nimbleNima

Very good observation, mixmax. I've considered that too. Is my threshold heightening or is this material universally not of high quality anymore? We know, for certain, this DOES hold true in other cases. Falling in love is one example. In grade school, falling in mad love was much easier than it is now. Our level of awareness is much greater, and we consider many more things about a person (breadth) and whether we can see ourselves with this person down the line(depth). All this analytical thinking sort of prevents us from feeling and falling.

Back to whether the articles and comments on HN, as of late, are elevated enough to trigger intellectual gratification... to believe that after 1883 days, you've changed because you've soaked up all you can and must move on, is a disservice to yourself and to HN. If not HERE, then WHERE? It is the responsibility of our seasoned users, particularly like you, to keep the morale and the quality of this site as high as possible. Plus, users like you are what make this site valuable. You (and users like you) are the adequate benchmark beside which we can measure the quality of the articles. Moreover, the world of knowledge is a vast and limitless ocean, much of which (I'm sure) still remains for you to be discovered. And the nature of this web site and what it is intended for still works. All that needs to be done is to match the growth of the audience by growing the material proportionately. This proposal to use karma as currency makes a lot of sense. Before, the karma was meaningless anyway. This structure puts the karma to good use and forces everyone to contribute mindfully. Cheers to the original poster. I hope it's implemented.

Everyone wants to compartmentalize you. Many cannot interpolate the steps required to go from being very good to being excellent, so they scoff, and they try to impart advice. How are "very good" and "excellent" even quantifiable? Let them say what they will. Nod, respectfully. Then carry on. You belong in another crowd--a rarer crowd. You absolutely may be a designer and front-ender. I'd even speculate that these two crafts complement each other in making you better at both. You won't mindlessly design something that is artistic, yet up in the clouds (because you have a foundation in usability and functionality). Similarly, you won't create an unappealing and thoughtless front-end, because you have an affinity towards--and respect for--beauty. Your boss meant well, I'm sure, and in most respects, it certainly is a good idea to narrow in on your expertise, but these two trades, particularly, do not conflict. Whenever faced with two choices, those who truly distinguish themselves are the ones who say, Fuck it. I'm doing both.

Considering the fact that the GSI and GSII were allegedly unoriginal, to what extent did Samsung actually sell its soul, if it didn't bother cultivating it to begin with?

Wouldn't this be similar to the concept behind The Matrix? You're virtually plugged in; you feel like yourself, but the steak you're eating has been graphically programmed inside this "MMO" world to trigger the appropriate stimulation in your brain to make the entire experience "real."

One thing remains inconsistent though. I understand that we remove our legs, arms, organs, torso, head, etc. in pursuit of becoming immortal via a virtual life, but... isn't the brain itself also within the same classification as the aforementioned body parts? It's biodegradable.

Say we find a way to preserve the brain eternally, wouldn't it then become irrelevant to live through a virtual life? For if we can preserve the brain, the same method can be applied to preserve the rest of the body that we earlier considered ridding ourselves from.

The mind is a metaphysical repository. The brain is not the cause of the mind; it is only a channel that allows us to associate with--and add to--it. If we were to say that the brain is the cause of the mind, then--by necessity--upon physical death, the mind would have to vaporize, vanish, cease to exist. Now.. our identity IS our mind. We generally don't identify who we are through our bodies. Our memories, habits, traits, tendencies, affinities, aversions, and reactions all emanate from our mind. And if we subscribe to the latter notion--that our minds continue to exist even after we end our mortal lives--then that postulates that there must exist another world, an accentuated world, devoid of time and space, that allows an endless progression of fulfillment and enlightenment and an infinite array of things to do, only without an aging body to drag us around as we attempt to do them.