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511.
by rms 16y ago
>But in this case, it seems like there's nothing left to take away, so what's the incentive to follow the rules? Minor beatings from angry guys with guns.
512.
by rms 16y ago
I have an 8% conversion rate to sale per unique visitor. I wish I knew what I was doing right.
513.
by rms 16y ago
One of the main differences in the early days of Hacker News was that it was small enough that you could recognize all of the names. The ones with high karma get recognized more by virtue of seeing them post more often.
514.
by rms 16y ago
NY Times has required an account to sometimes view free content for more than 10 years now. I got an account back then and it still works.
515.
by rms 16y ago
I have a VPS and guess I could do that... still seems like there should be a commercial service that does this by now.
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Ask HN: Cloud music site where I can stream my own music?
7 points by rms 16y ago|8 comments
517.
by rms 16y ago
I think you're underestimating the power of sensory deprivation.
518.
by rms 16y ago
Creating an account to upvote yourself is against the rules and HN has sock-puppet detection software that is not fully published in the open source release of news.arc. Reddit similarly has sock puppet detection software... all social news
519.
by rms 16y ago
Creating a sock puppet and upvoting yourself is against the secret HN rules. Please don't do it. Sock puppet karma points are worth negative karma.
520.
by rms 16y ago
Who wants to give me stuff in exchange for karma IOUs?
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by rms 16y ago
They don't deserve a Nobel because the idea has been obvious in medicine for years. They just got very lucky in being able to deliver a confirmed CCR5 delta 32+ bone marrow transplant to someone with HIV in a medically responsible way. Curi
522.
by rms 16y ago
IOU's or something not very likely like myself founding a Y Combinator company making prediction markets using HN karma. It would take a lot to convince pg to allow for direct HN karma transfers. It doesn't mean we can't create a shadow mar
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by rms 16y ago
Paul, I will bet 1000 HN karma at even odds on the following prediction: Chrome OS will not be killed or merge with Android in the next year. (if it was in the next two years, I would give 80% odds on the existence of a Google operating sy
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by rms 16y ago
Also see http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101210/full/news.2010.665.ht...
525.
by rms 16y ago
A big universe is a very interesting place to find ourselves. There are all sorts of weird philosophical complications if you think about it deeply. I recommend the writings of Max Tegmark on philosophical cosmology. He's an exceptional pop
526.
by rms 16y ago
Very much agreed, I edited the title to add the word possible.
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Astronomers Find First Possible Evidence Of Other Universes(technologyreview.com)
40 points by rms 16y ago|17 comments
528.
by rms 16y ago
It's a bone marrow transplant. The process is rather well established. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematopoietic_stem_cell_transpl...
529.
by rms 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/373/how_to_save_the_world/
530.
by rms 16y ago
It's real, but not practical. The risk of death during a transplant like this is as high as 10%, because it involves completely knocking out the immune system.
531.
by rms 16y ago
>The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write That was in the REPL for a while and I thought it was just annoying and confusing.
532.
by rms 16y ago
What are the tech specs?
533.
by rms 16y ago
Payments API is still working.
534.
by rms 16y ago
Could you do this in Asia, or Ireland?
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by rms 16y ago
I call it the negative SEO bomb. Gain control of a bunch of sites that are hosting viruses, autodownloading exe's, or otherwise performing unlawful hacks on the user. Then start linking to all of the people who rank higher than you. You cou
536.
by rms 16y ago
" most " of these people hating on Paypal have never had a real merchant account. Obviously not all of the people have.
537.
by rms 16y ago
I think all of these people hating on Paypal have never had a real merchant account. At least when the buyer complains on Paypal you have a chance of not losing your money, where with a credit card chargeback you are almost definitely screw
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Ask HN: Can you help me find a Kevin Hale article about logo design?
1 points by rms 16y ago|1 comments
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Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People(lesswrong.com)
119 points by rms 16y ago|43 comments
540.
by rms 16y ago
The Russian spies were traded for US contacts detained in Russia.

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