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by ryanmolden 13y ago
You might be surprised, I have talked with people that say 'free' and I say 'you mean paid for collectively' and they say 'no, free' :)
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
I am not a crazy anti-healthcare nut as this comment will make me appear, but I think you mean "healthcare is paid for by others/collectively", since it isn't free to provide services, unless your doctors are working for no money.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Actually I suspect a not insignificant number of people aren't even aware of Facebook's edge-rank shenanigans. I have lost count of the number of times I have had to point out, even to techy friends, that you can reset the sort to most rece
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
I actually saw a demo of live conversation translation between two speakers (Chinese and English) using cell phones, at a Microsoft tech fest a few (2?) years ago. Something from MSR, obviously not on the market yet, so not quite there, but
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Or had a parent/child relationship or owner/owned relationship across every thread, or installed a journal hook, or... Don't get me started on Window's non-nicety if you want cross thread/process window relationships and want to be able to
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
The quote about context is interesting, so he is predicting Ive might read Bret Victor's Magic Ink paper? :)
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Currently reading Hallucinations. His coverage of such bizarre conditions as Akinetopsia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinetopsia ) make his books great reads for the casually curious and really make it concrete how much of our reality is
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Works great on small projects, does not scale to very large projects. There is a non-zero amount of communication, scheduling and cross-team coordination that needs to happen. If you want developers to do it, that is fine, it just means les
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
This. I used to attribute it to douchiness, and sometimes it can be. Some people seem to feel the need to flaunt some kind of (mostly imaginary) superiority over others. That said, the curse of knowledge is also a good explanation. Some peo
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
A cheaper price for goods and services is not a necessary precondition to existence. People are free to pay more than absolute rock-bottom if they feel the more expensive goods/service are superior. Unless you intended your list to be disju
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Businesses are run by human beings, so while businesses themselves may be amoral, people making the decisions on direction of the business are not. Or at least one would hope that is the case. That isn't to say there is no place for regulat
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Mapping the Internet(newscientist.com)
2 points by ryanmolden 13y ago|0 comments
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
"People ask me why I don’t do lectures at magic conventions, and I say, ‘Because I’m still learning.’ Meanwhile, you’ve got people who have been doing magic for ten months and they are actually out there pontificating. It’s absurd" This.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Yes, when I said ignore I meant from an information gathering perspective. If I care about an issue enough I will actively donate to organizations representing my interests. It is really all I can do when <insert idiot politician> i
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Anytime someone's argument is the moral equivalent of 'my opponents are doodie-heads' I pretty much start ignoring them. It is a shame that an elected official, ostensibly 'leading' our country, is making such idiotic arguments and isn't mo
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
>feel that though google glass would be a hit product This will be a very interesting test of Collinridge's Dilemma.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
It would also increase the value of raw cocaine as a pre-cursor to highly valuable (from a cost vs. resale perspective) crack. The CIA being involved in, or simply turning a blind eye to, cocaine smuggling when the funds were to be used to
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
>Personally, I think it was a nom-de-plume of several people See also: Nicolas Bourbaki for a historical example of such an occurrence (minus the disappearing / remaining anonymous part).
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
I have always been a strong believer in the saying "Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them". Studying this area would be difficult though as you either need to know ahead of time who would be successful, or study such a large cross-se
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How Higher Economic Value of Time Increases Feelings of Time Pressure [pdf](www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca)
1 points by ryanmolden 13y ago|0 comments
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I've really like Watsi since the first time I saw it on HN (before you were in YC). I was thinking about it yesterday and I think the satisfying part is the ability to see a case actually get funded. A lot of charities you give money but it
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I read the "Korean immigrant" comment slightly differently. Not as a "if that schlub can do it so can you!", but rather as pointing out that immigrants to most countries generally face all the same business challenges of any citizen plus th
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
You didn't like his answer of "I worked my ass of to get here"? Is it that he didn't acknowledge the role of good luck or do you honestly think he didn't work to get where he is at?
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
The last sentence hints at some kind of conspiracy or upvoting-ring, but of all stories this one seems least likely to be due to something like that. It may just be the case that your interests and what you find relevant are not actually ge
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
His "Your Movie Sucks" book ( http://www.amazon.com/Your-Movie-Sucks-Roger-Ebert/dp/074076... ) has some pretty humurous, scathing reviews.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
This is what I love about living in the future (and HN). I live just north of Seattle, I read a story last night about this project in a magazine from the UK (New Scientist). I posted it to a website in California and the project creator, f
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I posted this not so much because I was amazed by the thing itself or thought it represented some pinnacle of "true" DIY, but more so because I like the idea of making things that were once far out of reach of anyone but serious hackers int
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DIY cellphone(hlt.media.mit.edu)
183 points by ryanmolden 14y ago|56 comments
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>He may settle for an amazing reference and introductions to investors Honest question: if you essentially blackmail someone for an "introduction to investors" what makes you think the person introducing doesn't pull them aside before o
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>If you're educated, high-IQ tiger parents and want to raise highly successful children, statistically you're better off having your own kids than adopting This is the most depressing thing I read in this whole thread. The idea that one

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