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by mwhite 15y ago
I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.
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by mwhite 15y ago
The likelihood of Kurzweil's particular vision of the singularity in this case doesn't say anything about the likelihood of the singularity in general, i.e. by the creation of artificial intelligence through methods that are nearer at hand
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by mwhite 15y ago
If it gains any sort of traction there's probably going to be inevitable breakage due to the growing pains of adding potentially millions of users a day. It's hard to win in this situation.
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Ask HN: List of great web development shops
6 points by mwhite 15y ago|2 comments
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by mwhite 15y ago
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Famine,_Afflu...
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by mwhite 15y ago
The post is pretty harmless, and here he's making just slightly brisk replies to being told that he has an inferiority complex and doesn't know "use strict", although I agree it's not worth bothering with. If you don't read things that don'
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by mwhite 16y ago
If YC Reject groups get similar funding, this might be a good way to empirically test whether either Y-Combinator succeeds at choosing more capable groups or Y-Combinator offers advantages over other accelerators.
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by mwhite 16y ago
Define "better". Primitive people's lives are short, yes. But that they are uncomfortable and brutish is at best an uninformed value judgment that supports the narrative of civilization. By any good measure of happiness, they are probably