itchitawa

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by itchitawa 13y ago
This observation lends weight to my naked women theory. That extravagent P has arms, legs, a head and ... :P
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Surprising discovery about the Voynich manuscript - it contains hundreds of pictures of naked women, probably outnumbering the pictures of plants. Maybe the focus on botany is misguided!
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Or at least cause you to consider the risk of loss compared to the value of using the software while not panicking when you receive a spam email with a suspicious looking xls file attached.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Indeed. Or even "don't click on suspicious emails or visit suspicious websites" which are actually always harmless. How about simply "don't run a program you don't trust" and we wouldn't need virus sc
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by itchitawa 13y ago
It helps to highlight our cultural biases. In some cultures pornography is more acceptable than homosexuality. These are just different prejudices that different people hold. It's not obvious which is more right or wrong.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
They're probably just trying to be sensitive to their audience and sponsors. Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
"suburban moms in mid-west buy those stocks" There's no need to blame. Those investors are trying to make free money without doing productive work or even investing in productive companies. They're also the ones who lose
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Ha. I did exactly the same thing with a dryer years ago but with a neodymium magnet from a hard drive head actuator.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
In other news - China Global Warming: Made in America?
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Industrial interest in the moon is a good thing for the development of space travel and discovering new things. Also, you might find America's human rights abuses to be worse than China's when you count all the imprisoned American
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by itchitawa 13y ago
After a century of failing to manage its economy, Argentina continues to fail to manage its economy. In other news, water is wet.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
I don't think this is a valid argument. It seems to be "I'm right because I believe people in the future will agree with me". Maybe so but the author can't know that until the future comes.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
The same goes for a lot of stats about America. But who notices Israel's massive per capita tech industry?
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by itchitawa 13y ago
MegaUpload, Silk Road shut down by US government. Piracy, drugs, child porn, online gambling. These are things Americans feel are OK to silence. Inciting violence (they have deadly anti-government riots), destabilizing the government. These
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by itchitawa 13y ago
How many people are afraid to walk down a dark alley at night? That's a freedom we should have but plenty of people are forced to get a taxi or stay home because of a real fear of being robbed. I live in a city where it is safe, even f
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Without the link from his own site we can't tell who even claims to have done the typing. Someone who isn't PG may have all sorts of reasons to fake it. Gentle suggestion - if you think the answer to someone's comment is obvi
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Thanks. That's an important link to know where it came from.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Is there a way to verify this is actually Paul Graham writing, not someone else who reenacted it based on the published essay?
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by itchitawa 13y ago
My bank requires a 4 character password with no letters or special characters! Oh wait, a PIN doesn't count?
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Nor does glass or plastic-coated aluminium. There are lots of shiny things that people don't want in their jewelry. If diamond were as common and cheap as glass, we'd probably see just as much diamond jewelry as glass. They'r
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Who's an early adopter? Before December, every single day in bitcoin's history was a good day to invest and be an early adopter. But nobody knew at the time. They could have lost everything. Nobody knows when the final peak will b
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by itchitawa 13y ago
One of the Therac-25 victims died 3 months later from cancer. Presumably the same cancer they were trying to treat, and thus avoided needing a hip replacement for the radiation damage. If your life is in such extreme danger from the disease
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by itchitawa 13y ago
It's easy to blame the government but the majority of Americans vote for the government they have or none at all. That means they are either happy with it or they're incompetent and should not be allowed to vote. It's easy to
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Here's how missing the news affected me: When I finished my CS degree, I decided have a go at postgrad in another field. I reasoned that if it didn't work out, I'd just quit and get a programming job like my classmates had do
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Has Hacker News cost billions of dollars in programmer productivity? :P
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Yes. There's not much to this article. Same goes for a kid shooting it. It would just like a kid shooting a car or a person. The law provides protection. I suspect regulation will be the biggest obstacle - as it already is in the US.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
The real problem is the viewer who get suckered. Let people watch both and learn to make decisions for themselves.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
tl;dr It will fail because it will fail.
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Spend a $1 billion of your early bitcoins disrupting Bitcoin or spend $1 billion to buy bitcoins today and disrupt it. Either way costs the same doesn't it?
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by itchitawa 13y ago
Gmail does something a bit more sophisticated than this but it's a real pain trying to check your mail from the airport in another country when your phone doesn't work either to confirm that way. Also annoying for VPN users who ma

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