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Biochemicals as Media, Not Methods(thinkgene.com)
1 points by rms 17y ago|0 comments
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by rms 17y ago
Oh, Less Wrong is awesome. It's a group blog running on a rather cool hack of the Reddit source code. The founder and most prolific and frequently upvoted blogger is Eliezer Yudkowsky. My favorite single piece by him is probably That Alien
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by rms 17y ago
I assume you read Less Wrong? The median founder and VC probably never think about the concept of the personal utility function.
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by rms 17y ago
I think a great deal of confusion with this issue is the assumption that someone that advocates socialism advocates 100% socialism. I wouldn't want to live in a fully left-libertarian (also called socialistic anarchism) society just like I
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by rms 17y ago
It could also be subconscious influence. I don't think that this is a copyright violation, but I don't know enough about IP law to know for sure.
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by rms 17y ago
It works perfectly for all of my personal email addresses that I have taken care to keep off of the web in spiderable form, but I get lots of false positives for my business email addresses that are out there as as a mailto:.
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by rms 17y ago
META: I would just like to point out to all potential commenters that the degree to which IQ is genetic is one of the most controversial unresolved recurring topics on Hacker News. The arguments never really seem to go anywhere.
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by rms 17y ago
I graduated from college 3 months ago and didn't get a real job and I haven't been looking for a real job. My Tim Ferris-like businesses pay the bills so I've had a lot of time to read on the internet. I also figured out how to keep up with
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by rms 17y ago
I would like to note that I and 44 people that voted me up initially missed that the feature and code as written were for all self posts, not just for ask posts. So far it looks like the feature is working perfectly; the vibrant discussions
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by rms 17y ago
I think this has been discussed before, but as you propose it, weighting submitting higher than voting is too subject to abuse. I also regularly submit things instead of upvoting them. Commonly I'll click on a story, then use the bookmarkle
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by rms 17y ago
We could answer this definitively by seeing if this design came out before or after Techcrunch's design. It's not really worth it though, because the design is generic enough that they could get away with stealing it. It's really more of a
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by rms 17y ago
FYI, green tea also has theanine in it, which is relaxing. Not sure how much theanine is found in white tea. If you want the relaxing effects of green tea without the caffeine, you can buy pure theanine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theani
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by rms 17y ago
That's a good point, the existing functionality is good enough as long as you make it an "Ask HN."
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by rms 17y ago
Great feature, thanks. A parallel feature for "rate my startup" posts would be useful; those self-posts also tend to get lost.
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by rms 17y ago
This is one survey I found, thoug I'd be very interested in seeing a more statisticall valid survey. http://nmc.itdevworks.com/index.php/2009/08/facebook-usage-h...
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by rms 17y ago
Did all of those duds employees at Google still have really high GPAs and SAT scores?
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by rms 17y ago
Google and Facebook have somewhat different corporate cultures. You may be more comfortable with one culture than the other. Otherwise, go with Facebook. Your Google stock options can't appreciate that much faster than the broader US stock
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by rms 17y ago
Extremely cool!
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Bay Area Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong Meet Up: March 7th, 7PM(lesswrong.com)
16 points by rms 17y ago|2 comments
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by rms 17y ago
If you happen to live in Southeast Asia or Oceania, email me, I sell a plant that grows in that part of the world but is mostly unknown by the inhabitants of those areas.
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by rms 17y ago
The world still has a lot of wealth and is continually generating more wealth. The financial system is imaginary enough that our best macroeconomists can probably sort out the collapse of US government debt. It won't be pretty, but it won't
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by rms 17y ago
But you and many of your friends still check it every day, right?
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by rms 17y ago
Or you can go to an art-house cinema where the movie starts at its schedule timed with no advertisements.
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by rms 17y ago
Facebook, for better or worse, has become fundamental to the social lives of Generation Y. There's certainly churn among older users, but I think it's almost an accident that Facebook has become so popular with an older crowd. The core user
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by rms 17y ago
Amway sells nutritional genetic tests. They're junk. http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/2009/06/amway_sells_ge... I would really appreciate it if someone can link me to a scientifically valid nutrigenomic test for humans.
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by rms 17y ago
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will_(solution)
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by rms 17y ago
I mean that that following the genetic test diet is not going to work in the median human. That person does not have enough willpower to not buy food that is bad for them. Is this product a D2C version of tests that nutritionists have been
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by rms 17y ago
The test can tell you to watch fat, watch carbs, or watch both. I can tell you to eat less fat and less carbs right now without you having to take a genetic test. Animals eat what you give them; for humans, willpower is the biggest challeng
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by rms 17y ago
This test is a PR gimmick; don't bother.
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A Case Study on the Power of Social Media to Change Corporations(blog.fabulis.com)
1 points by rms 17y ago|0 comments

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