jhiska

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by jhiska 9y ago
This guy knows he's in trouble for what he's done and decides to rewrite history to make himself out to be a "good criminal". Re-framed bragging about his criminal exploits and hilarious (in his mind) escapes from detect
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by jhiska 9y ago
>I believe that one of the most universal determinants of happiness is the length of your commute. The unemployed must be immeasurably happy.
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by jhiska 9y ago
> Honestly, the 4.5 hours of sleep each day really makes me question the veracity of the story, or at least if it's somehow exaggerated. It's true. I've met people who slept 3 hours a night regularly to make ends meet. The
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by jhiska 9y ago
The real estate free market is in need of regulation and enforcement.
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by jhiska 9y ago
In other words, the police are trying to create crime so they can justify their investigations.
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by jhiska 9y ago
In my view, having the tech is what's wrong, because then it will be inevitably misused by the ruling classes to potentially catastrophic effect. You effectively can't trust the regulators of something so potentially disruptive of
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by jhiska 9y ago
You could have asked me what I meant.
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by jhiska 9y ago
I stand corrected. I can't edit or remove my comment because Hacker News believes they know better than me if I should have the ability to edit or remove my own comments.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Super servants. In Blade Runner, Replicants were not robots. They were genetically modified human beings designed to make them perfect slaves. I don't expect perfection, but I expect an attempt at forcibly modifying people to make them
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by jhiska 9y ago
Because it could be forced on them.
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by jhiska 9y ago
We can't argue with your feelings.
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by jhiska 9y ago
What the BBC doesn't say is that this is an important step towards eventually being able to genetically modify healthy, adult people. It's a trojan horse, and the clever thing about it is that there are valid medical reasons for i
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by jhiska 9y ago
I have some friends who are parents. They sometimes loan their (very young) kid a tablet to keep him distracted while they're busy. It keeps him from causing problems for himself. The kid goes to Youtube and only watches vacuum-cleanin
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by jhiska 9y ago
Lone paper on arxiv without any arguments but just "predictions" from "current trends". Get real. This is just futurology. Knowingly deceptive article trying to set what people talk about.
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by jhiska 9y ago
One can also argue that the comments in response to the different phrasings of the same news de-escalated from "this is very serious" to your comment's "this is actually not news." There are always contrarians, and
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by jhiska 9y ago
Articles on social media detailing how to combat social media addiction or "the crisis of attention" or whatever clickbait title is the latest way that social media is capturing our attention.
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by jhiska 9y ago
"Heart-wrenching" doesn't convince minds in Hacker News.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Don't use computers for anything you want to keep private.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Maybe he's the last one desperate enough to defy death for it? But it's possible that they just lied or are wrong.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Maybe we should call it anarcho-markets?
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by jhiska 9y ago
But then they'd spoil!
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by jhiska 9y ago
Correlation is not causation.
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by jhiska 9y ago
"Intellectual-yet-idiot" is remarkably like the phrase "educated stupid" from Time Cube fame.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Right now, no. It's in a bubble. But in the long-term there are people in Wall Street who look at it that way -- which is part of the reason why Bitcoin Futures are coming. Being able to short Bitcoin should keep the value more in line
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by jhiska 9y ago
You're probably right about Bitcoin not being fixable as a currency, and I say probably because I almost never speak in absolute terms. There are alternative cryptocurrencies that stand a chance of working out; the idea is mainstream n
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by jhiska 9y ago
It's not Wall Street's fault or whatever boogie man's fault that the Bitcoin tech doesn't actually work as some idealistic libertarian creator imagined it would; the fault is in Bitcoin's design itself. Even if the
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by jhiska 9y ago
Since you worded that as a challenge... by maliciously modifying the CAD files that will be fed to the 3D printer. ...or by building an otherwise identical object that manipulates flaws in how the Wi-fi reads the signals and then replacing
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by jhiska 9y ago
People should read the article before commenting but they rarely do.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Have a free upvote anyway.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Upvoted because it's free and feels nice.

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