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   by rms 16y ago

   If quantum suicide is real, you and I will hear of her death but she will only find herself in realities where the Communist Party indefinitely delays her death sentence.
2. 422.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   I was incredibly excited for Chrome OS and got one of the free CR-48s from Google. I like the OS, but thought it was too slow to actually use. I web browse a little harder than most people, and the CR-48 regularly bogged down not only on fl
3. 423.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   Bay Area salaries are really that high. However, the standards for hiring are much higher out here. Interviewers out here can really smell your actual ability; BS that would work to get you a job on the East Coast doesn't fly out here. So t
4. 424.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   They're $8.99/year now? I can't believe I am still using namecheap. I watched NearlyFreeSpeech go to bat for a friend that was being sued over a trademark dispute. Even though he was prevented from using the domain commercially in a court o
5. 425.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   Thanks! Bank loan is a good idea, also considering that we should really get one and have been procrastinating about actually do so.
6. 426.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   Yes, so the question then becomes, what is the definition of net worth?
7. 427.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   Paypal Pro is better than people assume. The rates are ok. There are lots of Paypal horror stories, but Paypal is actually on the side of merchants more than most merchant account providers. Yeah, chargebacks suck, but you have to deal with
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   Ask HN: Am I an accredited investor?

   7 points by rms 16y ago|7 comments
9. 429.▲
   by rms 16y ago

   Yup. I'm wondering when more average people are going to start noticing this.
10. 430.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Should I start flagging stories that I just don't like rather than only ones that strictly violate the rules?
11. 431.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    By default it is published under copyright, though with the caveat that copyright of fanfiction might not legally exist.
12. 432.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    I actually like this as a concept, though iamelgringo's advice is probably better in practice. But you could run this social group in addition to taking his advice. Good luck! Be careful with using the name YC around here though, one of the
13. 433.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    I had thought about doing this for a while and giving the money to charity so that pg would look bad for banning me, but was convinced that it was more valuable to have my HN account. I think right now I'd value my Hacker News account aroun
14. 434.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Yes, please do that! Reddit's turnaround from slow decline might have happened because they hired a full time community manager.
15. 435.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    These are the kinds of useless comments that make Hacker News unpleasant to read.
16. 436.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    I wonder what would happen to my 15% conversion rates if my shopping cart wasn't so crappy... I'm superstitious about switching though because of a fear that it might mess up our organic search traffic.
17. 437.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Use Bayesian statistics!
18. 438.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    You're basically obliged to let them invest in you if they want to and you are raising an institutional round, and if you do this program and they don't invest in you that is a strong negative signal that will leave you basically incapable
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    by rms 16y ago

    I recently started blogging at http://www.rationalpoker.com , there's an intro post at http://lesswrong.com/lw/4yk/verifying_rationality_via_ration... , if you're curious.
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    by rms 16y ago

    Most hotel conference rooms/ballrooms are set up with portable chairs and I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing there, but something seems ineffably worse about that scenario to me. Maybe that with everyone presenting at once to al
21. 441.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Too expensive to rent an auditorium, or too impersonal? Or something like not wanting to take away the founders' home field advantage?
22. 442.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    The web is only 200TB? That seems wrong by orders of magnitude to me. Maybe you mean Google's publicly indexed web?
23. 443.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    This is basically what subreddits are. I would like to see this implemented.
24. 444.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Yup, still one of the surprisingly best keep secrets in start-up-dom is that Facebook apps is a much better, albeit riskier market than iPhone apps.
25. 445.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Thank you for the unbelievably sane perspective on disaster relief. For anyone that is motivated to give charitable dollars by this disaster, consider that there is likely a more efficient charity as far as maximizing lives saved per dollar
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    He Who Pays The Piper Must Know The Tune (hanson.gmu.edu)

    1 points by rms 16y ago|0 comments
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    by rms 16y ago

    For what it's worth I also don't believe in morality in enough of a way for you to reasonably get offended. I don't believe in the existence of a responsibility but I believe people often act as if they have such responsibilities anyways. M
28. 448.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
29. 449.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Yes, I should have also said "accept jealousy" as a possibly superior option.
30. 450.▲
    by rms 16y ago

    Best startup hiring post I have seen on HN in years.