Ask HN: What annoys you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by loewenskind » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 7:47 AM UTC

superuser2 wrote: post #324

joubert wrote: post #79

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Online banking in South Africa is excellent - I was shocked when I moved to the US how archaic it is. Transfers are a breeze, fast, and everyone does it. Integration with cell phone infrastructure is also great.

I suspect transfers are archaic (inconvenient, expensive, and take several days or weeks to process) in the US because otherwise the credit card and payment processing industries would cease to exist.

It's really sad how many useless jobs exist in the US because someone thinks that these people would simply starve to death if they weren't able to e.g. hold a stop/slow sign at road construction sites.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by TheSOB88 » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 1:41 PM UTC

MikeCapone wrote: post #265

TheSOB88 wrote: post #258

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You guys seem to think death isn't inevitable? Huh?

Not death, just the diseases of aging (which aren't so different from other diseases in their effects, when it comes down to it). The general idea is that our bodies accumulate damage as a side product of metabolism (stuff that evolution hasn't equipped us to deal with - various long-lived molecules that we can't break down); over a certain threshold, that damage turns into pathologies. So your skin is less elastic,…

So that would result in immortality, right? How else would people die? The obvious problem here is overpopulation. What's your stance on that?

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by Eliezer » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 5:05 PM UTC

davi wrote: post #349

Eliezer wrote: post #348

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Fired off your question to Aschwin de Wolf and got back: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/newtechnology.html (Figure 4 and 5 for the more recent technology, earlier photos are older technology) http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/braincryopreservation1.htm... (photos as of 1995 tech) Aschwin also notes this paper is important: http://www.ijcep.com/707005A.html

Thanks for inquiring and relaying the response you got. Here is an example of the scale I'm interested in: http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/atlas/1_6_2.stm Things that look like the newtechnology.html's figs 4 & 5 can look very bad at higher mags. I know this from painful experience. I don't see any high mag pictures at newtechnology.html or in Lemler et al. 2004, which that page cites. These mags are quite accessible…

Aschwin says it's a reasonable request and he knows they've got those and he'll see if he can make them available. I'll reply again when/if the info is available. Any particular way in which I should contact you, if this conversation goes stale?

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by davi » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 12:02 AM UTC

Eliezer wrote: post #353

davi wrote: post #349

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Thanks for inquiring and relaying the response you got. Here is an example of the scale I'm interested in: http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu/atlas/1_6_2.stm Things that look like the newtechnology.html's figs 4 & 5 can look very bad at higher mags. I know this from painful experience. I don't see any high mag pictures at newtechnology.html or in Lemler et al. 2004, which that page cites. These mags are quite accessible…

Aschwin says it's a reasonable request and he knows they've got those and he'll see if he can make them available. I'll reply again when/if the info is available. Any particular way in which I should contact you, if this conversation goes stale?

Yes, I'd be interested in seeing higher mag pictures if they become available. An email to @ will reach me.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 4:37 PM UTC

conorgil wrote: post #229

Kisil wrote: post #184

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Not to recurse on your comment, but can we build a web app for this some weekend?

I would also love to help build a web app for a site like this. I tried to email you, but there is no contact info in your profile. Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you are interested!

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