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by riboflava 10y ago
This is just another reason why the US has a healthier startup culture. There are a lot of things that take effort to do that US companies can get away with not doing until forced to by law or the market, or when the opportunity costs dimin
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by riboflava 10y ago
Yes to your second question. Maybe the government can offer a tax return bonus to cover it. And pump more money into fully general cures for all disabilities. I'm not against making disabled peoples' lives better, but focusing ent
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by riboflava 10y ago
Maybe the Python automation book covers automated downloads, or maybe the CLI book will cover it.... =P Or there's always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
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by riboflava 10y ago
The best is probably a mix, like Singapore. The citizens win in the case the government provider is efficient or inefficient, because in either scenario the government sets a floor of efficiency that private companies can't go under an
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by riboflava 10y ago
I hope you're complaining about "ESR" instead of "esr", because his initials, much like "rms" et al. are common acronyms, especially on online forums like Hacker News .
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by riboflava 10y ago
It is a democracy. A Constitutional Republic is just one way of implementing a democracy, similar to how a constitutional monarchy is just one way of implementing a monarchy. Mob rule everyone votes on everything and even a majority by one
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by riboflava 10y ago
For reference, Clojure's core.logic: https://gist.github.com/rm-hull/6952960 Or, from Norvig, presumably as an update to the solution he made with Lisp and Prolog, here's a Python version that doesn't us
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by riboflava 10y ago
I have a 42 inch 4k@60hz Seiki I got for a couple hundred bucks last year, I'm happy with it as my sole monitor (replacing two others). It's not as good as others for gaming but good enough. At that size the pixel density is rough
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by riboflava 10y ago
Separate the work and the man and you can keep your admiration without having to spend your time condoning or condemning everything else the man does you disagree with. I think this is necessary for most historical figures (even many living
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by riboflava 10y ago
4k 60hz gaming, or the Rift. I'm not sure how intense Remember Me is, but a friend told me he noticed occasional tearing on that game with his new rig that was using an older R9 2xx-X until he got his GTX 1080s in the mail.
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by riboflava 10y ago
Many laughable things become fine with technology. Look at various encryption or network protocols. If someone had seriously proposed to Caesar that to keep their messages truly safe they needed to work out the math of a one time pad for ev
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by riboflava 10y ago
$1k for other 'expenses' is huge. You can drive that down at least by half with wiser spending.
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by riboflava 10y ago
You don't even need much startup capital if you're starting up not in an expensive location like SV. The reason so many of us 100kers don't up and leave when we realize we're generating millions in value is because we&#x
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by riboflava 10y ago
Retirees aren't the richest bunch, true. Collective poverty isn't an unlikely outcome for the vast majority of humans. Still, "poverty" need not be uncomfortable when "token conveniences" like a private home, f
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by riboflava 10y ago
The solution to everyone being automated away isn't to halt the advances of automation and inflict inefficient make-work on the economy, it's to get used to the idea that we will all become effectively retirees.
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by riboflava 10y ago
Solution: lock + ziptie/other mechanism that lets you know the suitcase was opened.
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by riboflava 10y ago
You cut off the rest of my sentence. It's not that never having your beliefs challenged is good, it's that it's not a strong signal that your beliefs are actually wrong, and so your confidence can't actually diminish muc
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by riboflava 10y ago
Funding should be left to wherever it can come from. If you try to get a single X to fund everything, X will quickly become bankrupt. If that's not your point, that funding should only come from a certain X, then is your point the even
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by riboflava 10y ago
If your beliefs change all the time, they can't have been held very strongly or justifiably in the first place. Maybe you should stop having beliefs like that. That's direct evidence that you shouldn't be confident in many
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by riboflava 10y ago
He seems to be under several misconceptions... This one may just be a mutation of the widely accepted idea that we can in principle emulate a brain using our standard computer models, even if it'll take n more decades of hardware advan
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by riboflava 10y ago
They could be in the marshmallow manufacturing business for all I care, if it's not their core competency they'll suck at it. (There are a lot of third party ad-tracking/online surveillance companies to be more worried about
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by riboflava 10y ago
Making remote employees come in to actually work was the single best thing she did for the company. Unfortunately it wasn't enough as Yahoo fundamentally doesn't have anything competitive for employees to work on, hence the attemp