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by GuiA 9y ago
As you imply, you don’t get infinite attempts because you’ll die at some point. Some people never succeed despite their best efforts, effectively taking them infinite attempts to succeed.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Or maybe you learned tons and it makes your 10th attempt more likely to succeed? Ultimately these ponderations are kind of meaningless in the absence of great data to frame them with.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Fortunately, as many college students will tell you, weed is very easy to grow. As long as commercial licenses are easily available, I think small, locally owned, organic, etc. outfits will be able to coexist with any potential "Starbu
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by GuiA 9y ago
Yeah, I remember playing around with Unity when their main selling point was being a game engine for the Mac. It’s insane how they went from niche novelty to utterly dominating an industry.
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by GuiA 9y ago
All the students/young professionals who consume their media on laptops/tablets and don’t feel the need to own a TV. There’s a lot of them.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Which is why the Nintendo Switch is so genius. A home console that can appeal to people with a marginal interest in video games, but who don’t own a TV.
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by GuiA 9y ago
> If the other founder(s) want you to be a founder/CTO without the board seat, run! They're just using the prestige of the title to pay you less, and will revoke it at the first convenience. Been there, done that, can confirm
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by GuiA 9y ago
Patrick McKenzie had a great twitter thread on the topic recently: "The single biggest piece of advice I have for you: if you have someone’s email address (+ permission) you have an earned relationship. If you have to beg a platform t
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by GuiA 9y ago
There are a lot of comments here about how Dynamicland is a bit confusing to understand, and the website is light on details. The latter is true - it would be nice if there were academic style papers describing the system, or reference sour
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by GuiA 9y ago
> Please leave the company i work for this out of this, always. I have no side in this debate, and I’m sure you already realize this, but having the company you work for (especially when you are at a higher than IC level) is the surest
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by GuiA 9y ago
It's a hard problem, but I think it lies in great part with the "underpaid, incompetent [government] employees". If you make sure that your government employees are educated, provided with good benefits, feel like they have a
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by GuiA 9y ago
One interpretation: Juicero is about making you reliant on them (the machine is useless without their packets), whereas this is about expanding what you can do as a home cook. Technological inventions that fall in this latter category are w
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by GuiA 9y ago
Both sides feel oppressed! For example, some people think you can’t question diversity efforts; others think you can’t speak out about racism. Some think you can’t praise capitalism; others think you can’t suggest socialism. It’s theoretic
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by GuiA 9y ago
When I was living in Oakland, I had a European friend stay over while he was interviewing with tech companies. Around 3am, 2 guys coming out of a club and arguing about drugs or something shot at each other, resulting in one of them dying l
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by GuiA 9y ago
> Try getting shot, especially multiple times, wearing a bullet proof vest and you’ll understand completely why my opinion isn’t out of line. What is it like, for those of us who don't have guns and bulletproof vests on hands to e
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by GuiA 9y ago
If your post is being downvoted it is not because of its content, but because it brings absolutely nothing of substance to the conversation, breaking HN’s posting guidelines.
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by GuiA 9y ago
More than a lower temporal resolution (framerate), imposters are more often about a lower spatial resolution (2D billboarded asset instead of fully textured 3D model, or 3D model with fewer polygons/lower res texture, etc.) There are a
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by GuiA 9y ago
There's a whole article after that sentence expanding on this my dude.
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by GuiA 9y ago
> there are certain characteristics that women find more desirable in men and yet no one would say that men are being oppressed because of this. I have a male friend who's far on the left side of the bell curve in terms of height
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by GuiA 9y ago
The French magazine “Tangente” is equally good. http://tangente-mag.com
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by GuiA 9y ago
> (2) Silicon Valley is becoming less tolerant of divergent viewpoints. As measured by what? Are there people being jailed for expressing a divergent opinion, or being refused service in restaurants/hotels/shops/etc, or
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by GuiA 9y ago
Yeah, you summed up perfectly one of the main counter arguments. If the richer you are, the healthier and smarter you can make your babies, and the healthier and the smarter your babies, the more access to jobs/education/etc they
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by GuiA 9y ago
> Given the technologies we're talking about, what the parent wrote in those two quoted sentences is literally as close to stating an obvious fact as possible when discussing future technology. Yeah uh, it’s statements like these
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by GuiA 9y ago
It’s called “freedom of speech” my dude, and it’s actually essential to debate, even (particularly!) if you don’t agree with it.
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by GuiA 9y ago
> These ideas can and should be debated. Literally ostracizing people and thinking they are evil for having different opinions on them, is absurd. Agreed. But wait, is anyone actually getting ostracized now for having different opinion
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by GuiA 9y ago
All news outlets report her leaving of her own accord. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-and-... https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is an extremely anecdotal post, and if it had been written by anyone but the CEO of YCombinator it'd have been either ignored, or derided.
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by GuiA 9y ago
> These are by far the most important technologies of our time. The consequences of them being set back even a little is utterly enormous, and we should be very concerned about this. That's just like, your opinion man. If genetic
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by GuiA 9y ago
Still trying to wrap my head around what he's trying to get at exactly (interesting that he never actually says what people in China accepted more than in the Bay Area - my bet is that it's not something about human rights in Chin
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Buddha of Oakland(oaklandnorth.net)
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