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by rms 15y ago
I believe Kickstarter has an obligation to treat Rachel like a customer. I believe they are capable of building the tool needed to deliver a good experience to customers like Rachel. I don't support the specific language Rachel might have u
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by rms 15y ago
I expect Kickstarter to have a sober, well reasoned response to this by Monday afternoon. Hopefully faster. It would have been nice if Rachel was nicer to Kickstarter in her post, but she wasn't so here we are. It's not like I like this bei
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by rms 15y ago
Old drama is uninteresting. What's wrong with being mentally ill? I'm definitely not neurotypical, just like half of Silicon Valley geeks. Try raising VC money in Silicon Valley without projecting the image of irrationally exuberant hypoman
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by rms 15y ago
Are there very many circumstances where it is useful to discuss specific, possibly ongoing legal matters on the Internet? Honestly, even if the authorities could deal with this effectively and find said dude, if I thought he was ultimately
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by rms 15y ago
META OK everyone. You might have noticed that Hacker News has gone downhill lately. A common pattern is for the number one comment to be some vaguely negative and uninteresting post. In this case, it's also an inflammatory post that wrong
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by rms 15y ago
No, she has a real cyberstalker.
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True Reddit(reddit.com)
2 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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by rms 15y ago
fuelfive
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by rms 15y ago
There are a bunch of testimonials in the comments of the Less Wrong thread.
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by rms 15y ago
I expect that Scott's friend generally had a great experience at the camp and made a somewhat flippant and self-deprecating comment that was appropriate in a social context, but wasn't Scott's friend's most important takeaway from the exper
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Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28(lesswrong.com)
42 points by rms 15y ago|19 comments
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by rms 15y ago
It lets you keep track of above Dunbar's Number of friends.
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by rms 15y ago
They're taking live submissions from the community and promoting selectively.
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by rms 15y ago
http://www.reddit.com is setting a new standard.
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by rms 15y ago
>Call them and tell them they owe 300/900 dollars? We were using Google Checkout to do registration for the Singularity Summit and ran into this problem, and the answer is basically yes.
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by rms 15y ago
Academic tickets are always tougher to get, if it's really important to you to go to the conference you might consider putting the full price one on your credit card and selling your swag.
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by rms 15y ago
I have a lot of practice buying first come first serve tickets as a sometimes occasional scalper, and I'm good at it. In the industry, scalpers would have labeled this onsale as "suspicious", as in a lot of tickets were likely held back and
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Anyone get Google I/O tickets?
7 points by rms 15y ago|17 comments
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by rms 15y ago
Some parts of Less Wrong are more concrete and less esoteric than others. I quite like the Quantum Physics sequence. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences#The_Quantum_Physics...
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by rms 15y ago
Copied your work. It's ridiculous, of course, but you won't win any fans here with linguistic imprecision.
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by rms 15y ago
OMGpop (known as I'm In Like With You at the time) was a pre-fund investment. Also, I expect that the limited partners of YC have given them unusually flexible and favorable terms.
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by rms 15y ago
I was at Planet Granite next door to there yesterday and there is definitely still a sign up.
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by rms 15y ago
http://arclanguage.org/
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by rms 15y ago
Um... how about Berkeley? It's mostly a terrible place to do business, has a dysfunctional local economy, but is part of Greater Silicon Valley despite its weirdness.
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The yo-yo diet bet experiment: gain with carbs, lose with fat(patrissimo.livejournal.com)
1 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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by rms 15y ago
>If we'd had enough time to do what we wanted, Y Combinator would have been in Berkeley. That was our favorite part of the Bay Area. But we didn't have time to get a building in Berkeley. I'm in Berkeley and quite like it here but that'
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by rms 15y ago
I really hope this is going to work but am fearful that the system is just going to crush them in short order. I suppose that is a battle worth fighting.
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by rms 15y ago
As HN gets larger, it gets more and more likely that there will be some negative comment made. When it was smaller, there was just a greater chance that no one would make the negative comment.
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Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard (and Mario is NP-Complete)(arxiv.org)
2 points by rms 15y ago|0 comments
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by rms 15y ago
Agreed with kls. I no longer believe that "having a go at a startup" is worth it. Quit when you're ready to have a go at changing the world.

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