haliax

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by haliax 10y ago
Even so, given the option to live forever, I wouldn't forgo it so that you could avoid said dread. Regardless, I don't think that your reasoning about people being set in their ways is valid given significantly longer life or heal
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by haliax 10y ago
Would you be willing to cite some of this evidence? That's a conclusion I'd be interested to see...
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by haliax 10y ago
I'm about 25% of the way through Strangers. The negative review you've given seems to be a content-free screed: most of what the writer criticizes is fairly innocuous phrasing (e.g. "my Tea Party friends" rather than &qu
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by haliax 10y ago
Saying that your costs are lower is meaningless unless you also state the levels of coverage you'd get from each.
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by haliax 10y ago
Do you have examples that are both not full of sugar and available to the general public at a reasonable cost?
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by haliax 10y ago
> We really have to much faith in 'pills' when they are obviously just a temporary fix for something underlying. This is a pretty broad statement, how do you justify the implicit claim that no psychiatric illness is due to a
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by haliax 10y ago
Interesting proposal. I think it'd take a lot of fine tuning to work as desired though. You'd have to make the tax low enough to still retain a significant benefit for the company, but high enough to aid in providing a social safe
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by haliax 10y ago
Actually, I don't think this is a valid interpretation of the First Amendment, which is written specifically to circumscribe the powers given to Congress, beginning "Congress shall make no law..."
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by haliax 10y ago
You're cherry picking your example. This is a single measurement that doesn't capture the relevant qualities of sound but is widely used for social/marketing reasons . That's not the a flaw in reductionism as a philosop
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by haliax 10y ago
Where was this?
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by haliax 10y ago
> I've read a lot of the scientific literature on human creativity (there isn't much) and it is quite clear that we don't understand it at all. I don't agree that this is true in any way that precludes the creation of
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by haliax 10y ago
This article is riddled with poor reasoning. 1. The author's claim about "the politics of who gets to be a part of the mathematical elite" has almost nothing to do with the contention that "math is everywhere". 2. M
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by haliax 10y ago
In fact, those words are not in our constitution but in the Declaration of Independence, which is not a legally binding document. The Bill of Rights, which is law, doesn't talk about "all men" (neither does the Constitution)
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by haliax 10y ago
Is this taking into account the terms of these ridiculous valuations? According to http://www.fenwick.com/publications/pages/the-terms-behind-t... these come with "significant downside protection" and ot
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by haliax 10y ago
From the title, I assumed this was going to be about all of those websites that break scrolling and replace it with some cumbersome, unintuitive form of page movement.
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by haliax 10y ago
Isn't Buffett's case a bit different? He typically buys businesses outright, rather than making investments on the open market, so no passive investor (besides one in Berkshire Hathaway) could get those returns. Also, as I underst
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by haliax 10y ago
Your profile looks to be blank ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stuntprogrammer )? Depending on the specifics, I might actually fit that bill though.
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by haliax 10y ago
Wow. I've been playing with APLs on and off for a while now, so I'd be very interested to hear more (e.g. where one finds such offers). Any chance you'd be up to chat? My email's in my profile.
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by haliax 10y ago
What levels of compensation are we talking about here? Indeed shows ~$150k when searching for kdb in NY.
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by haliax 11y ago
How do you recognize these types of good companies?
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by haliax 11y ago
I just wanted to day thank you for posting this! I had no idea. Can you plug them into a wall socket or do you need electrified rails?
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by haliax 11y ago
Cats aren't aware of their surroundings? I'm a bit confused what you mean here. Surely chasing a mouse counts as both awareness and responding?
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by haliax 11y ago
Your calculator does have a representation of arithmetic too. It's those bits is moves around in registers, which are very much isomorphic to the relevant arithmetic. Why would an intelligence built by humans not be able to be superhum
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by haliax 11y ago
> Give me 200 bucks and an ebay account and I can buy a lab that will run circles around this crippled mess. Could you go into more detail about this? I'd love to know how to build a lab on the cheap. Can you get genetic material fo
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by haliax 11y ago
What town?
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by haliax 11y ago
1. I don't think you can conclude that the profile picture incidents are totally about race rather than general appearance 2. Who you date is an extremely personal matter, you should be able to set whatever standard you want.
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by haliax 11y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE (New York City) Looking for up to three freelancers: One with Android/Java experience, to help me take a prototype Android app to market readiness. The work is a mix of refactoring (cleaning up code, extract
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by haliax 11y ago
> Third, I'm forced to draw a rather unfortunate conclusion from this information. The assertion in this article seems deliberately calculated to undermine the historicity of Islam. There is a very sad and shortsighted movement in s
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Second Ashley Madison Dump Includes Source Code, CEO Emails(motherboard.vice.com)
17 points by haliax 11y ago|1 comments
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by haliax 11y ago
I'll second gogwilt, Mike is an incredible teacher. He created an entire CS program from scratch, which took us (high school kids) from programming 101 to writing raytracers and systems programming in C. (And had an extracurricular cla

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