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by sdurkin 18y ago
Number 3 is especially relevant. It gives weight to the adage that "Success is learning to improve with each failure." Whenever I make a mistake, especially a big one, I like to stop and think, "is this mistake a result of process. Is there
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Hopefully they'll integrate it with their actually functional apps. I'm still waiting for the metaverse where I can accomplish real tasks in a pseudo-natural way.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Love the iPhone, hate the keyboard.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Auction pricing for exclusive places would generate a ton of revenue.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
As long as English remains the international language of commerce the incentives to keep all dialects mutually intelligible should prevent too much divergence.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"Without that standard, the computer industry in the 1990s would have resembled the web today: diverse, vibrant and flowering with abundant innovation, but also frequently broken because of the inability of disparate products to make the mo
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by sdurkin 18y ago
DoS attacks are illegal. If this were some kid in his basement, the FBI would have long since busted down his door and hauled him off to juvie. What's with the double standard?
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by sdurkin 18y ago
We should note that this kind of data isn’t going to be useful for security purposes - the US Customs office has invested in a $15 Billion tracking system that (hopefully) leaves this one in the dust. Wouldn't put too much faith in that..
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by sdurkin 18y ago
I think this is a good point. The number of possibilities is too great to imagine, and there very well could be some type of life I simply can't envision. "What is there to stop evolutionary processes to happen on a quantum level?" There ar
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"What is the probability that evolution would result in a "life form" anything like us? And by anything like us, I mean anything which can understand any of the concepts we understand?" Pretty good, in this universe at least. Every intellig
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"Your examples are ridiculous. Stopping violence is not violence." If you don't like the previous (perfectly valid) example, how about one that doesn't involve violence on the part of the perpetrator? Perhaps theft, or public nudity. The po
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"Oh really? We put people in jail for failing to pay taxes. People get killed in jail. They get beat and raped." Yes, really. Victimization in prison isn't part of the state's intent or action. Its an unfortunate consequence of a poorly man
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by sdurkin 18y ago
"You just said: 'the minorities are protected, and that means force can be used on them.' It's a clear contradiction." This is the basis of constitutional government. Just holding a minority opinion doesn't necessarily mean the majority can
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by sdurkin 18y ago
First of all, force isn't violence. Nobody beats you for failing to pay your taxes. Second of all, you do consent. You have freedom of speech to express your displeasure, and a vote to rid yourself of unjust leaders. Taxes are the price we
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Ah, now we've come to the point of it. "The fundamental disagreement between libertarians and progressives is that libertarians do not find the values of a mob/majority justify violence upon a minority." The power of the state rests upon th
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The government doesn't have a monopoly on education, especially not higher education. Transfer payments aren't the same thing as a centrally directed allocation of goods. You can still choose where to spend them. Even targeted assistance fo
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The era of small government was the era of the robber-barons. I'm still amazed some people can look back on a time when children as young as 12 performed industrial labor with nostalgia. Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of efficient governm
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by sdurkin 18y ago
""All that this graph reflects is that as taxes were decreased for the upper %1 over the past half century, they were increased on everybody else." False." I have to disagree. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (as well as the cut of 64) disproport
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The argument is over what point we're at on the Laffer Curve, as well as the specific shape of the curve (i.e. is the right side so steep that we can tax at whatever rate we want up until revenues collapse entirely?), and about how tax enfo
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by sdurkin 18y ago
And both are largely useless if you can't bake bread.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Not to belabor the point, but what would you use if you could afford it? What do you use that doesn't work well enough or costs too much? These are the types of questions I'm hoping the intelligent people here might humor me by answering. P
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by sdurkin 18y ago
My answer to the same question is "an easy way to get small amounts of funding." So that's the avenue I'm pursuing. Are you saying that there's no problem you've encountered for which there isn't already an adequate solution? Perhaps I was
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Ask YC: What do you want?
1 points by sdurkin 18y ago|6 comments
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Wow, very nice. If you're not in stealth mode, may I ask what is your current venture?
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The article says YouTube is making $100 million. Is that revenue or profit? I was under the impression that YouTube was losing money with its $1 CMPs and such.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Correlation != Causality That said, exercise makes you feel good.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
The idea that the number could be as high as 10% success makes me ecstatic. Considering the chance of being admitted to the grad or med school of choice, those odds sound pretty good to me.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Benevolence seems to be something our species is trending toward, and is in someway required as part of the foundation for civilization. As such, I think its reasonable to believe that conscious or any derivatives thereof would be concerned
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by sdurkin 18y ago
That's absurd. We would notice any intelligent society, no matter how primitive.
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by sdurkin 18y ago
Why? What possible reason could a benevolent race have for not helping us?

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