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811.
by rw 18y ago
He's pushing a P2P benevolent panopticon.
812.
by rw 18y ago
Cracker.
813.
by rw 18y ago
Yeah, you working your ass off for Facebook is definitely going to bring about the revolution. </sarcasm>
814.
by rw 18y ago
Golly, we wouldn't want Obama to spend public money on society-wide problems like poverty and food scarcity.
815.
by rw 18y ago
Do not read this -- the author rants about arbitrary design decisions for the sake of ad revenue.
816.
by rw 18y ago
Print it out!
817.
by rw 18y ago
It's great until you realize that you need to write a C function to do real work in a reasonable amount of time.
818.
by rw 18y ago
Googol.
819.
by rw 18y ago
Set theory & mathematical logic. Learning math is all about spending time with the material. I find that upper-level math is easier than lower-level topics. Less grunt work, more pondering.
820.
by rw 18y ago
Provided, of course, that P != NP.
821.
by rw 18y ago
Technological sophistication is orthogonal to societal progress.
822.
by rw 18y ago
Thank you for saving me from reading the link!
823.
by rw 18y ago
Avoid making sweeping generalizations about HN'ers and society at large. If you are using terms from 1984 , and you are not a Prole, then you are an Outer Party member. How does that feel?
824.
by rw 18y ago
You mean: equivalent to hyper-Turing machines.
825.
by rw 18y ago
Fail.
826.
by rw 18y ago
What would be the proportionate number of white bums?
827.
by rw 18y ago
DNS is down for this site.
828.
by rw 18y ago
Vertically challenged.
829.
by rw 18y ago
Do you require privacy/crypto?
830.
by rw 18y ago
If only to have a ritual burning of the book ceremony...
831.
by rw 18y ago
Here we see the demand side of the equation decreasing. If this spreads, is it actually bad?
832.
by rw 18y ago
Or not. Consider: Email is used for many business transactions, and for other types of meaningful communication between people. So, it can be estimated that email tends to enable profit due to this relationship-building and information-carr
833.
by rw 18y ago
While it's true that JS is used for a lot else besides serving up ads, the most profitable way, on the margin, to use it (say, per line of code per site) is by serving ads. If you really disagree, let me know of a something that produces pe
834.
by rw 18y ago
JS' foremost use is to serve ads. I block JS using NoScript. So, I conjecture that a lot of people block JS for the same reason.
835.
by rw 18y ago
From the OP: "Okay, before I even say anything, I am pre-emptively sorry, because I KNOW that this has been discussed, rediscussed, analyzed, reanalyzed, and in general talked about to death all over the internet." Including YC: http://www
836.
by rw 18y ago
It's not pretentious just because you don't know it. "Autodidactic" sums up a phrase using just one word. Basically it comes down to this: Having a larger vocabulary allows you to spend more time communicating and less time talking. Just
837.
by rw 18y ago
Wow! Stop the presses.
838.
by rw 18y ago
Read Norvig's introductory text, but don't feel you have to know it all - use it as a way to pick something you really are interested in (genetic algorithms are always popular) and read academic literature on the topic (citeseer is a good r
839.
by rw 18y ago
Taking this poll reinforces the mindset that I can't change myself.
840.
by rw 18y ago
OpenBSD; it runs GNU/Linux binaries too.

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