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> If we make a copy of you and I kill you, am I extending your life?

If you make a copy of me, for a brief time there will be two of "me". After living for some time, those two will diverge increasingly. That's what living is, changing and developing.

So next after copying me, you want to kill me and you want to know if you're thereby extending my life? That seems like a non sequitur statement. What do you mean by killing "me", anyway? Killing both copies? Killing one copy? How does killing extend the life of anything?

> But there's a biological system with a nearly identical behavior that's living. That copy of you will have a similar conscious experience, but it won't be you.

Okay, now we're moving closer. The first mistake you make is assuming there's an "original" and a "copy". If they're functionally identical, they're both me in equal measures. Killing one is still murder, becoming more tragic the more time the two minds had to develop on their own.

Your are basing this example on the hidden assumption that a mind is trapped inside a body and forever bound to it, that a copy of my mind won't be "me". I recognize this sounds intuitively correct to a lot of people, but it's not actually reflecting physical reality. The atoms making up my mind are not specially tagged. The information they represent can be copied in principle, and the process that is "me" can be executed on other platforms. In this, the assumption of uniqueness is just not applicable.

> That's the point of the parent. The parent's not talking about a soul.

I realize that "soul" is a loaded term. But in the end, you're operating on those same loaded assumptions that seem obvious to yourself, but aren't really compatible with a purely physical model. It's an easy mistake to make without realizing it. Our everyday intuition is not always a good indicator of physical reality.

Everyday intuition suggest that there can only be one "me". It suggests that consciousness is one unbroken process, and that my mind is a fundamentally static kernel. It suggests that I'm a black box with unknowable inner workings. None of these things are actually true.
Haven't got paid for almost 1 year.  Laptop, passport, months of code got stolen
I never thought I would post this on HN, but at this point I thought why not.

I have being a web developer for over 14 years. I am good at what I do, and I have being working for a startup that hasn't paid me in almost 1 year.

The CEO is wonderful, I think the business is very profitable in the long run, just have no cash right now. 2 weeks ago someone broke into my friend's place and stole my macbook pro, ipad, a lot of euros in cash, and my passport.

The laptop also has a lot of code that I didn't back up. Those were the code I was going to release for the startup to get paid. We were going to a credit card process/revenue sharing model going on.

Right now, I am stuck in Denmark, no Passport, very little money, and no laptop. The startup definitely has no cash to pay for anything.

I have started teaching donation based Yoga at Art Academy and Lindy Hop classes to get some extra cash.

I am not too bother by the event, but it would be nice to have a working macbook pro 15' to restore my time machine backup and some extra cash flow at the moment.

Any suggestions welcome.

If you are in Aarhus and want to attend some good yoga class.

Every Thursday 19:00 at
DJK ( DJK Det Jyske Kunstakademi ) http://www.djk.nu

Mejlgade 32-34 / DK-8000 Århus C

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I love the idea behind this, hope it's successful and will be making sure my musician friends are aware of it.
yes that's exactly the kind of thing I have been looking for! Many thanks
Surely it's much easier to hit DELETE than to do a reply like this (plus I doubt that the said recruiter will take note, or even read it). By replying you are only serving to waste your time even further.
The US is a country. France is a country, so is Germany. How is that "not fair"? Should France's results be broken out by province or Australia by state?
OT, but you'd better change the title of the submission. I thought it was about someone who wanted to bring parrots in the Silicon Valley.
> is it just using sublime as a GUI for git?

Basically just that, but with shortcuts for stuff like stage current file, commit, push, etc
> People who are old enough will remember the same argument about e-mail spam

I think that supports my point. Because when was the last time you actually saw spam in your inbox?
I'm sure she reads every reply, that's how this works you know... She can't place me in that dream job if she doesn't read my reply.

And I was venting - maybe at least she'll stop emailing me.
Local policies also affect other countries. Different provinces, different cities, different schools, different policies...
I've always meant to check that out but always forget. Thanks for reminding me about that, I'll take a look now.
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I'm not sure where this hostility is coming from, this is the second time you implicitly accuse me of stupidity in this thread.

Edit: actually you're in good company if you think that. I have two emails from HNers (pertaining to different threads on this subject) attesting that I lack the education and probably the intellect to carry that kind of conversation forward. :)

> The point is: will the abstraction accurately represent the original physical system?

I already talked about that in the very comment you're replying to.
Forty years isn't optimistic at all if you allow for the possibility of smarter than human intelligences speeding up technological progress in that time.

