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by khafra 16y ago
Zach, I wouldn't call the limited scale on which Thiel is acting "tearing down the system"--more like creating a nascent alternate system, side-by-side with the existing one, for the few who can benefit from it. There are already things lik
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by khafra 16y ago
That you've fixed the problems she mentioned and found another girlfriend you're happy with should be in the original problem statement. That indicates a larger--or at least stranger--problem than usual.
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by khafra 16y ago
Denizens of advice-dispensing subreddits noticed that suggestions frequently fell into three categories: (1) Lawyer up, (2) Hit the gym, and (3) delete facebook. This became an in-joke.
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by khafra 16y ago
AT&T has horrible service on MacDill AFB; they have impeccable coverage in the rest of the Tampa Bay area except the exact middle of the 275 bridge to Pinellas. I'm not sure how other carriers do on MacDill.
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by khafra 16y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of Stross--Accelerando describes a fairly Hansonian singularity.
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by khafra 16y ago
All my physicist/video gamer friends love it for that.
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by khafra 16y ago
Game-theoretically, defecting only dominates in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma; the iterated prisoner's dilemma has other solutions which can resemble Omerta.
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by khafra 16y ago
That's not an attitude. That's an appropriate response to assertions you made about the obscurity of questions and unpopularity of platforms that will receive no response on IRC. I realize it was not a humble response, but it was not an att
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by khafra 16y ago
My questions are not of the sort "Why hasn't my patch been committed?" I consider this a difference in type of expertise more than a difference in level of expertise.
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by khafra 16y ago
I'll take it as encouraging that I've reached the level of expertise where my questions are more quickly answered on SO--I will grant that "where do I find an Ubuntu driver for my video card" will almost certainly be answered more quickly o
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by khafra 16y ago
I've asked a question in freenode channels then idled for the better part of a day, or even a few days, with little traffic and no answers. SO is faster, often much faster.
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by khafra 16y ago
"Support" isn't a fine-grained enough word. Selling the revolutionaries guillotines is probably bad. Providing them the means to tell their story to the world is probably good.
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by khafra 16y ago
It depends on how niche your tastes are. If you want to find Rule 34 on Family Guy characters, you're not going to get that in 1990.
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by khafra 16y ago
Jacques, I remember you telling me once that karma here at HN was as gameable as it is anywhere. I remain convinced that you've gamed it by making consistently high-quality, thoughtful, well-supported comments and posts helpful to the peop
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by khafra 16y ago
Buying oil futures does not help, because cheap oil is a fundamental part of the economy. As we already found out, when oil reaches a certain price, it stops rising because of demand destruction. Instead of paying more, industries dependen
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by khafra 16y ago
Yes, luxury goods amount to a tax on the status-conscious who can afford them--but the problem is that they send a price signal that more luxury goods are needed, when what we really need is investment in infrastructure, basic and applied r
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by khafra 16y ago
If you get your property by exploiting the contract, then get to leave the contract instead of paying your side of it, it's not worth much as a contract.
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by khafra 16y ago
The problem with that system is that it incentivizes overpopulation. If your retirement plan is your children, you have a lot of children.
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by khafra 16y ago
I love my old M3, but I wonder if it falls in a special category distinct from other luxury items--as Aldous Huxley said, "speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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by khafra 16y ago
Study cognitive neuroscience. Much of the reason that $500 meal at Per Se is such an amazingly memorable experience is because it's so expensive; evolution has taught your brain to feel good about signalling status.
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by khafra 16y ago
How was it debunked that 55 saves gas? I'm interested in this, as I sometimes like to drive in such a manner as to economize, and according to my instant and average mpg readouts cruising at or below 60mph consumes far less gas than cruisin
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by khafra 16y ago
If I lived in a well-centralized city with functional mass transit, I'd take the bus from those options. Here in the sprawl of Tampa, though, there is no combination of busses which will get me to work before 8AM, and for many routes Googl
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by khafra 16y ago
Considering that the powerful magnetic fields used in MRIs don't harm people at all, and that magnetic fields in general have no effect on our health, I don't think microscopic amounts of magnetized iron are going to have the FDA very alarm
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by khafra 16y ago
If you'd like theoretical underpinnings for it in addition to the example, it sounds a lot like the "continual service improvement" step of the ITIL v3 framework--which is an open standard ( http://www.itilversion3.com/final/itil_v3_continu
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by khafra 16y ago
"Hasn't yet figured out how to tackle" is better than "hasn't yet solved." Philosophy figures out what kind of question to ask, which then spawns a field of science which starts methodically asking and answering them.
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by khafra 16y ago
For one simple example, I believe there are still serious incompatibilists/philosophical libertarians--even after experiments showing that physical stimulation of the brain and even transcranial magnetic stimulation can alter perceptions, a
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by khafra 16y ago
Good philosophical debates tend to be about things that are, at least currently, unprovable or unobservable. I think a lot of people that come from the sciences are frustrated by how ignorant many philosophers are that the things they're d
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by khafra 16y ago
This is cool! I've tried to do this sort of thing before by asking people with a high OKCupid "friend" percentage in the city I'll be visiting, but I'm always afraid it comes off as disingenuously concealing romantic interest instead of jus
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by khafra 16y ago
Ah, but subscription-based services are where you can find the true EULA joy--for instance, not only is the iPhone app store EULA 20 pages of text which you have to read on a phone screen, it also pops up once every few months with mysterio
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by khafra 16y ago
Is the nigh-universal human characteristic of greater unhappiness with visible wealth disparity than with lower absolute wealth a sign that we need to engineer better humans, or that governments should reduce inequality even at the cost of

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