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by ktd 13y ago
The odds that anyone will think "The Third World" is a good name for their virtual reality seem minimal at best.
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by ktd 13y ago
>Most of those people have no other options. You don't want to fund people (in general; obviously there are outliers with 150+ IQs and fucked-up careers, I was one and, who knows, may be one in the future) who don't have other
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No Gimmicks Here-- Chess 2 Is A Proper Sequel(kotaku.com.au)
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by ktd 13y ago
I'm in SV/SF, and this attitude is completely silly. That isn't to say that it doesn't exist, but I would say it's far from the norm, even in tech circles.
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by ktd 13y ago
>It's obvious, since I'm 30 and not earth-shatteringly successful, that I have some kind of health story... What?
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by ktd 13y ago
>Women don't face a severe loss of professional status if they put on weight, unless their employer enjoys being cleaned out in court. You know, there are a lot of things that happen in the world despite not being legal.
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by ktd 13y ago
>I don't understand - when you made this decision, did you expect that you were going to be good enough so that these features of chess (draws and deep, well-studied opening theory) were going to be relevant to you? Yeah. I played c
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by ktd 13y ago
This is actually a good example of why I'm not particularly interested in chess anymore-- a game that's that heavy on draws and where so many of the situations are adaptations of well-known positions simply isn't that thrilli
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by ktd 13y ago
>It's why there is a centuries-old hatred of inherited wealth and position in all modernized cultures. Isn't the opposite true? We can certainly point to famous examples of heirs/heiresses behaving badly, but that seems la
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by ktd 13y ago
>One of the protections we have against unjust laws is that they are unenforceable. "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." --Abraham Lincoln
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by ktd 13y ago
This movie isn't misunderstood or clever at all. It was originally exactly as dumb as people think it is (working title: "Bug Hunt On Outpost Nine), but the studio realized they could get the license to Starship Troopers for free.
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by ktd 13y ago
Good. Wearing Google Glass while driving should be banned. The people using cell phones while driving are bad enough.
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by ktd 13y ago
I suppose the coming months/years will be when we see whether Facebook becomes the "backbone of the social Internet" or just another MySpace. I honestly don't know where the smart money is here-- it's an exciting ti
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by ktd 13y ago
What kind of "ruin your life" failure do you think people on HN are at risk of undertaking? It strikes me that such levels of failure are very rare, at least among the set who even knows about HN in the first place.
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by ktd 13y ago
To be honest if you think there is any chance at all that this would happen you are completely disconnected from reality. The average person doesn't care about NSA surveillance-- just as the average person didn't care about Lincol
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by ktd 13y ago
Roleplaying time! You've just been appointed to head the FBI-- congratulations, Director! Which of the following things do you want to send your agents after? * An international marketplace doing millions of dollars of business in drug
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by ktd 13y ago
>We pour all our creativity, time, and passion into creating basically worthless products... we're in the business of making products that provide very little value to people. Yikes.
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by ktd 13y ago
What a devious headline. Imagine it as "Codebreaker for MI6 murdered after going to <FILL IN THE BLANK>" and you'll spot the trick here.
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by ktd 13y ago
>Most people in nearly every company from the PA to the CEO sits at a desk with a screen and makes clicking sounds 95% of the time. With the minor process of of 'talking' added, this is the basic description of ~all jobs. Huh?
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by ktd 13y ago
The secret is that there is no secret. The more time you spend on generating ideas, the better you will be at it-- just like any other skill.
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by ktd 13y ago
Terrible, sensationalist title. The actual quote from the article is "If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era," which paints a very different picture.
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by ktd 13y ago
Not everyone has a mortgage and kids later on in life.
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by ktd 13y ago
>A lot of people we've funded have said they wished they'd quit their corporate job sooner. I don't remember any saying they wished they'd stayed in it longer. I feel like the fact that you funded these people constit
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by ktd 13y ago
This is a refreshingly good post.
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by ktd 13y ago
This seems like a pretty logical step. I'm sure we've all seen cases where dash cameras on police cars help clear up ambiguity regard what really happened during a police stop. The same for normal officers could help solve a lot o
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by ktd 13y ago
Somehow I doubt full-scale military action is conducive to lowered emissions.
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by ktd 13y ago
I really don't like this sort of intentionally-dense argument by definition. Certainly the police could be called a "gang" under some definitions of the word, but we all know that the implication of "armed gang" in
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by ktd 13y ago
Where does this "you only get one great idea" meme come from? Generating "great ideas" is a skill, and one that can be trained just like any other.
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by ktd 13y ago
>Yes. Instead, you chose an ad hominem attack, which is pretty much the definition of feeding the trolls. Are you really claiming that saying "don't feed the trolls" is feeding the trolls?
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by ktd 13y ago
One thing that many people don't realize about the Hierarchy of Disagreement is that going up the hierarchy takes more and more effort. If someone makes claims that are so hypocritical that they instantly fail the laugh test, there&#x2

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