bogs_carut

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by bogs_carut 12y ago
I'm actually curious as to how many HN users find The New Yorker useful or insightful. It's always struck me as rather middlebrow and perhaps couched in the would-be-elitism of the east coast.
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by bogs_carut 12y ago
4chan usually does a better job than this.
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by bogs_carut 12y ago
> Unless you have a statistical survey of the bitcoin community I don't, and I don't think it's appropriate to make generalizations unless one has access to a sufficient body of empirical evidence. So I'm not making g
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by bogs_carut 12y ago
That's lovely for you, but not terribly relevant to anything I've stated. An appeal to personal experience does not constitute a refutation of the assertion that a technology cannot possess sensibilities. Nor does it provide evide
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by bogs_carut 12y ago
The conflation of libertarianism with a variety of nonsensical positions is likely a deliberate attempt to discredit the ideology. It's nonsense.
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by bogs_carut 12y ago
Some of the community is like that, sure. But it doesn't follow that the technology as a whole was created as a political vehicle, nor does it follow that it will necessarily serve as one. A technology cannot possess sensibilities. But
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by bogs_carut 12y ago
Seeing various media outlets attempt to portray Bitcoin as some kind of Randian fetish with criminal undercurrents is getting rather tiresome. "computer money invented to buy drugs." -- come on. I get that the New Yorker is middle
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
There's a key difference: Elon Musk is delivering results. The scientific method enables one to deliver results because its models are predictive, not merely explanatory. The engineering and science we do today is also predictive becau
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
Bitcoin is an interesting environment in which one might discuss the gender ratio. On one hand, crypto-currency in general is a relatively new phenomenon -- it seems unlikely that there could be a well-established gender bias in the communi
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
You. I like you.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
I'm curious to see how spending the money would solve an extinction-level meteor strike. Or any number of other not-fully-predictable disasters.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
I'd be curious to see a rational argument as to why this couldn't be the case.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
You're looking too narrowly at the potential here. What might begin as an underground colony full of social elites or skilled professionals required to run the infrastructure could result in a fully-habitable environment. But if you do
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
And yet the US government was never able -- nor did they try -- to develop a fully-reusable rocket, which is something SpaceX is currently doing. Saying that corporations are risk-averse followers is inane. Governments broadly fund a great
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
It seems that the author is articulating the idea that developing for slower connections and using older technologies requires a different skill set than developing using the "state-of-the-art" in the Valley. Isn't this self-
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
I'm not certain that assumption is necessarily correct. Elon Musk seems more focused on affecting meaningful change and driving technology forward. He's using corporations as a vehicle to do that and making money is an incidental
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
Perhaps it's fair to say that they're at the absolute bleeding edge of /applied science/? After all, SpaceX's plans for a reusable rocket are certainly more ambitious than anything governments have been doing for th
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
The possibility of an extinction event on Earth isn't exactly far-flung speculation. A major point of SpaceX is distributing humankind so that such a thing wouldn't wipe us all out.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
It's particularly frightening to me because it appears that GitHub is attempting to do the right thing here -- investigate the allegations without the influence of potentially involved parties. Yet, if such a thing is construed as an a
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
Why should gender affect the acceptability of one's behavior?
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
No, they're only allowed to like top-40s and cosmos. /s
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
Your post was in response to a post that contained the statement, "the richest and most powerful country in the world." Foreign policy, affected by GDP, certainly plays a role in this.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
It's only a myth if you're examining the situation from a singular angle -- that of monetary risk. There's a great deal of risk and uncertainty involved in foregoing the completion of a degree, a potentially-salaried position
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
Insofar as domestic policy is concerned, per-capita is relevant. Foreign policy, which is decided by governments that tax the aggregate population (and thus draw from the GDP)? Not in the slightest.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
None of those pre-modern great powers could compete either economically or militarily with the modern United States. Of course, they might have been relatively more powerful in relation to their contemporaries, but that hardly implies anyth
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
This post contains a lot of loaded rhetoric. Are you implying that the sort of people who assume the degree of risk required to build a financially-successful business (specifically of the "home-run" magnitude implied by a multi-b
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
Teachers won't be replaced by software in environments where human discourse is necessary or valuable. But research professors who either can't lecture or don't try to lecture well? It's almost inevitable. Lectures are a
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
True, and it's a fair point. With that said, that isn't the case with my example -- none of my social circle has read the books.
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
An interesting point of view. With that said, my anecdotal experiences indicate that it's possible to discuss media with people even if you're not on the same page, as it were. Consider Game of Thrones -- I'm perfectly able t
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by bogs_carut 13y ago
I'm fairly certain that the kind of Americans who frequent HN can perform trivial arithmetic.

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