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America. Far right is monarchism/fascism.

Last year I stayed at a nearby airbnb and took the bus and hitched rides.

The flaw in this is that our mobility and density is unprecedented, so things that were not feasible for a startup plague in the past may now be feasible.

The reason given was leeching. Neutral is not good enough for that sometimes; you need slightly basic. Some things will corrode at pH 7, but not higher. Good call though; distilled…

I don't get it. The author rails through the whole essay that there are no A players and B players, but the conclusion concedes that some people are stronger and smarter, and some …

That shouldn't happen if you do the motion transform uniformly on all axes. It should just be equivalent to changing the speed of time, rather than actually changing the trajectori…

Excellent. It looks like it uses linear interpolation between the different glyphs, which makes it look a bit jerky. The author might want to try a sinusoidal interpolation so that…

>What do you do when you realize you are not a programmer? You could start calling yourself a "recovering programmer": http://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html

I would also add that YC investment boosts nuclear stuff as a legitimate thing. Could lead to copycat investment (which we dearly need in the nuclear field).

Quit my productive engineering job to chase women, work on personal projects and political agitation. Getting paid to go Galt? Yes please. I may not be representative, But that's h…

This is true but the english expression of it is prone to misunderstanding. See the no free lunch theorem for the technical version of the problem of induction: https://en.wikipedi…

You know, it's probable that someone will invent an automatically diversified wallet that tracks the market cap of cryptocurrencies overall. Rise and fall of new cryptocurrencies w…

>so just force yourself. >just ADHD doesn't work like that. "just" supposes willpower, ADHDers have low willpower. The whole problem is how to "just" do something, so reiterating t…

I have real bad ADHD, and everything you say rings true. There are (only) two things that seem to help me: (social) commitment that would be unthinkable to back out of, and random …

>avoid perpetuating that state Why? Surely a state that allows some people a comfortable base on which to build wealth that benefits everyone is a good thing rather than a bad thin…

>quantum >vibrations >consciousness Reverend Bayes says 99% probability of quackery.

I've heard that in most professions, experience is most relevant in the first two years, then stops being valuable after that, with intelligence and conscientiousness being more im…

It's not quite like that; there are experiments that show that there's no hidden variable, but yeah, entanglement isn't magic. (unfortunately)

Vancouver needs a hacker news meetup. I'm organizing one for Sunday Dec 08 in gastown. Venue undecided still. RSVP on the meetup page[1] and I'll reserve something when we know how…

>How is this is any better than some Russians' generalization that smiling Westerners are duplicitous? It might be more accurate

MCMC isn't strictly serial; you can run multiple chains in parallel and get decent results (provided your break in period isn't too big), and this is commonly done for multicore. T…

Some has scripted it to alternate between "Seriously though..." and "NIGGER" How nice.

My understanding is that patent trolls persist with bogus patents because it's not in any one firms interest to challenge them. When it's a central insurance company taking the ris…

Less Voice, more Exit. The solution is not more democracy; everyone'e been pretty consistently complaining about Washington's power for years and it's only gotten worse. The soluti…

Those things are harder to control, so generally less worth thinking about.