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by bh42 16y ago
Christopher Reeve delivering the line "Truth, Justice and the American Way" as Super Man is one of the defining memories of my childhood. I worry that once Americans become cynical and scared enough to stop aspiring to that line, it will th
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by bh42 16y ago
Actually population growth all over the wold is slowing down. China is already at almost neutral and growth is even slowing in India and Africa. And a static or shrinking population would have an adverse affect on total market cap, however
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by bh42 16y ago
Cult phenomenon? When I was a teenager me and my friends called it "rolling in the mud" Often a lot of us kids were very nervous going to clubs and quite scared to talk to girls. So then the more experienced kids, you know those in their la
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by bh42 16y ago
There was a study which pointed out that this only works if you have self confidence, then you can brainwash yourself with affirmations like those. But if you are insecure, then affirmations actually make you worse of because it is like pok
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by bh42 16y ago
... I'm going to go ahead and pretend that was intentional... yeah I totally meant to write ironing, not ironic...
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by bh42 16y ago
This is a brain chemistry self-hack, and I am not sure it's a good thing. Also I know a few people who are neither Buddhists nor super smart but have managed to perform this self-hack. The human brain is plastic enough and if you try hard e
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by bh42 16y ago
Mutters to self: I can't believe I'm explaining jokes on the Internet.. sigh Unless ojbyrne was being ironing, as in, what about dictatorial rule is un-American?
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by bh42 16y ago
There are a lot of peoples blogs that are quoted on Hacker News that have a lot better content than Jeff Atwood, but are not as well written or presented as Jeff Atwoods pieces. I would not say Atwood is a better writer. Better "present
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by bh42 16y ago
I'd guess the percentage of approaches considered "quacky" which are later proven to work, is fairly constant over the ages. I'd also guess 80/20.
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by bh42 16y ago
eBay is the only on that list not dominated by hackers. Yes even Larry Ellison is a hacker, from Wikipedia: During the 1970s, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle"." "
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by bh42 16y ago
I've never met him person, but from the videos I've seen it is pretty obvious the man is pretty far on the aspie spectrum. Perhaps with massive intervention early on he could have learned to be almost normal. But at his age, I think we shou
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by bh42 16y ago
Exactly. The grandparent's comment is anything but relevant. While I do agree with it, it is clear it has nothing do with this.
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by bh42 16y ago
Am I am saddened that I am no longer surprised that this is happening.
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by bh42 16y ago
Mars has a lot less sun and atmosphere then the Earth, so terraforming it would involve a large investment in greenhouses and nuclear energy. But Venus has an excess of sun and heat, and parts of its super dense atmosphere could potentially
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by bh42 16y ago
I think education, wealth, urbanization, the pill, the boob tube, condoms, all the reasons for below replacement fertility can be seen as a virus which attack the reproductive system. A few people are partially or fully immune. (You don't h
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by bh42 16y ago
It is one of the oldest jokes on the internets. This September will never end.
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by bh42 16y ago
50 +/- 50 or so years from now, maybe.
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by bh42 16y ago
I really do believe the next big disruptor (on the scale of something like space travel or the internet) is going to be in our ability to harness brain power to directly manipulate our world. Can't we already do that? I mean, you might ha
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by bh42 16y ago
Instead Universities should also help the student become full rounded Full roundedness is a financial luxury, of concern only to those who are financial at least relatively well off. If universities are serious about the love of knowledge
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by bh42 16y ago
reddit is tolerable if you unsubscribe from all popular reddits, especially the front page, and subscribe only to niche reddits with a small following. If any one of those sub-reddits gets too popular you move on, i.e. science->hard sci
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by bh42 16y ago
I trust the people who care already know about distcc on Linux and Incredibuild on Windows, but I thought I'd mention them just in case.
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by bh42 16y ago
Intel predicted the end of Moore's Law would come with 16 nanometer manufacturing processes and 5 nanometer gates, due to quantum tunnelling.
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by bh42 16y ago
Well that's exactly my criticism: most of the author's objections boil down to "it's hard" No, common English use of "it's hard" means something completely different from CS "hard". CS hard means NP-complete which to English translates as
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by bh42 16y ago
I think his point was that we can't code the fundamentals because those require linear time protein folding. And protein folding is one of those hard CS problems.
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by bh42 16y ago
I think his point that the genome is not the program but the data was very demonstrative. If you're a computer guy, you should clearly understand what his fundamental disagreement with Kurzweil is about.
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by bh42 16y ago
He can't be very insightful. To be that, he would need to know a lot more about human physiology and if he knew that, he could not be as optimistic about his own chances of living to see the singularity. That is why he can not be truly
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by bh42 16y ago
It would be pretty sad if someone used the immune cloud to distribute a virus Yes, that would be horrible. Imagine a deadly virus which specifically infects immune cells to spread. We could call it something like Human Immunodeficiency Vi
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by bh42 16y ago
Imagine you hadn't run since you were a little kid. Then one day you realize this isn't healthy and you decide to start jogging. And you then find out you can even jog for 20 minutes at a time! Is something wrong with you? No, you just need
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by bh42 16y ago
Yes it did increase the risk. Before the green revolution there were a lot of very different wheat varieties around the world. In fact, if my memory is correct, during the selective breeding for high yields one of the breakthroughs came fro
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by bh42 16y ago
You aren't a luddite if you identify potential risks that we should be aware of. Ah, but you are not identifying new risks. The risks are obvious.... IF you think that way. It's almost a politicaly argument, where some people are just con

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