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by alansammarone 9y ago
Could you please expand on why its necessarily better for the average Joe to invest money (without knowing beforehand whats gonna be a "productive enterprise" of course) instead of fuelling the economy directly by buying goods? (h
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by alansammarone 9y ago
Not only that, but there is also something morally very questionable about making promises and don't giving a sh*t about whether you'll be able to deliver or not. This a wrong attitude in its moral and legal aspects, and I think i
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by alansammarone 9y ago
I don't think a scientific study loses any merit if it doesn't make people reading it happier.
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Ask HN: How long does it take for you to become productive in a new job?
7 points by alansammarone 9y ago|6 comments
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by alansammarone 9y ago
Out of all the internet giants, at least to me, Apple has time and time again demonstrated to be reasonably ethical. Their position on encryption, net neutrality (granted, a bit late), gay marriage, their willingness to fight political posi
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by alansammarone 9y ago
But Amazon is essentially a market place. Google is a search site.
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by alansammarone 9y ago
This is a very good point. People tend to look for more "balance" when they are unhappy with whatever their main focus is right now. The obvious example applies: people don't like their day jobs very much, and so they go arou
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by alansammarone 9y ago
Every week we're seeing more and more news like that - whether its the government or internet companies - in which people's right to privacy and to freedom online are being severely threatened. I'm not an american, but I grew
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by alansammarone 9y ago
That's a very interesting point, thank you for the explanation!
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by alansammarone 9y ago
I've focused on backend for the last 7 years or so, so I've been kind of out of contact with the frontend world. Recently I started working on a personal project, and I thought it would be a good time to learn some of the modern t
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by alansammarone 9y ago
I often see people pointing out that college has other pros other than just teaching people technical skills, which many can learn from other sources. My 2 cents: College has also many cons. Apart from the monetary issue, college forces tal
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Hilbert: dead simple way to do math on your computer(github.com)
3 points by alansammarone 9y ago|0 comments
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by alansammarone 9y ago
Yes, but it might also be the case that we don't observe something outside of it, but rather infer the existence of something outside of it through some other phenomenon (which is much more probable - observing something outside of the
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by alansammarone 9y ago
I think that's a very important point that most people tend to ignore. In many discussions, people simply assume and take it as an obvious fact that family >> work. I think this is only true for some kinds of work, and generally
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A 1 trillion-ton iceberg has broken off Antarctica(businessinsider.com.au)
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by alansammarone 9y ago
Any normal person is able to remember, in any given moment, the "experience" (in a very broad sense - meaning cognitive and emotional processes) it had in its recent past (modulo memory limitations caused by various factors). Woul
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by alansammarone 9y ago
I don't think this is desirable in general. In the case of an individual, it makes sense to have a "live or die together" behaviour (mostly). I don't think this is the case with modern societies (cities or countries). It
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Study hints at possible lepton universality violation(phys.org)
2 points by alansammarone 9y ago|0 comments
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LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time(phys.org)
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by alansammarone 9y ago
Basically every piece of useful information that can be encoded using your voice can also be encoded using an email - and in a much more efficient way, since you don't have to keep deciphering emotional cues. Of course, expressing emot
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United States free speech exceptions(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by alansammarone 9y ago|0 comments
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by alansammarone 9y ago
The bell inequalities are a concrete evidence to dismiss 1. Say we flip a coin (just for the sake of the argument - superposition only works for small things), and we're arguing whether the coin is really heads or really tails before w
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by alansammarone 9y ago
It's not just about being a utilitarian. Science is supposed to make predictions. If it can't make a prediction that can be tested, it's not physics, it's philosophy.
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by alansammarone 9y ago
I've been faced with the same dilemma. Eventually, I just started telling people "I have something important to do". After all, being on your own every now and then is something important.
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Wikipedia blocked in Turkey(turkeyblocks.org)
850 points by alansammarone 9y ago|450 comments
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by alansammarone 10y ago
The best, most fair interviews I've been through follow this pattern. I remember one of them told me about a current problem they had, and told me "You can google anything you want, you have 30 minutes. After that, you should tell
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by alansammarone 10y ago
To me it looks like we asking young people, in their brightest years (from a neurological point of view) to sit through boring classes, under-qualified teachers, just so that afterwards they'll have proven themselves able to stand a b
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by alansammarone 10y ago
I don't understand why is it ok for a university to serve a political purpose. A university is a place in which science is done, nothing more. No matter by whom.
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by alansammarone 10y ago
Photons reach it all the time. Therefore, time does not exist for photons.
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by alansammarone 12y ago
It's seems clear that any content that advances the art is better than a content doesn't advance the art. I guess that what he meant is that global maxima is better than local maxima (which is clearly true), and data-driven visio

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