LPTS

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by LPTS 18y ago
Mitt Romney. I'm supposed to take anything this asshole says seriously? Why? Next up, Sarah Palin on Russian Policy, or Bill Kristol's bedwetting?
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by LPTS 18y ago
"Advice should focus on helping you weigh those tradeoffs intelligently rather than dictating absolutes." is the best thing I remember reading on YC. I've read books that were less profound then that sentence. I always thought that, but a
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by LPTS 18y ago
You need to find a person who does math with synesthesia and ask them what numbers look good next to your website.
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by LPTS 18y ago
In the US? Move to a first world country.
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by LPTS 18y ago
"Why didn't Microsoft beat Apple?" Because the CEO of microsoft believes emulating the alpha male of a gorilla exhibit in the zoo is the best way to lead people?
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by LPTS 18y ago
but open source cannot compete with apple. That is like saying an army with no generals, navy, air force or money will beat an army with a great general with stealth bombers, battleships, and a building filled with hundred dollar bills and
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by LPTS 18y ago
You are said Eliezer Yudkowsky? Nice. I read and like that overcoming bias stuff. If anyone could prove me wrong about the singularity, it's gonna be young people working on their own like you. We need lots more people working on there
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by LPTS 18y ago
You are thinking days and weeks ahead instead of months and decades. I agree the app store as it stands is crap. I think the ship has sailed on the app store being crap. That's a short term, soluble problem. Long term, UI + neurology wi
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by LPTS 18y ago
don't work at those places. they sound like they suck.
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by LPTS 18y ago
The length of the yellow at Traffic lights are at times calibrated to maximize fines rather then minimize deaths. Some of this bullshit does cost lives.
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by LPTS 18y ago
google subgenius
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by LPTS 18y ago
No singularity. You must have read to much sci-fi written by AI researchers afraid of dying and overly influenced by judeochristian conceptions of God. If you want a qualitative shift in human existence you must create it. The singularity
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by LPTS 18y ago
"They'll never sell more than 5 of those pc computers"
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by LPTS 18y ago
The app store is a seed. I'm talking about the tree it's going to grow into. That's topical. I can interact with it and have 100% of my brain available for the kinds of thinking my brain is good at. Because interacting with it does not r
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by LPTS 18y ago
The critical point is cognitive friction. The UI of the iPhone means that it integrates with your brain much easier then a cell phone. There is a critical point between UI, mind extension, and cognitive friction. The 21st century potenti
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by LPTS 18y ago
I saw a video of yahoo workspace. It was like yahoo hired the flair manager from office space as an interior designer. Like they only hired the miserable, desperate people who confuse collecting trolls in your cubicle with being happy. In
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by LPTS 18y ago
I heard he really wanted more time for playing WOW.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Apple wants apps to do everything that can be offloaded to a handheld. This thing is in it's infancy. Apple gets to create this part of the 21st century because no one else is up for it. You think the iPhone is a mature product? Not eve
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by LPTS 18y ago
Pull his string, out comes: "So all we have to do is leverage information across multiple paradigms to create a shift from a top down hierarchy into a holographically oriented multiplex and virally spread the data, growing value organicall
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by LPTS 18y ago
Ship. Meet Sailed. Sailed, Ship.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Fuck the police. An odd mix of sadistic bullies and good guys who cover for the bullies out of a misguided sense of kinship. Viva la revolution!
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by LPTS 18y ago
what ayn rand quote? I really worship ayn rand and completely agree with her that we should be as selfish as possible and who gives a shit about poor people when u r rich and they r not and vote republican because democrats are exactly lik
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by LPTS 18y ago
Ye pine fore days long gone. I dost hope thou ist right and spellings shant e're change, Marcus. Noone can think of a word that evolved in our lifetime already?
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by LPTS 18y ago
I'm the kind that's tricked himself into aspiring to represent the place incompleteness or relativity breaks down the structure of embedded systems of thought so new paradigms can emerge more continuous with 21st century scientific knowledg
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by LPTS 18y ago
do u like pepsi or coke more?
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by LPTS 18y ago
if you want to read people with this change in their language, you'll learn to adapt. When I watch british humor, I don't always get it, but I don't expect them to change to be more like me.
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by LPTS 18y ago
American gladitor is what the lowest rung rubes watch. More sophisticated rubes watch more sophisticated shows that program them the same way to think they are better then the other rubes. If I can get you irritated at me by what I say, wh
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by LPTS 18y ago
I doubt that.
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by LPTS 18y ago
That's a dangerous point of view. They carefully calibrate the laws so that most people are breaking some of them at least sometimes.
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by LPTS 18y ago
"You're being factitious right?" see you don't want to think, you want me to give you an answer! You are starting to stir, but your next realization needs to be that your desire to read the economist instead of the CNN headlines, and the r

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