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by markyc 7y ago
rate of change may actually be decreasing, as the low hanging fruit isn't there anymore. it may be that big breakthroughs like the last century will be fewer and further apart, especially with lots of energy (physical and intelectual)
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by markyc 7y ago
seconding this, if you don't need lots of resources it makes sense. I pair it with Amazon cloudfront and so far, almost one year in with zero problems. By far the biggest win for me is the peace of mind
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by markyc 7y ago
> the copy would continue my subjective experience. it may, but it wouldn't be "you". "You"'d experience death, and something else will exist independent of "you", but with most of the same feature
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by markyc 7y ago
I think so, you'll get an iframe that you can paste in your site, should work in Jekyll too
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Show HN: Markdown Calculator Builder
2 points by markyc 7y ago|2 comments
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by markyc 8y ago
Whenever I want to sleep on my back I keep a hand on my stomach, otherwise I dream of falling..
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Ask HN: Should I worry about air traffic polution?
1 points by markyc 9y ago|1 comments
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by markyc 9y ago
or +tomato +seeds +grow
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by markyc 9y ago
Iran has officially stated they want Israel obliterated, and then they started building up nukes, so not sure how sane or defensive they are
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by markyc 9y ago
cool! I wonder if the HN API can help there also? I'll take a look as this could help me, but there'll also be manual work into this, such as sifting through all posts on the homepage, reading comments and submissions from certain
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by markyc 9y ago
Thanks for the encouragement Pedro. Actually if someone already did this I'd gladly skip HN for it too :)
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Personal Development Articles from Hacker News
8 points by markyc 9y ago|8 comments
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by markyc 9y ago
Author here, giving this one more shot: Curated personal development articles from Hacker News every week. First issue is here: http://tinyletter.com/personaldevelopmenthacker/letters/pers... Back story: for over
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Just the personal development links from Hacker News(tinyletter.com)
2 points by markyc 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Personal Development Articles from Hacker News
2 points by markyc 9y ago|0 comments
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by markyc 9y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Quies-Pair-Foam-Earplugs-Pack/dp/B009... There are probably better ones out there but these work fine for me. I also like that they don't cover the louder noises (I also hear the alarm
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by markyc 9y ago
Earplugs have been a game changer for me in this department. As an extremely light sleeper I've been struggling all my life with other people snoring or even semi-loud breathing. After I started using earplugs I'm now sleeping thr
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by markyc 9y ago
just opening up to your wife and taking some time off could help reset your mindset
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by markyc 9y ago
2 m2 probably means two square meters
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by markyc 10y ago
how about fishing in the oceans?
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by markyc 10y ago
and eat up oxygen
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by markyc 10y ago
is it really recommended to mess around fault lines like that? I guess we'll find out
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by markyc 10y ago
is going up the nose an option?
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by markyc 10y ago
in this day and age how come we don't see laptops carry a physical on/off switch for the microphone and camera?
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by markyc 10y ago
why not add a tracking system on/inside the ball itself, so you always know exactly where it is, without depending on video?
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by markyc 10y ago
exactly.. if this catches on, how long until police blow up innocent people? (they're already shooting them at an alarming rate)
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by markyc 10y ago
if current algorithms can kick our butts at chess, an eventual future AI would pretty much know what we would do before we think of it
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by markyc 10y ago
Ender's Game suggests such a genesis story for AI: born as a "spark" of self awareness in the world wide computer network where it developed silently for a while, before making itself known to humans
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by markyc 10y ago
AI is not here, as far as we know, so let's stop throwing it around with every other topic
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by markyc 10y ago
got it, so it's about the credit history mainly In Eastern Europe over 90% of people own their homes, but that's another story.

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