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by rms 16y ago
:) I'll be there.
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by rms 16y ago
Anyone looking for a place to stay, send me an email. There is an extra room available in my 5BR house in North Berkeley, available right now. ~$750/month +utilities. Live with hacker types, and... me. If you're interested, send me an email
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by rms 16y ago
I came close to signing a lease for a place across the street from the Glen Park BART station before choosing Berkeley. The Glen Park area seems underrated.
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by rms 16y ago
Godel, Escher, Bach won a Pulitzer Prize; I think that counts as serious. :)
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by rms 16y ago
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
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by rms 16y ago
I'll be living in Berkeley starting in August. I'm up for meeting anywhere, but don't delay the meetup on my account.
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by rms 16y ago
I gave them $5.
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by rms 16y ago
I'll stream it this year, probably will be a while before I can check "yes" on the accredited investor box. Last years was great. Is there going to be a Startup School 2010 or did you decide 18 months between Startup Schools works well?
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by rms 16y ago
:)
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Conway's Game of Life in HTML 5(sixfoottallrabbit.co.uk)
50 points by rms 16y ago|23 comments
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by rms 16y ago
Your body will naturally produce less melatonin at sleep time. It adjusts back if you stop taking melatonin. This isn't an issue at the doctor recommended 1mg dosage of melatonin, but at 3mg it is and most melatonin pills are 3mg. As a fake
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by rms 16y ago
How to lose $120K.
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by rms 16y ago
I would guess it is unlawful, but not illegal. Meaning that the median bad consequence for doing it is that the authorities tell you to stop doing it and then you have to stop doing it.
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by rms 16y ago
The present world have more software freedom if Bill Gates wasn't the one who helped put a computer in most homes in the developed world, but he was still an instrumental individual in the computing revolution. Like Andrew Carnegie, he will
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by rms 16y ago
Flagged because Dustin Curtis is not Hacker News
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by rms 16y ago
Palo Alto doesn't quite count; it was a town first and then Silicon Valley grew around it. Palo Alto is the best part of Silicon Valley and has the most expensive rents to go along with that.
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by rms 16y ago
>What the people retailing pot will find is that an easily-growable agricultural commodity is subject to perfect competition and prices will be driven down to a very low level. There will be something of a price floor set by virtue of c
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Interview with Mark Zuckerburg (6/22/2010)(insidefacebook.com)
3 points by rms 16y ago|0 comments
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by rms 16y ago
What do you think the minimum investment for buying Facebook's stock at the IPO will be?
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by rms 16y ago
Agreed that the link should go to the BBC source article, but for what it's worth, general business/finance stuff is generally considered to be on topic here, because of the large overlap with general finance topics and startups.
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by rms 16y ago
I'm aware that China is safer to business people than Russia, but I still do not trust the CCP enough to do business with them. Look at what happened with Google.
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by rms 16y ago
It's not enough to get me to do business in a country lacking rule of law. While I respect the functioning of the Chinese economy, I also wouldn't start a business there for the same reason. Usually I am comfortable with risk, but shakedown
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by rms 16y ago
No
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by rms 16y ago
If you want opium, google for "dried poppy pods" and you will get raw, dried opium sent to your door for a reasonable price and in a professional manor. That we are waging a war in Afghanistan to stop the supply of opium when it is so easil
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by rms 16y ago
Or there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherut_Leumi or a psychiatrist willing to give you the right kind of mental health diagnosis
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by rms 16y ago
Yudkowsky's quantum physics sequence addresses this question. http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ It's long and hard to understand, but easier to understand than other explanations of quantum physics. You can skip rig
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by rms 16y ago
Lots of confusion in the article, given a very complicated subject with widely divergent opinions and the attempt for journalistic non-bias. One thing that clears up some confusion is the important point that the word "Singularity" means di
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by rms 16y ago
Flagged for an opening sentence that discusses an anti-knowledge scientific conspiracy. Maybe there were some mathematical mistakes in early papers on black holes, but the body of knowledge has improved in the intervening years. An applicat
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by rms 16y ago
BBC > Al Jazeera > CNN
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by rms 16y ago
I believe it has been discussed by pg as part of a proposed revamp to the flagging system. It'll happen eventually.

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