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by chroma 12y ago
For most of us, Orin Kerr is on the opposite side of the privacy debate. He thinks that current online privacy laws go too far in the direction of protecting the accused. There is a summary of one of his talks at http://hlrecord.
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by chroma 12y ago
To me, it seems that the main points of disagreement stem from your religious views. So when you do disagree with others on HN, your choices are: 1. State your disagreement and justify it with religious reasons. Good luck avoiding downvotes
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by chroma 12y ago
Legislation is very hard to change, although it seems to be going in the right direction. Washington and Oregon allow assisted suicide for the terminally ill. I'm no maritime law expert, but I wonder if it's possible to offer assi
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by chroma 12y ago
I agree with many of the other comments here: If this story is true, Unbabel's behavior is reprehensible. That said, look at Andreas Wild's G+[1]. He has another recently-created blog in which he spouts off some weirdness about co
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by chroma 12y ago
Your argument applies equally well to experimental cancer treatments. And of course, it applies much much more to luxury goods like fancy cars, fancy houses, swimming pools, vacations, business-class plane tickets, cable TV, etc. The only
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by chroma 12y ago
What else do you think will be necessary?
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by chroma 12y ago
I thought the comments on some articles were bad, but apparently cryonics takes the crown. It's sad that our community can't discuss this topic without a flamewar. Instead of going back-and-forth in comments, I think it would be m
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by chroma 12y ago
I think you are dreaming of Las Vegas.
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by chroma 12y ago
That page has about 450 words. Loading it took me 2.24 seconds, transferring 710KB in 13 HTTP requests.
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by chroma 12y ago
Even if your claims are true, the harm caused by imprisoning users is much greater than the harm caused by allowing use.
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by chroma 12y ago
It has its problems, but I'm laughing all the way to the bank.
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by chroma 12y ago
Living in cheap places is fun when you're young, but eventually you take on more responsibilities and your body fails you. Are eastern europe and southeast asia known for their health care? Are dentists cheap there? Most importantly, a
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by chroma 12y ago
Let me preface this by saying: I want Gittip to succeed. I really want them to succeed. I would love to be able to spend my time getting paid by a community to develop open source software. However... those growth curves look linear, if n
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by chroma 12y ago
If I had to bet money on WWDC announcements, I'd probably go with Gruber's predictions. Nothing mentioned stands out as particularly unlikely. And that's why these predictions worry me. If you do the mental equivalent of zoom
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by chroma 12y ago
A few Defcons ago, Jason Scott gave an excellent talk about this failure mode[1]. Basically, companies host user-generated content for free. Then years later, they destroy it with little or even no notice. Sturgeon's law applies; most

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