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901.
by rms 17y ago
Try reading the linked post Eliezer linked to and see if you still have that question
902.
by rms 17y ago
If it had enough users, probably.
903.
by rms 17y ago
It's a web app someone made, I think linking to interesting web apps is almost always on topic as long as they are more complicated than a single serving web site. --- looking forward to when pg lets us starting tagging things as meta
904.
by rms 17y ago
Would you rather run the iPhone OS or Android? I myself would much rather run Android, and I think I'm going to wait 6 months for one with a keyboard with a faster processor than the Droid.
905.
by rms 17y ago
That is not the message of either Mark Pincus or Paul Graham.
906.
by rms 17y ago
I expect Hacker News has a similar consensus. Circumcision is not worse than slavery, but it is one of those relics of human barbarism that will be looked at with scorn and disdain in 50 years. The fact that HIV transmission is marginally r
907.
by rms 17y ago
I'll take my chances. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100106-cell-...
908.
by rms 17y ago
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer
909.
by rms 17y ago
That should be long enough where we have memristor based storage -- all the storage capacity of hard drives with the speeds of super-fast fast RAM.
910.
by rms 17y ago
100-GHz Transistors from Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;327/5966/...
911.
by rms 17y ago
I just can't keep up with Hacker News anymore. I used to read /newcomments a lot but that doesn't work so well for me these days. The opaque voting policies don't really bother me, but I probably understand them more than most people. I wis
912.
by rms 17y ago
I'm not sure that I meant hallucination in the clinical sense. I meant that if I was trapped inside my own mind for months on end, I would have nothing else to do besides create elaborate fantasy worlds in my mind and I suspect many others
913.
by rms 17y ago
I think within a few months you would descend into a self-hallucinatory dreamworld -- you'd be insane, but I don't think it would be the worst hell imaginable. Not even close.
914.
by rms 17y ago
I agree with you about the body of history here. The doctrine is in no ways new or radical; I still think it's a bad idea, and it's gotten a lot easier to incorporate since the days of the East India Company when you needed a Royal Charter
915.
by rms 17y ago
The recent SCOTUS decision was indeed correct if precedent is to be taken into account. However, I think 100 years of bad legal precedent and the status quo has blinded you (and the Supreme Court, for that matter) towards the real issue. Co
916.
by rms 17y ago
That's also true, but not a very good reason to submit more global warming articles here, unless the article has something actually new to say about global warming.
917.
by rms 17y ago
You're right, and this is not even a good article to function as a framework for a discussion of global warming, which is much, much more complicated than the article makes it out to be.
918.
by rms 17y ago
Our democracy is at most only 50% a sham. I think if we're looking for scapegoats for all of the problems of society, we should go a higher level and blame corporate personhood itself rather than individual sociopathic executives.
919.
by rms 17y ago
I don't think it is intentionally propaganda, though it may influence opinion because if you're forced to sell yourself into wage slavery it really does help to work on something fun for a company that has free catered meals. If money is so
920.
by rms 17y ago
Btw, these concepts are definitely somewhat distant and based on iMac sized tablets. I can guarantee that the first Chrome OS Tablet is going to look pretty much just like Chrome OS with an on screen keyboad.
921.
by rms 17y ago
He's not. http://www.drc.state.oh.us/OffenderSearch/Search.aspx
922.
by rms 17y ago
By the point of that war the white people had been oppressing the Indians for more than a hundred years. One murder does not justify returning with a massacre, and leaving out various facts from history does not mean much when you are tryin
923.
by rms 17y ago
Too pessimistic, society isn't really unraveling. On average, spending the extra money on education results in better education, even when taken to ridiculous levels.
924.
by rms 17y ago
I have very high hopes for the upcoming Chrome OS netbooks. I'm probably the only one here planning on using one as my primary computer. After the disappointment that was the iPad, I suspect the media is going to be very kind to the launch
925.
by rms 17y ago
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer
926.
by rms 17y ago
Wow. That's almost unbelievably significant for a study of a damn nutritional supplement . If this is replicable, let's hope this leads to new, more effective treatments for mental illness.
927.
by rms 17y ago
Btw, on the topic of plasma physics, do you think the type of life ("self-organizing structures") proposed here possibly exists at all in the universe or is even somewhat common? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/101698/PHU_50_4_R11.pdf
928.
by rms 17y ago
pragmatism vs. idealism, etc. etc.
929.
by rms 17y ago
I would be strongly in favor of eliminating the minimum wage, if we had an appropriately socialized system of food, water, clothing, and job training distribution. But that's never going to happen. I have a nearly unlimited amount of viewpo
930.
by rms 17y ago
I wonder how long before we will start seeing outsider investment in the cannabis industry. If I had $100,000 or so, I could work with a food scientist to patent some products that will be very profitable in ~7-10 years post-legalization

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