kolpa

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by kolpa 9y ago
> second me isn't actually me Then who is it? It remembers being you.
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by kolpa 9y ago
That's what "Roko's basilisk" mentioned upthread is. An AI cyberpunk version of evangelical Christianity.
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by kolpa 9y ago
The weird part is why you think you existed 10 minutes and why you think you will exist in 10minutes.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Food and rent actually work.
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by kolpa 9y ago
6 years ago the food was already disappearing for 6 years. Is there any food left at Google now?
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by kolpa 9y ago
How can a small town become more entrepeneurial, competitively against a city, or without becoming a city? The past 300 years shows that rural is simply not economically highly-productive.
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by kolpa 9y ago
The browser launches the first N popups and then offers to block the rest. No problem.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Do you think those popups are created just to piss you off, or because they are profitable?
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by kolpa 9y ago
> returns to online providers require paying for shipping, and the initial shipping costs aren't refunded either. Amazon offers various kinds of free / flat-price shipping, and free return-shipping for flawed products > Eve
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by kolpa 9y ago
He did some thing wrong on Twitter, so instead of government prosecuting him for that, he was prosecuted for an unrelated charge?
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by kolpa 9y ago
He didn't even defraud the wealthy. He played fast and loose but he won for his investors.
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by kolpa 9y ago
why is personal use OK but selling for personal use bad?
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by kolpa 9y ago
They've a lot of catching up to do, per web-search [asia opium export]
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by kolpa 9y ago
> modify the JS code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16554286
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by kolpa 9y ago
"middlebrow dismissal" : https://www.google.com/search?q="middlebrow+dismissal"
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by kolpa 9y ago
> Who wants to spent another $35k a year when they get locked up again? The prison-industrial complex and their political pawns.
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by kolpa 9y ago
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/tyranny-flatness/ refers to the 1972 essay The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Nothing new under the
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by kolpa 9y ago
Remember Chesterton's Fence. Here's the trick: Every weird architecture exists for a reason, good or bad. If it looks wrong to a newbie, maybe the newbie misunderstands it, or maybe the business can't afford to build somethin
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by kolpa 9y ago
It has a very small but dedicated user-base. You could clone it, but you don't have a market to sell to. You can't just make a lot more blind people to grow the market. (You could, but please don't)
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by kolpa 9y ago
How does that sort of migration work, at a high level? Will Google run Zagat for you until you can operate it without depending on Google-internal components? Or do you have early-access to the system so you can build your port before the s
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by kolpa 9y ago
The main question isn't "Is the prospect of jail a deterrent", but "Is the prospect of 10 yrs in jail more of a deterrent than the prospect of 1 year in jail". The USA has absurdly long sentences for crimes.
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by kolpa 9y ago
The US prison system is largely a loophole to recreate slavery without violating the letter of the 13th Amendment. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/gilmoreprisonslavery...
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by kolpa 9y ago
Beware. "sincerely" is generally a term used to give irrational religious beliefs undeserved weight over (s-called) "mere" rational choices.
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by kolpa 9y ago
We carved our own knives out of bars of "state soap" .
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by kolpa 9y ago
#1 is not important. Everything costs money, including appeals and cleanups when long-term corruption is uncovered. Adding 1% or 0.1% for integrity testing is trivially justifiable. #2 and #3 are saying the same thing: The powers that be k
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by kolpa 9y ago
Direct message doesn't require physical contact.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Bad: "I need help with this." Good: "Hi, Sumitra . Can you help me with this or recommend someone who can?" Good: "Hi, $MANAGER. Can you help me with this or recommend someone who can?"
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by kolpa 9y ago
It's not the "only" way. Another way: * Offer to charge less usage if a duplicate block is detected, but allow users to pay full price for privately-salted storage. This is similar in principle to how Data Saver works on your