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Re:Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:08AM (#12247051)
Nonfiction:Global Brain, Fiction:Robinson Crusoe. A handful of poetry (rumi) and philosophy books over the years too.
Re:What if financial systems were hacked on Monday July 25, 2016 @08:54AM (#12158289)
TPFAssembly uses sheet metal and scrap pallet guillotine. It is super effective.
Re:Neuroscientists' Open Letter To DIY Brain Hackers on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @08:43AM (#12085685)
Thanks for this. There is a bottle of contingencies in my bathroom, but, it simply is not an option for what plagues me daily. I quickly become wholly inefficient & anxiety transmutes to doldrums. In the days directly after having to succumb to the use of a benzo I am foggy and detached...hungover. Have not tried some of the newer beta-blockers that are supposed to work without creative lobotomy.
Global Brain -Bloom

Captive Mind -Milosz

Machines of Loving Grace -Markoff

Station 11 -Mandell (fiction)

Sapiens -Harari

Revenant (do not remember author/fiction)

Argonauts -Nelson

Re:Why Feynman Diagrams Are So Important on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:47AM (#12049269)
Nope. Just Craps.
Re:Lenin was a mushroom on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:27AM (#11953689)
In communist Russ Golden Teacher B+'s YOU!
Re:Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @09:42AM (#11945504)
Is durufle Requiem hindered or helped by a full pit? Does Chip excite you the way OLPC XO did/does? Salutations/felicitations, appreciation for the ama.
Re:Deconstructing the DAO Attack: A Brief Code Tour on Saturday June 18, 2016 @11:22AM (#11928988)
I do not denounce your assertion(s), but, I would like to read how you apply them to Ethereum. To me, the literature seems very much to be attempting to prevent from baking in our (human) duplicitous nature, opting instead for an almost forced virtue. Please suffer a fool and expound/expand for me?
Re:Deconstructing the DAO Attack: A Brief Code Tour on Saturday June 18, 2016 @11:18AM (#11928973)
ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНИЕ! ^objects in mirror are larger than they appear.
It was not simply the consolidation of our petroleum interests we were after, no? Hamid Karzai (our man) afforded us unprecedented access to humans favorite narcotic. Poof! An unprecedented alkaloid epidemic.
Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson on Monday May 23, 2016 @09:22AM (#11753648)
Excellent point. It seems to me that there is a very good chance that by judging it by our own ab/de/inductive metrics we could miss its blossoming. Your own two cents?
Ditto, enjoyed.
Netbus. Full transparency, I did not check nested to see if someone already said this.
Re:Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:57AM (#11635297)
"Now that I have polarized you into my foil -insert Inigo Montoya quote-"