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Airbnb has a dead people problem: The morbid side of the sharing economy(fusion.net)
2 points by goblin89 12y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 12y ago
“This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.” (Late D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest)
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Pavel Durov and Russia’s Original Social Network(motherboard.vice.com)
35 points by goblin89 12y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 12y ago
Tangential, but: for a while I was wondering what the idea and use cases of Pinterest are like, and this article seems to offer a decent explanation. (I know I’m not alone in this as the question seems to regularly pop up among HN comments
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The State of Whole Brain Emulation in 2015(creativepark.net)
20 points by goblin89 12y ago|13 comments
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by goblin89 12y ago
I imagine paid services offering this functionality are about to come up and rise and make news with their profits. Perhaps Tinder will have its own built-in. The potential is certainly there. Automatic messaging would be especially neat. B
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IBM and Mars sequencing the genetics of the food supply(research.ibm.com)
1 points by goblin89 12y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 12y ago
> If you don't yet want to publish, why do you need GitHub or Bitbucket? Why not just keep the repository local? There are some reasons, in my opinion: * Zero friction to start publishing (in case you suddenly want to) * Z
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by goblin89 12y ago
Seems like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8829913
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by goblin89 12y ago
(Not strictly a response to the article, just something I’ve been wondering for a while now.) > They found that the more cells need to divide to stay healthy, the more likely cancer is to develop. So basically to improve our chances of s
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by goblin89 12y ago
> The first six months of a new job is taken up primarily by learning new systems, procedures, who to talk to etc. <…> in the beginning, you will probably feel a lot less stressed out. Weird, for me it’s the opposite—the most stres
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by goblin89 12y ago
> from what I hear, Facebook itself blocked it for all the users registered in Russia, so TOR can't help you. What do you mean by “registered in Russia”? If Facebook doesn’t employ IP geolocation or something of that sort then anyon
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by goblin89 12y ago
Obviously I trust $BIGPLAYER’s setup. To name a few reasons: 1) their large user base makes it simply more probable that a given bug will be discovered by someone else than me; 2) they have a dedicated team with more experience and resource
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by goblin89 12y ago
> I can really recommend self-hosted email. This is not as hard as it sounds. For me the biggest hurdle is absolutely not the manual setup process or the need to adjust things from time to time. Rather, it’s the fact that there doesn’t s
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by goblin89 12y ago
> it’s usage That’s not the only nor the biggest nit you can pick with this essay.
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by goblin89 12y ago
> But no, we're building The Pirate Bay again, and again, and again, because we're cheap and we want free stuff. It's not just tyrannical and infantile. It's lame. It's not even technically interesting. Some of u
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by goblin89 12y ago
“Freedom to keep playing is a Bombadil-like equilibrium of worthlessness: the un-valued here-and-now.” — RF
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Don’t Surround Yourself with Smarter People(ribbonfarm.com)
5 points by goblin89 12y ago|1 comments
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by goblin89 12y ago
> There's nothing quite so rewarding as listening to a great album, then mailing the artist and paying them directly, and getting a response from them personally. Bandcamp seems to be doing about the right thing, actually. It allows
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by goblin89 12y ago
> I imagine the problems a one-world government would create far surpass any potential benefits you may have imagined. That’s implementation-specific. Not necessarily a hypothetical one-world government must work like the government that
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by goblin89 12y ago
In response to your and your parent’s blanket claims > Bose and beats* are by, every /objective/ measure, shitty products. > God forbid you ever consider buying a Bose or Beats product. If you need faithful audio reproductio
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by goblin89 12y ago
Every time I come across this sentiment—that death is natural, and we have to accept it, and so on—the Fable of Dragon-Tyrant[0] comes to mind. [0] http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
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by goblin89 12y ago
Indeed. And, interestingly, Decimal.format (alone?) is declared with dot notation[0]. Overall coding style feels relatively consistent so there must be some reasoning behind these decisions. [0] https://github.com/MikeMcl&#x
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by goblin89 12y ago
A few of my friends are learning or have recently learned their first programming language. By my observation[0], what prevents them from building real projects is that while they know the language , they aren’t very comfortable with any
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by goblin89 12y ago
> This here was exactly the key to mindfulness for me. Learning that I don't need to suppress my thoughts and have a blank mind mind. Yeah, suppressing doesn’t work that well. For me one of such keys was a trick where you try to vis
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Decimal.js, arbitrary-precision decimal type for JavaScript(github.com)
72 points by goblin89 12y ago|4 comments
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by goblin89 12y ago
> PanicMode is ridiculously simple extension. Once activated, it will swap HTTP for HTTPS without leaking even a single packet. Not even pre-flight requests are spared. Sounds pretty cool and useful to me. As it tends to happen, though,
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by goblin89 12y ago
My apple dump phone replaces many stacks of flashcards for me (yes, using Anki on the go was one of the primary reasons for the purchase). Sure, though, if I suddenly turn millionaire I may lose the remains of my passion for learning langua
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by goblin89 12y ago
> I think the point is that college exposes you to unlike-minded people. You can find plenty of people who share your interests on IRC or Hacker News. You can also find people who don't share your interests on the Internet, but real
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by goblin89 12y ago
> Saying more cameras prevent crime is like saying more logging reduces your attack surface. Let's just ditch firewalls and add kernel dumps everywhere instead. What if your firewalls cost each about £30,000/yr (plus benefits),

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