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by tjic 14y ago
LOL! Genius. (and, sadly, true)
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> When most people argue over what is "art", they actually intend to be arguing over what is good art. No. When I argue over what "art" means, I intend to argue about what "art" means. > "Art" is just a descriptor that can be given
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> Timer goes off? Turn over, too bad. I used to play chess with someone whose style of play would watching paint dry seem fast paced. I bought a chess clock. Good investment!
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by tjic 14y ago
Zendo is great - I played it again with my nine year old godson last weekend when he was here having a sleep over. Tangentially: this kid is an awesome proto-nerd, and I fully expect that he'll be posting at HN in another 6 to 8 years - for
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by tjic 14y ago
Linked to from the Nomic article was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_mutable_rule... which I find fascinating.
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by tjic 14y ago
Just typed out a long story about playing Nomic once...and then deleted it. I think I should get an upvote or two for sparing all of you the details. ;-)
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God, it pains me to click the "upvote" button on a comment that begins "Richard Stallman is absolutely correct", but the second sentence was so correct that I had to. ;-)
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> comically awful managers who watch terrorist attacks on TV and then think, "I'd like to do that to a company!" I didn't know which side of this argument to give credence to, but that quote just helped me make up my mind.
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by tjic 14y ago
So you're arguing that the search engine space, or new computer manufacturers, or rocket ships did better before venture capital and startups got involved?
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by tjic 14y ago
Nothing except my own ethics. I don't like to take money from people who haven't consented to hand it over. Smells too much like theft. #dont_be_evil
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by tjic 14y ago
While I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk, and I even think Tesla is pretty cool, I'm a little underwhelmed. Every one of my ventures could be cash flow positive if I got a half BILLION dollar loan from the taxpayers and then was able to sell my p
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> Wow, I hope you're not in charge of the Earth's innovation budget. I don't want ANYONE in charge of the "innovation budget". Innovation budgets gets us things like the Soviet Union, or SEMATECH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH
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> Cheap and widely available computing devices can do a lot to raise literacy and technical skill across the world. Maybe yes, maybe no, but what I'm criticizing is the idea that a bunch of pie-in-the-sky academics are going to come up
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Would love to hear the other two!
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There is a trend that cuts through the industrial design world (you can see a new instance of it pop online every few hours) - the idea that the regular market economy is missing the boat on some GENIUS idea that involves recycling / underl
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by tjic 14y ago
> Why would we allow individuals to have such power? Who is this "we" that has either the power, right, or wisdom to overrule people on such things? > So the issue of gun ownership is the same issue as freedom in technology Wonderfu
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> They should why?
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> This is exactly what happens in Paris. Housing market there is skewed due to exactly this behavior. Under any sane market, untapped demand creates its own supply. Big cities, though, have big governments that forbid new construction.
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by tjic 14y ago
> Lodging laws aren't there just to protect hotels. They exist to protect consumers Asserted without evidence.
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by tjic 14y ago
Was that excerpt intended to rebut the statement "It's not even really clear what a Cleanweb would be", or to support it? To me, it does the latter.
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I'm glad to see that RMS is using his trademark good manners to reach out to the undecided middle.
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> The amount of privilege built into this "painful failure" is disquieting. The word "privilege" is one of those politically correct Newspeak words that always stops me dead in my tracks. It's a shibboleth of a whole bunch of broken th
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by tjic 14y ago
I guarantee you that people who avoid working hard at their startups will never have any success that tempts them to work harder.
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> as they are already on a tight budget They are NOT on a tight budget - even with the entire shuttle fleet shut down, they're spending more than they have in all but a few years since 1970. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
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by tjic 14y ago
> Many posters even here, however, seem to be unaware of climate cahnge. Based on what? I grant you that many posters - even here - think that the science is uncertain or that the economics of trying to prevent it as opposed to deal wit
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Unless the World Bank has climatologists on staff doing original research, this boils down to "we found a paper that we're basing our planning on". It's as relevant and interesting as "Boston Symphony envisions a world with quantum cryptog
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Great book!
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> Is solar shade so much hardrer to launch than retooling all the biology to live at 45C...It seems he bet everything on climate being out of control. This was the very first (of several) objections that I had. Stross is a pretty good w
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> It was kind of Charlie Stross to take time out from writing his latest novel to post the interesting blog post shared here. I think it's an interesting topic, so I'm glad that it got posted, but let's not get TOO fawning - since when
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by tjic 14y ago
What the heck does "built with love" even mean? Is this just a hipster marketing term to tell us that it's small and cute and made by people who play ukuleles and ride unicycles in their spare time, and not by evil corporate people who comm

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