acpetrov

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by acpetrov 6y ago
Any current or planned VR features? Cheers
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by acpetrov 6y ago
Society's only protagonist is the individual
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by acpetrov 7y ago
I'd prefer a virgin birth, then selling the child a few years later
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by acpetrov 7y ago
I stopped enjoying math for about this reason. My university tried to teach with proofs, which to me is about as far from an intuitive understanding as possible Looking for recommendations on lectures / course that goes over linear alg
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by acpetrov 7y ago
It's pay to play
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by acpetrov 7y ago
The value of a targeted ad is a lot higher than just +10%
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by acpetrov 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Space_Launch_Compet... USA recently allowed it for their citizens
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by acpetrov 7y ago
Self sufficient may not be enough either. A rebelling colony needs guns, not just food
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by acpetrov 7y ago
Do you have a source on racial/class distribution for lgbt? Would be interested to see it
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by acpetrov 7y ago
Or we rename JavaScript to RustScript and everyone will be forced to love it!
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by acpetrov 7y ago
I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends. Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some even cared about their rank, but the beauty was playing with
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by acpetrov 7y ago
Bay area traffic would see a decent improvement just by using more left turn yields at traffic lights
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by acpetrov 7y ago
> People are there to voluntarily give help. They also get loads of really stupid questions and venting does help with keeping them providing help. Ha, imagine hearing this about volunteers at a hospice. SO boards are infinitely less imp
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by acpetrov 8y ago
Yep. I saw a talk a while back about Uber sharding their caching layer by geohash
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by acpetrov 8y ago
Yep. NASA has such high standards that it's hard to imagine a private company ever matching its engineering quality, after all why would they need to?
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by acpetrov 8y ago
Should an infertile couple have a right to a surrogate mother
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by acpetrov 8y ago
The Alexa bit really shows that processing speed or "cheapness" doesn't always matter. The VM in AWS that eventually does that hex addition could have done 10^N more of those same additions in the time it takes Alexa to hear
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by acpetrov 8y ago
imo you also need dry land, for the tool-making flavor of intelligent life
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by acpetrov 8y ago
There's a side-effect, however, that's being ignored. If US companies don't like/trust the talent coming out of US colleges, they should have a stake in improving those programs. But if their solution is just to hire imm
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by acpetrov 8y ago
No, no, he sold to Facebook for a big exit
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by acpetrov 8y ago
I just graduated, so I'm not dealing with constant internship interviews anymore, but at the time I absolutely hated it. My frustration isn't exactly like yours (my time is probably a lot less valuable). I feel that the questions
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by acpetrov 8y ago
That's a cool life journey
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by acpetrov 8y ago
Moving from Canada to California did a lot to help my depression. It's hard to not feel good on a beautiful sunny day
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by acpetrov 8y ago
> Besides who are we to decide for the Chinese what is best for them? That's exactly the issue people have. Censorship. No one should be deciding what others can search.
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by acpetrov 8y ago
> People perhaps assume all audio is processed locally and/or isn't stored except ephemerally. Is there info on this from Amazon? I'd assume they do what you mention, have the speech recognition in the Alexa and just send
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by acpetrov 8y ago
And what if you need floors mopped? Now the small business is just getting gouged for that service
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by acpetrov 8y ago
But there is work that can be done for under $15/h, if you can do it with automation. Suddenly humans are legally unable to compete with things like McDonald's ordering machines. There are people who would gladly work for less tha
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by acpetrov 8y ago
I wonder about the rate of reinstallations though. Over a month, some steady percentage of users is changing phones and reinstalling apps. If a new app is able to beat the (new installs + %reinstalls) of giant apps, that's impressive.
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by acpetrov 8y ago
Tricky part is when one of your underlying systems doesn't quite behave as you thought. Once you figure out the problem (which could take a while since you won't expect it to be there) you get a sense of how much complexity you&#x
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by acpetrov 8y ago
If you're a hyper competitive person, you probably will want to crush your competitors. And since competitiveness is a must to be CEO, makes sense that this is how the game is played

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