ElFitz

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by ElFitz 7y ago
> A child from today needs to merely watch television for an hour a day, in order to be wiser than the average human being across time. Depends what you mean by wiser. It really seems we absolutely don't have the same definition. &g
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Depends; you can could consider the mean to that of the whole world, or the whole of History, and seek exceptionalism relative to that. In case, we would seek to have a macro-scale program delivering exceptional results to all of our cu
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by ElFitz 7y ago
FYI, if your setup relies on API Gateway, you probably could use VTL / Mapping Templates to directly send from API Gateway to Kinesis and skip the lambda altogether, like some do for dynamodb See https://hackernoon.com/
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by ElFitz 7y ago
For those interested, there's a great course on models on Coursera[1] where they (amongst other models) talk about tipping points [1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Oh. This is great. Just tried it out a couple times on my 439 screenshots, and it works. I love it. I wonder how well it'll scale to 10s of thousands of screenshots (especially the search). Still, I'm wondering wether or not I sho
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Oh, nice! Don't know how I missed it. Thank you!
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Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?
1 points by ElFitz 7y ago|2 comments
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by ElFitz 7y ago
> Problem is that states usually have constitutional safeguards that keep a safe balance of power between citizen and state. Seems to me constitutions being widespread is actually quite recent. Also, in many places 'constitutional
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by ElFitz 7y ago
> Curiously enough some (or many?) countries have implemented a law requiring blank CD-R disks and USB thumb drives sellers to pay fixed royalty to a local copyright association (an MPAA-like entity) for every blank disk they sell becaus
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Well, looking back at the pace of change over the last 100.000 years, it seems to change has been quite fast in the previous two centuries [^1] But still, it usually isn't what and isn't as fast as the times' oracles would wi
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by ElFitz 7y ago
> With every new generation of chips came new possibilities and new applications. The firms that developed those applications the fastest won. Initially, I was really disappointed in this article. Facebook, on the client-side, was &#x
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by ElFitz 7y ago
> Yes, spend a couple of moments reading up on the EC. The rules haven't changed in a long time. Even if you don't like it, that's only how the president is elected. Federal representatives for the state are elected by get
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by ElFitz 7y ago
> That's simply handled by saying that they should vote. So people should vote for somebody , anybody , even though they'd rather not vote for any of the offered options ? Pick the ones the less indifferent to them? Pick th
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Just as a friendly reminder, I am replying to someone who stated > The government is elected by the people [...] And ok, yes. Phrased my answer wrong. He was elected by the majority of the valid votes (those of the electoral college). He
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Does that make democracy a throttled authoritarian government?
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by ElFitz 7y ago
> The government is elected by the people, it doesn't fit that definition. Is it though? First rebuttal that comes to mind is that, in the US, one can legally be elected without the having the majority of the counter, valid, votes.
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by ElFitz 7y ago
But which one? There are more than one translation out there
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by ElFitz 7y ago
My pleasure! I really like what you did! The sandbox is a nice touch
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Sure, but they moved on, have stopped wasting their time and missing opportunities. You, on the other hand, are quite possibly still thinking about it every day, and turning down or delaying (and missing) other offers.
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Eh... a lot of international cooperation is done in a single digit number of languages. That's why most international institutions, wether private or not, define 'official languages'. When it isn't, it often involves t
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by ElFitz 7y ago
That's applicable to pretty much every single developer out there not born in an English speaking country. Which just so happens to be my case. Why not also translate classes', functions' and variables' names too? I am n
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by ElFitz 7y ago
It seems to implement enough operators to be interesting, such as basic math operations and 'plain text addition' (will have to try it out to know what it means). It also made me discover Microsoft SEAL ( https://github.
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Microsoft SEAL homomorphic encryption javascript library (Wasm)(github.com)
2 points by ElFitz 7y ago|4 comments
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by ElFitz 7y ago
I'd beg to differ. Between Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless, S3, SNS, SQS, API Gateway and now EventBridge, which cost basically nothing at MVP scale and all of which's usage is drastically simplified by tools like the Serverl
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Or if you somehow manage to keep some of the benefits. Could be higher compensation associated with a shift in role, equity and / or reduced working hours / days, depending on what you're looking for.
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Well, anyway it doesn't seem worse than how we test our biological neural networks before letting them drive huge chunks of metal around
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by ElFitz 7y ago
One difference that comes to mind is that while in advertising / marketing you'd need to get what your clients offer, what they'd like to be offering, and how to work with them, in tech you'd also need to understand how
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Thank you!
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by ElFitz 7y ago
Plus, the clickbait headline is merely a copycat of one Thiel's own words, except it was with flying cars and Twitter
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by ElFitz 7y ago
This quote perfectly illustrates the unparalleled absurdity of contemplating nuclear warfare.

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