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by saimiam 9y ago
> actually still own/have a copy of Record companies forced plenty of DRM related BS down our throats to drag us into a "license not own" rental model. I suggest we return the favor.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Fine, FSF. (Can't edit my answer any more.) Just burn non-OS software to the ground and be done with it.
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by saimiam 9y ago
FOSS is a philosophy of making source code available to people to do as they please in the confines of their homes. It's far more rugged individualism than collectivist, standardized one-size-ism. The EFF should read up the NRA playboo
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by saimiam 9y ago
When it comes to sourcing information from discussion boards, each top thread is effectively the one and only time the algorithm will interact with that thread for that topic. Unless each thread is monitored and updated by a small subset of
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by saimiam 9y ago
How do you make it sufficiently authoritative and trustworthy so that the general population including us doesn't go out and seek hearsay and speculation to get their jollies. I mean, what interest could the identity of the killer have
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by saimiam 9y ago
If we all such smart people/techies, can we spitball a better breaking news feed algorithm into existence? I'll kick it off - 1. Focus all news on Who? What? When? Where? Omit the "Why?". 2. When in doubt cite the primar
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by saimiam 9y ago
Literally no entity with more than one line of business has each line of business growing at the same rate. This implies that the successful LoBs are "clickbait" to subsidize the less profitable LoBs. Familiar (counter) example -
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by saimiam 9y ago
I'll put my solution up for HN's consideration - https://datajoy.us/fupm.html We even paid out to our first couple of websites on Sept 30th! Join the party.
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by saimiam 9y ago
How do you protect and encourage innovation without patents?
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by saimiam 9y ago
> for a country where most people own guns and can legally shoot you to death and claim castle doctrine, the IPO of a kickass search engine like Google was but another feather in SV's cap See how irrelevant the caste system referen
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by saimiam 9y ago
If Bitcoin is around when your grandkids are of age, even this minute might be a great time to buy Bitcoin. Why miss the same boat twice?
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Meaning?
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by saimiam 9y ago
The best suggestion I found in this other thread was for every country to follow strict reciprocity with American visitors to their country. I'd love to see Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg's social media profiles get splashed on so
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by saimiam 9y ago
Or null results. What's to stop anyone from creating a secret profile and using a VPN (to avoid linking the terrorist persona's IP address with their main persona's IP address) just to talk to fellow terrorists? Terrorists co
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by saimiam 9y ago
> the one that actually creates value What value is value if it can't be sold? Yes, there's intrinsic value in doing things because they need to be done but most of the work done in offices around the world derives its meaning
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by saimiam 9y ago
What is your approach to delivering a programmatic solution to a given problem? Without knowing that, I can't quite tell if you understood the article at all.
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by saimiam 9y ago
It's interesting that different people took up the cause of highlighting Lenovo's faults. Unless it's the same person using alts, it looks like people are quite mad at Lenovo.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I've posted this on HN before but we at Datajoy are trying to solve the problem of consuming without paying which lets ad platforms treat us as the product: https://datajoy.us/fupm.html . Use it, block ads, pay for co
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by saimiam 9y ago
I live close (relatively) to Calcutta in the state of Jharkhand. It's far from the glamor of a tourist city in rajasthan. Poverty is still an issue and it may well be worse than Cambodia. The (dis)advantage India has is that economic g
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by saimiam 9y ago
Did the realization that once basic needs are met, we all have a lot in common take a while to come? Did you try to fit your Cambodian neighbors into a narrative that you recognized before accepting them as they are? Sorry for such personal
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by saimiam 9y ago
How long do those peoples live? If their expectancy is less than or similar to modern society's after controlling for infant mortality and preventable deaths before say 18, then maybe the lack of sleep is hurting them too.
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by saimiam 9y ago
How do you deal with any sense of emotional distance from the people around you? If you make a good living but the people around you don't, at some level, you must find yourself unable to identify with their struggles and happinesses.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Do you blog about your experiences anywhere? I'd like to read more. (Totally serious request in case it comes off as otherwise.)
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by saimiam 9y ago
Wait till Uber (and others) launches a rewards points system. All they have to do is to give regular riders some multiple of their number of completed rides. People will willingly lock themselves inside the Uber World network to earn points
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by saimiam 9y ago
The apple exercise in question: https://medium.com/@Catylator/one-thing-you-can-do-to-feel-m...
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by saimiam 9y ago
Knowing about is not creating. Speaking of hubris, the ultimate hubris would be to presume to know art just because I have read up on it. Art has everything to do with democracy. An artist imagines and renders a world created solely between
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by saimiam 9y ago
It's an inside joke with whomever I was chatting when I went to the site.
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Welp, implausibly, it works.
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An education trying to create a rational democracy would focus on liberal arts mixed in some ratio with an engineering temper. Focusing only on engineering and science will cost society art and creativity. I live in India and while we have
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After I asked this question of HackerNews, I went off to medium.com to read about art because they say art can save the heart. One thought exercise on creativity showed me for a brief second what intrinsic reward looks like. I'll try t

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