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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 th…

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…

How do they justify such claims of an abstract universal concept given most scientists hold the naive empiricist worldview in which only particulars exist?

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.

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…

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 men…

@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…

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.

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 eve…

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 passwor…

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.

I can't believe this site. I just heard of it today. The usable designs that are simple, attractive, and load fast get bad scores. The sites with annoying loading screens, annoying…

There's a big difference between learning syntax and learning to code.

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 le…

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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.