Joof

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by Joof 10y ago
Only if we apply the stereotype to all Asian individuals. In general Asians comprise a larger portion of American academics than the Asian American population indicates and Asian students perform highly across the world. The obvious problem
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by Joof 10y ago
Well they aren't wrong.
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by Joof 10y ago
They have resources, land and an interest in local manufacturing. Chinese software engineers are good enough for Baidu (and have big names like Ng to help them get up to speed). Even in America, we recognize that Chinese (and other asian cu
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by Joof 10y ago
Really? SpaceX made it over 90℅ cheaper to launch a rocket into space. That changes economic forces significantly already. Ancient humans walked continents and spread to the whole earth for no clear individual advantage (although perhaps a
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by Joof 10y ago
Remember when the internet allowed you to have multiple identities on message boards and so on? It was a really unique time.
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by Joof 10y ago
I ran a Minecraft server with myself and friends about two years ago. They were most interested in exploring (and finding neat treasures), so I added mods for new lands, spontaneous adventures, rarer treasures and other places to go. OTOH,
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by Joof 10y ago
I was very interested in this as well for learning purposes. Without an instructor it's fairly easy to accidently make logical jumps and come up with wrong proofs. I figured that math is effectively a somewhat formal language for commu
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by Joof 10y ago
Really? My email tended to be blacklisted and treated as spam and I had poor filters and search. Help me out here lol.
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by Joof 10y ago
Honestly, that engineer enabled that growth, but it wouldn't have been possible without the work of a full team providing content, security, reliability and so on. If the same work was done on an old Geocities site, there would be no v
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by Joof 10y ago
If you have a good alternative email I'd be down for that at least. Hosting your own turns out to be surprisingly difficult.
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by Joof 10y ago
My dream is to go to work ~2:00 every day. My sleep cycle is pure hell otherwise.
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by Joof 10y ago
Node is very similar to continuation passing style which is used primarily as an intermediate representation in compilers. It's typically considered poor for production code because it's very error prone.
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by Joof 10y ago
Oh god. It makes sense, but still sound awful. If you are a good person and your company has a positive effect on them?
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by Joof 10y ago
And yet, two organizations have plans to do so in the next two decades.
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by Joof 10y ago
Impossible! Outside of gene drives (which sound a little dangerous...), I really want to do some simple CRISPR projects (I have a specific idea in mind; although not for hacker news ;). Too bad you need a lab, even if it's probably a g
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by Joof 10y ago
Japanese is an unusual language to write. It's influenced by Chinese (in two separate eras), English and perhaps many other systems. Symbols alone aren't a perfect fit for the language (since they add tense and such), but neither
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by Joof 10y ago
Unless they are hacking on shaders, CUDA or deeplearning (which admittedly isn't C most of the time). Although, I admit that a web server is probably more handy if it's not shaders. I still like terminals; even on my 3k laptop (wh
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by Joof 10y ago
Ok, so lets make bees more resistant to Neonics. :P
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by Joof 10y ago
There are degrees of how difficult it is for people to manage boring. In college I failed English I, Public Speaking, Ethics and a 1-credit seminar course. Multiple times. I also had solid recommendations from several computer science profe
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by Joof 10y ago
Incentive matters. I'm ADHD, which turns the effect of the 'this isn't that interesting' dial up to 11. I could do repitition if I was going to Japan, but I probably would prefer the other one otherwise.
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by Joof 10y ago
Why is it not coincidentally? I agree that it appears correlates, but why?
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by Joof 10y ago
Maintaining sub 10% bodyfat sounds like quite a task. I'm sure some athletes can do it. I'm probably just below 20% and hadn't exercised until roughly 2 months before starting a diet (started strength training), so I have som
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by Joof 10y ago
I suppose that's fair. However; it doesn't really feel like discipline -- it's just how I eat at this point. I can report back in a few months, I imagine I'll have to start working my way back to eating enough to gain st
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by Joof 10y ago
Too many to count. I like allrecipes or some website like that. Dal Bhat is one of my favorites after living in Colorado.
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by Joof 10y ago
I'm really glad it's out there though. I may be in the minority, but I would love to write better ML algorithms!
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by Joof 10y ago
After dieting for about a week, I became accustomed to it and no longer feel hungry. I actually feel a little sick if I eat anywhere near as much as I used to. Lost 20 pounds in the last 2 months, which honestly might be a bit too fast, but
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by Joof 10y ago
Live like a jellyfish. bloop bloop
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by Joof 10y ago
I mean the kind where we swap genes. A lower birthrate doesn't help much. Genetic engineering exists, but we can't change how our bodies have already developed quite so easily. I think occasional increases in brain plasticity may
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by Joof 10y ago
I think our robots that do manufacturing or driving are more sophisticated than the ones that vacuum. AI has hit a boom and is producing a lot of potentially useful achievements (that it hadn't before). It wouldn't surprise me if
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by Joof 10y ago
So far society seems to deal with long-term (multi a generational) problems poorly. This is fine up until it starts to cause significant damage and can't be reversed in a short timespan. Global warming may be this problem. Elon Musk ma

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