xenophanes

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by xenophanes 13y ago
That's better :) I haven't been paying much attention to this stuff but one issue I'd raise is that HN does seem to allow (encourage?) complaint threads about other companies like paypal, and also sometimes google, apple, fac
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by xenophanes 13y ago
It being pure distilled drama would be a reason for it to be #2 on front page. You didn't even reply with a different opinion about what reason it's high on the front page. So he has an opinion that he's willing to write out
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Correct.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
FWIW I'm not convinced that more appeasement of status signaling stuff would be a good thing, even if that kind of compromise got SENS some more money in the short term. Living longer is great but living better is also very important.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Their kids will need SENS ~30 years after they do. I get that the typical plan is to have a dynasty via grand kids, great grand kids, etc, but it's dumb to ignore SENS.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
He didn't say that yachts are good for manslaughter or that manslaughter is good. I don't want to debate politics with you because you don't come off as seeking a rational open-minded discussion. I'm commenting primarily
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by xenophanes 13y ago
If you care about your children, then hugely benefitting them is both selfish (changes the world in a way you personally prefer) and rational. Whatever the OP meant I think it's important.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
If they care about their kids, that's plenty of reason to fund SENS!
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Big SENS fan here. Good question. A lot of the reason is that people do philanthropy to gain various types of status and reputation. It's often a social action. Investing in SENS wouldn't impress their friends in the right way, wh
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by xenophanes 13y ago
so that's better than before, right?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
It was a gamecube game that was ported before it came out. so there was a parallel period, but originally it was a gamecube game. If you wanna look stuff up for discussions, look it up better. BTW they even mirrored the entire world for the
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Of course twilight princess controls are equivalent to buttons. it's a gamecube game that was ported to Wii. i'm not sure how casual gamers feel about it, but i find the motion controls extremely frustrating and they make games si
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by xenophanes 13y ago
According to those pages, they want more than an average year of income for a person in that area, to buy inventory. Isn't that too much inventory to buy all at once? And yeah it looks like there was a shared template for both of these
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by xenophanes 13y ago
does it really count as unexpected at this point?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
They seriously hurt a lot of people in a very predictable and avoidable way, and are not interested in fixing the harm they've done. And you're whitewashing it without giving any substantive answer to the points in the linked arti
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by xenophanes 13y ago
It's standard BS. Waiting 40 years has negative value – approximately half a billion dollars worth of negative value.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
The payout is $500m though, plus false advertising.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Why do you think blood drives are good? Why wouldn't it be better if the standard thing was to pay for blood? If it was typical to pay donors for this kind of thing (organs too), wouldn't that better ensure plenty of supply than m
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by xenophanes 13y ago
PG isn't a worm. He's done good things, not bad things, and he knows it and won't say otherwise. He tries to clarify (implying his accusers are mistaken), rather than apologize. Some people don't like anything great; the
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by xenophanes 13y ago
what is this crap and why is it upvoted? > In contrast, women over the age of 30 tended to rate shame- and happy- displaying men as equally attractive (and both more so than neutral). happy guys finish ahead of control, not last... and
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by xenophanes 13y ago
There are a variety of alternative explanations, consistent with the data. The conclusion in the title is just one of many possibilities they didn't differentiate between. It could be, for example, that guy photos do best when they sta
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by xenophanes 13y ago
the controls are terrible. her hair isn't arranged the same in every pic and her breasts are more visible in the happy and pride pics than the neutral one. all the pics are way too over-acted, the "pride" girl pic isn't
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by xenophanes 13y ago
I've had two big problems with Messages and all my friends have the same problems. First, typing anything in the Search box would beachball the app indefinitely until Mavericks. Second, there are issues with messages not being sent and
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by xenophanes 13y ago
Your post was unclear and I asked what you meant. I didn't debate anything. i was extremely clear and explicit about this. i asked a question, said i didn't know, said i was curious, didn't dispute anything you said. Only a d
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by xenophanes 13y ago
so you think 2 compute cards is bad. but what about the mac pro approach 2 gfx cards? good or bad? not sure what position you're taking and curious.
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by xenophanes 13y ago
What I would recommend next is recognizing that suicide is a complicated and controversial issue, and there are differing attitudes and approaches towards it. Your app, like it or not, will be opinionated. Have informed opinions. For exampl
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by xenophanes 13y ago
How do you compose plain text in reply to someone who sent both?
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by xenophanes 13y ago
And they basically removed support for plain text email. I haven't hit any major bugs, but my friend did. But they removed the "view different encoding" thing from the menu, or whatever it was called. Before you could switch
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by xenophanes 13y ago
When you take money away from someone who was saving to build a factory, so his factory is not built, then the factory doesn't produce anything, so wealth is lost. Moving money around disruptively (via inflation or other methods) makes
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by xenophanes 13y ago
> Inflation does not reduce wealth. Inflation (a jargon word that basically means printing money) transfers money from savers to debtors. This is destructive. It's destructive because the amount of money the government will print is

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