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by rw 18y ago
What's your definition of a "generic hacker"?
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by rw 18y ago
> Also, having read the article, I'm missing the "neo-liberal" part. "Medieval dictatorship" (as he himself put it)? Check. No rule of law? Check. No concern for individual rights? Check. No constitution to hinder government expansion o
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by rw 18y ago
When I first interviewed him in 1984, he converted me to his belief that everything in the world resembles a certain kind of parallel computation called a cellular automaton, (or a CA for short). The interviewer is a devotee of Wolfram's
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by rw 18y ago
the set of talented techies != the set of website designers
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by rw 18y ago
> "but the searchable internet is just not growing that fast over the next 20 years." Please defend that statement.
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by rw 18y ago
I hear that child slavery is a notable high-margin sector in our current macroeconomic climate.
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by rw 18y ago
News at 11: False dichotomies engender controversy, pageviews.
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by rw 18y ago
Then you are slitting your wrists with Occam's razor. Nobody ought to do that.
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by rw 18y ago
Since when is reductionism a bad thing?
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by rw 18y ago
Summary: there are good and bad programmers. Some are just OK.
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by rw 18y ago
A dollar is worth a dollar because a lot of people want it that way. Gold is "worth" 900USD because a lot of people want gold. But not too many people - otherwise the price would rise. My point is that nothing has intrinsic value. The mar
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by rw 18y ago
"[...] with this kind of programming what's nice is that you can encrypt/decrypt millions of strings from /dev/urandom [...]" How many of those pseudorandom strings are you able to compress, in general?
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by rw 18y ago
Coverage is positive by definition only if it leads to increased profit for Twitter.
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by rw 18y ago
"The Media" does matter because it serves to recruit more users, thus increasing the size of the Twitter network and thereby the utility provided to everyone.
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by rw 18y ago
It's the difference between a supergoal and a super goal.
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by rw 18y ago
Do you have any actual criticisms of modeling brains in software? Please read http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by rw 18y ago
All of them are almost orthogonal.
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by rw 18y ago
Since the PLT Scheme community is so helpful, you might consider diving into the language by immediately trying to build that Arc-flavored dialect. The source to everything is available - give it a shot!
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Why I Like PLT Scheme (2004)(kuro5hin.org)
36 points by rw 18y ago|9 comments
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by rw 18y ago
My supergoal: Get everyone to the top of Maslow's hierarchy. Forever.
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by rw 18y ago
> "predicting a self aware system like the stock market" Please elaborate on why you think the stock market is self-aware!
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by rw 18y ago
You clearly are in marketing!
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by rw 18y ago
Keep in mind that mzscheme is battle tested. Arc is "just" a bunch of macros on top of PLT Scheme; what gives HN its [under]performing character is that foundational JIT compiler and 3m GC.
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Should children have the right to vote?(scottaaronson.com)
27 points by rw 18y ago|64 comments
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by rw 18y ago
Could we stop believing in free will already?
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by rw 18y ago
"People are commodities." How many business owners think this way, without realizing it?
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by rw 18y ago
You had a startup of 12 people, with 2 middle managers?!
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by rw 18y ago
I remember playing Quakeworld. Before I quit, I wrote a strategy guide that elaborated on a "theory of qw". It was analogous to a well-known theory of poker. Quakeworld, with its unusual physics and excellently/accidentally-picked weapon at
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by rw 18y ago
The detriments of a coherent identity on and offline are only going to get more compelling, too.
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by rw 18y ago
cf. how the words "queer" and "gay" are being reclaimed by the LGBTQ community.

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