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   by api 10y ago

   I second the recommendation with the caveat that you can only get through it if you can stand his narcissism. It's really a tragedy because there really are brilliant ideas in there. It's just that Wolfram did not single handedly
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   by api 10y ago

   Intentional or not, it's definitely created a world where labor is flat or declining while energy, food, education, health care, and especially housing are inflating like crazy. I think the point about Apple is a non-sequitur here. Low
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   by api 10y ago

   I've been thinking things like this for years, especially about a "general loss of confidence." For me the two most confidence-destroying events of the past two decades were Iraq and the 2008 financial bailouts/crisis (a
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   by api 10y ago

   IMHO this is a special case of something much more profound. I studied biologically inspired and evolutionary computing very intensely in college, and I reached the conclusion fairly early that the way we do compute is very unlike the natu
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   by api 10y ago

   > Everyone gets so caught up on the new hot thing or the new "revolution" or what the competition is doing without thinking of what problem they are trying to solve or what actual value they are providing. These are my exact th
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   by api 10y ago

   Bad infrastructure software with hideous UX is dead.
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   by api 10y ago

   I wasn't defending Trump, just explaining why he has so much support. > The answer is to continue to encourage progress but increase redistribution efforts to help the people who are left behind. This is the Bernie Sanders answer to
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   by api 10y ago

   Pundits need to stop it with this "mock the unsophisticated yokels" click-baiting and trolling. Of course people are Googling about the EU after a major upset referendum about the EU. One reason "insane" anti-establish
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   by api 10y ago

   > Instead of just yelling bigot/racist/etc., I think Trump's opposition needs to actually listen and see what people are really seeing in him. Here. Let me tell you what people see in him. He's bringing up the issue o
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    by api 10y ago

    Well hey, so much for interest rates rising anytime soon. Probably good for tech funding, but bad for many other things. But that's the only kind of shamelessly self-interested sort of kind of silver lining I can think of. This is pret
11. 12401.▲
    by api 10y ago

    "Hater News" heh... yeah sometimes people do tend to hate around here, but it's nowhere near as bad as Reddit.
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    by api 10y ago

    Lots of haters there, which I don't get. Twilio seems to have a lot of substance.
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    by api 10y ago

    I've seen the "alpha cities" phenomenon explode since 2000. Where you live has become a proxy for your competence, importance, etc. I'm not convinced it's not the Internet. Google "FOMO" for a possible mec
14. 12404.▲
    by api 10y ago

    Sure. We've degraded the Internet from the Internet to the HTTP-to-AWS-gateway-net. Meanwhile security still sucks.
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    by api 10y ago

    Yes, if this is the cost. Loss of local connectivity is not a small degradation. It's like losing floating point math from your CPU or the ability of your car to go in reverse. If we're building endpoint networks to prohibit loc
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    by api 10y ago

    I pretty vehemently disagree. We should be very reluctant to systematically break good things to protect badly written junk. Let badly written junk burn. Then people will learn it's junk and stop using it or the developers and vendors
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    by api 10y ago

    Is there actually a good reason for this "feature" outside of airport and coffee shop WiFi? Basically you have a 2000 mile data path to your light bulb because routers suck and networking engineers are cargo cult morons.
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    by api 10y ago

    You could install it on a device and then remotely access it. The software handles a lot of complexity for you. We're working with several vendors about incorporating it as a network layer and then using our (to be released soon) SDK
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    by api 10y ago

    We've been using the term "endpoint hostile" to describe how networks are typically deployed, especially with IPv4. "Endpoint hostile" networks are designed with a single use case in mind: accessing remote servers,
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    by api 10y ago

    We're working toward some IoT developer products designed to allow global p2p connectivity for IoT devices over networks the user can control: https://www.zerotier.com/ ZeroTier already runs fine on embedded Linux, whi
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    by api 10y ago

    I am shocked, shocked... :)
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    by api 10y ago

    I grew up in Cincinnati and was in OTR during the riots, albeit in a third floor secure apartment. It wasn't nearly as bad as the press coverage made it out to be... mostly a bunch of stupid kids trying to smash and grab. But the bad p
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    by api 10y ago

    Way off in tangent land now but: while much of "ufology" is indeed silly, "the aliens are here but they are not communicating" is a valid hypothesis for the Fermi paradox (with or without FTL). There are numerous ratio
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    by api 10y ago

    We've only been doing this science thing in a serious organized way for between 100 and 200 years depending on how you count it. It's only since WWII that we've done it in a really big heavily funded way (cold war and all t
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    by api 10y ago

    I believe your speculation is correct. The DAO was a great idea but it should have been done at a significantly smaller scale. Raise say $1M worth of tokens and invest in three things and then sunset the project and evaluate the result. Cal
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    by api 10y ago

    I've toyed around with this idea but ultimately it feels like trying to sober up by drinking a wider variety of booze. You're assuming that someone is even trying. In the end it's just made me an equal opportunity skeptic.
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    by api 10y ago

    I lost all faith in the media a long time ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge I remember watching this happen as a teenager via two sources of information: BBSes and the early Internet, and the mainstream med
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    by api 10y ago

    Capital really is the big monopoly SV has vs. other places. I wonder if we'll see more geographic diversity as younger investors who are more comfortable with tele-work and tele-socialization get into investing. I feel like the next ge
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    by api 10y ago

    Based on trends I see in funding, jobs, talent, buzz, etc., here's my list. It would be much smaller: Portland: obvious, though many locals hate it. San Angeles: it's kind of one city overall, but tech activity is concentrated in:
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    by api 10y ago

    Fortran is not a dead language. It's got a strong stable niche in science and engineering.