ItsMattyG

8 ms·

31.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
I mean, are you advocating for the policy that people shouldn't be allowed to say this? Would you have also advocated that people shouldn't say "mold cures disease"? How would we have then come to a consensus that in fa
32.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
The problem is of course when legitimate facts or opinions hurt others, it has the side effect of silencing others and creating a false sense of consensus (sometimes, literally, a false sense of scientific consensus) and debating the actual
33.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
Google and Netflix are horrible for this. Want to switch which user account you're using? No problem, simply find the picture of the current user account that you definitely don't want to use, and click on it.
34.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
Really this is only a problem if your audience is other graphic designers or people who are familiar with them. Most people won't care.
35.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if, like TES, this causes neurological tradeoffs. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/10/4482.abstract
36.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
A super-optimizing AI wouldn't try to kill us off by firing off our missiles. It would instead warp our culture, so that it's producing the optimized thing. This seems like a merely intelligent AI that can't do better than hu
37.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
I think the healthiest communities have norms of openness and common knowledge that make fraud very difficult.
38.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
Looks like a good start! If it helps, here's two things I would need to switch over: 1. Theming/Components so I can make it look good enough that alpha testers don't immediately write it off (A decent looking material design
39.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
Yes, rails is great, but would love more of the direction of a single page app. VulcanJS is closest but like I said not sure if its' still that active.
40.
by ItsMattyG 7y ago
I recently tried this again, and realized how awful Drupal is in most other respects.
41.
Ask HN: What are the best modern frameworks for quickly generating MVPs?
4 points by ItsMattyG 7y ago|8 comments
42.
by ItsMattyG 8y ago
Like those moments where we cured previously incurable genetic diseases, and understood evolution as one of the most important advances in biology?
43.
by ItsMattyG 10y ago
>But honestly, for all their funding, even most of these second tries turn out to be failures. What you're really doing here is confusing selection bias with skill: take a pool of enough entrepreneurs, and eventually, just by chance
44.
by ItsMattyG 10y ago
This seems to fly in direct opposition to research on growth vs. fixed mindset, which claims that praise should be impersonal, specific, and temporal in order to help people realize that they can do better based on the choices they make.
45.
by ItsMattyG 10y ago
The fact that they were able to replicate their success multiple times, just like Einstein, and that they're all smart, just like Einstein, says that there's probably some aspect of talent involved in their success. If it was pure
46.
by ItsMattyG 10y ago
>People overestimate the positive impact of technology. Of course in Silicon Valley you're considered crazy if you don't believe technology solves everything. But it's not as simple as that. My grandparents for example, ha
47.
by ItsMattyG 10y ago
The same reasoning can be applied to be people like Jack Dorsey, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk who have made several billion dollar companies.
48.
by ItsMattyG 10y ago
I suspect it's probably a wash. Donating to a Givewell charity has less risk certainly, but a successful startup on the order of Facebook will change the world by multiple orders of magnitude more. The expected value is probably simi
49.
by ItsMattyG 11y ago
Ethereum has immutable code.
50.
by ItsMattyG 11y ago
>Think of any Ethereum usecase and you can do it with bitcoin. Yes, but it's a lot harder. Look at for instance the colored coins project vs. implementing a custom token on ethereum.
51.
by ItsMattyG 11y ago
>Granting your premises then the goal of LW/EY should not be AI but the scientific, rational proof and definition of ethics but their fundamental philosophic premises won't allow it. That is the goal of MIRI, the organization t
52.
by ItsMattyG 11y ago
There are far far more people willing to take a pill then exercise or caloric restrict. If this allows those people to survive long enough for more radical form of life extension, it could save many, many lives.
53.
by ItsMattyG 11y ago
Hmmm, would a better way to do frictionless registration be to sign them in, then send them an email with a link to set their password?
54.
by ItsMattyG 11y ago
That's a Wordpress plugin I have to make registration easier... Not secure enough?
55.
New Grad Blueprint: A Free 8-Week Course for New Grads to Land Their Dream Job(newgradblueprint.com)
1 points by ItsMattyG 11y ago|5 comments
56.
by ItsMattyG 12y ago
It's content marketing, a bit different from advertising. It only works if the content is good (which it is in this case)
57.
by ItsMattyG 12y ago
This is the essence of Simon Wardley's ILC model ( http://blog.gardeviance.org/2013/01/ecosystems.html ) - It's a strategy that every smart maker of low level services implements.
58.
How to Achieve Impossible Career Goals in 2015(selfmaderenegade.net)
1 points by ItsMattyG 12y ago|0 comments
59.
by ItsMattyG 12y ago
Agile is good in uncertain environments with frequent project changes, but not in other situations... Simon Wardley has a good model that seems to work reasonably well: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2014/11/how-we-us
60.
by ItsMattyG 12y ago
The words in the meditation primed particpants specifically for what they were measuring. They should have used a guided meditation that didn't mention judgement. Or alternatively, give an audio which mentioned these concepts without t

More ›