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Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke(forbes.com)
141 points by clicks 13y ago|48 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
Wonderful comment. I believe it's our duty to conquer death and bring heaven to earth, by fixing aging and developing machine intelligence. [3] [4] Once this is done, there will be time to think about reversing ent
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by clicks 13y ago
The 10,000 hour rule is not just about 10,000 hours. If you read Gladwell's book (or better, the research that Gladwell seems to cite), you find that there are important things that go along the 10,000 hour rule, probably the most im
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by clicks 13y ago
> I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News. Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before electio
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China’s Feud With West on Solar Leads to Tax(nytimes.com)
2 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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N.S.A. Imposes Rules to Protect Secret Data Stored on Its Networks(nytimes.com)
22 points by clicks 13y ago|11 comments
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Netflix’s 14 Emmy nominations a breakthrough for online TV(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
Two separate points I want to make: a) If a company is approached by any spooky three-letter agency, the higher-ups of that company could possibly interpret that as a validation that they've made it 'big' -- and furthermore,
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Netflix’s “House of Cards” gets first major Emmy nomination for online-only show(qz.com)
2 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
Since you have considerable insight into politics, what do you reckon is the solution? What could be done to change zoning laws? What are the steps to take, policy-wise and politically, for San Francisco to able to Chicago-ize?
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by clicks 13y ago
Just curious here -- how would a dead man's switch be created? I'm thinking something like a python script which is scanning for particular words and phrases on google news, like "Snowden killed", or "Snowden captur
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by clicks 13y ago
> My favorite argument: "That area is reserved for subtitles." I guess you're joking here, but I really wish subtitle presentated was more formally systematized. And, your idea actually seems like a good one, it's jus
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by clicks 13y ago
Terry's been discussed a lot by now, he has schizophrenia. It seems he went through clinical treatment but sadly that didn't help him. Really just a tragic thing... I wish he could have been better helped because he seems like a s
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by clicks 13y ago
Interesting that a Xah Lee site has made it to the front page, most of his stuff had been totally banned on HN. Ah well. The guy may be a strange individual but he's certainly done good in proliferating a ton of helpful documentation l
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New test developed to help stop overprescription of antibiotics(sciencenews.org)
1 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Said to Discuss Own Web TV Service Media Companies(bloomberg.com)
2 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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Baidu to Pay $1.9 Billion for Chinese App Store Operator(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
That might have something to do with his daughter Mary Cheney having come out as a lesbian way before 2004. In interviews before 2004 Cheney would often get asked about his daughter being gay and him being non-supportive of lgbt rights... a
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HBO Asks Google to Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by clicks 13y ago|1 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
You know, this happens a lot here -- this exact same thing. Someone makes an elaborate piece of art with CSS, you get some response saying hey CSS wasn't meant for this and to complete the cycle finally you'd have a comment saying
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by clicks 13y ago
Did you read the article? Thom and Nigel seem to be lamenting new bands' inability to bring in money, they're not grieving about how they themselves don't make enough through Spotify.
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by clicks 13y ago
I think we're getting bogged down in a game of semantics. I do not think it is such a horrendous misuse of the word 'science' when I mean we can use the results of experiments and sometimes loosely (but rationally and in a le
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by clicks 13y ago
> The question is how do we know that we should use science to determine human values? What else should we use? Because we've used religion before, that didn't work. So, I suppose when I say that science should be our moral c
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by clicks 13y ago
Well, as I said, the goal is maximization of humanity's well-being (the two key ideas in this are: longevity and happiness). In order for the human race to survive in the long term we would have to strive for social sustainability as w
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by clicks 13y ago
I base the premise of this action to maximization of humanity's well-being. Would the woman who gets killed by her father in an act of 'honor killing' because she was raped be well-served by their society being educated that
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by clicks 13y ago
> (Put another way: I'm more embarrassed about the subreddits I browse than the emails I send.) That is probably true for a lot of people. I hope reddit admins shed some light on this: how long are the logs identifying users stored
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by clicks 13y ago
I think you're very right here and I certainly agree, I should have instead said that human intuition goes a long way -- but we should capitalize on it with a more scientifically informed view .
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by clicks 13y ago
I didn't call your morality horseshit, I meant to just come down on the philosophy of relativistic morality itself. I've revised the original comment to make it a little more civil. > I am okay with your morals, as long as t
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by clicks 13y ago
I think relativistic morality has it very wrong. I mean, surely you don't accept that killing Jews can ever be considered moral, or owning slaves, or cutting genitalia of little girls is moral just because a local majority happens to t
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NASA 3D prints engine injector; saves manufacturing time; cuts costs by 70%(nasa.gov)
2 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments

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