crystalis

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by crystalis 16y ago
Medians do exist- everyone "could" fit in an average salary.
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by crystalis 16y ago
You might be thinking of hypercorrection, which does seem to intersect at points with meta-contrarianism.
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by crystalis 16y ago
"Behold! I have brought to you Socrates' man!"
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by crystalis 16y ago
I'm not sure scare-quoting "meta-contrarian" counts as quoting the author. Which is to say, if you can't even grasp your own writing, how can we expect you to grasp someone else's? It may all be "obvious" to you, but there's plenty of margi
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by crystalis 16y ago
One basic problem is extending a specific case to all general cases. but that doesn't mean deciding Mersenne primes are an unhelpful concept because the number 15 exists is a good thing.
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by crystalis 16y ago
It interferes with "traditional" "notions" of physical property.
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by crystalis 16y ago
If you'd like to read an excellent Harlan Ellison story, I would suggest http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1003-OCT_SINATRA_rev_
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by crystalis 16y ago
The problems movement incurs aren't "game mechanics" so much as "3d chatroom mechanics". Buff tracking as a performance hit is surprising to me, though. I'd presume you were tracking monster lifespan - with this and an offset for 'AI interr
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by crystalis 16y ago
6 years of promotion might be overselling the occasional night and weekend of work. He's had a wonderful playground available to learn anything he wanted to learn about SEO. He was a salaryman until recently, and now he has an upcoming prod
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by crystalis 16y ago
Could you point out a WoW mechanic that is actually taxing? From what I understand, WoW AI is a height agnostic beeline and battles are heavily scripted at best. The tricky part seems to be the real-time player interaction a.k.a 3d chatroom
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by crystalis 16y ago
So you're just impersonating Alex Krupp?
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by crystalis 16y ago
How does this theory sit with Bill Clinton's impeachment?
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by crystalis 16y ago
I meant to suggest a strict superset of their current system- keep uploading easy and free, and the reader or publisher can pay for access after the "free" period. Scribd seems to have had a pretty large hook in this guy- I'm sure he's not
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by crystalis 16y ago
It seems like Scribd would solve more problems if they let uploaders pay to give their readers free access. I'm not the Scribd user; the guy publishing with them is.
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by crystalis 16y ago
> Intel is selling you more control over the hardware they sell you
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by crystalis 16y ago
Perhaps Pareto efficiency is an underlying cause for this response. Treating the chip as a fait accompli, boosting the cache doesn't hurt Intel and it benefits the consumer. In a world where white cotton tee shirts can sell for hundreds of
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by crystalis 16y ago
If online support doesn't fit your app/game, add better offline support. This ends up meaning difficult to copy stuff, like included cloth maps or quality manuals. You could get crafty and convince the user to pay you extra money for, e.g.,
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by crystalis 16y ago
Company A makes patent infringing product. Company A makes puppet Company B that licenses product for <substantial amount of money>, successfully fulfilling any sort of patent infringement limitation you can think of for the low low
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by crystalis 16y ago
Piracy for video games generally reports one lost sale per one thousand pirates. Games seem fungible, in that they all solve the 'boredom' problem. I'd imagine the more unique the problem you are solving, the more worthwhile piracy preventi
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by crystalis 16y ago
You do make it quite clear you know how to play forum games... I argued nowhere that Kurzweil is absolved of any putative wrongness, irrationality, or crackpottishness. You inserted a context that wasn't there and didn't do much to relate t
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by crystalis 16y ago
I wouldn't class your initial comment as a troll, and with a little bit of context, philwelch's commentary could have been pretty useful. Kurzweil might not be so far ahead of "modern medical institutions", but it's easy to see why he diffe
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by crystalis 16y ago
But this isn't about cranks. It's not even about Kurzweil! It's about Singularitarians that explicitly aren't Kurzweil, even. You haven't made any points germane to the conversation here. If you'd like to place some actual points regarding
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by crystalis 16y ago
Your underlying point is that he isn't credible; andreyf's point is about profiteering. It's possible he wanted information on credibility, rather than the stated profiteering, but your paternalism has yet to supply any actual answers.
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by crystalis 16y ago
I'm not sure what you have to gain by planting a 'pseudoscientific crank' flag in a response here, but I'll address it anyways. I don't follow Kurzweil's diet, and I haven't read any of his books, but to the best of my knowledge, Kurzweil i
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by crystalis 16y ago
His primary list of accomplishments should relieve some of your fears. That much serial entrepreneurship places him securely in the 'comfortable' category, and his continuing work seems to clear him from a profiteering motive. His transhuma
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by crystalis 16y ago
Your motivation for this thread should be pointed out, for those that are taking this perhaps more seriously than it should be: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749 . At any rate, you're a less productive amichail, which is saying s
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by crystalis 16y ago
They also managed to hand-wave "progressive city" into "diverse city". Once they did that, it would have been nice if they compared the sum of black and immigrant populations as a somewhat more reasonable measure of diversity. Even better,
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by crystalis 16y ago
So you're proposing 80 total websites with $500/yr profit each should actually be costing their fictional single owner $40k?
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by crystalis 16y ago
He's not defending saving money by living in an owned house, he's deflecting discussions on buying instead of "throwing away" rent money.
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by crystalis 16y ago
I read the post and completely missed the plug on the post. The color and offset put it squarely in my internet blind spot after years of untargeted annoying internet ads. I was surprised when I looked again to verify and saw that I had loo

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