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by nkoren 15y ago
I'm the same way, and my friends had the same reaction as you. They suggested that if I cut out caffeine and sugar then my body's own natural energy would resurface, and I'd stop being so groggy until the mid-afternoon. So, I listened to th
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by nkoren 15y ago
Great idea, but may I make a suggestion: can anybody who's looking for work make sure that they post contact information either in their response or on their HN profile? There are already several respondents on here that I would be interest
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by nkoren 15y ago
Moglen is of course correct about the problems of privacy and corporate ownership of social networks -- but then goes on to take an absolutist position which is both strategically indefensible and ethically bankrupt. First, a key concept: t
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by nkoren 15y ago
A fun but thoroughly unrealistic read. A while ago, I tried my hand at predicting the future of space, mainly from the perspective of its population level (which currently stands at 6). The trick is that while new technologies may come and
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by nkoren 15y ago
Airspace, yes. Space space, no -- Jurisdiction doesn't extend above the atmosphere. Rather, objects in space are governed by and the legal responsibility of the country from which they launched, per the Outer Space Treaty. The reason for th
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by nkoren 15y ago
Interesting observations, but I'm inclined to think that the complex pricing algorithms will have relatively limited applicability. The problem is that they exert a non-trivial cognitive cost on the buyer; most consumers, given the choice,
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by nkoren 15y ago
Unfortunately for Anonymous, false-flag ops against it are entirely too easy to pull off. Perhaps if it had some way of identifying itself with a public key...
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by nkoren 15y ago
I haven't actually read the text of SOPA, but I have this amusing fantasy of Anonymous having planted a congressional staffer to do a global search-and-replace through the entire law. Then, when it passes, the following can occur: EvilMega
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by nkoren 15y ago
I generally agree with the premise that the wealthy (ie most of the developed world) are retreating into stimulation of their pleasure centres, aided and abetted by an industries which are increasingly focused upon satisfying this. And I al
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by nkoren 15y ago
People have been living in space almost continually since 1988. Most of the issues involved in living off-world are well-understood, if not always practiced (such as artificial gravity and in-space agriculture.) Planets are nice but hardly
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by nkoren 15y ago
Good point, well made. In reality, the situation in your example of a multi-line queue is not usually as dire as your example portrays, because the delayed people in queue #1 are likely to jump ship sometime after the other two queues. have
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by nkoren 15y ago
Good article! But I have to question the default assumption that iOS isn't laggy. I'm using an old iPhone 3G and it has become laggy as hell over the years. Scrolling on a web page is only ever smooth once a page has finished rendering -- a
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by nkoren 15y ago
You know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment is a link to a bunch of stuff about paraboloids.
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by nkoren 15y ago
> The problem with a system like this is that it requires us to throw out the existing system and replace it. Right, because all horses were put down when trains were invented. And all rails were pulled up when cars were invented. And a
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by nkoren 15y ago
This is already happening in the real world, driven by a number of companies which the author does not mention: http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/ http://www.2getthere.eu/ http://www.vectusprt.com/ There is currently a system operating at
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by nkoren 15y ago
With the caveat that I haven't read Paul Graham's original essay, I have to say that I take issue with a couple of key things in Paul Seliger's response. First though, credit where it is due: Seliger obviously thinks and cares deeply about
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by nkoren 15y ago
Oh no. Oh HELL no. In keeping with the new look of Google Docs, Reader etc., they've added an extra 40px of useless, un-necessary vertical padding to the bar. While their intro video criticises the old bar for wasting precious screen real e