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by dsrguru 13y ago
This is the most terrifyingly awesome technology acquisition I've ever seen. Facebook chat in two years: put on a headset and get teleported to a room in a virtual world where you can talk to your friends' avatars. Skype and Googl
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by dsrguru 13y ago
The author made it clear that the question's primary purpose was to see if the applicant could use the system. They assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that the problem was about as trivial as hello world.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
InclinedPlane wrote a fantastic post on this exact topic a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4753117
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Looks like flag no longer exists for a post until it's endorsed. Makes sense.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Or, if the purpose is to have high karma users function as semi-moderators, why not just keep the upvote/downvote system but make a comment's precedence a function of weighted upvotes based on the karma of those voters? I guess th
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Hopefully this will prove overly pessimistic. The way I see it, either we'll be proven wrong or pg will revert to the system we know and love until he comes up with a better method for improving the quality of comments.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
No, it just means if you comment low down on a page, you'll probably have to delete that comment before participating in a second discussion.
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Turkish PM, fighting scandal, tries to ban Twitter(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by dsrguru 13y ago|0 comments
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by dsrguru 13y ago
That, coincidentally, works quite well in the current system too. You don't even need to agree. Just post your comment as a reply to the top comment or, since your karma might be a bit too low for that, as a reply to the first comment
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Regardless, I think it would qualify as gambler's fallacy for the person buying your stake!
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. There's currently no known harm for upvoting, so we do it to promote good discussion, despite the fact that there's typically no personal benefit. But if endorsing posts not only provides no personal
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by dsrguru 13y ago
My immediate thoughts were very similar to cperciva's. In the status quo, there's already a disincentive (for those who care about average karma) to comment on any posts that require scrolling down, especially if posts above them
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by dsrguru 13y ago
In fairness, the three games he's currently working on follow that same mold of being super easy to learn and super hard to beat--not a good recipe for warding off addiction!
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I believe nlawalker's point was that if a paid service is identical in functionality to a free "pirate" alternative, there's still an incentive to use the free one. Even if the paid service is better than the free one,
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by dsrguru 13y ago
> Learning is simply better when you have to write things down. I disagree. Learning is better when you aren't able to diddle on your laptop or phone, and having to write things down strongly encourages you not to do those things,
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by dsrguru 13y ago
In fairness, it's somewhat likely that everything went exactly as planned, at least for some of the people behind MtGox.
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The Ring Input Device(techcrunch.com)
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Kickstarter compromised(cnn.com)
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by dsrguru 13y ago
1950s logic (at least in the US) was not that if one partner is not earning money, they should contribute more to the house. 1950s logic was that the male partner earns the money, and the female partner should be satisfied with housework, r
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by dsrguru 13y ago
> Doing things elegantly in practice unfortunately adds zero flexibility for non-trivial changes in business direction: you simply can't foresee everything. One swift decision at mid-management level and your elegant framework sudde
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I don't specifically know about Xi'an, but I remember in 2012 subways in Beijing were a flat 2 rmb (about 0.35 USD) and in Shanghai something like 2 to 4 rmb depending on distance. Nanjing was similar, but I don't remember th
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Consuming monounsaturated fat is good for you. Consuming polyunsaturated fat, with the exception of omega-3, is not. My understanding is that the polyunsaturated fat in virtually all vegetable oils are omega-6 fatty acids, which we consume
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Extra virgin olive oil has a pretty great monounsaturated to polyunsaturated fat ratio and good flavor for salad dressing, eggs, sauces, meat dishes, etc. The only real downsides are low smoke point (some sources say that that means trans
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Just google the URL (without the trailing GET parameters) and click on the first result. That always circumvents the NYT paywall.
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North Korean leader fed naked uncle to starving dogs(indianexpress.com)
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by dsrguru 13y ago
That's absolutely true. I was not commenting on whether or not they need solitary confinement. I was stating that the claim in your second paragraph--that violent criminals almost always pose more danger to society than non-violent cri
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by dsrguru 13y ago
> I disagree with you in every possible way, and I think you've just decided, off the top of your head, to make that up because you think it sounds good. That tone was completely uncalled for, and assuming you were the one who downv
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by dsrguru 13y ago
First of all, let's be clear that risk of fraud to an individual is often as harmful, if not more harmful, than risk of violence to an individual. Fraud that takes out a person's entire life savings, even if the victim doesn'
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by dsrguru 13y ago
This is terrifying. If they successfully lobby to legalize commercial drones in low-flying airspace, the peaceful sky will be polluted with flying robots (we've destroyed the terrestrial environment already, seriously don't need t
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Not at all like the situation in China. In the U.S., if you're in a neighborhood with a large organized crime presence, passers-by will often refuse to testify, but what the parent is talking about in China today and the U.S. in this h

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