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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Thanks for this account, I love such wider-than-history perspectives. It literally helps us put things in perspective, realize that there is so much already. A city that's 200 years old today is "young" by human standards; ev
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Well, F yeah!! Thank you, Mr Bezos. Mad props to you. (To cynicism and idealism, I say: know when to take a win.)
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Oh wow, this is nothing short of awesome. Your docs¹ are great at first glance, too. Incredible work! Thanks so much, this might prove invaluable for my (personal) research. I guess I have to learn Julia too now, eh. :) [1]: https:/&#
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Everytime I look at it, the US in PPP per capita¹ is ~10th worldwide, ranking behind places like Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland. But well above the bulk of Europe including France, Germany. The problem when comparing is that the structure
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Not OP but to your last question I think there's proven danger in the "too familiar, too easy" zone, i.e. most car accidents for instance tend to happen in places you know pretty well — hence why you may get surprised when th
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Yes, love fast and make things. An engineer's ethos.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I think we see in this that Signal's success is less about tech and more about some product-driven superiority, insofar as it actually reached users and is used a lot already. It's the old mantra that you may need a Wozniak to do
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'd say this is part of the mainstream move from an "industrial" society (with mostly human robots and computers) to an "information" society (with mostly human modelers and architects, as robots and computers are n
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Much obliged :)
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ok, gotcha, not an intellectual role play. I think we all dissociate, like it's a spectrum; the weakest most minute manifestation is when we just 'take a step outside of our current state' you know, when you stretch just a bi
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I attended a top 5 business school in France at the turn of the century. We had partnerships with similar schools in NYC, Tokyo, Sydney, you name it. It was taught in first year of international business classes that outsourcing abroad was
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I think I can relate to your experience, from similar anxiety moments under some cocktail of sustances (alcohol and weed for me in my youth). > I also experienced myself and my thinking self as two different entities and it as if I coul
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I wonder if, in the near future, we might not need blinkers¹ for internet, like we put on horses to keep them focused on the road, or conversely not distracted or scared by things around. Basically ad/js blockers elevated to content se
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I've a different take, more symmetric in time. How prodigious is it that so many of us know so many intricacies and details about so much stuff, from the aesthetic to the mechanic. We don't know if our point in the universe is to
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ah, fair point about these tools. I think I understand better what you meant. Point very well taken, and thanks for the informed perspective.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I will yield to your logic, and thanks for taking the time to explain how my approximation was flawed. I really need to brush up my logic skills... I did say "hint" though, which really means it is hypothesis, not strict logic at
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Eh indeed, and it could even be that schizophrenia (whatever its "base principle" is in the brain) exists in some people born blind, but presents itself in such a different way that it's misdiagnosed for something else (so ca
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
It's an interesting thought. I wonder if the nature of schizophrenia isn't particularly conducive (almost binarily so) to being "driven" by visual signals. In my interactions with schizophrenic people (especially when un
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
The thing is, if you had a discrepancy of some order of magnitude (e.g. 6,000 or 60 instead of 600), you could talk about accuracy problems. You could look into rounding errors and margins of errors, like we do with constants in physics, an
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
OK, so my perception may be wrong indeed. I'm really nitpicking the theoretical aspect here, I guess. Is Lithion-ion really different from a first principle perspective? Is any battery technology not based on electrolyte principles? Se
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Given the currently staggering inequality of wealth distribution on Earth, I would wager that the average revenue of Apple customers (arguably at least half the richest, trickling down to upper classes) is more than enough to make said cust
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
That's entertainment though; ever since I was a kid (child of the 1980's) I've never heard a single physicist confirm that 'new' battery tech, operating through different first principles, was anywhere in sight for
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I don't know any real-world figures, but there was a famous trope about science-fiction that only 10% of it ever became true, but what little becomes real is beyond what anybody had imagined. Example: Asimov saw computers, and robots,
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
What a strange way to spell Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540845 (to GP: lots of links related to reimplementing git in there)
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Agencies routinely set up fake businesses for cover, with the cooperation of insiders at big names (e.g. Dell). So you set up a fake SaaS, have your big name client buy the big thing 25k / CPU x however many you need to reach payout, d
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Modest is putting it mildly, it's pretty much irrelevant as a net transfer (would take something like 50+ years to align countries, and by then other factors are magnitudes of order more salient in the output). EU budget always had a k
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
That's my view as well, but it's built 100% from the trenches of real-world problem solving (I self-studied all of it, no formal academia in computing beyond a few intro classes). I think it's consensual by now (at least &#x2
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Yep, everyone lost to Chrome, by a margin so large it can only be correlated to Android's formidable dominance. See this other comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299884 There's s link to a vide
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
These numbers do seem in line with the propensity an average user has to switch default apps. I often compare this to how many people out of 100 bother to change their shoelaces on day 1. I'd wager less than 1, due to the friction of e
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> Yes, I agree that Mathworld is great. Slighty OT but, Apart from the fact that it looks and feels like 2006 (that latex renderer is so, so horrible, it's a distraction), and that you can't copy anything meaningful out of it,

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