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Someone needs to murder paul graham.

> 660 Third Street > San Francisco, CA 94107 A local company.

As a Protestant, I struggle with being an effective Jew; being an effective Catholic, is, I'm afraid, just a bit out of my reach. I suspect it has to do with the creation myth of P…

I really don't advise getting attached to lines in somebody else's database. HN is more or less a social data harvesting system. What I'm doing is bad, very bad in the sense of the…

It's just ordinary newspaper-style writing in a shock jock style. (Insert stock joke about Milgram experiment.) I think it goes back to Bolshevism and especially the "talk hard" et…

You must have missed the thread the other day about open source video games that used to be commercial. Psychology departments can run experiments on people where they see what the…

> If you look at the level of public interest, then I think it becomes important to actually look into these things This argument actually works on hormonal teens...as for everyone…

> How much did Stalin sleep? https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Stalin-sleep If you aren't already delegating everything already, and evaluating their work, and delegating the eval…

> We’ve all been hearing the hype lately about low-code and no-code platforms. This is the first sentence of one of these "articles". It's a classic buzzword, just another brand of…

When will OpenAI make GPT-3 available for academic study? Or are there no plans to do so yet?

This is also said of mathematics, but rather when the student is successful in learning a theorem.

I would argue that outright heresy is the way to go; rebellion only gets you so far.

This is what happens when philosophy, sophistry, and ethics decide to go on vacation to the Bahamas together while their husbands work at major investment banks.

The release of the source code is actually more of a symbolic signal that the competitive value of the source code has reached a certain level. And that is within n orders of magni…

I like LSD too; I wish the government would legalize it. related: https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hyp... Bill Atkinson waited until 2016 to talk about LSD …

What is the Tao-drug connection? I feel like this is a case of Orientalism where Western drug culture is getting in the way of popular perception of Taoism, especially Chuang Tzu. …

You would think there would be more interest in psychological research. Or am I wrong, and it would be a copyright violation to download the source code and assets, compile, and as…

Does listening to white noise increase the fractal dimension the same way as drugs?

I noticed that the book bindery closed in Berkeley a bit ago. It's a shame, since I had a conversation with the guy who ran it years ago, and the options he had were really dazzlin…

Wow. This is going to have a big effect. We can't call Russians felons anymore!

> why did python decide to break backwards-compatibility I think this is actually because of Mr. van Rossum's employment at Google. Taking money from one customer exclusively just …

I've actually wondered if a True Hipster (tm) ever thought of starting a company to develop software for vintage Apple hardware emulated by one of the many open source choices avai…

> Zuckerberg https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/technology/twitter-f... This is the guy who screwed up so bad that Congress started going after silicon valley. Our lawmakers h…

Sounds like an untestable non-falsifiable theory. Similar to nuclear deterrence in that regard; it reminds me of the doctrine that one should cultivate a persona that appears more …

> This is a toy language implemented by a single person—use for quiet enjoyment only. Quiet enjoyment training! Soundless hedonism! Or would that be unsound hedonism? Am I breaking…