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by staunch 9y ago
And there goes my cheap cryogenics backup plan...
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by staunch 9y ago
You're literally inventing conspiracy theories with zero evidence. Decreased performance on upgrade is an extremely common feature of most software. Servers, desktops, and smartphones are just computers running operating systems and ap
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by staunch 9y ago
On the upside, there is now a very easy way to see which "tech journalists" understand the concept of engineering trade offs. The tech reporters at NY Times, Linus Techtips, etc have never actually created products. They are not t
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Hacker News Transparency(hn.0x2237.club)
159 points by staunch 9y ago|83 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
Would be neat if early humans became infected with an Andromeda strain-like bacteria from inhaling meteorite dust. Maybe from the same source that seeded life on earth originally. After the alien bacteria took up residence in the human gut,
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by staunch 9y ago
I think it's more "traditional" to get the Christmas cake at a convenience store than an actual bakery though, plus it really completes the picture. One of those things that's so wrong, it's right.
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by staunch 9y ago
Quick. Stop using every product made by a startup! ;-)
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by staunch 9y ago
> “It’s not like people are dying from pesticides in cannabis..." It's entirely possible that many people are dying from carcinogenic pesticides in cannabis. Similar to the way people die from impure cocaine, heroin, etc. Ign
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by staunch 9y ago
My guess is that Obama disallowed of any testing of nuclear-powered aircraft but Trump has since reversed that order. And this is a disinformation campaign by the US gov to create a cover for new testing programs. Now, if anyone spots the n
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by staunch 9y ago
This is just lack of imagination talking. Reddit's sub-reddit moderator system is just one example of how to scale moderation to millions of users. If a moderator gets out of hand, reddit admins step in or users move to a new subreddit
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by staunch 9y ago
What exactly makes you think it can't scale? Hacker News scaled from hundreds of users to hundreds of thousands of users and is still very high quality. Worse in some ways and better in others. Reddit scaled to tens of millions. Just b
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by staunch 9y ago
Trial and error isn't great for this kind of stuff but it works great for AI research. Let's create software that can do genetic engineering of viruses right the first time.
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by staunch 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with Twitter operating a highly moderated platform. Hacker News is a successful example. In both cases though, it's a huge problem that there aren't alternatives that do off truly uncensored speech. At t
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by staunch 9y ago
Mozilla is an embarrassment of an organization run by people paying themselves $1 million/year for years of gross mismanagement.
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by staunch 9y ago
An F-18 pilot saying "there's a whole fleet of them" on radar is pretty incredible. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-tha...
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by staunch 9y ago
My guess is that HN banned PIA's shared VPN gateway IP address(es) by mistake. A large number of users making requests from the same IP(s) can look like abuse. There's an unban feature, visit: https://news.ycombina
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by staunch 9y ago
Techno-optimists created the modern world... You say you want to shutdown "trolls" but you surely also want to modify the definition of troll on an on-going basis. The pessimists think they can't win on ideas alone so they re
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by staunch 9y ago
Because some large percentage of people are filled with cynicism and pessimism? Every objective measure of society is better today than at any time in the past, and yet we have people calling for curtailing a core American value due to a su
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by staunch 9y ago
The idea that "ideas can be dangerous" is a dangerous idea.
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by staunch 9y ago
This problem will resolve itself because there are brave people willing to weather the controversy caused by thinking in public. Long unedited podcasts are turning out to be the best platform, with people like Sam Harris, Dan Carlin, and ev
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by staunch 9y ago
How can Sam Altman realize that YC is itself a potential solution and still do nothing? YC is still the same private club, that brags about funding just 3% of the founders that apply. If Elon Musk ran YC, he'd raise billions and fund t
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by staunch 9y ago
At least one important thing will happen as a result of this person's effort. Probably many great things no one expected. The world needs a lot more people like this. The example being set here should be emulated by many others.
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by staunch 9y ago
Not a good comparison. The reformers (Gracchi brothers, Caesar, etc) wanted Roman citizens to have their fair share of the actual land that Rome conquered. Not regular hand outs of grain. The idea was that citizens would actually own a pi
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by staunch 9y ago
Autopilot, like most software during development, is not ready for real use.
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by staunch 9y ago
Severance cures all. Six months. Cheaper than waiting another 5 months and giving 1 month.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's pretty hard to beat a French press. A $20 version will last forever and make coffee fit for a king.
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by staunch 9y ago
Exposure therapy seems to be pretty solid science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
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by staunch 9y ago
Or more generally, this is just a description of Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology There may be "limits" in terms of scope and trade offs to society, but there are no practical "physica
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by staunch 9y ago
"The Decentralized Web" is the WWW system Tim Berners-Lee invented and that we're all using right now. It relies on the DNS and HTTP protocols. This new IPFS-based decentralized web is interesting but it's not even a mea
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by staunch 9y ago
Socialism is only a valid answer if you don't understand technology. If you think there's a fixed pie and we have to forcibly break it into rations so that everyone gets at least something . But technology offers a much better so

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