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451.
by rw 18y ago
Will we still own our data?
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by rw 18y ago
I mean that that is the object of my meditation, not what I think about while I am meditating.
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by rw 18y ago
I agree with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. My goal in meditation is to stop "thinking in words".
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by rw 18y ago
My school also has an intermittent game theory course, in economics. I think it is an underappreciated field in undergraduate curricula.
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by rw 18y ago
You said "polygamy", don't you mean polygyny ?
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by rw 18y ago
Suggestion: include the Cyc database.
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by rw 18y ago
OK, here are 3 billion Zimbabwean dollars. Are you able to be happy yet? Money is a placeholder.
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by rw 18y ago
The payoff for reducing code complexity, and thereby improving your intuition for the system, can be very high in the medium- and long-term.
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by rw 18y ago
Or: step b2) If getting x requires money, work to make it cheaper or free.
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by rw 18y ago
Social capital is dependent upon the continuing goodwill of others. That is an important restriction. If Gandhi had dropped his ascetic lifestyle, deciding to obtain a mansion, his social capital would have declined dramatically.
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by rw 18y ago
Did Gandhi get rich? Does it matter?
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by rw 18y ago
Laissez-faire capitalism is not capable of consistently rewarding people for doing what they love. It does not care about self-actualization. The fact that you do care about that is refreshing.
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by rw 18y ago
For how many people on the planet is that not a feasible option?
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by rw 18y ago
Does that tell you how many upvotes and comments each story has received? Certainly I could use that to continually poll the site and tell me.
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by rw 18y ago
The problem for me is that stories are so time-sensitive. For example, there are a lot of good stories that never get to the front page, and if I want to see them, I have to continually refresh the "new" page. I hate that, but it's someth
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by rw 18y ago
> "... decay into anarchy." Anarchy != chaos. Pet peeve #472. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
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by rw 18y ago
Writes about how Steve Yegge's concept of a very expressive "folding language" relates to his own programming language, Ioke (he quotes someone saying that Ioke is an infinitely-foldable language). I still do not know what Ioke has over LIS
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by rw 18y ago
Yes - but contemplate trying to get VC for that. Volunteers only, I suspect.
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by rw 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question It is a logical fallacy to beg the question.
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by rw 18y ago
Ugh, privacy issues...
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by rw 18y ago
* Spacing between items. Vertical screen real estate is important. * Show up and down votes. Provides information on contentious comments. * Ability to mix brand-new and front-page items on the same page. For better scanning of new content.
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by rw 18y ago
The no-one-noticing-good-submissions is seemingly a huge problem here and I think working on fixing that will make HN much better. I emailed PG a few months ago with some ideas I had about how to quantitatively measure submission and discus
473.
by rw 18y ago
What are the effects of GC on hard real-time systems (NASA rovers, power plants)?
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by rw 18y ago
Donate.
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by rw 18y ago
> "[...] take a look at http://www.snapcrm.com which is a CRM and Collaboration Suite far superior to all open source CRMs and it was coded entirely using X# in 4 months." How about that hubris, then?
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by rw 18y ago
Summary?
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by rw 18y ago
Good use of VC.
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by rw 18y ago
> "The interesting issues are social and legal," says Mikolaj Habryn, a site reliability engineer at Google. "You'll get slavery. You'll get drug dealing. Maybe there'll be polygamous Mormons. The first people involved will inevitably b
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by rw 18y ago
It's also very elegant.
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by rw 18y ago
For those of us who cannot watch it: what's the scoop?

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