Tycho

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811.
by Tycho 10y ago
I love in Day 2 how he represents the keypad in string form, padded with . characters to simplify the edge detection logic.
812.
by Tycho 10y ago
Journalism's sad struggle for relevance.
813.
by Tycho 10y ago
Reading Fooled By Randomness / The Black Swan / Anti-fragile would probably put you on a better footing for critical thinking than any college degree. (And probably some other books you could substitute.)
814.
by Tycho 10y ago
So what is actually outside the Overton window? My preliminary list would be - human neurological uniformity - anti-Semitism - Islamophobia - ethnonationalism - conspiracy theories - libertarianism and Objectivism Also there is a kind of in
815.
by Tycho 10y ago
That he was a board member's grandson is probably also the reason he was hired in the first place and put into the QA department.
816.
by Tycho 10y ago
But why would his tax return shed new light on this, that his previous financial disclosure did not? Are you saying that the tax return would include detail on things like financing rates that were not mentioned in the financial disclosure?
817.
by Tycho 10y ago
But why would that be relevant to him being beholden to Russian investors? What sort of connection/conclusion would it forseeably allow us to make?
818.
by Tycho 10y ago
Why would we learn anything new about that from his tax return? Doesn't the financial disclosure filing cover that?
819.
by Tycho 10y ago
To be fair, for Thiel $1M is practically nothing, basically just a token gesture. His press conference speech probably commanded 10x that in airtime value.
820.
by Tycho 10y ago
Or that the Republicans won't support his plans for changing trade deals
821.
by Tycho 10y ago
I feel like there must have been some string pulling that made this book so popular.
822.
by Tycho 10y ago
I'd never heard the phrase "crazy pills" before but I've read it three times in this one topic, from three different posters. Hmmm.
823.
by Tycho 10y ago
The email was referring to hating "Everyday Americans" as a choice of slogan.
824.
by Tycho 10y ago
sounds like the difference between a normative statement and a positive statement might be relevant here
825.
by Tycho 10y ago
What? Why is money speech? What makes donation different from voting pragmatically? (eg. "I'll put up with an offensive loudmouth for President if it means we get to avoid destroying another Middle Eastern civilization and potenti
826.
by Tycho 10y ago
A lot of people paid a lot of money to get the Clintons into positions of power. A lot of people need to protect their investment.
827.
by Tycho 10y ago
I think Saddam wanted to actually create the suspicion that he had WMDs, to scare off potential invaders (and he was probably right).
828.
by Tycho 10y ago
Yes. At least Dropbox isn't selling snake oil. I find it just appalling that these high ranking officials were seemingly cashing in by sitting on the board of a corrupt company. I wish we could adopt Taleb's idea of capping lifeti
829.
by Tycho 10y ago
Someone once told me about a maths student in grad school who said they couldn't really visualise 3D shapes. Like they could tell you what the definition of a cube was but they couldn't picture one. Their field of research was som
830.
by Tycho 10y ago
In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former Secretary of State George Shultz, who joined the Theranos board of directors that same month.[48] Over the next three years, Shultz helped to introduce almost all the outside directors on the &
831.
by Tycho 10y ago
If you went back 40 years, you'd probably find people saying accountancy was a dying profession, that it was only a matter of time before their function is entirely carried out by computers. And indeed we have software for probably eve
832.
by Tycho 10y ago
I just think predictions are worthless if you don't put any kind of time horizon on them and don't explain why existing trends indicate otherwise. As you said, we have seen a proliferation of devices, equipment and information tha
833.
by Tycho 10y ago
20yrs... ok. When do you think it will stop growing?
834.
by Tycho 10y ago
All the technologies for gamification, monitoring etc. seem to already exist in the mainstream. When do you predict the personal trainer jobs sector will die out?
835.
by Tycho 10y ago
I recommend reading the money speech from Atlas Shrugged , if you haven't already.
836.
by Tycho 10y ago
really? damn. one of the best. one time I replied to a tweet and he responded a few seconds later. it's like he was connected to the twittersphere 24/7
837.
by Tycho 10y ago
Lots of regular people already have a lawyer, a stylist/hairdresser, a doctor, accountant, tutor for the kids etc. I'm pretty sure those workers don't consider themselves servants of anyone.
838.
by Tycho 10y ago
So what technology do we need to automate away personal trainer jobs, and when do you think the purge will be complete?
839.
by Tycho 10y ago
I think you and the others have missed the point about jobs like personal trainers. We've had plenty of automated fitness stuff for years. What a coach brings you is motivation, empathy, nuance and flexibility, understanding, conversat
840.
by Tycho 10y ago
we've had that stuff for years, the number of personal trainers has dramatically increased in that time and continues to grow https://blog.gyminsight.com/859-most-current-fitness-industr...

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