nhnifong

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by nhnifong 16y ago
What we have is a vocabulary of mental qualities (intelligence, creativity, stubbornness, etc..) and a collection of mind-altering drugs. And there is no one-to-one mapping between these sets.
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by nhnifong 16y ago
There is a tremendous amount of self control required to adopt a moral system, and then cease to question it. A constant curiosity seeps into the crevasses of every dam of moral certainty I erect, eroding the peaks of the fitness landscape
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by nhnifong 16y ago
What would you listen to while writing lisp?
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by nhnifong 16y ago
Whats with all the grammatical errors on that site? Is it a joke?
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by nhnifong 16y ago
I think additional intelligence only makes moral dilemmas (Should I or should I not do X) harder to cope with. So the drug that makes you smarter also makes you less sure you should take it.
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by nhnifong 16y ago
Reddit I will pay you whatever it takes to keep those nasty adds off of your website. Please do not sell our attention to people who do not deserve it.
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by nhnifong 16y ago
For all the author's sarcasm, it was not much a relief from the marketing-speak that the cell companies are plagued by. But I am still glad they are selling these. To me it is a symbolic gesture that says they actually care about solving th
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by nhnifong 16y ago
Television is already the perfect UI for passive users. I would simply avoid that whole market and culture and pretend it doesn't exist while we starve it of creativity. Eventually active consumers will outnumber passive ones (or active beh
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by nhnifong 16y ago
That big juicy Go button made me expect some interactive applet. I am disappointed.
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by nhnifong 16y ago
I just finished my CS degree, and I think that it was worth it. I had time for self-directed projects in any language I wanted, learned about web programming, interface design, compiler and interpreter design, regression testing, prototypin
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by nhnifong 16y ago
What makes you so sure "just giving the money to the school and getting them to hire local tradesmen to do the job" would work? aren't they just as corruptible as anyone? I think so, but I cannot imagine a foolproof way to just turn money i
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by nhnifong 16y ago
Of course HP and other printing companies are trying to make money by any means necessary, that is how companies stay alive. But what I find interesting is that by making printing prohibitively expensive, they are rewarding paperless inform
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by nhnifong 16y ago
This is not a true story is it?