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   by derrida 16y ago

   +1 Sounds like what the beats used to do, except their poetry didn't compile.
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   by derrida 16y ago

   What are these things? How do you go to a 'hackathon' if your not a programmer? What do you do? Make it look pretty?
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   by derrida 16y ago

   perhaps the problem IS the SAT system. I have a high IQ, and I can't for the life of me understand why the US uses SAT's which are so similar to IQ tests. In Australia, the HSC required me to work, and people less smart than me who worked h
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   by derrida 16y ago

   I am a philosophy major. Algorithms are fundamental to good arguments, and in fact, knowledge in general. Doing philosophy (especially logic & analytic philosophy of language and mind) has enabled me to see through the bullshit and know
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   by derrida 16y ago

   it is only a strategic error because if they target governments they can be politically supported by corporations and vice-versa. one place doing both things looses a lot of friends. but i am sure if you took a strawpoll of every technicall
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   by derrida 16y ago

   sydney here
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   by derrida 16y ago

   I don't understand, as it stands the human genetic code can be written down as a string of letters and this can just be handled like any .txt file.
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   by derrida 16y ago

   Wow, really cool. I am very interested in the history of that part of the world. Looks like a lovely place to visit.
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   by derrida 16y ago

   This is very nice. Good on you!
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    by derrida 16y ago

    Actually socialism is democratic control of the means of production, and is an economy without government control. What you are thinking about is what happened in the USSR and just because the USSR propaganda agency and the US propaganda bo
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    by derrida 16y ago

    Awww. What a nice offer! I love to see this sort of thing! Good on you, I hope you have some amazing people come to stay!
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    by derrida 16y ago

    "Everything that makes up my physical body has existed and always will exist, in some form or another." The physicist richard feynman in the first lecture of "the feynman lectures on physics" says that the most important fact, that would co
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    by derrida 16y ago

    Oh, I must say, someone mentioned Godels Incompleteness Theorem, and this comes pretty close. But I think the 2nd law if you think about it, can explain so much.
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    by derrida 16y ago

    2nd Law of Thermodynamics... Things flow from hot to cold, from simplicity to complexity. It is the only asymmetrical physical law! Does it have anything to do with time? We don't know!
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    by derrida 16y ago

    I live in newtown in a housing co-operative for $70/week. No landlord. No government agents. I don't know why there are not more housing co-operatives around. NOTE TO FOLKS THAT DON'T LIVE IN NEWTOWN: I agree with all other previous estima
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    by derrida 16y ago

    If your a hack what are you doing reading hacker news? jj :-)