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Sanity does not include one specific moral system. For humans, it also does not include being bug-free given some morality,

What would make you think so?

You are by far overestimating the general public interest into such topics. Also, there are enough people who think that banning internet for something they think is at least as much a crime as shoplifting is absolutely appropriate.

However, I have to admit that I get a tiny weeny bit optimistic.

But: similar "interest group" parties (Grüne, anyone?) tend to lose their focus, and their competence, with time.

Summary: Too soon to tell.

So you have used up nearly 70% of your vocabulary to write this comment? I have to admit, your proficiency in English grammar is extraordinary given this.

I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live).

This also shows how extremely time-consuming it is to learn a second language. I started in school, 10 years old, am moderately well educated (some college drop-out), and use English on a daily basis. I also watch most movies in English (very seldom for people in a German speaking country to do), read some English novels, and also most non-fiction books I have are in English. Internet use is nearly English only.

Still, I probably have the vocabulary of an average 12 year old native speaker. After 17 years of learning and using the language, and at least 10 years of that using it _daily_.

Ouch.

Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker -- on a rocket!

Thanks to emerging low-cost satellite launches (like from http://interorbital.com/), fun projects like http://sat.mur.at/ are already in the real of being possible. I may be an hopeless optimist, but some relatively low-bandwidth hacker-operated satellite network within 20 years is not totally impossible.

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It is already clearly recognizable at the default font size.

Until it was a problem worth noticing. Opportunity costs.

AFAIK you do not hire programmers in India, you hire a CMMI level 5 certified "team" having at least 50% Senior Software Architects on board.

More to the point: I doubt that any company paying a salary in the above mentioned range which is also an interesting place to work (the OP obviously doesn't do it for the money) is giving a dime on how you title yourself.

The live CD with an actually really cool configuration of zsh. Whatever linux distro you're using, get the zsh config from grml!

Creating another startup to reduce the number of pointless startups is obviously the correct solution to everything!

The review may or may not be worth 100+ points on HN, but who am I to judge that. Better I start my own HN, so I can decide ... hey, that would actually work! Sort of.

It works without problems on WinXP, there is no difference; throughout the beta-versions Firefox incrementally used some minor tweaks of Chrome (for instance, where the link-bar on mouse-hover or the status-information on loading the web-page was displayed). Sad to hear that it does not work on all OSs -- for me it is one of the most important improvements.

Until further replication I think it is more probable that three months of waiting resulted in somebody using a text editor.

Hmm. Here in Central Europe this would probably read:

"However the events unfold we can rest reassured that scientists have to acknowledge that any use of nuclear technology for electrical power generation is inherently unsafe and therefore irresponsible."

And then we build a new coal power plant.

Even more important: Windows uses _very_ aggressive hinting for its default fonts, especially the new set introduced with Office 2007 and Windows Vista (Calibri, Cambria, Consolas). Though I very much like the effect for my programming font (Consolas is great in that respect), it destroys the scalability of a font to a very high degree (this is the reason why zooming a Webpage in any Browser reflows your text, and why some fonts look different in shape and/or height/width ratio in different zoom-levels; beside that rendering-engines decision to round the font-sizes to the next full pixel).

IE9 promises to not do this anymore, and on high-density displays (the better smartphone ones) it is simply not needed.

So the problem is two-fold: a very distinctive look of Microsoft fonts, and a sub-optimal fallback for non-aggressively hinted fonts in Windows.

However, if one uses font-sizes that one can actually read (for instance, bigger then 12pt, thank you all very much) the pixel-per-character count gets big enough that the results start looking better -- especially as the user does not unconsciously move his nose to meet the display in person.

Strangely enough, your primary example always directed me to videolan in the past, and continues to do so.

I very much prefer DDG these days, but those statements are just not true. And I do not believe that Google would purposefully provide _much_ _worse_ results for US customers, relative to EU ones.

_worse_? I'd expect worst-case no-change, if it would hurt, the vendor would make TRIM a NOP. However, I'm always open for a source. (AnandTech for instance writes, TRIM just doesn't help, at http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-...)

[edit] Well, if you look at the numbers, one column actually got worse. Wow.

The "hard problem" of consciousness only exists if you start out with a dualist prior. Otherwise it is mysterious in the same way as the non-symmetry of matter and antimatter is mysterious -- it is not explained.

Lightning may look perfectly suitable for scientific investigation now, but it was as much a "hard problem" in other times.

Dualist priors have not yet been shown to be useful.

That depends very much on the question. If I just want THE ANSWER as my tld, and care about nothing else, then it IS the answer.

There is not really much there yet, but the idea seems to be aggregate all your information related to interaction/social-networking/communication in one place. One place under _your_ control. That's feature number one.

Then, it could present this information in a way that is actually comprehensible by mere humans. Keeping track of contacts/addresses/events/news/photos/videos/conversations spread up between Facebook/Hacker News/lesswrong/Flickr/YouTube/LinkedIn/blablablablabla is not easy.

It may be of much less interest to you if you like to just forget about what you've done in the past (as it is practically done outside the digital world). Or if you do have an actually working sync-solution cross all your communications means.

Besides having a better overview of my digital self through this, I think I'd use it to come back and convince myself regularly that yes, I also have said so immensely stupid things in the past.

I think it is a great idea -- but to make it useful, it requires a tremendous amount of work.

He describes a situation arising due to the conflict that we need more and more 3rd level education for work skills, simply due to the more and more demanding problems, but currently the only, at least partially, working 3rd level education systems are the universities.

Lacking other options, universities must (and do) provide business-skill-education, whether or not one likes it.

The ideal ratio between "academic endeavors" and "skill-teaching endeavors" is not known, and we will probably go many wrong ways before we find something that actually satisfies the participants, if ever.

However, a very fine piece of text, as, plus or minus some points, it reminds us of different goals of different institutions, and the complex interdependence of our culture between all those different parts.

Related: The Germany-based IT book and magazine publisher Heise (http://www.heise.de) did this back on 2010-09. The test has been such a success (practically no problems, for their share of readers, though) that they made that permanent. They wrote that those Big Guys had asked them on their experiences. Maybe this actually works out. (Source, German: @ http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Globaler-Test-fuer-da...)

Then we won't need to remap caps-lock anymore.

14.000 suicides in 74.000.000 people (about 19 per 100.000). Too much, but not way more than to expect, there are western countries with higher suicide rates.

I'm sure there are too many suicides because of micro-loan depts, but I doubt that this part is significant with regard to all the other issues we need to solve.

The people are much more pragmatic than the project sounds; they are thinking about how much autonomy is even possible, realistically. Maritime laws are seemingly one of the simplest issues out there.

Ähm... has the page changed? There is not a single mention of a Kindle crash, and the DDG summary of the page when searching for the title shows something completely different than what I see there. Hm.

However, "tu quoque" is not an argument either...

My dear, you just lost the "don't".