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The Hard Limit on Human Lifespan(unaging.com)
1 points by drinian 7mo ago|0 comments
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A Ramble Through Firefox(auspicacious.org)
1 points by drinian 3y ago|0 comments
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by drinian 4y ago
I wrote about the tools I use to help with this a while back: https://auspicacious.org/posts/2020/10/03/rehumanize-yoursel... For HN specifically, I don't browse the site but rather subscribe to the
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by drinian 14y ago
Or at least a no-OS version, quietly offered through a few tech-friendly resellers.
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by drinian 15y ago
I would not be so ambitious -- but I have to believe that any entrepreneurial activity is better on a resume than nothing at all. It can't lose money.
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Ask HN: Zero-cost startups for ordinary Americans?
5 points by drinian 15y ago|5 comments
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by drinian 15y ago
I haven't tried this in a few years, but I recall that Kubuntu and Ubuntu desktops used to have serious issues co-existing on the same box for some reason. Don't really care, now, as I'm on Lubuntu.
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by drinian 15y ago
Remarkably, I know of at least one early-1990s film -- Rockula -- that was never released on DVD, but is available on Netflix Instant streaming.
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by drinian 15y ago
This is not "starting to become" for South Korea. The fact of the matter is that South Korea is far more democratic now than it was during the Cold War. These laws restricting the dissemination of North Korean propaganda have been in place
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by drinian 15y ago
Probably a bit late for most readers here, but I highly recommend taking advantage of whatever opportunities for public speaking and performance your high school offers -- whether that's just walking on stage as an extra in a school theater
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by drinian 15y ago
Libel laws place more burden of proof on the accuser there? I understand that's the way it is in the UK.
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by drinian 15y ago
Sensationalist headline, interesting article.
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by drinian 15y ago
Thanks for clearing that up. They are a very different sort of organization than the one behind my old summer job. That being said, I don't really care what their Web interface looks like, but the wording used in this press release is not r
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by drinian 15y ago
Everything that China blocks with their national firewall is considered "illegal" in China. That is, in fact, the exact same justification, even the same wording, that was used to build the Great Firewall of China. It's true, in many ways U
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by drinian 15y ago
What on earth does "read-online access" mean? Are they making people use some kind of Flash application to read them (so you'll have to screencap important stuff), or are they just blocking access to the PDFs? I would continue by asking who
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by drinian 15y ago
new legislation must be narrowly targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law, cover activity clearly prohibited under existing U.S. laws, and be effectively tailored, with strong due process and focused on criminal activity
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by drinian 15y ago
It's not an attack, I'm just pointing out that it's unprofessional and makes the author look like he pays no attention to detail. When dealing with legal issues, detail is of course paramount.
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by drinian 15y ago
I applaud his efforts, but he's aggressively misspelling Barnes and Noble's name in that post, and that lack of attention to detail makes him much harder to take seriously.
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by drinian 15y ago
A lot of people in this thread seem to think that being in school until 5 or 6 PM would mean being in the classroom for ten hours a day or more. That additional time would be fantastic if used for athletics, self-study, club activities (wit
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by drinian 15y ago
Registered mail is supposed to be held to a different standard for proof of delivery than delivery confirmation as well.
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by drinian 15y ago
By the way, you can get a prepaid Softbank mobile on a 90-day entry permit if you look in the right places. I had luck at the Don Quixote in Roppongi (no surprise there). It probably didn't hurt that I had my Japanese address written out in
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by drinian 15y ago
Hey, if you're willing to shoulder the true costs of that style of living -- environmentally, that's at least air pollution, and runoff from increased paving and lawns replacing woods and fields; then there's the cost of building out utilit
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by drinian 15y ago
Effective, good-quality regulation is a form of subsidy. This article is right to look at the costs of not updating regulation to meet reality.
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by drinian 15y ago
I don't buy that. Every other country with high-speed rail has rail regulations as well.
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by drinian 15y ago
To be honest, I have their business service at home to avoid trouble when I'm running VPN servers, etc. and the occasional Web service from home -- not to mention the usage cap issue. And it's nice to know that they're up to 35 mbits upload
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by drinian 15y ago
How about just convincing Verizon to sell the higher speeds to those who want them, at a higher price? The hardware's there, but their most expensive FiOS business connections are far short of Google's numbers.
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by drinian 15y ago
Going back in history about five hundred years, I wonder if you could compare the Arabic dialects vs. classical Arabic to Romance languages vs. Latin.
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by drinian 15y ago
The really interesting point is that people don't seem to put any thought into what should be possible with a computer. Intuitively, people with a decent mental model of how text is processed by computers would expect that the computer co
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by drinian 15y ago
When you're mailing something that needs more than one stamp, you still have to know the current value of that Forever Stamp. That being said, the reason you can't just print postage online for anything but Priority/Express seems to be a re
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by drinian 15y ago
I think government needs to use tax money for “police, courts, and defense” and that’s it. If I were king of the world, there wouldn’t be a king of the world and NASA would be private. But who cares what I think? We have NASA and they do t

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