abstractbill

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by abstractbill 6y ago
"It matters a lot who you surround yourself with. If you're surrounded by conventional-minded people, it will constrain which ideas you can express, and that in turn will constrain which ideas you have. But if you surround yoursel
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by abstractbill 7y ago
Is there an easy way to donate money toward this work? I would do that in a heartbeat.
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Join a startup if learning trumps stability(atrium.co)
2 points by abstractbill 8y ago|0 comments
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by abstractbill 8y ago
I don't think that's true. Certainly among the people in my department while I was doing my PhD in mathematics, it was universally agreed that mathematics is not a science (because mathematicians don't do experiments as a pa
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by abstractbill 8y ago
Really incredible -- you've made something I didn't know I needed, until watching the demo videos just now. Can't wait to throw away the breadboard :) Congrats on the launch!
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by abstractbill 8y ago
I'm thinking about downgrading to a Blackberry Classic. Not quite a dumb phone, but from what I've seen it's much more of a tool than an entertainment/social-media/time-wasting device, which is exactly what I&#x2
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by abstractbill 8y ago
There aren't very many concrete things you can do at this point. All I can come up with is: - Find a good CPA if you don't already know one, just in case your equity turns out to be worth something - Consider carefully whether yo
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by abstractbill 9y ago
"Until I made a real effort to combat it, I found myself getting extremely addicted to the internet." This seems to imply sama is resisting the inevitable merge. Can't we instead try to steer it in a more positive direction?
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by abstractbill 9y ago
Justin.TV during the first 3 years or so. Honestly, because we were in "cowboy mode", and that's what I enjoy the most. The site was growing and changing so fast it was often hard to keep up, and we were all just doing what
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This year we can end the death penalty in California(paulgraham.com)
144 points by abstractbill 10y ago|234 comments
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by abstractbill 10y ago
From the article: "Today, Boom has 11 people, six of them pilots... Unlike Scholl, these folks have serious industry bona fides. Joe Wilding, the co-founder and chief engineer, was a standout at three aerospace startups, designing pas
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by abstractbill 10y ago
To put this into perspective, it wasn't so long ago (2004) that nobody managed to pass the DARPA Grand Challenge of having a car drive itself around in the Mojave desert. We've come a long way very quickly!
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by abstractbill 11y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I remember being very young and starting to think about death, and thinking it the most horrible thing imaginable. That the beautiful experience of life as a human should end in annihilation. That we
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by abstractbill 11y ago
I'll be honest though I wish patents worked. I'm glad patents don't work. I've always felt there's something very deeply wrong with owning an idea.
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by abstractbill 11y ago
The first Twitch office (back when it was Justin.TV) was so cold I wrote a "heater" command for my macbook. It just spun the cpu in a tight loop, and was very effective!
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by abstractbill 11y ago
There's a nice live version of this effect on Twitch that you can guide by typing things in chat: http://www.twitch.tv/317070
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Deprogramming corporatism(blog.garrytan.com)
86 points by abstractbill 11y ago|31 comments
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by abstractbill 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by abstractbill 11y ago
A long time ago, jwz used to use Justin.tv for the DNA Lounge webcast, and I used to use his rants as evidence that someone out there cared about a given bug and we should prioritize fixing it. If anything I think it helped that his rants
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by abstractbill 12y ago
Same as last time - we didn't hear anything more about the first stage until much later.
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by abstractbill 12y ago
I was the first employee at Twitch, back in 2007. It worked out very well for me, but - having watched the sausage get made - I'm very aware of how incredibly lucky I've been. It could very easily have all come to nothing. To be
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by abstractbill 12y ago
A lot of YC's advice was not considered obvious when they started out (nearly ten years ago!). If some of it seems generic and obvious now, that's because they've succeeded - more than anyone else - in discovering and shari
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by abstractbill 12y ago
This can make a projectile move at mach 7, which is a little more than 20% of the Earth's escape velocity. Are there physical limits that would prevent us from building a bigger one and using it to launch small things into space? Or &
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by abstractbill 12y ago
I agree with (both of) you. How might I contribute to making Basic Income happen? I've been seeing more and more people talk seriously about it, which seems like a great sign, but perhaps not enough to change anything. Are there any
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by abstractbill 12y ago
My gut feeling is that personalities are not fixed, and there are feedback cycles in action here. For example, I find it believable that the more successful a person becomes, the less likely they are to feel a bunch of emotions that might
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by abstractbill 12y ago
You're supposed to come up with something that feels like work to other people .
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by abstractbill 12y ago
In fact some of his female colleagues came to his defense on Twitter. (as did the woman who made the shirt in the first place: https://twitter.com/ellypriZeMaN/status/533287464497332225 )
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by abstractbill 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_presence
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by abstractbill 12y ago
If it comes with some of the amazing biosensors that have been hinted at, yes. (Otherwise, no, not at all).
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by abstractbill 12y ago
Cruise Automation, for example, is working on self-driving cars. There are some biotech companies too, but I don't know much about those.

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