ngpio

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by ngpio 12y ago
> Not sure if that article is really about shifting risks from corporates to workers and weakening their protections. Jacobin articles are rarely 'about' anything. Their primary mode of reasoning is like folk etymology on a dis
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by ngpio 12y ago
> a narcissist who thinks he's the best is at greatest odds to another narcissist who thinks he's the best. Only if both have very literal, wide-reaching interpretations of 'the best'. Arrogance and narcissism are oft
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by ngpio 13y ago
Awesome. It's a fantastic community, full of incredibly smart people, novel perspectives and ways to actively improve the functionality of your mind. Coincidentally, the user I originally replied to up above, Eliezer, is the founding m
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by ngpio 13y ago
> What does that make me I wonder? It only matters if you're still asking that rabbit hole of a question. > Do you mean consequentialism in the philosophical sense - as in, to be contrasted with deontology? I suppose that's
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by ngpio 13y ago
I'd be more interested in a heat map of Political Compass[1] results or something similar. It's not a great model, but it's slightly less terrible than a bunch of pre-globalization labels. And ultimately, I've stopped ca
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by ngpio 13y ago
I suspect you're over-inferring, and it's hard to tell what you mean by "heart" and "worse". Reading the oft-cited anarchist response might provide some context (though it was written in 2005): http:/&#x2
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by ngpio 13y ago
> It's a good point, that different interpretations of the same sentence can lead to pointless debate. I'd take it even further -- different interpretations of the same sentence always lead to pointless debate except to the ext
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by ngpio 13y ago
I see the main barrier to developing a "platform for meaningful, balanced debates" as one of semantic clarity, not discourse-level organization. I cannot truthfully answer most of the questions I see on the site, because they have
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by ngpio 13y ago
I think there's two things wrong with this comment exchange: * you're not interpreting the quoted phrase literally enough; * I'm being way too generous with the definition of 'inflation' to expect myself to be under
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by ngpio 13y ago
> Bitcoin would help because it is a fixed-supply currency. If the world switches to it, no government anywhere will be able to practise inflation anymore. Correct, no government could, but inflation is innate to the cryptocurrency env
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by ngpio 13y ago
It's not just about words. Written media is no longer limited to a few basic structures and voices. Grammar needs to be able to shift away from English in-line while maintaining semantic clarity, and sometimes that means the reader nee
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by ngpio 13y ago
Because setting up a shortcut once for many hundreds[1] of sites is more demanding work than typing ! each time. There's a bang for almost every site I frequent, and when a site changes its domain or search URI the bang is updated to r
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by ngpio 13y ago
> it's no wonder the author delves into ridiculous banter about singularity "Post-singularity society of Silicon Valley" was facetious.
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by ngpio 13y ago
A response to Jamil Elie Bou Kheir's comment on Facebook (presumably jamilbk on HN), because I do not have Facebook: > hello from hacker news. thoughtful article! i think it's not the mere intelligence, beauty, or wealth that d
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by ngpio 13y ago
> One of the social safeguards for preserving pseudonymity (your advice) in the face of a future you cannot control is giving your child a common name, so that their activity cannot easily be discerned from that of many others. I agree.
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by ngpio 13y ago
> And if it becomes technically or illegally impossible to operate under a pseudonym or to change your legal name in 10 years? That this won't happen is the assumption I challenged, not some social obligation not to choose to use
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by ngpio 13y ago
No, but that doesn't imply that it shouldn't hold true for the entirety of the child's legal childhood. There's always been a feature of childhood that I feel is paramount: the freedom to alter one's identity. The c
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by ngpio 13y ago
I would recommend that parents encourage their children to use a variety of usernames on the major social platforms, none of which are related to their legal name. I'm in the process of transitioning to a single username everywhere bas
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by ngpio 13y ago
> The whole thing started to look like a random selection disguised as an exclusive elite fancy club. In starting a few "exclusive elite fancy" internet clubs over the past decade, I've noticed that random selection is usu
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by ngpio 13y ago
When I think "optimal language", I don't think "optimal combination of natural languages". This is partly because I've been experimenting with constructed languages (conlangs) since the age of eight and partly
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by ngpio 13y ago
I'm glad there's movement in this space. It's desperately needed. Password managers are great but difficult to extend to all use-cases. When a generated password cannot be easily copy-pasted, the whole system feels unwieldy.
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by ngpio 13y ago
Now try Candy Box[1]. Like a plaintext Cookie Clicker that's intended to be messed with[2]. Once you're bored of that, there are... a lot more[3]. CivClicker is particularly enjoyable[4]. [1] http://candies.aniwey.net
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by ngpio 13y ago
> There's just no way spending a million dollars to raise a fetus up to the age of zero passes any kind of cost-benefit analysis. The cost of replacing the thing is much, much lower. Second-order emotional (and nth-order social and
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by ngpio 13y ago
And "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer. And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're short, provocative scifi. Here&#x2
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by ngpio 13y ago
BTC-e is the most popular. I believe Vircurex[1] handles the largest number of cryptocurrencies. [1] https://vircurex.com/
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by ngpio 13y ago
> 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off. With DuckDuckGo, it's easy to prepend/append "!ddg" onto the offending text to force a search. I sometimes have to d
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by ngpio 13y ago
What a surprisingly pleasant side-scrolling experience.
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by ngpio 13y ago
It's fiction.[1] "Artificial wormholes cannot be sustained for more than 38 minutes under normal conditions."[2] [1] Quite enjoyable fiction. My canonically chronological SG viewing order for maximum enjoyment is available at
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by ngpio 13y ago
At least one major exchange (btc-e) allows deposits/withdrawals in rubles.
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by ngpio 13y ago
> Speech patterns would adjust. It isn't even hypothetical. The speech patterns of all English speakers who spend a significant amount of midnights awake have adjusted precisely like that. There was a lovely looped animation of the

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