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by pithic 8y ago
I'm surprised to hear YC courting would-be founders who are more interested in finishing college (grad school, even!). Affinity to the norms of academic institutions (not unlike large corporations) and to converging on their pre-formul
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by pithic 8y ago
> He has suggested that America’s government was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993 and the September 11th terrorist attacks. He says that vaccinating children will give them autism. There is always a two-way relationship betw
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by pithic 8y ago
Sophisticated people understand that there are no actual conspiracies, only baseless conspiracy theories.
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In Refusing to Defend Assange, Mainstream Media's Nature Revealed(medium.com)
2 points by pithic 8y ago|0 comments
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by pithic 9y ago
In terms of harmful ingredients, phospates (used to increase water content) might actualy be more dangerous than nitrates. Consumption of added phospates is linked to renal failure, CVD, and yes, bowel cancer. It's thought that disrupt
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by pithic 9y ago
What the law does is transfer the power to defraud the public from the common grifter to a central authority. In doing so, it adds another, more sinister tool to the ones you mention: forced participation.
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by pithic 9y ago
> not knowing if they're trading digital dollar bills or monopoly money Is there a difference?
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by pithic 9y ago
>the solution is to invest more fully in the process, giving meaning to your life through activities that have no terminal point Are there such activities? Even the more process-oriented ones, lacking final conclusions, have terminal mil
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by pithic 9y ago
Nutritional supplements compete with pharmaceuticals. Could there be a conflict of interest when an institution that is heavily influenced by big pharma puts out a study on their competition? http://www.bostonmagazine.com/20
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Lightning Network, like a TCP/IP stack for Bitcoin, enables unicast transactions(medium.com)
6 points by pithic 9y ago|0 comments
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by pithic 9y ago
It might be worth exploring the reason why the "taboo" on this subject has recently been breached. Could it be that how we define life and our expectations of it have shifted? In a world where the goal in life is personal enjoymen
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by pithic 9y ago
Economics as a discipline is fraught with normalcy bias. Macroeconomics assumes a government. Taxes are assumed. Deficits are a given. Central banks, fiat legal tender, and fractional reserve banking -- none of these existed 150 years ago,
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by pithic 9y ago
It's also a biased component. Patent-filing opportunities mostly go to senior or above engineers at larger firms.
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by pithic 9y ago
First accept the fact that your team - despite their vaunted achievements in many areas - is not competent in ideation. Ideation is more than just pulling a rabbit (you've probably pulled one or two already, despite your collective lac
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by pithic 9y ago
> But the notion of JrGQL and GQL as query languages means that the servers handling these calls must be query resolvers. Unlike most restful interfaces which tend to devote a single uniform interface per endpoint with only minor modific
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How Netflix' Serverless Paradigm Targets Developer Experience(medium.com)
2 points by pithic 9y ago|0 comments
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by pithic 9y ago
Zuckerberg 2020 Trust Me, Dumb Fucks
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by pithic 9y ago
Perhaps teaching isn't quite as valuable as you think. Has that ever occurred to you? Or, perhaps unctuous grandstanding should supplant market forces.
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by pithic 9y ago
Very true. Additionally, it's harmful to the cause of morality to equate illegality with immorality (as the term 'criminality' seems to imply).
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by pithic 10y ago
A one-word rebuttal: weather
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by pithic 10y ago
The problem with supra-nations is that, as bigger monopolies on government, they are much harder to vote against with your feet. You know, in case they become captured by special interests and impose burdensome taxes, oppressive laws, and s
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by pithic 10y ago
> Guns are not part of the human condition, and we could do without them if we so chose. Could we really do without them? No guns for madmen, sane people, kids, death squads, adults, spies, sportsmen, militia men, soldiers, police office
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by pithic 10y ago
Not necessarily anarchy. When you join twitter, you agree to be bound by its terms. To envision competing twitters providing arbitration and security services does not take a heroic imagination. If you are not jarred from exposure by this e
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by pithic 10y ago
Or it could fall from the sky, or grow on trees... I agree with one point: UBI will provide freedom -- the freedom of some fraction of society to live at a very low standard at the expense of the remainder. Sure, a high-income family, burde
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by pithic 10y ago
>The Mafia loves to give us options that we can't refuse, to make us offers we can't refuse. Send us a fat portion of your workers' pay to fund our Utopian vision. Or else.
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by pithic 10y ago
Is the Basic Income concept (in its current formulation) a voluntary program? Or will it depend on violent coercion?
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by pithic 10y ago
> Most often this comes from educated people who think that their education constitutes the whole of all knowledge about the universe and that there is nothing left to be discovered. Such biologists may even believe they know how cells d
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by pithic 10y ago
When a casual passer-by records, copies, and disseminates, no physical aggression is committed. The enforcement of copyright law depends on a third-party initiating a threat of force against property, freedom, and life to dissuade such acti
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by pithic 10y ago
Might Fred Ehrsam have some personal interest in Etherium, being a former Goldman Sachs trader (Etherium having been co-founded by Goldman Sachs alum Joseph Lubin)?
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by pithic 10y ago
If the risk/reward calculus of nuclear power is really favorable, then the industry should accept full liability for damages. Repeal Price-Anderson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear... )

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