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by itistoday 16y ago
If you live in the Bay Area, a nonprofit alternative is City CarShare: http://www.citycarshare.org/
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by itistoday 16y ago
Nice idea, could use a lot of improvement though... Some initial feedback (as I'm attempting to fill out a profile): Personality Which profile is most like you? - Vision/strategy: see 1-2 years ahead, predict trends, write vision document,
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by itistoday 16y ago
Is it that big of a deal considering Bing powers Yahoo search anyway...? The two companies have a partnership.
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by itistoday 16y ago
I'd recommend going because of the opportunities for making important friends and learning things you might not otherwise have had the willpower to learn on your own. Keep in mind you don't have to stay for all 4 years if you don't want to.
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by itistoday 16y ago
This guy gets it, kudos to him! People like him are what keep authoritarian governments at bay, and inform the ignorant masses of their folly, who are all too eager to give up their rights. Well, CBP has no power over me. I am a law-abi
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by itistoday 16y ago
1) You lose credibility (whether its unfounded or not is irrelevant) 2) People refuse to spend much time looking at your code Over the years I've spent coding I've learned not to judge other coders based on their preferred style.
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by itistoday 16y ago
but Ray's right that the brain cannot be more complex than the data that specifies it, speaking information-theoretically. You're conflating two very different concepts of complexity here. One is the complexity of a static state of inform
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by itistoday 16y ago
Nor was it meant to be 'really' funny. It was just an observation, one that I think is fairly accurate. I'd never seen an article on the HN frontpage with so many upvotes (for so long) and zero comments. By lack of humor, I meant an inabili
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by itistoday 16y ago
The nerds lack all sense of humor.
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by itistoday 16y ago
The nerds with only a cursory interest in the problem are awed.
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by itistoday 16y ago
"Regulating it" has the wrong connotation when associated with Net Neutrality. It suggests an evil-facist government-controlled internet, when in fact it's the exact opposite. Net Neutrality is government enforcing non-control of the inte
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by itistoday 16y ago
In in a "tiered internet" projects like GNUnet and FreeNet are at risk. Service provider routers with deep packet inspection and similar technology will simply turn a little dial until bandwidth for GNUnet et. al. slows to a trickle. That's
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by itistoday 16y ago
Nice idea! I noticed though that you're including the user's password in the confirmation email. This isn't recommended for security reasons (as it's easy to intercept, and users often use the same password for multiple services). Also, I h
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by itistoday 16y ago
I can't speak for others, but at some point I'm going to start hiring people to work with on various projects, and if they tell me that one of the reasons that they left (or chose not to work for) Google was because they were disgusted with
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by itistoday 16y ago
Wikileaks, like Wikipedia, is one of the healthiest things to come out of the internet. The service it provides to the United States and the rest of the world is invaluable. The only group I see threatened here is that great "military-indus
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by itistoday 16y ago
Wonderful speech, but a bit of a misleading title on the article as she's not speaking out against schooling, but against a specific kind of schooling that's common throughout the United States (and elsewhere): H. L. Mencken wrote in The A
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by itistoday 16y ago
Excellent read! My favorite paragraph: The people from Western Europe would not go on a jihad. However, during the last decade their opinion on the USA plummeted, too. Twenty years ago, if you were an American in Berlin, you would be rever
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by itistoday 16y ago
Yes I do, though shouldn't that line of reasoning be another strike against some of the tenants of the BBT? If you have an infinitely dense object that represents everything, time shouldn't pass, so how could anything have ever gotten anywh
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by itistoday 16y ago
Yes, exactly, in the standard theory, the Universe is undefined. :-) Have fun with that and your "dark energy." I will continue to laugh at you. :-D (And will get downvoted as a result, but it's worth it.)
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by itistoday 16y ago
FWIW, I did not downvote you. I know, HN doesn't allow downvoting of responses. :-p But you still do not seem to comprehend the fact that the standard theory assumes time is finite. Really? I thought I was very clear in demonstrating th
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by itistoday 16y ago
I understand that. :-) Again, I don't think I committed the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
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by itistoday 16y ago
To those downvoting me, you're welcome to speak up. This is a game of logic, and I was hoping that this community could keep the religious knee-jerk reactions down to a minimum. :-\
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by itistoday 16y ago
No, I hadn't, thank you for the tip actually. However, I did not commit it, I never asserted "true mystics" or anything along those lines. I in fact admitted that my choice of words was poor, and that I was having difficulty choosing a bett
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by itistoday 16y ago
Your statement is not true, and the link you provide does not support it. The spontaneous creation of particle pairs is not at all an example of "something from nothing", but simply an illustration of "something from something". Vacuum ener
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by itistoday 16y ago
That's a valid point, not everyone labeled a "mystic" holds the same viewpoint. I don't consider Aquinas to be a mystic though. :-p I should have been more specific, but it's rather difficult to be specific w.r.t. definitions of who is a my
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by itistoday 16y ago
That's not logical reasoning, that's merely a fact derived inductively from everyday observations. No, it's simply definition. Again, the first law of thermodynamics is a "law" which describes everyday experiences within our own universe
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by itistoday 16y ago
I understand perfectly well your point of view, you don't need to lecture me on it, I've heard it many times before, as I alluded previously. The universe did not come from nothing. Consider the following two claims: * The universe ha
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by itistoday 16y ago
I may get downvoted for this, but the Big Bang Theory is a great example of "scientific faith", the prevailing existence of faith amongst people claiming to be scientifically rigorous. People who make the absurd claim that it is meaningle
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by itistoday 16y ago
This is a nice emacs addition and helps the developer, but it doesn't help the people who then look at his code using other editors, or via public repos on the web.
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On Lisp's Readability and Parenthesis Stacking(gregslepak.posterous.com)
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