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by nkoren 13y ago
My company's application (www.futurescaper.com) is built with Meteor and is currently pushing 34KLOC, so it's not particularly small. Unfortunately we don't have a public demo as of yet, but have used it with great success wi
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by nkoren 13y ago
The reference -- and the concern about tinkering with the tree of life -- goes a bit further back: "And YHVH said, Behold, the man is become as one of us , to know good and evil; and now -- lest he put forth his hand, and take also of
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by nkoren 13y ago
You're right - I speed-read through that.
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by nkoren 13y ago
It's a trick question. The question creates doubt because it asks you to choose between two wrong options. [Edit: no, it gives all three possibilities; I speed-read through that. Thanks to others for pointing that out. However it then
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by nkoren 13y ago
No, Basic Income hasn't been voted on yet in Switzerland. You're probably thinking of the 1:12 pay scale referendum. And yes, the numbers do work. You just need relatively high tax rates (>= 50%) to support the Basic Income -
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by nkoren 13y ago
Russia is not averse to strategic exclaves; cf. Kaliningrad (and Transnistria, unofficially).
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by nkoren 13y ago
I actually think that a lot of good could come from splitting up California. This would allow the intense stupidity of its politics to be less monolithic, and would permit more experimentation with policy, which might have a good outcome. T
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Google planning to launch thousands of satellites(parabolicarc.com)
2 points by nkoren 13y ago|1 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
You severely underestimate the value of having grandparents. In traditional societies, children are raised by grandparents and great-grandparents at least as often as by parents. The reason is simple: hunting and gathering is extraordinaril
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by nkoren 13y ago
> Evolution optimizes for procreation not for longevity. Incorrect. Evolution optimises for propagation of genes. Procreation is one but not the element of that process. Think about this way: if you are living by yourself in the forest a
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by nkoren 13y ago
It's easy to miss. On the front page, the word "store" only occurs once, buried three page-scrolls down in the body text. Otherwise it very much gives the impression of being some kind of analytics dashboard for third-party d
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Reactive SVG with Meteor(meteor.com)
3 points by nkoren 13y ago|0 comments
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1.) Yes, automation has been replacing jobs (and creating new ones) since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The difference is that when it destroyed agricultural jobs, for example, it was relatively easy for workers to transfer to
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by nkoren 13y ago
3 pressing issues for this decade: 1.) Automation, intelligent agents, and the end of wage labour as a means of redistributing money. Unconditional Basic Incomes will need to be phasing in by the end of the decade, or else we'll be in
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by nkoren 13y ago
...after installing everything. Are they online anywhere so they can be browsed more casually?
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by nkoren 13y ago
Employees routinely share in the downside risk by losing their jobs.
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by nkoren 13y ago
That would actually kick the Bay Area class war into overdrive. Think about it: every time your neighbours develop their property (thus raising the market value of the area), your own land taxes would go up. If you're of the great ma
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by nkoren 13y ago
> Negligible problem. SF has a very low vacancy rate. Worry about it if it happens. But we're not talking about the vacancy rate of housing, we're talking about the availability of housing for those who aren't housing. Bes
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by nkoren 13y ago
I'd love to see San Francisco have much more open zoning regulations. They're clearly a contributor to the high real estate costs. However even if I built a low-cost arcology in the middle of SF, I can guarantee that it would find
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by nkoren 13y ago
> You would think that because of all the automation causing the low employment and the aggregation of wealth into only a small number of people's hands that prices would not go up because most people had less money to spend cause t
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by nkoren 13y ago
I will never forget seeing a Lockheed Martin presentation about their bid for the X-33 contract. They had a slide titled "technical features", which looked roughly like this: * Linear aerospike engine * Conformal carbon-comp
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by nkoren 13y ago
Talking to investors at the moment. Then hopefully hiring!
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by nkoren 13y ago
That cover story is what caused me to pivot my career away from architecture, as it was clear that architects would be absolutely hammered by the inevitable crash. (And they were; architecture as a whole suffered more job losses than any ot
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by nkoren 13y ago
London, UK / REMOTE -- Futurescaper Ltd. is hiring a top-notch D3 & data visualisation expert to help improve and open-source our network-graphing subsystems. We are a small but rapidly growing startup that produces bespoke collect
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by nkoren 13y ago
I know that 3D graphics aren't trivial to learn, but the tragedy with Blender is that it is arbitrarily difficult. The difficulties aren't intrinsic to learning 3D. A lot of people -- both beginners and professionals from other
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by nkoren 13y ago
Blender represents both the triumph and tragedy of open source software. I've been vaguely following its development since the late 90s, periodically making attempts to learn it, and failing until I finally made a more serious push ear
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by nkoren 13y ago
That code works in C, C#, and JavaScript.
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by nkoren 13y ago
That was sarcasm, yes? Just checking! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Effective_tax_rates,_US_hi... [edit] Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Effective_Corporate_Tax... [/edit]
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Interstellar Movie - Teaser Trailer(youtube.com)
3 points by nkoren 13y ago|2 comments
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by nkoren 13y ago
> "Email open" tracking just got a lot more reliable for all mass email & marketing automation vendors. Has it? If Google's proxy is caching images, then "email open" tracking might have broken entirely. All

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