arthurrr

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Ask HN: I think ModMyI.com ripped off my jailbreak tweak. Is this common?
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by arthurrr 13y ago
If you traveled back to the 90's, it would be a good fictional story about computing dystopia. In fact, it is still a good story about computing dystopia. But it's no longer fiction.
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by arthurrr 13y ago
This is a story that I've always hated because I think it is very very unlikely to be true. If he actually did play blackjack, I'm curious to know how many hands he played, how much he was betting per hand, what casino he was playing at, et
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by arthurrr 13y ago
After reading the interview, I have zero interest in reading any book from Eric Schmidt, but I am thoroughly fascinated by what Assange has to say. This interview is probably going to be much more insightful than any book Schmidt will write
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by arthurrr 13y ago
everybody has a different definition of intelligence. personally, i don't consider the vast majority of humans to be intelligent. if we are trying to create artificial intelligence, it's probably a bad idea to use humans as a model.
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by arthurrr 13y ago
what did you do (if anything) to get 270.2 in apr (apr is not even finished yet)? and 155 in mar? why are some months missing?
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by arthurrr 13y ago
I started out as a computer programmer. After a few years of dealing with the braindead corporate system in America, I decided to make a change. I ended up moving to Australia (just applied for citizenship), and I work as a kitchen hand at
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by arthurrr 13y ago
Yup, the good ol' pump and dump. Bitcoin is trading like an IPO stock during the dot-com bubble.
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by arthurrr 13y ago
yes but why in the world would you compare "software development" to "building bridges"? I think this is a major fundamental problem with the entire field of Computer Science, approaching it like it is similar to civil engineering. Bridges
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by arthurrr 13y ago
They're really good for delivering pizza in an urban area.
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by arthurrr 13y ago
1. why not just finance the way they normally do, by borrowing (selling bonds), or taking money from the taxpayer? 2. currencies today are already essentially digital. the vast majority of transactions are handled electronically. the value
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by arthurrr 13y ago
Yes, change the way the game is being played, but don't play the game that Google is playing. Change the way people search for things. Right now everything is based on the keyword search, there has to be a better way. Make the web irrelevan
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by arthurrr 14y ago
The way I see it, Google is the new Microsoft, and Microsoft is not dead yet, but becoming more and more irrelevant. Now, what has to happen for Google to become irrelevant?
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Mexico? The wall along the border is not to keep Mexicans out, it is to keep Americans inside.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Cushman, you sound like somebody who believes everything that you were taught in school, and you are unwilling to entertain an idea that has the possibility of destroying the foundation of your world view. Don't try to impose your world vie
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by arthurrr 14y ago
So Microsoft owes them metric dollars?
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by arthurrr 14y ago
The more you understand, the more you realize that most people aren't very good at what they do. Not that they are bad at what they do, either. It just takes the magic away.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
To call Objective-C a shitty language is, oh I don't know, really really ignorant. It's one of the nicer languages in my opinion.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
And yet, here you are on HN responding to this thread. Just a little bit ironic :)
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by arthurrr 14y ago
If this is the future of computing, then I quit. I don't want to play anymore.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
People who label them as "conspiracy nutters" more likely to be conformist and closed minded. They will be more like to believe "the big lie", because everybody else believes the big lie, so you become crazy if you don't also believe the bi
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by arthurrr 14y ago
But you have to start somewhere. There's never going to be a silver bullet that fixes the system. Because some people (the ones in power) do not consider the system to be broken.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Linus is not dead wrong. This should not be reduced to simple binary. To argue whether or not Linus is technically right or wrong seems pointless to me. Tangentially, it really bothers me that there is even such a job as Government Prosecut
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I just wish that the guy who did the browser did a better job. I agree with Alan Kay when he said "the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource", and "The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done b
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Actually he's saying the opposite. A black swan event is something that is unpredictable. He's saying that all of the futurists' predictions about the future have been wrong, therefore all of the innovations of the future will be black swan
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Often, people will defer to an "expert", who they assume knows more about a subject than they do. However, in many cases, and especially in economics, the expert thinks he knows something to be true, but it turns out that what he knows comp
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by arthurrr 14y ago
What if pigs are raised on these shrimp that have been raised on pig feces (recursive)?
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I don't see the point of this rule. It seems like it would instill fear, and cause hesitation and second guessing. But I don't like rules in general, I prefer having philosophies. Personally, I would encourage failure and risk taking with l
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by arthurrr 14y ago
I don't see this being disruptive at all. I think they will be adopted in industrial applications, such as self driving dump trucks on mine sites, where humans are not riding in the vehicle, and where there will be significant cost savings.
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by arthurrr 14y ago
Anybody happen to know if the lightning port, in theory at least, can support Thunderbolt? In the future, I'd really like to be able to plug in a nice A/D audio converter to the iPad and use it as a DAW. If it's not theoretically possible,

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