Hacker News: zerostar07

New comment by zerostar07 in "How to start a lab when funds are tight"

zerostar07 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:14:22 +0000

You should also consider whether you need to start another lab.

New comment by zerostar07 in "Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime"

zerostar07 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 19:50:42 +0000

yes and the lecticae, i believe they were popular in Rome because carriages were not allowed.

New comment by zerostar07 in "Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime"

zerostar07 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 18:47:52 +0000

not novel enough; the romans did that thousands of years ago

New comment by zerostar07 in "No Joke: The Onion Faces Layoffs by Univision, Says Report"

zerostar07 — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 17:20:28 +0000

Plot twist: The onion becomes the CIA project that fools people on using Facebook, another CIA project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

New comment by zerostar07 in "A new $100M fund for women founders of color"

zerostar07 — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:56:46 +0000

if that were the definition of racism today, 99% of the articles written about it in the past 10 years is false. Racism today is defined by actions, not beliefs.

New comment by zerostar07 in "A new $100M fund for women founders of color"

zerostar07 — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 10:36:07 +0000

While the goal is laudable, this is surely racist and sexist. The language-control group wants to avoid the label, because then those weaponized words will lose their impact. It remains racist and sexist for a good purpose.

New comment by zerostar07 in "A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:06:58 +0000

libertarians leave capitalism intact. You can say that government delegates is "a small number".

New comment by zerostar07 in "The European Commission is polling if daylight savings should be abolished"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 15:14:11 +0000

trying to vote gives me 404 in 28 languages

New comment by zerostar07 in "A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 15:08:17 +0000

Or they could just declare them terrorists, easier imho.

New comment by zerostar07 in "A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 15:03:22 +0000

who is this "we" who believes such falsities?

New comment by zerostar07 in "A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:56:47 +0000

what makes you think they won't nuke those out of existence as soon as they become successful?

New comment by zerostar07 in "A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:51:54 +0000

By that standard we should have stuck with absolute monarchy. (you might want to think it over. I 'm sure the ancient romans said the same things, as did imperial russia)

New comment by zerostar07 in "A pilot project for a new floating city will have 300 homes"

zerostar07 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:44:48 +0000

It's sad that libertarians / ancaps are bullied out of the real world to do their experiment. These kind of experiments should be done on land.

New comment by zerostar07 in "Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags"

zerostar07 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:52:38 +0000

> via outrage, fake news, etc

Also via politicizing their identity, their gender etc. Taken to the extreme, anything that has emotional impact can manipulate people. Taken to further extreme, such an argument means that democracy is useless and based on very flimsy and wrong assumptions about human nature. But we can be reasonable instead of extreme.

New comment by zerostar07 in "Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags"

zerostar07 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:29:25 +0000

that doesnt explain anything though, it just kicks the can a bit further down. He's not clear whether the problem is facebook, the fact that majority of voters are gullible idiots, or democracy itself?

New comment by zerostar07 in "Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags"

zerostar07 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:55:41 +0000

how dare he

New comment by zerostar07 in "Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union"

zerostar07 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:16:35 +0000

Sarcasm and humor are a big deal. They are active attempts to identify resonance with a crowd and common ground, and can be used to assess if there is a strong cultural basis in a community. In the internet it's become very hard to have cohesive communities, so sarcasm has to be labeled (perhaps hoping that it will help people learn to identify it without labels in the future - in vain, i think).

New comment by zerostar07 in "Sex and Sexuality"

zerostar07 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:26:26 +0000

> celebrated through marriage

Nothing spells celebration like the approval of the State and the Law does

New comment by zerostar07 in "Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags"

zerostar07 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:14:01 +0000

I wish facebook could be outright extinguished from the internet. Then a lot of people would realize that those barbarians were a kind of solution.

New comment by zerostar07 in "Equivalence principle of general relativity holds even at gravitational extremes"

zerostar07 — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:03:02 +0000

why do they call it Principal?