schizoidboy

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by schizoidboy 10y ago
A good friend died a few years ago wingsuit BASE jumping in the alps. It hit me hard. He was incredibly smart. He was one of the top guys in the sport. He was careful and deeply researched and understood the physics of wingsuits. Thus why I
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
I really appreciate (and am very fascinated by) your extreme honesty in this thread. I've read Camus twice. The first time I read The Stranger, I took away meaninglessness, in the sense that existentialism seemed true. The second time,
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
It would be fascinating to work towards reducing this problem. Any thoughts on how to get into this field or how software could be applied?
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
I think it'd be interesting to have an option for either type. I find a lot of commentary is suppressed because people don't want other people to see their thoughts, whereas with email, they can just reply directly with thoughts.
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
The idea would be that when you send an email, you give it a category, like politics. Then at the bottom of each person's email, there are two links: 1) Unsubscribe from person X's emails about category Y, and 2) Unsubscribe from
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
31 :-) I miss the pen-pal days of emails between friends.
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
I was thinking primarily for close friends, but for broader contacts, I agree with you, so I was thinking of a system that would allow them to unsubscribe from certain topics (e.g. politics)
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
Not sure what you mean by clever baiting, but yeah, I guess I mean going back to the olden email days, at least for close friends
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
What if it is still 1-on-1 communication; so, imagine this: I use an app to write the email, select a group or set of contacts, and the system sends out a 1-on-1 style email to each one of those contacts?
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by schizoidboy 10y ago
What do people think about using email as an alternative to social networks - i.e. creating lists of email addresses (groups), and sending out photos, jokes, opinions, etc. to those groups (e.g. an "All" group to send life updates
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by schizoidboy 11y ago
Myplaceonline, an open source virtual life assistant: https://myplaceonline.com/ It's amorphous; just anything my roommate and I find useful for computers to automate. Latest feature is a way to share pictures and stor
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by schizoidboy 11y ago
There are a lot of GNU Social servers - any recommendations?
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by schizoidboy 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the evidence for 10x extinction rate?
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by schizoidboy 11y ago
Self-serving, but I'm working on an open source project which handles password storage using AES using symmetric key with the website password (many other features): https://github.com/myplaceonline/myplaceonline
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by schizoidboy 11y ago
I think some of your ideas are very thought-provoking, especially the idea that most communication should start with more humility. It seems like a good idea that people should strive to start by laying out a landscape of where their ideas
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by schizoidboy 11y ago
How do you define sustainability? Various metrics suggest human society has a likely chance of sustaining its most important trajectories: http://radicaloptimism.org/wiki/Human_Society See also The Rational Optimist by
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Ask HN: What are your favorite JavaScript charting libraries?
5 points by schizoidboy 11y ago|4 comments
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by schizoidboy 12y ago
And ZeroClipboard
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by schizoidboy 12y ago
I've been working on a "virtual life assistant": https://myplaceonline.com/ . It's in private beta since my target audience is just me right now, but the code is all open source: https://github
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by schizoidboy 12y ago
Two hypotheses: 1. Maybe nothing is wrong with you and the people that aren't reciprocating aren't the right people for you. In this case, consider ways to find new people, activities, etc., or try to be more comfortable with the
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by schizoidboy 12y ago
But if I use gpg, the default algorithm is CAST-5, so I'll probably still type AES in my code for --cipher-algo AES256 (or API equivalent) :-P (this is mostly in jest, I know that CAST-5 is usually a reasonable default)
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by schizoidboy 12y ago
In the Symmetric ciphers section, it ends with "This leaves 5-9 and 15" but why are 2-4 bad (aes128-cbc, aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc)? It seems the argument is that GCM is better than CBC, and CTR is okay. My general impression is that
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by schizoidboy 12y ago
Great project! Please also provide a yum repository and instructions (and any others you feel are popular enough). You may want to look at the way SSLMate does it, with an operating system drop down selection (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Arch,
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by schizoidboy 13y ago
Obligatory: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-03-28/
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by schizoidboy 13y ago
Anyone have issues with finger numbness with a standing desk? I used a GeekDesk for about 6 months and started to get numbness in either hand that I tried to use my mouse with. I guessed that it was related to the new pressure on the wrist,
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by schizoidboy 13y ago
Good reference, thanks. I would add, for those that haven't read the Boldrin/Levine link yet, it only starts off with the myth of the lone inventor, but ultimately tackles the modern pharmaceutical industry as well, which is proba
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by schizoidboy 13y ago
Here is an interesting book arguing for total abolition: Against Intellectual Monopoly, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, Professors of Economics, UCLA and Washington University, 2010, http://www.micheleboldrin.com/resear
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by schizoidboy 13y ago
Thanks.
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Ask HN: Anyone know about the HOPE conference this year?
1 points by schizoidboy 13y ago|2 comments
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by schizoidboy 14y ago
Pretty cool. Couple of ideas: 1. Ability to skip voting on a video (looks like you can click "watch videos" at the top to skip, but then it might come back) 2. Ability to suggest funny videos, since it seems the selection is limited (or the

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