During the southern hemisphere summer, I'll be visiting home for a couple weeks and doing some skiing, and then going on a two-week tour of the southern US with the Cornell University Glee Club before heading back to school. During the northern hemisphere summer, I'll be interning at Google in Mountain View.
I'd like to join. I will also be kicking off the second cd exchange quite soon.
I know I've also seen posts in which a short story or poem written by someone else is simply pasted in as text.
I've been listening to "Found And Lost" by Tonikom. Definitely one of the better electronic albums I've listened to recently. Very pleasant.
* The fourth verse of "Amazing Grace" * "Poison Oak" by Bright Eyesliek dis if u cry evertim
I'm not really sure why, but I'm always annoyed when linked to upworthy instead of directly to the video or whatever. Great video though, thanks for posting.
I think you're actually pretty correct. I have a problem with Rand and the book because, while selfish, arrogant jerks often do provide valuable advancements to society, Rand openly holds those who dare to give a damn about anyone or anything other than themselves in contempt: they're the scourge of society; they're dangerous; they spread their mediocrity like a disease. Her relentless demonization of benevolence makes me sick. Also, the novel sucks. It's a thousand pages of Rand transparently ranting through totally unbelievable, unrelatable, contrived characters.
I read it a couple years ago. Can I complain about it now, or should I wait till the 20th?
definitely in
I just opened my list of users whom I follow to test this out, and it's quite buggy within that pop-up. The number doesn't always appear right next to the name I'm hovering over, and for some doesn't appear at all.
Why would verbalizing your current state be fundamentally different from any other action?
Hmm... Yes. There is a difference. Maybe I need to clarify my original statement. In this situation, I stand by my words. A life taken from inaction is no better than one taken from action in this situation, because either way, my action was one with benevolent intent. If one is acting with malevolent intent, things change. In that situation, I'd say that it makes you a worse person to kill than to let die. However, the net good (or bad) created from your actions still remains the same in either way, even in this context.
I don't agree that it is worse to kill people than to let them die. I think a utilitarian approach is appropriate here. Pull the lever.
I've been all over two new albums: "Yeezus" by Kanye West and "Kveikur" by Sigur Rós. They're both amazing. A couple days ago they both had 87 on Metacritic, which I thought was entirely deserved by both, but by now, "Kveikur" has dropped to 80 and "Yeezus" to 86. Still not anything to sneeze at, I suppose. "Kveikur" is a stylistic development for Sigur Rós. They've incorporated some distinctly Reznoresque bits, especially in the rhythm track for a couple songs. "Yeezus" is even more groundbreaking than "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was. The production is fantastic (Daft Punk is a producer on a few tracks). I'm really excited to see a mainstream hip hop artist actually trying to develop the genre. In addition to the interesting production, Kanye really spits on this record, too. By far, this is the best mainstream hip hop record recently released.
Seems like a good question for stackoverflow
All people dream, but unfortunately, I rarely remember mine. Most dreams I've ever remembered have been unpleasant, but for some reason, I still wish I remembered them more often.
bfv's right on about quantum computing, but this isn't that. This is just taking advantage of one key part of quantum physics: observing a photon changes it. I'm not sure why fiber-optic communication doesn't always have this property, since it's just photons.
I have to agree with the top comment. I don't follow HN closely or have anything to say about "hacker culture", whatever that is, but I can't help but completely agree with its conviction of most social startups as unproductive and stupid. As Paul Miller admitted yesterday here and kleinbl00 asserted way back on this post of mine, people are to blame for wasting their time; the medium by which they waste it is inconsequential. I believe this. But I also believe, as kleinbl00 also asserted in that discussion, that the internet and social applications are handicapping people's social lives. These social media startups pretty much all contribute directly to this problem, encouraging people to have shorter, less sincere, and more mediated social interactions. They're a net loss for the people who use them and for everyone else in the world, making it more difficult for people like me to find friends interaction with whom doesn't mandate investment in this artificial social world. Snapchat and Vine may have been made by people going against all odds to bring ideas to reality, but they are lucrative, successful, unproductive, and stupid ideas, adding fragmentation and indirection to people's relationships, and my life would be better if those people hadn't bothered.
Yes. This is weird.