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by tedks 13y ago
Miley Cyrus is currently winning, and probably will win. This isn't the NSA hacking Time or any other conspiracy. Miley Cyrus is more popular than Edward Snowden, and more people are likely to want Miley Cyrus to win than Edward Snowde
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by tedks 13y ago
RMS just has a workflow, developed probably sometime in the late 80's and nearly only involving emacs. He also uses a Lemote Yeeloong (which can barely run ancient versions of IceCat), and runs it in a tty most of the time with just em
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by tedks 13y ago
Would a hospital staffed only by highly skilled surgeons constantly performing unassisted emergency surgery economically out-compete a hospital with nurses and receptionists?
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by tedks 13y ago
I generally agree that gaining a wider perspective is valuable, but it's not clear that HN is the best way to do that, and the OP outlines a number of reasons which make sense to me why it would be a bad way to do that. At the least, H
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by tedks 13y ago
I think everything you've said in your comment is correct, but when did the alternatives become "be a mindless drone" and "be a mindless drone who reads hacker news?"
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by tedks 13y ago
I think if you believe people should go to prisons, your morality is dictated by the state. If you find that offensive, maybe you should make an effort to clear your cached thoughts[0], and recompute everything you think about prisons. If y
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by tedks 13y ago
That's an optimistic way of looking at it. The pessimistic way is that people eventually see enough authority figures endorsing new stances that they change their own stance. Obviously nobody explicitly thinks their morality is dictate
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by tedks 13y ago
Yes. Most humans never progress past the command-ethics morality that characterizes Kohlberg's second stage (of three) of moral development. This isn't correlated with general intelligence. Most of the intelligent people you know
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by tedks 13y ago
TorGuard isn't a Tor provider. They're a VPN provider that specializes in BitTorrent. This is a common enough misconception that I'm surprised the Tor Project hasn't enforced their trademark.
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by tedks 13y ago
OCaml still has a global lock, but there are plenty of ways to do multiprocess concurrency (like Python).
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by tedks 13y ago
Being a developer is a very valuable skill. Presumably, working for eight hours as a developer can pay for a number of volunteering efforts, so it's strictly more valuable. If a charitable organization needed some software written, vol
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by tedks 13y ago
Maximize is control-win-uparrow -- I'm not sure if you meant that or fullscreen.
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by tedks 13y ago
If someone sold bad shit on the silk road, they'd lose all of their rep and stop making money. On the original silk road, it cost a very large amount to get a vendor account. So if you decided to start selling bad shit, you'd have
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by tedks 13y ago
IIRC, the biggest drug on the Silk Road was marijuana, which was probably not cartel grown. There are plenty of places in the US where it's effectively legal to grow marijuana, and the growers who have a legal enterprise almost certain
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by tedks 13y ago
Seems like a market sector ripe for disruption! All those pirates have mobile phones, and soon they'll have smartphones -- what's going to be the Uber for piracy? As a huge plus, visa law is fantastic in Somalia. Great place t
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by tedks 13y ago
I was under the impression that precise measurements could be made at a smaller scale, but apparently that isn't the case.
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by tedks 13y ago
The next time there's a question about misogyny in the tech community, I'm going to link to this comment.
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by tedks 13y ago
>Unless we're going to count the privilege to be drafted, or murdered, or die on the job with nary a twitch of the feminist diaspora. There's the privilege to not be raped. Or, the privilege to not be sexually harassed, on the
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by tedks 13y ago
I don't think that most feminists hate men. Most people who identify as feminists are pretty liberal, Hillary-Clinton-esque feminists, or "fun"-feminists of the "Pole dancing is empowering!" sort. Of the feminists t
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by tedks 13y ago
http://pinkwhite.biz/
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by tedks 13y ago
Oh yeah. I don't know what the market size is but it's definitely a thing. Pink and White Productions is a good example.
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by tedks 13y ago
It depends on the video game or the porn in question. A Bible is going to prime for social/moral thoughts and feelings in a very significant way. For a religious person I doubt there's anything that could make attitudes about mora
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by tedks 13y ago
Why not do it for a gram and just multiply?
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by tedks 13y ago
This has nothing to do with PRISM, but it's still neat technology. > Using PrivateCore vCage, no trace of Tor server code or data is maintained in memory or on disk, eliminating the possible exposure of secret key material through m
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by tedks 13y ago
Checkout isn't mentioned on Gwern's predictions for google product closure: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns I hope he updates the page now that we have this additional data point, I'd love to see how
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by tedks 13y ago
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Dai%...
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by tedks 13y ago
Direct link to the original paper on the author's webpage (8pg, PDF): http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Dai%...
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by tedks 13y ago
From the paper: """ When they meet the seller, the seller greets them in one of the following three ways: ‘‘Hi there. Oh, I’m so sorry it’s raining.’’ (superfluous apology), ‘‘Hi there. Oh, it’s raining.’’ (acknowledgment), o
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by tedks 13y ago
Were you aware of this beforehand? Did you take precautions to keep the LSD in a cool place away from light? If it was just in your fridge for five months, I doubt there was much left at the end.
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by tedks 13y ago
This is about microdosing, not tripping. There are some claims (one recently on reddit/r/nootropics) that taking very low doses of LSD will have various positive cognitive effects. Gwern here attempts to test these claims. If peop

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