A copy of you IS you. If you change the atoms that make up your brain you are still the same person. It's not like the atoms themselves are sacred. Likewise if you replace the computational substrate your brain runs on it's still you. Why do you care if it's neurons or transistors? Consciousness is a pattern, an algorithm maybe, not a physical thing.
How are you investing $360k to make $1200/month forever without worry?
Isn't dying part of the 'living' deal?

This is somewhat equivalent to saying "isn't dying from infectious diseases part of the 'living' deal?" It is, but antibiotics are really nice, and now that we have them, it's hard to imagine a world where people would happily give them up because getting infected is just part of living.

Anti-death technology sounds really similar. If we were to have this technology now, it would be a pretty big stretch of imagination to picture a world where people would happily give it away because death is part of living.

The whole deal about spirituality is that one discovers that we are in fact immortal

We're immortal once you break down duality, but that's not what we're talking about here. People want to have the option to live forever in the conventional reality, not the ultimate reality.
Definitely encouraging to see more polished premium Sublime plugins.
I know nothing about graphics or hardware acceleration, could you link me to an example? Sounds interesting.
Nice visualisation, but what's the value in this? Symantec's a "global innovator" (really? I'm skeptical, but am I missing something?) And splitting companies into "electronic components" and "computer hardware" seems dubious too, since there's presumably a lot of overlap.
Well I doubt she read it in it's entirety.

btw. it was well written, but that's not really the point here.
> cold-calls from people looking up my phone number in DNS records even

I actually kind of respect that. At least they took the effort to look up your domain and do a whois.

In general, I reward recruiters who bother to visit my site (and use the contact info there) by actually reading what they send.
Looks like I'm now up to 8 emails from this same recruiter over the past year. She must have quite the list -- a friend also receives messages from her.
I'm an internal recruiter not an agency recruiter. A distinction I'm very defensive about!

I've built my reputation on attacking poor recruiting practices and I agree that this particular recruiter's approach is poor, however I believe the response is significantly worse.
This doesn't contradict my statements, because I never denied that the US has one of the worlds best education for the top 1% which in turn makes it more desirable for foreign born students to study at MIT or Stanford.

Edit: And yes, you'll have more innovation if you can attract the brightest students, no matter in which country they happen to be born in.
THIS.

We put a job advert up on LinkedIn recently. It said in big bold capital letters at the very top "Absolutely no agencies/recruiters"

Guess what? We got 50+ calls from job agencies in under 1 week. Some, multiple times, even after we politely told them we were not interested and not to contact us again.

My only guess is that people working in recruitment have targets to hit in terms of number of calls to make each day and they'll try and hit that target anyway possible.
Firefox back then, when it was "Phoenix" was a very light browser, while still being completely functional. That's the main reason I used it.
> So, if I have managed to offload a complete and working copy of your brain and memories, you'd be OK with me killing you, right?

I already talked about that. You're the second commenter who wants to kill me, by the way. It's not just a matter of "offloading", it's about continuing my existence on another substrate. Just sitting on a hard drive somewhere doesn't mean anything.

Anyway, actually killing me would entail erasing both instances of me, so I'm against that. And like I said, from the moment of creation every instance will continue to live (if you let them) and make their own way through life, becoming an entity in its own right. So, again, no killing please.

I want you to let go of the notion of a "copy", this seems to be the major psychological hurdle here. Think of it as a fork, or rapidly diverging instances.
Unless it gets huge that will never be worth it. If you have enough hashing power to affect the difficulty that much, you'd make a lot more by just mining
If you didn't expect a product that had wallowed in practical obscurity for several years with no updates (and no team working on it) to go away then you are a bit silly.
This is based on my experiences with Magit, so maybe this doesn't work quite the same with SublimeGit, but the thing I find most useful is the ability to select exactly which lines to stage in a commit. You can do this on the command-line with git add -p, but it's much easier and much more natural to do it in the text editor itself. Once you get used to doing this, it's hard to imagine going back.
A couple critiques. The "No Breakout" view is almost meaningless. It would be more effective as a ranked list with words. If I take a screenshot of that, it means nothing. Circle positions, sizes, and colors encode no information in this initial view. The only way to get information is to hover, letting you browse the list in a disorganized fashion.

It's not clear on load what colors represent. There are no labels whatsoever. The colors make more sense on the "Country Breakout", but you lose the context again if you go to the "Industry Breakout". The last breakout also seems somewhat arbitrary. According to this, Google is part of "Internet Search". Don't they make hardware and software as well? Is IBM still a hardware company? The lines are fuzzy, but this categorical view draws a sharp divide between different sectors.

