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qubit | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What does HN think of economic collapse?

For a fascinating take on the subject, I recommend "Industrial Society and its Future" by Ted Kaczynski.

qubit | 14 years ago | on: Is There Anything Good About Men?

We are slaves to our genes plus our conditioning, both of which are greatly influenced by our ancestors and completely influenced by things outside of our control.

qubit | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What database does your company use?

Does anyone know a way to easily migrate MySQL data to sqlite?

qubit | 15 years ago | on: Apple will reject DUI checkpoints app

I think the fact that there is s kill switch at all is the problem. The argument being made is that there shouldn't be a person with a platform that has a kill switch. Platforms should be open as opposed to controlled by a single person or entity.

qubit | 15 years ago | on: Apple will reject DUI checkpoints app

I disagree. I think the argument is more about who gets to decide what is "moral" and who gets to promote/enforce that morality.

qubit | 15 years ago | on: So you want to do the SICP...

I don't know why this is being upvoted. What does it add to the conversation?

qubit | 15 years ago | on: Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again

I honestly don't understand how anyone can question that we lack free will unless one believes in a soul or some other kind of "magic". If all of our actions are governed by our brains, and our brains are simply a collection of particles obeying the laws of physics, where is the room for free will?

qubit | 16 years ago | on: IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people

Are you able to configure the touchpad to support right-clicks under Linux? I'm curious because that's one thing that's been a pain for me when running Linux on an Apple laptops in the past.

qubit | 16 years ago | on: Coolest software of the decade?

A hunch is a gut feeling or intuition about something. Asking someone to prove a hunch seems odd to me.

qubit | 16 years ago | on: 20 minutes to subvert 10 year old minds...

I like David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, but it might be a little too heavy for kids that age.

qubit | 16 years ago | on: How to Drop Out

What type of low-stress work do you do? I am currently looking for a similar situation.

qubit | 16 years ago | on: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

I've been using Arch for quite a few years now after trying Redhat(befor Fedora), Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc. I like Arch's minimalistic philosophy, but then, I also use Fluxbox as my window manager. ;-)