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by gaika 18y ago
The key is to link up observer with the experiment outcomes so you can only observe unlikely possibilities (and be dead in the rest).
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by gaika 18y ago
That "you" can be you in other people's mind as described by Hofstadter in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
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by gaika 18y ago
Many worlds is testable, though I wouldn't recommend it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide Edit: :)
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by gaika 18y ago
For each problem in Project Euler there is a forum that is open only after you solve it. One of the hard ones has "First!" comment in there.
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by gaika 18y ago
I think people are a bit afraid to post things outside of the main themes. The quality and relevance of such posts is a lot more subjective, so you always will see people complaining that it is not hacker news.
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by gaika 18y ago
It is more efficient, as the distance between the duplicates in their case is a lot shorter (because effectively they only compare the important part of the page). That lets you use simple algorithms that are a lot faster. This is still not
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by gaika 18y ago
Yes, being risk averse can hurt you one day.
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by gaika 18y ago
Project Euler has a nice problem based on this work: http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=84
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by gaika 18y ago
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." Compare this with "Hackers and Painters", where mathematicians are placed on an opp
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by gaika 18y ago
They are aiming too low. Internet auctions are all or nothing game. There are network effects, free alternatives, established players, all playing against them, what are they thinking?
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by gaika 18y ago
What's the point of bragging about irrelevant lines of code number?
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by gaika 18y ago
Bad logic: author correctly notices that passwords are not the biggest problem in computer security right now, and yet somehow they should be eliminated. The weakest link is the the software running on the computer. Spyware, trojans, XSS, X
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Apple's third founder(en.wikipedia.org)
22 points by gaika 18y ago|13 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Have to confess, I've got "please stop" email too (for my comments). First thing that came to mind was "there goes my chance to get funded by YC"
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Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...(twitter.com)
97 points by gaika 18y ago|60 comments
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Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken(hackaday.com)
16 points by gaika 18y ago|9 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
email pg or say please :)
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by gaika 18y ago
Hamlet for IRC: http://web.mit.edu/jcb/humor/irc-hamlet
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by gaika 18y ago
Wrong. Case in the point is my startup. We've build it and it works nicely. Most people still do not get it, probably because they do not have time and motivation to understand it. If your idea is too complex to explain using words the odds
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by gaika 18y ago
That's just looking at the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the point of view of the cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
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by gaika 18y ago
Try http://jaanix.com?q=git , we aggregate reddit and hacker news, delicious import is off right now :(
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by gaika 18y ago
I really like this idea, thanks, would implement it on my site too.
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One bug report to rule them all(linuxhaters.blogspot.com)
3 points by gaika 18y ago|1 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Actually probabilistic approach to it is not that bad: google translate works fine without knowing the rules, just words and their usage statistics is enough to have a rough translation.
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Detached Lever Fallacy(overcomingbias.com)
27 points by gaika 18y ago|4 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Looks so strange after you got used to the old UI. Hover over effects and animations everywhere make it look like a kaleidoscope. Hate that. Some link URLs have been changed and are normalized in the wrong way! Link to my site now has 'www.
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Early Adopters, I Need You(ourdoings.com)
23 points by gaika 18y ago|15 comments
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EMP nuke would hurt U.S. more than direct hit(newsmax.com)
3 points by gaika 18y ago|1 comments
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R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008(pcmag.com)
28 points by gaika 18y ago|8 comments
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Visual search engine Like.com raises double digit millions(venturebeat.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments

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