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by itmag 14y ago
My favorite Slippery Jim quote: We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats
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by itmag 14y ago
Ah, I remember reading that one as a kid! This one has a similar plot (or at least that's what I remember): http://www.tor.com/blogs/2009/06/the-evils-of-advertising-fr...
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by itmag 14y ago
Has anyone here had success with reducing procrastination using Neuro-Linguistic Programming?
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by itmag 14y ago
Dropping down to node.js to get close to the metal? It's actually not that strange of a remark, depending on context.
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by itmag 14y ago
Mind telling me more about the fault-tolerant abilities/properties of Erlang? I'm not really able to conceptualize it right now. Maybe an example? :) Thanks.
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by itmag 14y ago
I have been wanting to get started with Erlang for a while now. Mind telling me a bit about features I can look forward to? What makes Erlang great?
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by itmag 14y ago
We use Facebook to validate your identity and send the download link directly to the recipient's Facebook message inbox. Technical question: how are they able to do this? I needed to programmatically send Facebook PMs a while back, and fr
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by itmag 14y ago
Yeah, that's what I thought. My surprise was at the notion of set and forget machines for arbitrary metal parts.
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by itmag 14y ago
I see most things in life as a three-step process: first there is (apparent) simplicity, then there is the pain of discovering the real complexity of things, then there is a third step of attaining enlightened simplicity. But this only come
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by itmag 14y ago
That's interesting. I would think that a machine capable of making arbitrary metal parts would very quickly be subjected to heavy government regulations?
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by itmag 14y ago
Why the downvote? I was just pointing out something that the gov't is sure to latch on to.
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by itmag 14y ago
A machine that can make metal parts from a blueprint can also make all kinds of weapon. Do you think such a 3d printer would be legally available to the general public?
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by itmag 14y ago
I've often wondered if it's possible to actually get to a place where you are receptive to learning from the experiences of others without having to experience the mistakes yourself. Perhaps it's this thing that people call wisdom :)
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by itmag 14y ago
I'm surprised he didn't commit suicide. Whoa, what?
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by itmag 14y ago
How can I contact you? Email?
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by itmag 14y ago
Which career came first?
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by itmag 14y ago
I am a farmer This makes me curious. What brings you to HN? :)
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by itmag 14y ago
He changed his moniker: http://heartiste.wordpress.com
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by itmag 14y ago
Those people doing "trivial" startups are learning important operational skills. Later on, they might go on to do greater things. It's a levelling-up process...
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by itmag 14y ago
high status men and low status women Do I detect a roissysphere shibboleth? :)
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by itmag 14y ago
I would claim that Facebook is essentially the "end of point" of a friendship. What would the Facebook of starting-points look like? :)
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by itmag 14y ago
These are the kind of thoughts that keep me awake at night ;) Then you probably don't want to read Thomas Ligotti's "The conspiracy against the human race". It's a philosophical and neuroscientific treatise on existentialism written by
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by itmag 14y ago
High school kids, debating endlessly with a hostile audience every day, are turning into frighteningly persuasive writers all on their own. u jelly brah?
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by itmag 14y ago
It rubbed me the wrong way too. I'm a visual thinker myself, and I don't consider myself barely literate :p Then again, I guess it could be interpreted in a different way...
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by itmag 14y ago
Most Americans are barely literate, think in images rather than symbols This rubbed me the wrong way. Thinking that way does not make a person stupid or illiterate.
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by itmag 14y ago
That's correct, and there doesn't seem to be that many emacs people here. What gives?
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by itmag 14y ago
"Yahoo has great undervalued, underutilized assets" Such as? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious to know.
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by itmag 14y ago
I think a big problem to solve also is the decoding of the external world, so that the AR knows what is empty space, what is floor, what is a wall, etc.
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by itmag 14y ago
I personally suspect that the real mechanism is not private vs public, but rather organization structure and leadership style. SpaceX is led by Elon Musk, 'nuff said.
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by itmag 14y ago
I suspect that taste has a lot to do with weight gain. See for instance the Shangri La Diet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-La_Diet

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