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Comment · 15 years ago
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?

Comment · 15 years ago
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.

Comment · 15 years ago
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.
Comment · 15 years ago
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.

Comment · 15 years ago
Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker -- on a rocket!
Comment · 15 years ago
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.
Comment · 15 years ago
> +new Date() // ...

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Comment · 15 years ago
It is already clearly recognizable at the default font size.
Comment · 15 years ago
Until it was a problem worth noticing. Opportunity costs.
Comment · 15 years ago
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.

Comment · 15 years ago
The live CD with an actually really cool configuration of zsh. Whatever linux distro you're using, get the zsh config from grml!
Comment · 15 years ago
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.

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