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by rms 15y ago
I cannot recommend the writings of Max Tegmark on the multiverse enough. Among people doing science at the heights of their fields, he is perhaps a uniquely talented popular writer. He even keeps it readable on his scientific papers, which
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Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time (newscientist.com)
7 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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Color in scientific visualization(davidad.net)
9 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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by rms 15y ago
Anyone know what % royalties they are asking for?
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by rms 15y ago
It's also reminscent of this Arthur C. Clarke story. http://hermiene.net/short-stories/nine_billion_names_of_god....
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Recent profile of Jim Buckmaster, second longest serving CEO in Silicon Valley(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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by rms 15y ago
It is still clear to me that all of the people complaining about Paypal as a merchant account provider have not dealt with regular merchant account providers.
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by rms 15y ago
This was Startup News before Hacker News... and while Steve's skill as a hacker could be disputed, his position as the greatest CEO of the modern era is basically indisputable.
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Intel's list of startup ideas for embedded chips(intel.com)
2 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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by rms 15y ago
Also I submitted this a few minutes ago and it was auto-dead'ed... AddThis is a banned keyword for titles?
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Ask HN: Single Facebook share button versus multiple share options?
1 points by rms 15y ago|1 comments
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by rms 15y ago
I was there! Traded a week in my house's spare room for an extra badge someone had and got there on the second day at 1PM. I was expecting a trainwreck and instead I got a mediocre conference. I did enjoy the after-after party on Wednesday.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Is That Your True Rejection?(cato-unbound.org)
164 points by rms 15y ago|106 comments
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by rms 15y ago
There's been lots of good news in medicine lately. Here's to a decade filled with great scientific advances.
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A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (lesswrong.com)
21 points by rms 15y ago|1 comments
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by rms 15y ago
You're probably best off making as much money as you can and putting it to work via an efficient charity than trying to save the world yourself. This post spells it out via endless links of endlessness: http://lesswrong.com/lw/373/how_to_s
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by rms 15y ago
I also gave her a chocolate bar. I was thinking of doing something weirdly passive aggressive like making a donation to charity in her name.
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Ask HN: What do San Francisco landlords want in tenants?
5 points by rms 15y ago|2 comments
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by rms 15y ago
I actually live about 1/2 mile from a great grocery store but regularly (~once per week) drive 2.5 miles to the greatest grocery store. It's not so bad. It's even easier to go that far or farther for people in the suburbs with fast roads or
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by rms 15y ago
A lot of people aren't very conscious about this kind of a decision and are used to a lifestyle of driving multiple miles before getting to a grocery store.
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Two CIA Prisoners in China, 1952–73 (cia.gov)
33 points by rms 15y ago|5 comments
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by rms 15y ago
Or the guy from Hacker News that enacts that gonzo style as a gimmick to promote his legal porn site.
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by rms 15y ago
OK. I retract the plagiarism accusation. My belief was that Courtney Love had been influenced by the Albini document (which might have originated as a speech that Courney Love heard) but she brings enough in the way of sufficient new ideas
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by rms 15y ago
I'm impressed by Spotify. 20 hours of the same sort of unlimited free music as what.cd and waffles.fm. 50 million Spotify users in the first year seems like a possibly not that unrealistic prediction for them to make. Perhaps Spotify motiva
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by rms 15y ago
Just in time for lab grown meat!
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by rms 15y ago
Don't worry, she basically plagiarized it from Steve Albini. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79162 (I still find it really satisfying when I google for something I know is true and find myself as the #1 advocate of it on Google -- in
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by rms 15y ago
I think the rule is you're only allowed if you claim forgetting your ID was an accident; you're not allowed to fly without ID as a liberty advocate.
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by rms 15y ago
>Prizes.org is offered by Slide (part of Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, USA).
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by rms 15y ago
Me to... I think it was pushed out to me in personalized search when an item I was searching for was recommended by my twitter handle.
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by rms 15y ago
No, it seems to have gone fine. A lot of people (including Mt. Gox) decided to start taking security more seriously, and the price of Bitcoin has increased slightly.

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