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by oz 14y ago
"Movie industry sues WWII vet for boosting troop morale."
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by oz 14y ago
I'd hardly be described as sentimental, but it's the small things like this that give me hope for humanity. It's amazing, the things we can do to-or for-one another.
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by oz 14y ago
Something about this story just warms my heart. Particularly image # 7: A 92 y.o. veteran leaning over his flat-screen monitor, performing a labour of love for his comrades thousands of miles away. With an old-fashioned alarm clock on his d
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by oz 14y ago
Instrumental rationality FTW, right? :)
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by oz 14y ago
Glad to share it. And don't make me quote Francisco's Money Speech! :) >By all rights, you qualified as one of the "moochers," yet you were perfectly happy to denounce those like you. This is one of the things that worries me the most a
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by oz 14y ago
I don't know. I for one enjoy many material things that I'm not yet able to afford on a consistent basis, and that keeps me pretty motivated.
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by oz 14y ago
TL;DR: Yes. Get that money. Get lots of it. Poverty sucks. I left rural Jamaica to come to Kingston, the capital, in 2005. After my first year in college, I got a summer job with a telecom startup run by an American. My student loan was not
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Ask HN: If we're in a bubble, how do we take advantage of it?
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by oz 14y ago
I was just about to add that.
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by oz 14y ago
N=2. I've noticed the slower turnaround as well.
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by oz 15y ago
I don't have any citations handy, but BlackBerry far surpasses other vendors with regard to security. This is why they're so entrenched in the enterprise and government sectors. I'm quite sure I read recently that some models support smar
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by oz 15y ago
Here in Jamaica, and I've read, many other less-developed nations, Blackberry phones are the most popular. By far. Overwhelmingly, this is due to BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM. It's almost like a small social network in and of itself. A frie
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by oz 15y ago
I have always found it difficult to understand how people manage to convince themselves that the creator of a work does not have the right to charge for it. For To those who make impassioned pleas that technology has made copyright obsolete
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by oz 15y ago
You'll love http://www.lesswrong.com . A lot of the discussion centers on 'Existential Risk Reduction.'
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by oz 15y ago
I, for one, would welcome such a tragedy.
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by oz 15y ago
That's the whole point of a VPN: A Virtual, Private Network which runs on a Physical, Public Network , i.e., the Internet.
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by oz 15y ago
"The signs never worked. Instead, they just annoyed and angered people. Some people even threw more paper towels on the floor because they didn’t like the condescending way they were being instructed." "This pattern is common. We often t
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by oz 15y ago
Please do; I had something similar in mind some time ago, but never got around to it. Let's hear it.
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by oz 15y ago
Seconded. It is a common cognitive failure of us the engineering-minded to underestimate how important politics and other human factors are.
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by oz 15y ago
This reminds me of Fred Brooks' concept of essential complexity and accidental complexity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
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by oz 15y ago
"Despite the early appeal of the jerks, however, in the end the girls realised that they were better off marrying the nice guys. " There is a meme within the 'manosphere' that women spend their best years (youth) enjoying themselves with a
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by oz 15y ago
"This is science fiction stuff. I can hardly believe it’s even possible" This was my reaction too. I literally had to get up from my chair and marvel at what science has wrought.
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by oz 15y ago
So what? You chose to make your photograph free. John Mueller chose to charge for his work. The point is that the creator gets to charge for his work if he wants. If the price is too high, he doesn't make money. If the price is too
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by oz 15y ago
"New place does not have to be better. It could be even worse. That could be part of the price of quitting criminal activity." Great. So you move to some other depressed community, which will have all of what you were trying to escape.
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by oz 15y ago
Perhaps I'm assuming, but it seems you don't know much about the life of the poor. If they could afford to move from the projects where these gangs operate, don't you think they would in a heartbeat? The foot soldier in a gang is not making
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by oz 15y ago
Are you worried that he would try to teach things like young-earth creationism etc?
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by oz 15y ago
I got a copy a few months ago, but I've only read some of the new foreword so far. This is great news.
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by oz 15y ago
" But if they’ve become toys marketed to a single gender, then we’re just reproducing the already awful gender imbalance in STEM education and employment." Why is it we never hear anyone decrying the 'awful gender imbalance' in Human Reso
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by oz 15y ago
Nature has been messing with itself for billions of years. It's called evolution. The whole point of human intelligence is control over our environment . Yes, there are risks, and always will be risks. But that does not mean we should no
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by oz 15y ago
Is there a better way to solve this problem?

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