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by alfl 5y ago
Ha! Thanks, in my journey through enterprise (that was very similar to yours) I learned a lot about diplomacy :)
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by alfl 5y ago
Large organizations are hard for startup people but easy for people who want a straightforward job. In a sense sitting in meetings and making decks is an easy way to make a decent amount of money. If you are self-driven and seeking to impro
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Gig workers around the world are finally organizing(restofworld.org)
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by alfl 5y ago
Not a silly question, I think you've described Namecoin.
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by alfl 5y ago
No, it’s not arbitrary. It’s dialectical. “The line” is drawn by laws passed by well-constituted popular government and based on long-standing precedent.
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Build a function of unknowns that gives probability of a “bad outcome”, plug in the ranges of the best data you can find for the unknowns. Compare this to the probability of getting Covid (~100%) and having a “bad outcome”. This let me conf
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by alfl 5y ago
How much money do you make?
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by alfl 5y ago
I think in 10 years we'll look back at what is now contemporary discourse as a reaction formation[0]. Essentially the left-wing version of homophobic closeted Republicans. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction
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by alfl 5y ago
I was about five years into being a game developer when this happened to me. I took two years off and went to film school.
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by alfl 5y ago
The "Paradox of Tolerance" is an example of the slippery slope fallacy.
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by alfl 5y ago
Globalization of VC is great for America, American investment firms, and startups in other countries. America gets a slice of the best, worldwide, and it helps companies that are often fighting uphill in their local markets. As a founder wh
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by alfl 5y ago
Fellow Canadian, and can confirm: current Federal regime is all hat no cattle.
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by alfl 5y ago
For example, the people in the other threads, here, who say that they can't read past the first few paragraphs. The author is using diction to intentionally exclude those people.
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by alfl 5y ago
The language is an intentional shibboleth [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
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by alfl 5y ago
I've recently been thinking about this in the context of web technology (revisiting some ideas from the 90s that didn't pan out then, but can be repurposed now). Your point here about CNC and additive versus subtractive manufactur
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by alfl 5y ago
Cory Doctorow's https://pluralistic.net/ He's a pro-tech (anti-industry) left-wing futurist and science fiction author. I read him to get out of my filter bubble.
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by alfl 5y ago
Interesting point, thank you. I was reading the docs today and encountered the following (presented fyi): It turns out that this is currently true [0] because the base audio context (BAC) time is accurate to within 20us whereas RAF is accur
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by alfl 5y ago
Depends if you want a job or a business. Employees do well specializing. Entrepreneurs have to be broadly competent.
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by alfl 5y ago
To answer the question in footnote 1, off the top of my head: setTimeout and setInterval have no timing guarantees because in the browser window/tab context there's no guarantee that they're active/visible. It doesn&#x27
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by alfl 5y ago
I've opened this in a tab and intend to read it later.
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by alfl 5y ago
> 3) Is it possible to create "smart" algorithm to reduce computing cost per bitcoin? I think this is equivalent to the problem: "how can I calculate SHA-256 hashes more efficiently?" This is an open problem in crypta
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by alfl 5y ago
Torontonian here. Micheal Geist, the Canadian digital rights lawyer, has been giving a barnstormer of a performance on Twitter about why C-10 is bad law poorly written. It is a handout bill written by the content industry lobby to restrict
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by alfl 5y ago
Reminds me of Woody Harrelson's character from A Scanner Darkly (paraphrased): "He didn't actually impersonate anyone, he just posed as a world famous imposter." [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z
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by alfl 5y ago
Proof Zero | All Roles | Full-time/contract | Toronto | Remote | Eastern Time Proof Zero is building the data application platform of the future. Hiring/contracting all roles, including eng, ops, design, and dev rel. Let us know h
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by alfl 5y ago
In the end I just jumped. For me, thinking about how to jump optimally was procrastination. "Jumping optimally" was a fine-grained optimization whereas the act of jumping, itself, was a huge huge coarse-grained optimization. Do wh
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by alfl 5y ago
I’m not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens. /s
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by alfl 5y ago
It's evaluated eagerly. The notebook is executed and materialized at upload. We're enabling re-triggering notebooks soon, which will allow things like scheduled and parameterized executions, and those will be eagerly evaluated as
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by alfl 5y ago
In essence, yes. Ninja is based around the idea of reproducable science: a given execution of a notebook is immutable and accessible consistently. It writes out cell outputs depending on their mimetype (this is included in Jupyter Notebook
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by alfl 5y ago
Great question. Right now Ninja is web-only for the public. Internally it's a CLI (releasing soon). nbterm is "notebooks in the terminal", Ninja is "materialized notebook executions". So, for example, whereas nbterm
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by alfl 5y ago
My team is doing a lot of cli-based hacking on notebooks. They’re an interesting developing format. I would love early HN feedback on Notebook Ninja, which is (pre-)alpha here: https://notebook.ninja

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