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by yarou 10y ago
Were they as nice as their colonial oppressors?
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by yarou 10y ago
How is it democracy when a group of individuals hold concentrated amounts of power? And when I say individual, I mean corporations, based on current standing legal precedent. I usually agree with a lot of the things you've stated on he
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by yarou 10y ago
When they decided to favor revenue over their users' privacy.
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by yarou 10y ago
I'm surprised these guys are still around. I remember having a hearty chuckle when I first saw it on either HN or Product Hunt, thinking to myself "wow, does anyone take this seriously?" A rising tide lifts all boats I suppos
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by yarou 10y ago
> By moving the signing to F-Droid, you have to completely trust them. Which you do anyway if you use Google Play Services. ...
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by yarou 10y ago
I think it's obvious that politicians who deny anthropogenic climate change are on the payroll of oil producing megacorps like Exxon-Mobil. How ironic that we let these politicians commit treason (undermining American energy security i
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by yarou 10y ago
Right, and I noticed that I was able to function better under ibuprofen instead of the hazy "sleep/wake" state you get with opiates.
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by yarou 10y ago
Hydrocodone is relatively cheap and anecdotally quite effective. When I broke my ribs, I was told to take both Hydrocodone/paracetamol (Norco) and ibuprofen every day. However, I knew my doctor was trying to get me hooked on it. So I s
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by yarou 10y ago
Oxycodone is an interesting pharmaceutical in that it is synthesized from thebaine instead of morphine or codeine. The problem with opiates is that by the time you get to a dosage that's therapeutically effective, you'll end up bu
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by yarou 10y ago
Just so I understand you correctly, you're saying that the cardinality of the set of all possible states of neurons in one's brain is aleph-null?
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by yarou 10y ago
Good on dang and whomever else was involved in this decision. @dang - I know you sometimes have to make tough decisions where all parties involved end up unhappy with the end result. But I'm sure that the vast majority of the community
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by yarou 10y ago
A docile, numb, and drugged population is the holy trinity for authoritarians.
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by yarou 10y ago
I think a lot of people conflate intimacy and sex. For me, paying for sex is not a big deal. Paying for intimacy is way more ickier to me than the former.
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by yarou 10y ago
There isn't really much difference other than a camera being involved. In fact, I'd argue porn is more exploitative than prostitution. And if you think filming porn is akin to filming a romantic comedy, you haven't seen Hot G
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by yarou 10y ago
Dude, it has nothing to do with him cheating. It has more to do with the fact that he called pg a "weenis" years ago, and openly criticizes YC and SV culture in general. The rejection was basically "sry, but you aren't q
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by yarou 10y ago
> They're all presumably adults, I'm sure they could get through some differing opinions, no? I'm guessing you aren't from here/haven't been in Silicon Valley that long.
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by yarou 10y ago
No, but there is no evidence that biological neural networks exhibit quantum effects. Classical (Newtonian) mechanics seem sufficient enough to explain how neurons work.
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by yarou 10y ago
I wrote that for anyone interested in learning CS seriously, I swear by those two books. I would recommend an entirely different set of books for someone who wants to work as a professional programmer. That being said, TAOCP really gave me
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by yarou 10y ago
Eh, the jury's still out. I sort of agree with Scott Aaronson on why he thinks consciousness is finite[0]. The problem, IMO, that Penrose has is that his theories border closely on mysticism - there's some quantum "magical&qu
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by yarou 10y ago
Arguably, quantum computers can perform supertasks and hypercompute, so I think that there will be widespread adoption in the 2nd or 3rd generation. While Plan 9 itself wasn't popularly used, many great technologies came out of it, lik
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by yarou 10y ago
I still swear by SICP and TAOCP for anyone who wants to learn CS seriously.
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by yarou 10y ago
If memory serves, pg was actually pretty hands off - unless a submission was politically controversial, most topics were allowed. I haven't really noticed anything different, other than dang commenting more publicly on moderation decis
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by yarou 10y ago
I've used Mersenne Twister[0] in the past. [0] http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html If you're talking about an RNG library for cryptographic purposes, then it depends on your use case
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by yarou 10y ago
I highly suspect melatonin-receptor (MT1 and MT2) agonists will be more useful in correcting mood disorders such as depression than anything that messes with monoamine neurotransmitters.
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by yarou 10y ago
In certain Vedic traditions, physical exertion is seen as a form of meditation. The concept there is if you can discipline your body, you can discipline your mind. That being said, I think the author of this article tries way too hard to be
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by yarou 10y ago
I think the neat thing about Google is the high degree of crossfertilization between teams. In many organizations, teams rarely share information either due to political reasons or a lack of sharing culture in the company as a whole. That b
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by yarou 10y ago
When you are talking about "Comcast" as a business entity, those are one and the same. Comcast has a natural monopoly because of its utility status, and a result of those network effects, can enjoy a free distribution network. You
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by yarou 10y ago
I think a lot of people misunderstood my comment. I obviously understand that there are basic questions that can be answered by documentation. But my point was that for any community to survive, it should be welcoming to newbies and have an
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Comcast is publicly traded. And it behaves closer to a utility more than anything else.
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This is how I learned Haskell. I literally went to #haskell on freenode and asked "hey so what's this all about", and many veterans of the community helped me get my feet wet. I'm not sure what kind of toxic communities

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