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by dcposch 10y ago
> The real issue is that we need to make it illegal to give out free content The First Amendment guarantees that I can publish freely, with or without charging for access
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by dcposch 10y ago
Switching from Facebook to, say, Diaspora or something is more than just "slightly inconvenient". One of them has all of my friends on it and the other has none. -- Two ideas for how we can help decentralization win. 1. Don't
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Man, just a few days ago I was bummed that the top comment on most HN stories is critical or dismissive, and now I'm part of the problem. -- People have made some VERY COOL stuff using MineTest. Check out spheretest: https:/&#x2F
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This is pretty cool. Props for doing a massive amount of work and creating something open and extensible. -- I just tried reading the code to learn how MineTest does voxel meshing, and it didn't go so well. (Voxel meshing is about turn
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Minecraft never got an open source release or official mod support. Mods are made using libraries reverse engineered from the official game, then installed by patching the game. (This is made a bit easier than it would otherwise be because
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Title would've been a lot stronger without the last three words. Our media has an unfortunate habit of turning stories into he-said-she-said, even when evidence is overwhelmingly on one side. They seek artificial balance and are unwill
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The Archive is awesome, but the author's sensationalist description of what they do isn't really accurate. For the most part, archive.org is not rushing in to save stuff that's about to be deleted. Instead they are crawling t
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> This is really cool, but I don't understand why they'd be more popular than local currency if they're not the dominant world currency like the dollar is. Looks like it's basically a widely used standard denomination
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Also much higher probability of founder drama
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Yeah, that aspect was cringeworthy. Lesson learned: if you're running a big event with Q&A, always always either restrict it to qualified people or vet the questions before they're asked. Don't allow a general audience to
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This is not about censoring or discouraging criticism. Often criticism is fair and warranted. I just want positive comments to appear as the top comment more often. Negative commenta should have a bit of a higher bar (in other words, need m
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Just an idea: sentiment analysis has gotten pretty accurate. What if HN included sentiment in the sort algorithm? The post score you see would stay the same (upvotes minus downvotes). You'd just multiply the sort score by, for example,
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Aussie road trains are at most 55m (They are still really imposing and impressive, especially at night. On the extremely flat, straight desert roads in the Outback, you can see them miles before they arrive, like a star on the horizon. When
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This is global, it's not specific to America. Fun story, the word luddite comes from Ned Ludd, an 18th century English weaver. He destroyed some mechanical looms and inspired a bunch of people to copy him. They were angry about automat
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> I'm surprised/disappointed that government hasn't been more instrumental in pushing forward an agenda of promoting self-driving cars The DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and Urban Challenge in 2007 are what started it all.
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1. is a solved problem, at least at Project Chauffeur (Google's autonomous driving effort). I live in Mountain View and see self driving cars every day, often driving next to or past each other. 2. Long term, it's not clear to me
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It's safe to say that the future will still use metal to build things. Saying you want roughly 100% fossil free energy is bold but might happen in our lifetime. Saying you want to end all mining period is just environmentalist virtue s
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Libertarian yes. They are not neocons at all. Where do you see that in the show? Edit: I just remembered that Matt and Trey made Team America World Police back in 2004--back when even Democrats like Clinton were gung ho about Iraq. In it, t
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> Rather than asteroid mining, what I want in my lifetime is an end to mining, period Probably typed on an aluminum Macbook, containing boron-doped silicon chips, in a house heated by natural gas and powered by the same or by coal
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http://bellard.org/jslinux/ also http://www.windows93.net
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The really funny thing is that the OS runs a simple event + render loop, then the browser implements a wildly complex stateful/declarative structure on top of that (the DOM), then React apps create a simple event + render loop again, t
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Exactly. Ethics is just the wrong way to think about it. It's like the people emptying weak brainwallets. Is it unethical to empty the brainwallet for "password123"? Is it unethical to pick up a quarter lying on the sidewalk?
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Doesn't cost millions. CubeSats take up extra cargo capacity on other missions. They cost ~50k to launch.
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And even then, only in geosynchronous orbit, way too far away for photo surveillance. Spy satellites are in LEO and orbit the earth v roughly once an hour--they dont "hover" at all. (In fact, they're passing over the ground a
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> Unfortunately, environmental review is often a vehicle for ensuring that people get as many chances to complain and obstruct as possible, even if the environmental impacts are minimal Yes, but this time instead of an individual develo
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That's just not true. For example, universal basic income--a leftist idea even by European standards--has been discussed several times on HN. Lots of substantive comments both for and against.
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I think Wikileaks is an important organization that's done a lot of good. I just wish Julian was more grounded and pragmatic and less of a narcissist. He's been pretty insufferable every time I've seen him speak. -- Radical t
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No. His definition describes the word as it's actually used. If I open a hot dog stand, I may have incorporated only a month ago, but I haven't founded a startup. -- This reminds me of one of my favorite HN posts ever. It's a
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I think "jail the professors" is too extreme. There needs to be a more constructive solution. I completely agree with your assessment of the problem.
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They explain in the article: your phone may be compromised, and an app running on the main processor has no reliable way to tell. That's why they're using a completely separate piece of hardware.

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