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I can see it's a hard problem for lobste.rs to keep the level of discourse high if they let in everyone, but then, yeah, it generally sucks if you would like to add to a conversation and their attitude is "Well, get an invite from one of your friends of course". Because of course I'd be friends with one of the exceedingly modest number of people who have accounts there. It probably seems like a good marketing attitude to them to assume hugeness or the destiny of hugeness, but attitude puts me off somewhat.

But, yes, what you said about not being connected with the whole startup thing which definely draws a certain amount of...amorality to HN.

I'm falling for a bit of forum bikeshedding here of commenting on something very important :) but...it's one thing to say "I imagined it was like this, but it was like that. And here's what my friends imagined" and another to start the thing like "man, c.s.l. sure tricked everyone with his weird, weird candy!"

I can't remember whether I tried to imagine it or allowed it to be intriguing-but-unknown in my mind.

To be fair, delusions about a magic sky monster are infantile.

I could be wrong because what do I know about guns, but when I see these I-made-a-gun stories, I'm really irritated because 1. it seems like the action of someone who began with "What is the easiest thing that I could do that would get the most media attention?" 2. when an important technology is young, it is so irresponsible to stoke fears for selfish reasons in the populace or abet politicians and pundits doing the same.

Maybe the confusion here is that prices are sometimes spoken of as 'a [currency unit] a [item]' which can be understood as 'one [currency unit] per [item]'.

Stable/lego-brick phenotypes: Is this about coming up with something akin to 0 and 1 and then building from the ground up? Or is this about something that's closer to familiar biology but with some fiendishly clever compartmentalization somehow?

I tried 10.0, and I had a few really irritating problems. My connection didn't stay up well with freebsd, and freebsd-update was not behaving robustly in the face of that. And pkg was frequently having problems with upgrades to itself where you had to follow the lists to know when to do something carefully by hand rather than letting the tool do its thing.

If it's a friendly lunch, I would advise to treat it mostly as a friendly lunch and not too much as an interview.

So his way to take care of the hen is to track its efficiency, give it a book telling it to be humble, and to fire it?

Well, possibly that was the semi-subtle point of the article -- that he says one thing, but here's a read-between-the-lines lack of evidence that it's more than talk.

I've sometimes wondered what would happen if a very careful and serious look were taken at what biological systems do for homeostasis. We might still be at the point where we don't feel--don't recognize the value yet--that we can spare the cycles, since in some sense you get parallelism for free in bio.

'"This is something that someone in their early 20s or late 20s or early 30s can go do with their friends," Ressel says.'

I get that everyone still goes after the 'cool' demographic narrowly like sheep, but I hope he felt really foolish for saying that out loud. Of course, if his name is Kayden, he's likely very young and his dad has money and he may not have that sort of perspective/awareness at all yet.

Thank you.

The New Yorker and The Atlantic can be interesting, but with the rise of the web and not so much empty time to try to fill, one sees how they expand a little bit of information to fill all of the empty space between the ads.

I don't know how widely accepted this interpretation of events is, but seeing how incredibly slow progress can be, progress that looks simple and 'obvious' from the far side, is always amazing.

I don't know about "write like you talk", precisely, but I've noticed that some very good writing on technical subjects reads like you could give it as a talk, so there's something there about clarity.

I'm going to have to see how close I can get to doing without youtube anymore. There's a lot of useless timesink to it, multiplied by so many of us humans who could be doing something more fulfilling, more gratifying, healthier.