The graphic this is based on, Four Ways to Slice Obama's Budget Proposal, contains much more information and labels it well.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20...

Notice that circle area encodes proposed spending, which is a good measure of size/importance. The coloring is also a quantitative metric with an associated scale. When you go to the "Department Totals" view, you can see how the size/coloring reveals insights about proposed Defense spending (heavy cuts).
>You can also ask for more money at your potential new job.

That's a good point. I really hate the idea of switching, but sounds like I don't have an alternative if I keep getting dealt a bad hand.
Yes. Absolutely.

Ignoring the possible problems of your pricing model, I'd go for this like a shot during the months where I'm coding.

Coaching is incredibly valuable, even for experts (which I'm not, but others might be), and is much undervalued.
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My only guess is that people working in recruitment have targets to hit in terms of number of calls to make each day and they'll try and hit that target anyway possible

A guess that happens to be 100% accurate. Recruiters are targeted on a huge number of factors, primarily the number of jobs they fill obviously but also the number of new clients acquired, number of clients contacted, candidate contacts, client visits, etc. It's a long list.
Stability.. but are the two mutually exclusive?
Looks awesome! A minor typo on your main page:

> Or you can pay $19.99/yr and upload unlimited songs for a year!

s/for a year//
My usual response to recruiters (if I respond) is a short and polite "Not interested, happy where I am". However, Skyrocket Ventures is different. I've received several calls from them over the last year, all from blocked numbers (Note that I use Google Voice, so it's possible that is the cause).
You're probably right but I can't help thinking that when the time comes and I need a new job they're not going to be THAT useful because most of them are really inefficient/incompetent.

I've been collecting a list of "good recruiters" that really look like they know what they're doing and "get" my interests (OSS + Python ideally), and so far the list is depressingly short.

TL;DR: recruiting attention is OK, but quantity without quality is just annoying and useless.
> "What's wrong with dying"

It's such a terrible waste. All that knowledge accumulated over years of life... gone. We don't know what the species is capable of if we could double or triple human life span. What if we could indefinitely extend the most productive years? Where might we be if we could have given Einstein the chance to live hundreds of years with his mind and body in prime condition?

> "same happens when you die. In other words, they have cookies and chocolate there"

wouldn't it be great if that were the case? Unfortunately there is exactly zero proof of any kind that this is so.

> "each individual is actually a facet of an infinite whole, in other words - We are all One"

This sentence is completely free of information.

> "That's what all the religions and mystics have been telling us for millenia."

Religions and mystics have been exploiting the normal human fear of death for millennia. Science might one day give us the keys to finally dodge that inevitable final bullet.
I hope these concerns were contributed to GRC's newsgroups.
Love my smoke alarm?

Always know? From everywhere?

See what's invisible?

I'm beginning to have enough of this sickly sweet language, it turns me off looking at the product.
Looks like nothing came out of it. At least as far as I can tell. The MacBooks which are the most likely thing to receive a silent update push are unchanged as far as I can tell.
Let us not forget the Igon Value Problem.

"He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “sagittal plane” and “power law” and quotes an expert speaking about an “igon value” (that’s eigenvalue, a basic concept in linear algebra). In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his aperçus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html...
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Try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14366672/
$500M of total funding is mammoth . I wonder whats going on . Since guruji couldn't become Google of India(Google of India is Google). I can't see Flipkart to be Amazon of India
>If you make a copy of me, for a brief time there will be two of "me". After living for some time, those two will diverge increasingly. That's what living is, changing and developing.

ok.

>What do you mean by killing "me", anyway? Killing both copies? Killing one copy? How does killing extend the life of anything?

I label you with 1. I label your copy as 2. I kill #1.

>The first mistake you make is assuming there's an "original" and a "copy".

That's not a mistake at all. I'm talking about biological systems. There are two distinct biological systems here in the sense that #1 and #2 occupy different portions of space. If there are two objects in different places in memory on a computer that represent the same thing, they are conceptually equal, but they are not equal if you compare their addresses.

>Your are basing this example on the hidden assumption that a mind is trapped inside a body and forever bound to it, that a copy of my mind won't be "me". I recognize this sounds intuitively correct to a lot of people, but it's not actually reflecting physical reality. The atoms making up my mind are not specially tagged. The information they represent can be copied in principle, and the process that is "me" can be executed on other platforms. In this, the assumption of uniqueness is just not applicable.

This is entirely a misinterpretation of what I've said.

