omerta

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by omerta 2y ago
So you don't think your belief that the scientific mindset is a preferable mindset is a philosophic belief rather than a scientific belief? Because it is, since that is a belief that can't be proven empirically, rather it is reaso
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by omerta 6y ago
In that article, from an 80 old day comment of mine, you did not understand my comment. You told me to read the article. You don't understand what I mean by justification. There is a difference between prescription and description. Tha
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by omerta 6y ago
How do they justify such claims of an abstract universal concept given most scientists hold the naive empiricist worldview in which only particulars exist?
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by omerta 7y ago
do you think an iPhone built itself? I don't. Don't tell me the only reason I say that is because I am looking for patterns.
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by omerta 9y ago
Not true at all. Look up the story of Apple University. Jobs can't run Apple from his grave. He tried his best to leave Apple with the right culture and leadership in his view. And for the most part, Apple has done really well since he
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by omerta 13y ago
Don't take his use of the word "retarded" so literally. People might take offense to the word but understand that he doesn't mean it as an actual slight toward people with real mental disabilities.
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by omerta 13y ago
@crazytony, if your startup is already working out, influential people will come to you. Also, where did I explicitly state that YC was only about money? I don't even think you can say I implicitly meant that or assume it was the gist
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by omerta 13y ago
One way is to get NGOs to adopt it for their volunteers and to have volunteers get rep from people they help and or serve.
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by omerta 13y ago
yeah, if we had known about all those ideas, we wouldn't have bothered with pplrep. There was another similar idea called "honestly" or something. Our YC application, it wasn't even serious and they asked us to make a vi
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by omerta 13y ago
check out my social network, pplrep.com, and unlike other networks, it's not egocentric. Email verification not required and we never email users, unless they request their password if they've forgotten it. Also not in bed with th
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Show Edward Snowden we have his back, REP him up.(pplrep.com)
9 points by omerta 13y ago|0 comments
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by omerta 13y ago
It's horrible. I think they should actually watch the normal user use their site. Once they see a loading screen, they're likely going to x out of the site.
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Awwwards.com - Inspiring Web Designers to Create Crap
6 points by omerta 13y ago|2 comments
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by omerta 14y ago
There's a big difference between learning syntax and learning to code.
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by omerta 14y ago
I have a few apps I use on my iPhone everyday: reeder for rss, alien blue for reddit, news:yc app for hacker news, tweetbot, and instapaper. These apps alone make me not want to leave iOS for android, otherwise I already would have.
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by omerta 14y ago
I ha
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by omerta 14y ago
Not a surprise cancer hasn't been cured. Most diseases have not been cured, yet. Even bacterial infections. People can still die from staph infections.
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by omerta 15y ago
I agree. Comparing those devices to the iPhone is just laughable. The iPhone took everything Palm could do and made it much more elegant and intuitive to use. It did it in such a way that made the older palm devices look so incredibly arch
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by omerta 15y ago
This is a pretty awesome article, IMO. I agree not everyone is meant to be incredibly "successful." Success is rather subjective. In the end, for most people at least, the attainment of happiness is the ultimate goal of life. And if that me
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by omerta 15y ago
All Linux distros I have seen look tacky and gaudy compared to OSX. I guess that's just your style, though.
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by omerta 15y ago
I think the author of the article is pretty inaccurate in his analysis of students at Harvard. I think the article reflects poorly on Harvard, to be honest. The author is about as smart as my shoe. Usually, the ones who continually ask ques