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   by api 10y ago

   Depends. There are some maps around by county.
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   by api 10y ago

   Southern Baptism is that dominant in many parts of the South.
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   by api 10y ago

   IMHO you got down voted a lot for pointing out an aspect of human behavior many people (including myself) find very troubling. The "odd" juxtaposition of compassion and community with racial, sexual, and cultural exclusivity and s
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   by api 10y ago

   These two are not mutually exclusive.
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   by api 10y ago

   Hmm... well I doubt parachutes are any harder than landing a rocket on a barge, so I'm sure this could be done. Sounds like one possible path. The stage may sustain some damage on landing but it would allow at least some of its more co
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   by api 10y ago

   I strongly agree with Thiel on lots of things about business and innovation. I just don't think I agree with him on politics or social issues to the extent that I can figure out what he actually thinks on these issues. The latter can
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   by api 10y ago

   What's the prospect for second stage reuse? I know they have talked about it but my understanding is it is much harder due to energies involved and payload margin.
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   by api 10y ago

   That's considered "spray and pray" today. Today advertisers want data, data, data, and micro-targeting is everything. The entire advertising industry has become something akin to a private signals intelligence agency.
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   by api 10y ago

   We really should just start numbering them: R0, R1, R2, ..., Rn. It's getting ridiculous.
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    by api 10y ago

    I'd say premature optimization is one form of over-engineering, and not the most common form today. It was more common back when computers were a lot slower and people had to think about performance all the time, but now architectural
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    by api 10y ago

    It's always been a problem. Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, yeah, yeah, but that quote is sort of a waste of breath as premature optimization is not that big of a problem. Over engineering is the great disease of th
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    by api 10y ago

    TCP over web sockets over TCP. Sigh. Of course I develop network virtualization software so I'm just as guilty of it.
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    by api 10y ago

    It really is too bad we can't harvest and store it all. Hundreds of years of clean burning low carbon energy.
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    by api 10y ago

    The worst part of Uber's situation is that they have priced themselves out of any reasonable path to further fund raising. Even a successful IPO would be a huge down round. I've never understood how valuations computed from white
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    by api 10y ago

    PCs took a lot longer to stop innovating, but they were (and still are for desktops) an open platform.
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    by api 10y ago

    What if it's not lack of will but game theory? Maybe it's actually impossible for a large complex system to act against these trends because there exists no stable game strategy for the kind of large-scale cooperation that is nece
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    by api 10y ago

    Encrypt all the things.
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    by api 10y ago

    It's not talent that's concentrated. It's capital. The SF bay is the undisputed headquarters for smart technology investment capital, both angel and venture.
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    by api 10y ago

    I'm not personally religious but I am skeptical -- what about all the violent secular movements around the world over the past century? I'm going to speculate that ideology is associated with violence, but with the exception of
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    by api 10y ago

    I could see this as an ultimate perk and a really powerful way to attract top talent. Wow.
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    by api 10y ago

    Yes and no. The problem is that panics affect the entire market and have cascading follow-on effects. Not only does this affect fund raising but it also affects the entire tech economy, and thus the ability to convert new customers if your
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    by api 10y ago

    As someone trying to raise right now, I am very concerned that this is going to implode the entire industry. An Uber collapse will set off a panic as people wonder who else is swimming naked. It will also tank the return on any VC fund of w
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    by api 10y ago

    Every single bug I saw here could have been prevented if systems were coded in a safer language than C.
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    by api 10y ago

    I've been predicting "planet Japan" for years due to slowing population growth, resource constraints, and market saturation.
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    by api 10y ago

    It's already not ending well. A seemingly sizable and growing fraction of these disaffected largely male unemployed or under-employed people are embracing full-blown fascism and other equally unhinged ideologies. Look into the intersec
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    by api 10y ago

    A major factor is the unbelievable pain of doing one's own IT work. Even hosting a blog with Wordpress or Ghost can be a pain, let alone hosting your own git infrastructure. Then you have the whole sign-on / password / accoun
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    by api 10y ago

    Try C++ template metaprogramming or Java collections before generics.
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    by api 10y ago

    Completely agree. I remember the primaries thinking wow... the scary thing is one of these people will be president.
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    by api 10y ago

    I was expecting something along the lines of an anime character saying "charge moar 4 Jews and kill niggers TOP KEK" so yeah. Low expectations work well for modern cinema too.
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    by api 10y ago

    Chat / audio / video and related comms software seems to be a lemon market.