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127 points by nkoren 12y ago|22 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
While I'd be interested in seeing a serious postmortem (pre-mortem? trans-mortem?) of Google+, this flippant piece isn't the article to do it.
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by nkoren 13y ago
Elon's response to that tweet was more than a little bit epic: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/461279062837968897 followed by: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/461283368693669
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by nkoren 13y ago
I doubt it. I'm not a historian, but my sense is that absent the death camps and and silly wonder weapons, Germany would have been perhaps 10% or 20% more effective -- not 100% more effective. Stalingrad would probably have wrapped up
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by nkoren 13y ago
Yes, this. The same can be said for the V2. Technologically, it was wildly successful, and today most Russian rockets and many American rockets can be considered its direct descendants. However there's no question that it hastened th
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by nkoren 13y ago
> "It's true that if you don't practice a patent, that doesn't mean you can't collect damages for it" When an attorney nests negatives three deep, is that brilliance or incompetence? I'm trying to decid
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by nkoren 13y ago
I don't think your method is necessarily unfair. I just don't think it necessarily is fair, either. If all of your roommates have roughly equal views on the value of money, square footage, and various intangibles (such as, say,
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by nkoren 13y ago
I think you're missing the point. This is a value-optimisation problem, and 1.) not all value is monetary, and 2.) the perception of value is inherently subjective. That's why optimisations cannot be created via static externally
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by nkoren 13y ago
Your methodology is fair from the objective vantage point of the rooms , but not necessarily from the subjective vantage point of the people . Consider the following strawman scenario: Roommate A is earning a million dollars a year, and t
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by nkoren 13y ago
That is far from the most elaborate roundabout. In the UK they have one that's fractal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
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by nkoren 13y ago
> But what about the green blob on the Georgia-Florida border? I was curious about that too. Apparently it's a very large swamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okefenokee_Swamp > And what's up with south
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by nkoren 13y ago
North Dakota is the only clearly discernible state boundary. Anybody know why that is? Does something about the legal regime of North Dakota really change the settlement patterns that much? Or is it some kind of artefact of the way that ND
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Asteroid impact risks are underappreciated(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by nkoren 13y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
Yeah, honestly he's kind of my hero. Seriously proud of what he's done in his second career.
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by nkoren 13y ago
God that article was/is riveting. I still recall the first time I read it, in one sitting, this ridiculous fat magazine in my hands. The world would be a better place if it had more journalism like this.
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by nkoren 13y ago
My father isn't a HN regular, but he's 70 and is very much a hacker. He founded a software startup (www.imatest.com) when he was 63, and now has a dozen employees and is working harder than ever as its CTO. His passion for hacking
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by nkoren 13y ago
Even with the egregious layering problem, the map actually shows something pretty interesting: the way in which Android has colonised lower-density lower-income areas to the almost total exclusion of the iPhone. It makes sense: you can buy
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Bureaucracy is coming to the NSA (song, h/t Leonard Cohen)(soundcloud.com)
1 points by nkoren 13y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
No, you missed the analogy. The analogy is that a human's essence or "selfhood" is merely the product of a successfully-functioning brain, in much the same way that toxin-processing is the product of a successfully-functionin
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by nkoren 13y ago
> of course, $1T < $6T Your $6T number is false. Even in your strawman, the cost of the Basic Income would be $1T: $6T less $5T as a "cash-back rebate", due to the fact that every single person paying for the BI is also r
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by nkoren 13y ago
> I don't understand - how does a Basic Job prevent you from either going to school or taking part time work? No one is obligated to work a Basic Job. It's just what you do if you are unable to find anything better. With this c
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by nkoren 13y ago
You don't decide. The point of Basic Income is that it's unconditional and universal. If somebody can prove they're a citizen, they get the BI, no need to determine their income. As for a $4k tax being "crippling to a go
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by nkoren 13y ago
Actually, your math is entirely wrong. Let's use the same numbers as you: 300M people, $20k each, only 50M people who actually "need" it. In the BI scenario, 250M people are paying for the cost of program (since the 50M who a
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by nkoren 13y ago
Because it would be cheaper to use a machine to build the bridge, give the money you save to the people, and then let them add value to society in some other way.
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by nkoren 13y ago
Of course it has poverty traps. I live in the UK, where I get to see how the "workfare" programme creates poverty traps all the time. If you want to get out of poverty, a good way to do that is by getting more education and practi
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by nkoren 13y ago
It's not about the immediate cost. It's about the fact that conditional social support creates poverty traps, by imposing the steepest marginal tax rates (sometimes exceeding 100%) on the poorest people in society. Listen to this
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by nkoren 13y ago
How is it that I never figured out that was possible?!? Thank you!
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by nkoren 13y ago
tl;dr: Designers, please think about ordinary-sized screens! This presentation may have good design within it, but it is not actually presented well. It is intended to be a series of slides which appear on single screens. However betwee
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by nkoren 13y ago
Programmers of the world: please stop with the 2048 clones. We have jobs to do. Partners to attend to. Friends to acknowledge. Pets to feed. Plants to water. Have some mercy already!
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by nkoren 13y ago
She likes it when they spy on other people .

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