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by jere 13y ago
It may be worth pointing that the Telegram FAQ claims there are two Android apps and they were both developed through a contest (I assume by third party developers). I'm curious if it was the N or S edition? http://telegra
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by jere 13y ago
No, I don't think so. Just because you've chosen silly numbers doesn't mean those are absurd. Moral thought experiments are useful for understanding what value people tend to place on human life. See, even with your trolling
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by jere 13y ago
>Also talks about speciesism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism comparing it to racism. That's a nonstarter for me and makes me want to avoid this film. Speciesism is a perfectly reasonable position. Assi
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by jere 13y ago
Perhaps, but that's kind of thin: >This was probably intended as proof that the block was created on or after January 3rd, 2009, as well as a comment on the instability caused by fractional-reserve banking.
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by jere 13y ago
>This realization raises interesting questions about the political motivations of Satoshi Nakamoto in presenting their creation as a digital currency when they must have known that they had solved this far more important general problem.
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by jere 13y ago
Ok, gotcha. Eyeballing the graph it looks like physical alone is rising and also you seemed to be implying physical would start to grow. I've bought so few physical music products over my life that I assume my buying habits are complet
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by jere 13y ago
>We're set to soon see growth of physical sales eclipse the contraction of physical sales completely. Which means the graph, if expanded a bit, might look like this: It goes up a little bit! I don't understand. To me, the chang
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by jere 13y ago
I can assure you Seth Roberts has heard of the placebo effect. http://blog.sethroberts.net/?s=placebo
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by jere 13y ago
Try this: https://rawgithub.com/agl/critbit/master/critbit.pdf
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>Covey studied the law and found an even bigger loophole. “The change that was made to stop what they thought was the abuse, made the matter worse,” he says. >Covey, 84, a Missouri native and former U.S. Marine Corps basketball player
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by jere 13y ago
Sorry, but I was far more interested by an irrelevant detail I read in a more detailed article about Lampert: he was kidnapped in 2003. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-edd... >His notor
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by jere 13y ago
Just imagine if they gave 23andMe the same head start. I'm also reminded of another FDA shenanigan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia#Controversy
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by jere 13y ago
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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I always thought Hamsterdam was too farfetched to start with. I really couldn't see that working for more than 5 minutes with all the parties that were there to observe it.
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by jere 13y ago
Scott Adams: "Passion is bullshit...My own experience is that when stuff works, I get really excited about it. Passion follows success. Scott Aaronson: " The obvious thing to say is that, as a student, you should follow your talen
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by jere 13y ago
I had a similar thought. AMURICA ? More like A Mujica ? Am I right? >1972 Imprisoned again. Remains in jail for more than a decade, including two years' solitary confinement at the bottom of a well, where he speaks to frogs and in
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by jere 13y ago
The "pink" area is indistinguishable from white on one of my monitors. I'd darken it.
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by jere 13y ago
You seem not to be familiar with Conway's Game of Life. I think reading about it will answer several of your questions, but surely some of it is just historical (the glider was discovered 43 years ago): http://en.wikipedia.o
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"Internal Server Error" on the /queue page. That would actually be a pretty funny message to leave.
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>I doubt that I am much smarter than the average person. If I can learn this stuff anyone can. Let me be super clear, there is nothing special about me or most other software developers, we just decided to show up and go for it. Are you
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by jere 13y ago
I love all the commenters in uproar: this can't be racism!!! Notice that the word "racism" was used in the article 0 times. >[Open source software] contribution takes time; I don't think anyone would contest that. Get
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by jere 13y ago
Eh, I think the more charitable reading is they meant a physical atom, but in the sense "not a single atom has been designed by hand." It's like if you made some algorithmic music and claimed every nanosecond was generated au
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by jere 13y ago
> So what does this process of elemental elimination tell us about what makes a good currency? First off, it doesn't have to have any intrinsic value. A currency only has value because we, as a society, decide that it does. As we&#
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by jere 13y ago
On the same day, we get a filter that is by default HN without Bitcoin and another site that is HN only about Bitcoin. It's like we're approaching some sort of binary tree data structure where the leaves are HN clones with their o
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by jere 13y ago
Curiously, the example photos don't demonstrate the obvious values of 4, 128, or 132. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(gesture)
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by jere 13y ago
Amazing post. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of Bitcoin, yet this is the first time I've even heard of an associated scripting language. I can't wait for the post detailing that. Here's the wiki article for now:
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by jere 13y ago
>For the growing Cicada community, it was explosive — proof this wasn’t merely some clever neckbeard in a basement winding people up, but actually a global organization of talented people. But who? Speculation had been rife since the ima
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by jere 13y ago
I think the author got it right and d23 hid that in the ellipsis. >TOR, short for The Onion Router, is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be ind
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by jere 13y ago
Well, I'd say let's give communication a chance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language
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It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't believe that is an accurate description: >The law of the Second New Revised Book of Discipline that governs the lives of the avout at the time of the narration... bans the av

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