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by andkon 10y ago
TLDR: start a startup if you are in such a terrible job market that you have, by default, a 95% chance of failure.
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by andkon 10y ago
Is this satire? This is pretty much the perfect expression of all the most insufferable moments and people I knew during my own analytic philosophy education. It's even wrapped up in the fondest delusion of philosophy undergrads: that
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by andkon 10y ago
Missed naming opportunity: Y Combinator Combinator
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by andkon 10y ago
Nah man, of course it diminishes their challenges. You literally start your post by diminishing their challenges; you do this in response to a post that makes the highly uncontroversial point that minorities are perceived differently in the
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by andkon 10y ago
To say nothing of the fact that it doesn't seem coherent to distinguish between "tech issues" and "social issues," this literally only makes sense if you think that the lack of diverse folks in tech isn't a soc
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by andkon 10y ago
It's reaffirmed my belief in the pareto optimal - because you can get 80% of the way towards a workable ML solution for your product with 20% of the effort, but that remaining 20% will require effort roughly equivalent to getting your
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by andkon 10y ago
Did you know that breastfeeding pumps and refrigeration had been invented and refined over the last century?
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by andkon 10y ago
Again, you're bringing up the red herring: that this is really just a legal issue that was adjudicated in the court case, and that the motivation and cause of this court case being brought is completely irrelevant to the ethics of wha
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by andkon 10y ago
If the only way you can argue for Peter Thiel's actions is to deny moral realism, then, uh, I think we've said all that we need to say on the topic.
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The question was about whether or not it was ethical for Thiel to do what he did. Saying that Gawker did something bad to other people does not mean Thiel has an obligation to do anything, nor does it say that he acted ethically to do what
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by andkon 10y ago
There are a few ways this argument can play out: 1. You have a moral obligation to litigate moral wrongs, whether or not they happened to you. Since rich people have more money and hence more things are litigable to them, they have a moral
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by andkon 10y ago
He didn't file a frivolous lawsuit. He decided to not file a frivolous lawsuit, and instead to fund every viable lawsuit he could purely so he could bankrupt a media company that had covered him very unfavourably in the past. He'l
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by andkon 10y ago
A rich person acted out his retributive fantasies by paying a law team for years to trawl through everything Gawker put out in search of litigable offenses. That's unethical on the part of the lawyers, probably, and on the part of Thie
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by andkon 10y ago
or of startups?
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by andkon 10y ago
Honestly, I don't think this is the right path for inquiry. Philosophy isn't just the accumulation of arguments and scholarship; it's a discipline, and by that measure, some folks are better or worse, absolutely. When it come
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by andkon 10y ago
This reminds me a lot of BLDGBLG's post about Die Hard's architecture[1], especially this line: his dream house included a maze of trap-doors and what Sergeant Scheimreif called “escape holes.” It was everything he seemed
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by andkon 11y ago
If any partner can unilaterally say yes to any application, it makes the NIPS study irrelevant to their problem.
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by andkon 11y ago
From what I understand, Channels' provenance is from Go (scroll down to the What is a Channel? section): http://channels.readthedocs.org/en/latest/concepts.html
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by andkon 11y ago
That's tough that you feel that technical work is a race to the bottom. Do you feel like you're falling behind?
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by andkon 11y ago
If you're working on something hard, and you're working on something you care about, and you're pushing the limits of what you're capable of (but stopping short of being overwhelmed completely), you can do this. But most
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Show HN: Excalibur: the best way to explain your open source project(github.com)
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by andkon 11y ago
Using social engineering and/or linkedin you are sometimes able to figure who you need to speak to and access them directly I think you just described what 'sales' is.
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by andkon 11y ago
I wondered the same thing when reading that article! From what I gathered, though, a lot of the reason why it's not more popularity has to do with the fact that you need to actually defending your claims to the IRS or in court: Ope
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Move (really) fast and make things – with Cookiecutter(konoff.co)
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You're right. It is a mental block. It's usually one you get when you believe that what you've made is going to take off like a rocket. Whether or not it does, now that pressure is on you. Pick one of them. Launch it. See it
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by andkon 11y ago
I love that way of summing it up: "oh it's totally possible for you to walk home at night. You might just endure much more pain and suffering for it." Another thing worth pointing out: women are socialized to believe that con
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by andkon 11y ago
For real. This is something a single call to their AllSIM account manager should be able to fix.
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by andkon 11y ago
Fiddle player for the last 18 years: can confirm that this is pretty much what most traditional music circles sound like (especially their endlessness).
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What if Dropbox had applied to YCF?(konoff.co)
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by andkon 11y ago
This is such a great writeup, thank you for digging into it. Have you tried this out with iOS 9? I know JSQMessagesVC, which does a really solid interactive dismissal, has some problems with that.

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