>I realize that "soul" is a loaded term. But in the end, you're operating on those same loaded assumptions that seem obvious to yourself, but aren't really compatible with a purely physical model. It's an easy mistake to make without realizing it. Our everyday intuition is not always a good indicator of physical reality.
Everyday intuition suggest that there can only be one "me". It suggests that consciousness is one unbroken process, and that my mind is a fundamentally static kernel. It suggests that I'm a black box with unknowable inner workings. None of these things are actually true.

Again, a misinterpretation.
That, and the USD is quite cheap.
This is the kind of disruption the music industry needed. You've eliminated one of the only two reasons a band should sign to a record label with this site. A feature (even if it cost a few dollars more per month) that allowed music to be submitted for consideration to radio stations that accept solicited material would be fantastic. The only reason really left to sign to a label is their generous press and album advance cash, but even those two conditions are easily bypassed going with a bedroom producer who is able to come close to a studio quality recording for a couple cartons of beer with a PC, mixing desk and copy of Protools.

I can't applaud you enough Pud. I am envious of what you've been able to achieve, especially the agreements in place and easy no BS interface that allows you to easily upload music with any gimmicks. I'll be keeping my eye on this, I have no doubt it's going to be huge.
Wait, how is UK taking down .com domains? Are these registrars registered in UK as businesses? But even then this method sounds very suspicious. Can the UK government suspend Google.com, if Google's registrar is based in UK, too?
This is killer!
My assumption is, that Tesla gets a lot of "free" marketing because they're the only "real" electric car company for now.

I'm really happy for them, but i believe that as soon as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi etc. can affort to make "cheap" but great electirc cars, nobody will talk about Tesla anymore.

In germany, for example, it's really expensive to own a car (insurance etc.) but it's even more expensive to drive one. You need to pay between 1,36 and 1,85 Euro per Liter (Cars have between 40-70 Liter tanks) and people _still_ don't buy electric cars.

My guess is, that many people trust those big companies and don't want to buy a expensive car from a company they never heard of. As soon as all those german companies have a good mass-product solution for electric motors, they can scale them from an Audi A1 to an Audi A7 and people will buy them instantly.
Sure, and if we had the data broken down we could determine how much variance is within each country and how valid a country-wide report is for each country. Somehow I think France's partitions would be a lot more uniform than the US's partitions for this study, but without the data I can't be sure.
The problem with Spain is that every time a new government is elected they decide to change the education system. And not for a better one. So there's no plan for the near future, and the investment of R&D is ridiculous and inefficient (half of the funds are never granted). The best of the best have to leave the country.
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My source is (was) the lavabit ToS. I was a paying customer of Lavabit and familiar with their ToS.

He made it pretty clear that if you wanted to use his service to hide illegal activity you were SOL.

The TOS seems to be long gone. But wikipedia summarises his stance on legit warrants as opposed to "hand over your SSL private key": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
Besides:
- Norway has the highest taxes anywhere on buying and using gas cars. Horsepower and weight is taxed heavily.
- Urban sprawl around the biggest cities has created some of Europe's worst traffic congestions. It's a huge benefit to be able to use the bus lane.

Teslas high market share in Norway is also a symptom of some of the challenges we face here in Norway.
They've got the warrant; it was a reasonable warrant, in a standard form, that he could reasonably have anticipated. The FBI have the right to execute it. (If you're arguing that this particular warrant shouldn't have been issued then that's a separate issue). It's Levinson's fault and his problem, not the government's, that Levinson specifically designed his site such that he couldn't execute this kind of ordinary, reasonable warrant without failing to provide the service his customers were paying him for.
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> I label you with 1. I label your copy as 2. I kill #1.

Which one is "me" again?

> If there are two objects in different places in memory on a computer that represent the same thing, they are conceptually equal, but they are not equal if you compare their addresses.

Exactly my point. And once both minds exist separately, their both based on me, but are rapidly diverging forks of me at a certain point in time. The same thing happens to me without the fork, it's just that there is one "copy" in existence not two.

> This is entirely a misinterpretation of what I've said.

I didn't mean to do that.
But non provide the same level of tax disincentive to buy a large IC engine cars that Norway does. You really need both the carrot and the stick if you want to see significant change.
Given the right amount of cash, yes.

It's not just cash. It's political favours, foreign aid, trade deals, international bodies etc.

my bets would be either Yugoslavia

Well that country doesn't exist any more, it broke up. Some of the former Yugoslavia are in the European Union (Croatia, Slovenia). The rest want it. "Oh sorry, we can't let you in/let you in the eurozone/let you in schengen until you abide by international law and extradite these people!". This has happened before, with war crimes, and generals in the Yugoslav wars.