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by nrkn 16y ago
Another thought, who would stand to lose the most from implementing such a system, and how much power would they have to oppose it? How would you assuage or neutralize their objections?
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by nrkn 16y ago
As a though exercise, how would you extend this to work across national boundaries without triggering the usual arguments against world government?
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by nrkn 16y ago
Not completely pertinent to where I suspect your line of questioning is going, but Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an interesting take on computer aided government.
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by nrkn 16y ago
You could make the development process completely transparent, with input from a wide variety of people, checks and balances etc. and not begin implementing it without plenty of debate, examination etc. The bias is that those who are most i
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by nrkn 16y ago
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_democracy#Electronic... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_e-democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_governance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_transparency
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by nrkn 16y ago
Fork this democracy on Github? Something similar: https://github.com/rbjarnason/open-active-democracy
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by nrkn 16y ago
For the 10 examples it's 45 head-to-head matches, but it's roughly accurate by about halfway through depending on how benign the random number generator is feeling. You need all of them for it to be accurate, you can test that by always pic
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Show HN: This vs. That, a toy for ranking your favorite things(nrkn.github.com)
3 points by nrkn 16y ago|2 comments
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Elaborate 3D printed dice(shapeways.com)
1 points by nrkn 16y ago|0 comments
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by nrkn 16y ago
Try telling Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood that.
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by nrkn 16y ago
Yeah it's like herding cats. Good work anyway.
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by nrkn 16y ago
Well, hopefully it makes something fun even better by highlighting its flaws. Like Pwn2Own in that regard.
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Startups: how about a ticketmaster alternative?(mo.notono.us)
2 points by nrkn 16y ago|0 comments
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by nrkn 16y ago
It's very cool by the way. If it wasn't I wouldn't care.
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by nrkn 16y ago
Because people like me, when they enter a message, will sit here and click over and over until they see their own message. And with the number of flood posts etc. you never get to see your message because it's buried in the crap, which is f
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by nrkn 16y ago
You should probably at least make sure that each post is unique though, looking at the source that's why I kept getting the NOT STARBUCK one, it's been submitted multiple times
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by nrkn 16y ago
I seem to get FRESH COFFEE (NOT STARBUCK) an awful lot. None of mine seem to be making it in either, yet I don't think it's moderated as there are plenty of "offensive" messages in there.
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by nrkn 16y ago
The sign up link points at http://http://www.mightycv.com/users/sign_up
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by nrkn 16y ago
Yeah we had a similar experience recently as well, but we didn't really need that domain so we just shrugged it off. And yeah plenty of registrars etc. are definitely in bed with speculators.
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by nrkn 16y ago
Thanks. They've renewed it for another two years, and I've already failed to grab it through a backordering service once (despite it being expired for what seems much longer than the reasonable renewal time, several months), is there someth
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Ask HN: How to get domain with invalid contact details
1 points by nrkn 16y ago|4 comments
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by nrkn 16y ago
I ran a bunch of short stories through it too and it gave me plenty of weak male for female authors.
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by nrkn 16y ago
Using the quotes from the article, however too few words to analyze properly, so inconclusive, but still... From http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php Genre: Informal Female = 171 Male = 182 Difference = 11; 51.55% Verdi
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by nrkn 16y ago
That's from here btw https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRLGolf
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by nrkn 16y ago
Oh you wanna try doing code golf, after a little while it warps your thinking and this sort of thing starts looking reasonable :) using C=System.Console;class S{static int p,v,x,y,t=10;static void D(char c='@'){C.SetCursorPosition(p%t,p/t)
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by nrkn 16y ago
Win 7 @ work and home, OS X @ home, various *nix (mostly BSD flavoured) in VMs at both.
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by nrkn 16y ago
Now let's see someone do this on real hardware, upgrading the machine as they go.
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Christchurch earthquake predicted on Feb 14 based on solar activity?(predictweather.com)
1 points by nrkn 16y ago|0 comments
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F# on (Ubuntu) Linux with Mono and Monodevelop(chrismarinos.com)
3 points by nrkn 16y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A RogueLike demo in 17 languages
12 points by nrkn 16y ago|0 comments

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