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by vdaniuk 12y ago
We've still a long way from Gaia, but internet + biological computing may take us to there faster than expected.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
"ALL sides", "no way to form an opinion", "information war". Pay attention, this is how astroturfing to spread FUD looks like. The person is not trying to increase understanding, he or she is trying to promote
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Conveniently forgetting about Crimea, aren't you?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
False equivalence. Again. The West is U.S. and Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, France, Slovakia and Canada and many others. So no, you don't look at the West, you look at some of the countries of the West with the worst human rights t
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
False equivalence is one of the most used tactics by Russian supporters/astroturfing. You can see it everywhere in this HN thread.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Sure, as soon as you say something along the lines of "oh, you can't believe anyone" or "all media does it" or "the propaganda is coming from both sides" you are branded a shill. Because it's a shill
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Unnecessary generalization. Disruption may or may not have negative externalities. In fact, many externalities of disruptions are positive.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Hacker News is a place where people at least try to build a coherent, rational discourse. Your posts detract from that goal and these two comments of your are a net negative to the discussion. But you already know that as you are posting fr
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Nope, I didn't think that you are dumb at all. However, I believe that you have a clear cut conflict of interest that you may not be able to mitigate no matter how hard you try. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Really? Care to tell us why the okpl user is already hell banned after posting 2 comments in this thread criticizing Dropbox and Rice involment?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I've been monitoring HN reactions to Dropbox news with interest and I can conclude that mentioning Rice in comments has fallen out of vogue and is punished with downvotes of power users. HN was outraged at first, now it's meh abou
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Come on, don't be so rude, it's totally uncalled for. And you are missing the perspective. Not all cities are typical American, okay? There may be cities in warmer climate zones with tens of thousands of fruit trees.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Hey, I love your take on meeting minutes and subsequent collaborative task manager. I feel that your project would benefit significantly from identifying a niche and a customer segment that is most sympathetic to your user experience. Perha
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Hm, I have an interesting thought. If "rules" is a consensus about best practices it is a standard model of the particular domain. Conditions of narrative manipulation and tragedy of the commons apply. With that in mind, one shoul
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are just good photographs". I disagree with this and think that it is a self-defeating, irrational attitude. Sure, validation is not a silver bullet. However, lots of startups make
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Voting is playing by the rules of the system. The world is changing too fast now to use that a reliable strategy.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Surprised about the community response in this thread that is silencing and claiming inappropriateness of criticism. It is strange to see here the glorification of the technological augmentation/support of a most insidious form of mark
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Religious "good" is really selfish, mitigating the existential fear and providing "guidance" while society absorbs the negative externalities of decreased critical reasoning, departure from reality and increased sectaria
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>some reports that the plane was escorted by Ukrainian fighter jets I am sure those reports are really credible, right? Care to provide an authoritative source on that?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
First of all, good job. Secondly, do you have any plans to put the project to practical use? Or is it a research/tinkering project?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I am a current DigitalOcean client and I was recommending DO to my friends and professional contacts. New policy of requiring scanned documents is unacceptable in the environment of pervasive nation-state level monitoring and destruction of
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
You can't be serious...
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Who watches the watchmen? Many laws are unjust, unfair and oppressive.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I'd like to share my experience. I started to learn programming by taking Coursera and other moocs in python, ruby, javascript and c. I feel that my understanding was greatly enhanced by simultaneously getting to know various language.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Because Elle is a fashion magazine and readers are interested in these details. Is it so hard to empathize?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I second the high quality of "Competitive strategy" and "Advanced competitive strategy" and its value for founders. However, ignore "Introduction to marketing" and other courses that mostly talk about offline m
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
The notion that Taylor Swift is not an artist is demonstrably absurd. She may be an artist whose art is overoptimized for commercial success, but that is irrelevant. Let's talk semantics. Who is an artist? An artist is a person engaged
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I understand the general discontent with in-app purchases, but stop being sensational. No one is "coerced" into buying digital goods. definition of coerce is "persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or t
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Two words only: asteroid mining. This will change the economic parameters of space travel.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
But the article didn't support the title. The title supported by the article could be "How Google Map Hackers Can Contribute To The Demise Of The Restaurant On A Downhill Trajectory". This is just one sensationalist title.

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