Taek

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by Taek 13y ago
In the world of ISPs, the potential pie is a lot bigger than our current pie. If you reduce the barrier to entry, a lot more people will find it worthwhile to spend money on being competitive. If you make bandwidth scarce and expensive, I&#
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by Taek 13y ago
>While markets are efficient they famously at times have a habit of acting irrational and counter-productive to participants needs. This is where in the present times human intervention (occasionally) out-performs pure markets. I think t
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The 3D Economy(reason.com)
2 points by Taek 13y ago|0 comments
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by Taek 13y ago
https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-... We were essentially doing the lose-lose algorithm. It's a functioning hash table but there's a lot of room for improvement.
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by Taek 13y ago
I worked as an intern at IBM last summer. It seemed like my entire team was a stagnant pool from the 70's. The languages were C and HLASM, 'high level assembler.' None of my managers knew anything about newer languages like G
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Why It's Time for the Journal of Porn Studies(theatlantic.com)
1 points by Taek 13y ago|0 comments
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by Taek 13y ago
If a basic income was implemented, would we also be comfortable getting rid of minimum wage? And, if we attempted to go for this in the US, how much struggle would there be to both implement the minimum wage and also remove all of the other
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by Taek 13y ago
"Many of my friends are entrepreneurs. A few have mentioned this deep hollow conflicted feeling. Their business ideas are not things the world wants. They're following the current tech entrepreneur stereotype, building social apps
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by Taek 13y ago
I like that Mozilla is improving the existing accepted standard, but using modern (mostly patented) codec techniques we could get lossy images to under 1/2 of the current size at the same quality and decode speed. Or at a much higher q
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by Taek 13y ago
One thing that's bothering me about the svbtle interface is the crazy contrast. Especially all of the white on the background, when I'm thinking I prefer lots less noise in my environment. In svbtle, there is a lot of really brigh
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by Taek 13y ago
I think there are parallels between the Journeyman of the past and the college student of the present. You spend lots of time learning under different people, and often you travel (internships and co-ops) making less pay than a full profess
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by Taek 13y ago
As I read more about this, I wonder if there has yet been a powerful intel (or otherwise secret) government organization that hasn't abused its power in some major way. Without organizations that can keep secrets, you lose a lot of opt
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by Taek 13y ago
I don't think that punishment is necessarily effective in the long run either. If you are good at dirty SEO, you will accept your punishment on one site/business and restart with a different site/business, and hopefully last
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by Taek 13y ago
" But buyers first discover their books online only about 17% of the time." Buying merchandise online is often far more convenient and less expensive than buying merchandise in the store. But discovering products is much more conv
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by Taek 13y ago
This is over cautious, and you use your own experiences as too much of an example of "this is what will always happen." If you think of people like psychopaths and serial killers as fire, and your experience of getting burned (whe
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by Taek 13y ago
This whole thread strikes me as having a very strong 'us vs. them' mentality. The guy in his letter makes a plea that 'Psychopaths are just people.' and the general feeling of these comments is to completely throw this a
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by Taek 13y ago
Somehow, we grew content with 1080p television. I'm not sure why, the ($20-80k) 4K televisions that I've seen are substantially more impressive than the 1080p counterparts, even at 12 feet away. Resolution really stalled out on th
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by Taek 13y ago
I felt like the 9% were unfairly painted as the victims of the way our economy works, but almost everything mentioned were vulnerabilities that the 9% deliberately opened themselves up to. By putting a deal on Groupon, they invited the locu
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by Taek 13y ago
What I remember from physics class makes me think this isn't viable. If you have sound moving through the tube, you have energy pushing the sound. Either you have to keep the whole tube 'humming' or you have to send people of
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by Taek 13y ago
I think the problem with that idea is you have to keep the superconductor very cold, which might be too expensive for large objects that need to levitate for 30 minutes.