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by tjic 14y ago
> Nor are they racist in nature. I think that's exactly the point: why limit the analysis to racist speech (when the idiocy hurled on one side will be racist) and not equally bad - or worse - speech (when that other type of speech is on
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> I've bought clothing from only countries with better than not labor laws for the past several years. This has the effect of giving employees who already make, say, $100 / day more options as to where to work, while refusing to give th
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by tjic 14y ago
> completely at odds with the facts Asserted without evidence. The argument makes perfect sense to me. What part of it do you think is false?
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> Hopefully our records will be better preserved than those from the Mayflower. I dunno. They Mayflower records are pretty decent. And online. http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/images/MayflowerCompact.gif
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by tjic 14y ago
> The complexity of getting to Mars is nothing compared to the complexity of creating a social unit that can survive and thrive on another planet. What's so complicated about "a family" ?
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by tjic 14y ago
I remember reading a science fiction novel based on a similar idea perhaps 20 years ago. It was pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/Redshift-Rendezvous-John-Stith/dp/1880...
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by tjic 14y ago
Having been working on a science fiction novel that covers economics, futures markets, genetic uplift, AI, finance, combat, and orbital mechanics, and having been working on it for 3-5 hours per day for 18 months ( http://morlockpublishing
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Heroic IT folks in NYC hauling fuel to keep servers alive shut down by unions(twitter.com)
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> Clearly, there is a gap. This is a problem. I grant you your first point. ...but that doesn't remotely prove your second point, which you've just asserted.
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As a productivity system, this is idiotic. As a blog post that serves as link-bait, it is GENIUS. ...which is to say, I think it excelled at the REAL goal. ;-)
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Some problems just don't have good solutions. We're so used to political debates where the Republicans say "less regulation will solve X", the Democrats say "more spending will solve X", the libertarians say "X is none of the government's b
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by tjic 14y ago
Because government (a) tells everyone that they need college, (b) works to make sure that huge floods of loan money are available.
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> we thought it was too good to be true. It turned out that it was. I don't know about everyone else, but I understood this lesson by the time that I was ten years old. I'd be curious as to what price differential this guy got on his ho
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by tjic 14y ago
So windmills were basically like paycheck deduction of taxes in 21st century America? ;-)
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> It does feel like something fishy is going on I'd really like to see the letter. Even if names and a few other bits are redacted, it would let me tell the difference between: a) I've got a logo up top, they've got a logo up top [ clea
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Ask HN: my GF is a graphic designer - how should she find work?
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by tjic 14y ago
Well, obviously I disagree. I've launched two startups, been an active participant in Hacker News for five years now, and have a karma of about 5k. I think that folks might be interested in what it's like to write 900 pages of fiction, esp
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Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup (part 2)(morlockpublishing.com)
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Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup(morlockpublishing.com)
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by tjic 14y ago
This is a very good point for a reason that you don't call out: Man-rated systems are DESIGNED to be much safer. The trade-off involving dollars is entirely different. You can't criticize a non-man-rated system for blowing up any more tha
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by tjic 14y ago
> not sure why anyone would want to jump the gun on narrowing down geography in this way. Because it's a tool designed to take out Iranian uranium refining tools.
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by tjic 14y ago
My thought exactly - how weird it must be to be inside looking out. Public key crypto was discovered on the inside long before it was rediscovered on the outside, and I figure that the insiders must have been amused by Diffie, Hellman, R, S
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by tjic 14y ago
> All of you talking about this as a printer appear to have missed the point very slightly. This isn't a general purpose printer, its more like a personalized newspaper producer. I think people are GETTING the point: "that stuff you pre
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Not if you're doing it the new cool way. ;-)
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The biggest problems I have with wikipedia are: 1) deletionists 2) secret editor cabals Wikipedia is stunningly open to new editors, unless you create a page that someone else doesn't like. I've seen multiple people get turned off from Wik
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by tjic 14y ago
You've hit the nail right on the head. I'm a huge believer in the free market, but the economics of journalism really do seem to be pushing a lot of serious periodicals into a crappy direction. Salon was never excellent, but it was good at
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Awesome response / explanation. Thank you.
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I have a cheap box at a webhosting company with ssh access. I use svn over ssh and check in all of my person stuff there. This is really nice because I can share linux dotfiles, etc. between my work and home machines.
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by tjic 14y ago
> It doesn't matter what the sector is. Doing the same thing as everybody else, and doing the same thing year after year after year, is trivially easy. Yeah, that's why no one ever watches the Olympics. Running? Pffft! Lots of people
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by tjic 14y ago
> You can empathize with the OEMs, though. For decades, these companies have had an incredibly easy ride, producing mediocre, commodity computers, and getting very rich in the process. I love how someone who's never worked in the sector

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