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by staunch 9y ago
1. YouTube built their business on other people's content. Just like LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist, etc. Aren't we, as the public, entitled to access the data that we, the collective public, have contributed? How
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by staunch 9y ago
IMHO: If an AGI from the future came back to 2017, it could almost certainly create a new AGI from scratch on current hardware. What would it type into its terminal?
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Make releasing your stuff the primary goal, because anything you don't actually put into the world is just personal research. And then update the project and release a new version! Your product-making skill level is the number o
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by staunch 9y ago
I'm sure he chats with Medvedev about his iPhone. This isn't "tech" so much as the very highest level of military strategy. Putin has spent his entire life keeping tabs on the U.S. military's plans and actions. He k
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by staunch 9y ago
This already happened in the 2003 Iraq invasion. It was wildly unpopular, so Cheney & Gang crafted a bullshit strategy around using very few troops and a lot more technology. It never made sense. They just wanted a war and knew they had
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by staunch 9y ago
As long as it changes gradually, or partially, that might not matter.
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by staunch 9y ago
You think Putin parrots Medvedev? I think you're got it backwards. But either way, it's more likely he's "parroting" secret U.S. military plans that his spies obtained for him. This is almost certainly what our mili
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John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE(youtube.com)
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by staunch 9y ago
Except that, on it's current trajectory, humanity will very shortly conquer all known challenges that earth offers. Even death itself is solvable given effort and time. We do share this spaceship with many other lifeforms, but we reall
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by staunch 10y ago
You can group 1000+ investors into a single entity on the cap table, as one reasonable solution. It should be possible to make it beneficial for the users and the company. The company gets money and committed users, and the users get $100-$
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by staunch 10y ago
Yeah, there are dozens of startups working on crowdfunding. AngelList should have been able to make something work by now, but it will probably be someone else.
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by staunch 10y ago
And yet it felt completely obvious to many of us that were around since the beginning. YC, reddit, HN, and Dropbox are among the companies I definitely would have invested $1000 into, had the opportunity been available. I predict the next g
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by staunch 10y ago
What if all comments had information about the poster's IP address. Maybe a unique hash based on IP, country of origin, registered organization? Maybe that way people could at least identify suspicious patterns themselves. But even wit
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by staunch 10y ago
How about technologist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T "It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was be
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by staunch 10y ago
Yes, exactly. You don't get the output of a big Apple or Google without them existing initially as startups. Mark Markkula funded Apple. Andy Bechtolsheim funded Google. These didn't happen by accident. They weren't inevitabl
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by staunch 10y ago
I think privilege is still the correct word, whether you earn it or not. I know it has some bad connotations but that's not what I mean.
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by staunch 10y ago
Yes, of course it's his right to do whatever he wants. I'm just suggesting there's a moral imperative to do something when you can. "With great power comes great responsibility." "To whom much is given, much is
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by staunch 10y ago
Yes, I believe in this whole technology "koolaid" thing. I'm sure you don't use anything created by startups in your daily life, like products from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Tesla, For
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by staunch 10y ago
He's in the extremely privileged position to fund ten thousand people's potentially world-changing dreams. Instead, he's going to squander it podcasting in his pajamas. We need someone with the ambition Paul Graham had when h
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CEI and WJ RS-111 Receiver Series – Used in the Watergate Wiretapping(watkins-johnson.terryo.org)
32 points by staunch 10y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 10y ago
TBL is a great role model. He saw an important opportunity to make the world better and he executed on it selflessly. I do think he probably should have started a browser company or something though. The nice thing is that his beautiful dr
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by staunch 10y ago
"Out of Control" is freedom.
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by staunch 10y ago
I completely support and forgive Palmer Luckey. I hope for the world's sake that he goes on to do more great things. There are truly bad people in the world. People who deserve to be hated. Palmer Luckey is very far from being one of t
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by staunch 10y ago
One thing is for certain, ad blocking is going to become more and more prevalent and never less. The end game for ad blocking is to all but eliminate advertising. An ad blocking client could, ultimately, just block any domain that has aggre
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by staunch 10y ago
Does anyone know where I can find the best summary/analysis of the CIA leaks? Is there someone I can follow on Twitter that's doing great analysis?
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by staunch 10y ago
The technology used by the CIA and NSA is all stuff people on HN can totally grok. That's kind of exciting and disappointing at the same time. Some people on this site could probably do better than the CIA and NSA is doing. Some people
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by staunch 10y ago
> Assange has repeatedly said that the source is not the russian goverment or a affiliated state party False! He does not answer the question about someone affiliated with Russia handing him the information. He always repeats this care
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by staunch 10y ago
Just yell "I'm wired in!" and get back to it! (teehee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=942sTOBISQs )
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by staunch 10y ago
Our descendants will pity us, as we pity our ancestors....lol
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by staunch 10y ago
To me, the worst fact of life is to realize how intensely and tragically our ancestors suffered from lack of medical technology, and that it continues to our day. And the greatest fact of life is that all this suffering will soon be at an e

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