glorkk

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by glorkk 8y ago
> Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory. We need to accept that human minds are limited and techn
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by glorkk 8y ago
What is an iLamp?
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by glorkk 8y ago
It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future. Criminalizing something means nothing if the laws can
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by glorkk 8y ago
Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that without fundamentally changing the way the website works.
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by glorkk 8y ago
I’m really surprised Yahoo is #7, I thought Yahoo was all but dead.
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by glorkk 9y ago
> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is
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by glorkk 9y ago
Is this just a clever way to dodge regulations?
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by glorkk 9y ago
Please don’t hijack the horizontal swipe. It is for going back/forward in navigation histoey, not switching between articles on your website.
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by glorkk 9y ago
Not really... I’ve been holding a small amount of crypto since 2013. It’s still about 10x the (small) amount of money I put in.
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by glorkk 9y ago
Good for you and your nephew
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by glorkk 9y ago
> the measurable advantage men have in the tech community I’m sure if it is “measurable” you can provide some numbers?
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by glorkk 9y ago
A group does not “want” anything. Innovation comes from exchange of ideas between individuals, not from arbitrary groups living behind walled gardens.
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by glorkk 9y ago
A sizeable and growing portion of the population refuses to have any dealing with this shady corporation. Facebook is not a universal authentication platform and never will be.
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by glorkk 9y ago
Another website that obnoxiously interrupts my music to autoplay a video ad. Last time I open a link from “cnet.com”
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by glorkk 9y ago
> Bitcoin and cryptos ought to be banned for good. Serious question: how would you go about “banning” cryotocurrencies? The most you can do is close exchanges which would make crypto harder to acquire and liquidate.
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by glorkk 9y ago
Why these two governments in particular?
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by glorkk 9y ago
A paywalled article is completely useless for most people.
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by glorkk 9y ago
> Science should foremost follow a moral and ethical attitude And who should be the arbiter of what constitutes a “moral and ethical attitude”? You?
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by glorkk 9y ago
Not really... websites regularly go down when they are under a load they cannot handle
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by glorkk 9y ago
You realize that national debt, corporate debt and personal debt don’t work the same right? Countries can go on paying only the interest on their debt forever. And how would the US finance this massive debt repayment? The only ways are to
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by glorkk 9y ago
Are there currently any alternatives to Ethereum? (turing-complete programmable cryptocurrency)
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by glorkk 9y ago
Another solution for certain type of books is to have the audio version read at 1.5x speed during your commutes. 100 books in a year is totally feasible (assuming it’s not textbooks or anything that would require you to look at illustration
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by glorkk 9y ago
> Like any good member of the proletariat who wants nothing more than to serve capitalism [...] Never change, Buzzfeed.
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by glorkk 9y ago
I always found it interesting that English is classified as a Germanic language while it is more similar (vocabulary and grammar) to Romance languages than to some Germanic languages, including German.
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by glorkk 9y ago
> Maybe it's more that Facebook thinks it's horrible when people kill themselves Of course! You can’t show ads to dead people...
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by glorkk 9y ago
Yes, facebook is doing the same thing (google shadow profiles). Really scummy practice, but nothing illegal there.
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by glorkk 9y ago
So... why not launch a drone mounted with a gopro? Do they also believe the government is hijaking those and editing the footage?
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by glorkk 9y ago
> To dismiss a fact that reasonably straightforwardly follows from empirical evidence and limited options for causality is simply obstinancr. Simpler explanation: there are less women applying and therefore less women selected. IMO frami
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by glorkk 9y ago
I cringed too. This is akin to a religious dogma at many places I have worked at and is a huge red flag for me, as an employee. However, the rest of the article makes some good points (testing on the ability to do the job is a better predic
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by glorkk 9y ago
Yes, but true scientists usually apply the scientific method, not drug-induced psychosis, in their quest for truth. Edit: for people who flagged the parent comment, this is an interesting read http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm

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