CalChris

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by CalChris 1y ago
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is also approachable.
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This and Google doesn't even have an office in Menlo Park.
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"If we had paid more attention to the more modest aspirations of Aristotle we would not have got so sidetracked by sceptical concerns that true knowledge is impossible."
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Houle said the left . He didn’t say small and very vocal minority .
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by CalChris 1y ago
Pre-2016, I might have agreed with you. We shouldn't be so strident. We should be more accepting. Today, yeah, fuck that. You take your +0.05 R and you reconsider your position. I'm fine with mine.
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> speedrun to civil war Well there was the OKC Federal Building bombing. Timothy McVeigh was a dedicated dittohead.
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Did this only become 'wild' when it applied to Elon? Also, this Elon that you speak of, isn't he the DOGE Elon? Isn't he the Nazi salute Elon? Or perhaps there's some other Elon that I'm unaware of. This is lit
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FT is probably referring to VCs. Most rational people in Silicon Valley are not the least bit surprised by this easily predicted outcome.
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Only if you take Ayn Rand at face value.
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But I have been to college.
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Friedman was in no way a racist. He was just ok with racism as expressed by a free and unfettered (fettered?) market. If a market expresses racism it can only be for the good.
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The point being that Cowan is no longer bummed.
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TL, did read. Cowan and Thiel were bummed that Obama was President. Hobart and Mindell are enthusiastic that America has seen the errors of her ways and embraced the new insanity. FWIW, Cowan wrote an enthusiastic blurb for Boom.
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> why not teach Game Of Thrones or Harry Potter? So I read Harry Potter (as an adult). The first book, it was ok. Then it went down hill. Harry Potter was or simply became a marketed franchise: Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, …. What&#x2
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Similarly, Stanford's EE380 has slipped from these mortal coils. Brian Cantrill spoke there as well. BITD, EE380 seemed like the Senate of Silicon Valley. Startups would announce at EE380. But then it went from relevance to thinly atte
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Yes, those are the cold facts. I probably should have put superstar in scare quotes. But the con was that she was some sort of Stanford 'superstar'. I looked over her bio on Wikipedia. Yeah, she certainly came from a rich + connec
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That was implication of the original con. She was this superstar Stanford undergrad who’d discovered something so radically important she had to drop out of school for the sake of humanity.
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One thing I've learned in my long life is that there ain't no such thing as a libertarian.
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The operative word was amidst .
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> Lack of a mobile app. OVMS was originally developed for the Tesla Roadster and then adapted to the Leaf, ... https://www.openvehicles.com
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So I hate Medicare Advantage (and conversely rather like Traditional Medicare) because private companies have perverse incentives when managing public goods. I think social media is a public good and what we’ve seen is a result of Facebook’
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Do one for LLVM and I'll definitely look at it.
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Ugh. The slot theory lives on. The physics textbook still used at Berkeley, Giancoli, used the slot effect as an example despite … Gentry being a Berkeley grad. I sent a letter. I never got a response. However, the latest edition deleted th
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by CalChris 1y ago
Cal Sailing is a good way to get on the water and learn the basics. You can learn dinghies, keel boats and windsurfing. After you're comfortable with basic keel boat crewing, you can probably get a ride on a boat in the Friday night be
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by CalChris 1y ago
TECO was a character -oriented editor. Also, it was widely available on RSTS, RSX, RT-11, ... and other DEC systems in the mid-70s. There's a character cursor. So if you opened a file with: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
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I've always considered TECO as the ur editor. Of course, TECO is the explicit ancestor of emacs, as emacs was originally implemented as TECO macros. However, I can't find a paper trail giving similar credit to TECO for vi. That sa
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I think it's reductionist to the point of disrespectful to label her with any sort of ideology. What I remember from her books was some really good ideas. My favorite was gradual money vs cataclysmic money.
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I see that 'conservatives' and 'libertarians' are claiming her. I'm not sure she'd claim them. She was anti-ideology. But this conservativism you speak of, it's such a squishy term. Respect for existing in
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I wouldn't label someone as conservative using urban traffic tangles as evidence of bureaucratic idiocy as a marker. That sort of glittering generality gets you to trains run on time real fast. I'll ask here as I did above, what
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I guess I'm what you'd call a leftist (but I prefer progressive). I read Life+Death and Dark Age Ahead . Jacobs never struck me as conservative, whatever that even means. A preservationist, to be sure. I don't think Dark

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