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by yzzxy 12y ago
Warning: contains generalizations and hyperbole. When people say America is an oligarchy, this is what they mean. Your congressperson almost always does not represent you, they represent groups like the NRA. Sensible debate is not "que
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Steam is well known to allow one refund per customer with close to "no questions asked" before cracking down.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Only if you see a stigma in understanding and improving your mental health.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
To address (1): Make it possible for voters to voluntarily release their voting records, verifiable and atomically.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Even if you are working on something that is not security/negotiation sensitive, this is still scary, and the layman can approximate it with Google docs document history and the like. Document history enables thoughtcrime detection, es
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by yzzxy 12y ago
He did the same thing on a previous post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5914936
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Maybe just have it push to email, and make it easy to turn off. I, for one, don't want another inbox to check. That way, you can contact anyone, but everyone's email is not visible.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
IIRC he decided to start teaching. Hard to criticize that.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think he was referring to Hawking radiation - which is far more controversial in physics circles and a major WTF idea for non-physicists - and other theoretical black-hole behavior, not existence of black holes themselves.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Some of these proverbs are known in mainland China however. 隔墙有耳 for example is a Mandarin saying as well (though perhaps derived from original Cantonese?).
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by yzzxy 12y ago
One of the bestselling game platforms ever with a library rivaling the PS2? Yes, the RROD was a huge debacle and too many lost money on broken Xboxes. That doesn't change the fact that people bought 70 million of the things, and genera
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Any plans to gamify/add user incentives for "Stumbling?"
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by yzzxy 12y ago
What about just real POSIX and some kind of X interop or compatibility baked in? My (poorly informed) guess is this would allow a lot of low-hanging fruit from Linux, BSD, etc to be ported properly.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think a better solution is one of the several pedal desks available today[0]. Kids who are tired can relax without disrupting class or their learning, and those who have energy to get out can pedal all day. Standing in class all day would
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I wonder how long it can possibly be until someone else "borrows" the publicly listed phone number on the front page of skurt.co
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Interesting article. I've been covering Descartes recently, and his writing style is extremely ornate and complicated. From Meditations on First Philosophy : "For this reason I have no doubt that if you deign to take the trouble
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think Linkedin and eBay are stretching it a bit... a very small (though probably real) percentage of use cases for those services revolve around the envy emotions you describe.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Maybe @Levels.io? https://levels.io/the-100-thing-challenge/
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Well, there you go. Anecdote =/= reality. However, the magnitude of the task remains similar.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I largely agree that the mystique has to go, and that conversational Chinese is not nearly as hard to learn as believed, but I disagree that Mandarin is easy as a whole. Characters are hard. There are thousands of them, with only loose au
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The OP linked to a dismissal of this article...
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I hate this kind of thing. Hack should almost always mean subverting a system IMHO, except for less common definitions of the word (hack up, MIT hacking).
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by yzzxy 12y ago
First of all - lots of turn-based or slower games can be played with mouse only. That might not be his interest, however. Something like a Razer Naga[1], a mouse with a ton of side buttons, could allow him to play other games with one hand.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Has anyone done a project with a genetic algorithm and quantitative input from humans to produce generative music? Seems like it would be not to difficult to source listeners via some kind of songbattle site[0] or Mechanical Turk if you wan
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Using equipment that was designed under the assumption that the worst fail state is a frustrated gamer, to operate a leviathan cargo ship, seems like a huge liability. If a ship were to crash, can you imagine the headlines or accusations in
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Yeah, wouldn't this violate tons of labor laws? Perhaps not on the high seas?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
OK... but when you are dealing with a lot of laptops, enough to necessitate more plugs than a single 5-8 port power bar, it's probably going to run up against that limit. I think the danger outside of load would be rare, but IIRC US sp
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Please don't do this. Daisy chaining power bars is dangerous, especially at high loads such those generated by a pile of laptop power bricks.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Android caught up because competition within the Android market brought prices down and features up, and encouraged consumer-attracting partnerships with carriers (cheaper phones on contract). This isn't relevant to the Amazon/Net
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Eh, I think it's going to draw people to the pub more than anything else. And if you're a bitcoin evangelist, I could understand sinking your disposable income into a cool thing that might get more people into the currency. Curren

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