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by crygin 13y ago
Can you clarify the definitions of those terms that you'd prefer to use, which exclude the products on a McDonald's hamburger?
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by crygin 13y ago
The GP is not a "political slogan", it's a statement of fact. If you'd like to rebut, which seems fairly unlikely, please provide both evidence of sloganhood (slogan, of course, means something specific: in part, that t
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by crygin 13y ago
This is actually extremely interesting, and a potential use for BTC that hadn't occurred to me yet -- as a flexible retainer for legal representation. You can notionally store the information necessary to access a wallet in your head,
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by crygin 13y ago
Congratulations, you've discovered the bell curve (plus a healthy dose of physical attributes that provide you with positive advantages in our society). We congratulate you for being on the nice side of it.
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by crygin 13y ago
As a minor counterpoint, if I'm helping someone build a company and I ever find out that they lied to me, I'm walking away. I suppose that's why I'm not in the startup scene anymore, though...
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by crygin 13y ago
> If your webmail client does that, it's time to switch to a better one. Academic users constitute an audience that's quite often bound to use a single, potentially-outdated webmail system. In our experience, academic/Uni
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by crygin 13y ago
Actually, given the events of the last few years, it's entirely possible to stop paying the mortgage on your house by pleading ignorance to the documents you signed. More to the point -- regardless of the specifics of the law, the pers
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by crygin 13y ago
"However, in a work environment as demanding as the one at Google, it can be challenging to carve out the time to launch projects outside of an engineer’s “day job.”" I.e., give up your 20% time or get stackranked/shuffled ou
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by crygin 13y ago
There's a terrible irony in this as the response to a post which explicitly states: "We all need jobs. We need to be employed. But at the cost of what? Our ethics? Our passions? Those that trust us?"
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by crygin 13y ago
Essentially: conformal (angles are equal in different areas of the map -- this is the purpose of Mercator, for sailing), equal-area (regions of the same area are represented equally), contiguous (paths between regions do not leave the map,
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by crygin 13y ago
Both nutrition and pecuniary economics are far more complex then Soylent and Bitcoin allow for -- additionally, the history of both of these fields is seeded with innumerable failures to couch each of their fundamentals in terms of simple c
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by crygin 13y ago
Like Uber doesn't? Obeying a dumb law might make your position more stable, but it eliminates the enormous potential return on choosing to behave outside the norm. Laws are just incentive structures, and subject to the same risk analy
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by crygin 13y ago
Your emotions are a physical process occurring in your brain, and you are not in control of them any more than you are in control of whether or not a bruise forms after you are struck.
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by crygin 13y ago
There's absolutely no good reason to think that it should be possible to make money propping up us bags of decaying organic matter for as long as possible. The idea of making money providing healthcare is absurd -- like being able to
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by crygin 13y ago
When you use the "anecdote-not-data" contentless dismissal, you're not supposed to follow it up with a suggestion to add a control to the single data point.
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by crygin 13y ago
The issue is that we have no proof that they are primes in general, and they become large so quickly that verifying their primehood is (currently) impossible.
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by crygin 13y ago
This is like the Platonic HN comment. Person hears about an interesting problem in another field (yeah, the ship of Theseus is actually interesting. That's why people still discuss it), asserts the solution after having thought about
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by crygin 13y ago
Unless you were there with him and his dad's friend, you'd have no way of confirming that he wasn't lying. Or that he hadn't hallucinated. Or that you hadn't imagined or dreamed being there with him. Or that the
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by crygin 13y ago
> with no other option than the action we took What a strange thing to lie about. Btw, how long after Capseo's purchase of doz.com did SEOmoz file the intent-to-use on MOZ? It's more of a moral question than a legal one.
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by crygin 14y ago
And a viral pathogen is different from a computer virus, but that term has been adopted because it effectively used an existing term to clarify the behavior of an unfamiliar phenomenon. Like both, LinkedIn uses subterfuge to coerce a host
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by crygin 14y ago
We won't* fully correctly emulate a single human cell using deterministic computers in any reasonable timeframe. Even if we had a fully characterized model of a healthy cell, what mechanism would we then use to prevent/eliminate cancers?
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by crygin 14y ago
> A substantial portion of the risk for these types of diseases is related to lifestyle, so take it with a grain of salt. In the case of cardiovascular disease specifically, one might not want to do that.
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by crygin 14y ago
It's actually somewhat riskier than cash through the mail (which is shockingly reliable), and you have no recourse, unlike the US postal service which is more than happy to insure cash mailings (up to $25k through Registered Mail) and inves
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by crygin 14y ago
If that's your perspective, what do you think it means when people choose to buy the iPhone instead of the Galaxy S3? It doesn't mean that the people who choose the iPhone are sheep, or don't understand what they want. It means that the iP
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by crygin 14y ago
See also: http://twitter.com/hackernews_txt
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by crygin 14y ago
How would you use the access log to determine if client-side javascript was being executed?
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by crygin 14y ago
I'm going to give some personal experience about why I only hire people with degrees, which I realize is not data. If anyone can think of a way to actually evaluate this at a statistical level, I'd be very interested. I've worked with a la
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by crygin 14y ago
Of course not! You've got to call the Police police -- everyone knows Police police police Police.