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by crusso 9y ago
I think that this topic went from next year's stem cell therapy to "What if you could live forever" territory from the top comment way up there. Within the context of the pie-in-the-sky subject we're discussing, calling
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by crusso 9y ago
Well said. These types of blog posts create the sense of a needless dichotomy where you either code 24 hours a day or 5 hours a day and there's no in-between. I really don't have much of a github presence, but then again I'm
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by crusso 9y ago
If rejuvenation techniques keep the brain's neuroplasticity youthful, then those hard-wired experiences should be no worse than those of younger people. Would a hard wired prejudice include being fundamentally biased against old people
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by crusso 9y ago
That assumes that maximum life expectancy would stay the same if you could live that maximum life with greater health. If there is a mechanism in our bodies that creates an artificial maximum of life, like a telomere - then you would be rig
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by crusso 9y ago
I'd guess the majority of murders have been caused by people over 30 declaring war. Well, since US elected national office is pretty much 30 and over, that's the only way wars can be declared. But there's a reason why there
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by crusso 9y ago
If we were immortal, the birth rate would decline as people worried less about continuing through progeny and more about continuing through their own lives. How many wars do you think anyone would want to fight if we didn't have an end
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by crusso 9y ago
I don't use C++ anymore - but Scott Meyers' books on C++ were the best investments I could have made back in the early 2000's. He focused on some real pain/productivity points of the language and standard library that m
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by crusso 9y ago
The problem is that the person receiving your signature usually has no way to verify that the signature belongs to the person authorized to whatever it is you signed for. It's worse than that these days because you normally put your
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by crusso 9y ago
I have a 7. I may get an 8; but since I know the X is coming out soon, I figured I'd wait a bit longer. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people are in a holding pattern like I am. Not long after the X comes out, some pent-up d
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by crusso 9y ago
Or you can use it for local development, as you edit code This is a huge feature for me in my Elixir development. I mostly use Elixir for some server code that manages many connections to external network entities. It would be a huge ha
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by crusso 9y ago
Given your constraints, I'd say that Elm is an excellent choice. It's simplistic enough to be approachable, the easy web integration is a feature (not a drawback as you mentioned), and people are doing "real work" in El
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by crusso 9y ago
Yeah, but apparently he forgot to guard his header with: #ifndef __BOV_B_H__ #define __BOV_B_H__ #endif
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by crusso 9y ago
1. Because people want to know for lots of reasons like financial planning or "bucket listing". 2. The more people who know sooner, the more we might learn about the disease, how it progresses, and the genetics of the
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by crusso 9y ago
"and fall away without getting caught up in it" I'd agree that thinking of mindfulness as turning thoughts off is not quite right - but I think he means what you mean when you say "fall away". He probably thinks of
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by crusso 9y ago
Consciousness exists on many levels with many co-processes. Without careful meditative practices, we tend to view our minds along a linear path as we change our focus from thought to thought. We are immersed in our stream of consciousness
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by crusso 9y ago
I like your description. It's similar to how I describe meditation to people who have no experience with it, although I usually say: When you're focused on something interesting, you easily are able to follow the stream of your
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by crusso 9y ago
Actually, yes. Some friends tend to magnify the insecurities that a lonely/insecure person might feel. What is doing something on a dare besides a play to battle the insecurity of being labeled a "coward"?
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by crusso 9y ago
The rules of US elections are fairly well spelled-out, so low turn-out results are not contested. In this case, Congress would need to make the decision that is in keeping with the "people of Puerto Rico". If you read further in
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by crusso 9y ago
I would think that the rest of the sentence that you deleted is important to understanding the vote. ; turnout, however, was 23%, a historically low figure.[3] This figure is attributed to a boycott led by the pro-status quo PPD party.[4]
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by crusso 9y ago
I was on slashdot from the very early days until way too recently. In 2011, I joined a startup company of young guys and one of them saw that I had a slashdot page up. He said, "Slashdot is for old people. Let us show you Hacker New
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by crusso 9y ago
That general pattern is followed by companies, social organizations, and even countries - to an extent.
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by crusso 9y ago
I just went to Japan the other week and sampled some of the snacks at the convenience stores. In general, they weren't nearly as sweet as what you find in the USA. Did Japan go through the same low-fat craze that America went through f
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by crusso 9y ago
You could say that about any medical procedure. You could say that about computers... Testris would happen naturally if there were no significant trade offs. Evolution tends to optimize, but it also gets stuck in local maxima because of its
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by crusso 9y ago
I'd like to see some kind of filtering for HN based upon some preferences or, better yet, an ML style system like with Netflix that learns the kinds of stories you're interested in. I skimmed through the descriptions of the "
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by crusso 9y ago
"Your gross, or pre-tax income, is the money the market delivers to you" I'm going to sit at home and wait for my delivery of money from the market for the next few months and contemplate the logic of this article.
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by crusso 9y ago
Honest question: Do many people read these entire New Yorker articles? This is what happens to me as I'm looking at HN: From the main page, I open a bunch of tabs that look interesting. On some types of issues, I also open a tab on
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by crusso 9y ago
If that were true then we could sue this USA company for breach of contract (the Constitution) whereby the company was never authorized to own all the land or use its corporate power to attract more occupants.
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by crusso 9y ago
I remember having that "Is Apple a hardware company or a software company?" debate endlessly with other folks at Apple and outside of Apple back in the early-mid 90's. Back then, all the big names were either one or the othe
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by crusso 9y ago
GE spent a shit-ton of money trying to jump into the smart grid business too. They had commercials on television, but never really any products that went anywhere in the market. GE's failures shouldn't be overly generalized.
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by crusso 9y ago
And then you still need to have a combo charging adapter so you can talk/listen while charging, plus the 8mm headphones for exercise equipment, plus the adapter for my wired Bose headphones. So it's still a pain, although the main

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