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by api 11y ago
I believe this is true, and there probably are things that could be done to "disrupt" both these markets. YC (and to a lesser extent Silicon Valley itself) have union-like characteristics. Why is it that a bunch of companies worki
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by api 11y ago
There are some fantastic counter-arguments in there. For the record I think both sides have valid points: unions do make industries "sclerotic," but they also exist to prevent a deflationary race to the bottom in wages. I'd
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by api 11y ago
I'm inclined to be suspicious of things like the TPP, but the hyperbole I see actually makes me wonder if it's a lot more benign. Of course there's a deeper underlying reason in my case: I am very deeply cynical about "a
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by api 11y ago
I wish people understood that hyperbole weakens their position. It's an example of the seen vs. the unseen. What they see when they do this is lots and lots of clicks and lots of attention on social media, and that's interpreted a
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by api 11y ago
It's also not possible to catch all systematic design flaws. It's possible for someone who is deeply knowledgable in an area like crypto to deliberately introduce strategic design weaknesses into a system that might seem like reas
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by api 11y ago
La Corbusier is still alive in parts of Southern California, resulting in places where it feels like you have to get on the highway for 20 minutes to go to the toilet. This kind of design philosophy results in places that look good from a d
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by api 11y ago
They're going for the Ballmer Peak: https://xkcd.com/323/
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by api 11y ago
Yes, that's another problem: patching holes with chewing gum instead of systematic improvements. The latter involves abstract reasoning, something that seems somehow lacking in infosec.
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by api 11y ago
It's funny to me how many people still fear the early 20th century version of fascism: jack-booted thugs, death camps, fire hoses, wars. That's old school. It still survives in a few backward places like North Korea but it's
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by api 11y ago
I sort of agree, but I think fundamentally Linus is right to marginalize most infosec people. The vast majority of people in infosec can't see the forest for the trees, and do active harm to both usability/performance and to s
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by api 11y ago
That's the problem: price and availability. It only challenges Xeon in raw numbers, but $/performance matters a lot especially at scale. If I were building a data center I'd choose more slightly slower CPUs if the total power
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by api 11y ago
I saw a signal for some Cherokee ancestry via 23andme. My family never said anything about it. I've got ancestors from the Appalachian region so it makes some sense, and I'm inclined to trust SNP analysis more than family stories.
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by api 11y ago
Bogarting unadvertised IPv4 space is common. A lot of people don't understand that it's not just public IP space that is in short supply in IPv4. IPv4 also has inadequate space to number large private networks in a non-conflicting
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by api 11y ago
I'd suggest googling Godel's incompleteness theorem for starters. It proves that within any given system of rules there exist valid theorems that cannot be reached by only logical 'graph traversal' of the state space rep
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by api 11y ago
Why should it be easy for us to understand the system that (we assume) gave rise to us? In fact, there are numerous arguments via things like Godel's theorem that it should be hard by definition to understand one's "contain
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by api 11y ago
It won't be that lame, but I do expect some of the cool factor to fade a bit. There will be something like the craft beer scene and some aficionados and mostly a lot of people who might smoke it every once in a while but not often. Unl
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by api 11y ago
/ kicks Amazon, Google, and Azure repeatedly. The "rest of the cloud" mostly supports it but those three are dragging their heels. Amazon is the only one to have any support at all at the gateway level. Does anyone know if th
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by api 11y ago
Th evidence shows otherwise. Besides, there is already an endless supply of booze, television, junk food, and empty consumerism for those who want to null out consciousness and distract themselves while they wait to die.
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by api 11y ago
I realized today that it's a privilege to watch prohibition die; it gives me faith in the future to witness the end of a profound injustice in my time.
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by api 11y ago
It makes more sense in Switzerland because it's small. America is huge. There is no land shortage outside of a few urban areas. It makes some sense in San Francisco, but crazy property prices (when compared to wages) are a largely nati
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by api 11y ago
For >$1B?
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by api 11y ago
I mostly agree but I have to quibble just a little: American real estate is still insane. The housing crash was really just a small dip on what seems to be an unrelenting hyperinflation in real estate. When government policies deliberately
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by api 11y ago
I was being really cheeky above, but I do see this as a rather outlandish example of how beings of very high intelligence seem prone to getting stuck in odd thought loops. I recall an episode of STTNG where they attacked the Borg collective
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by api 11y ago
The average human IQ is 100. There are people with IQs upwards of 180, and recent research has shown that the genes underlying this are likely to be relatively common in the population. Given that IQ is extremely powerful and is positively
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Node-jslinux: run Linux in Node(github.com)
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by api 11y ago
Isn't this a really positive indicator that Canada is acquiring more foreign holdings? Isolationism is generally a path to irrelevance. The most powerful countries are porous and actively engaged with the world, allowing capital and pe
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by api 11y ago
Failure has to be as okay in science as it is in business and for all the same reasons. I would love to see more failed hypotheses and projects, as it would mean people are actually thinking new thoughts and trying new things. There is no p
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by api 11y ago
Glad to see this instead of bashing on OVH. This can happen anywhere. Every data center is at the end of one or maybe a few very thin little cables that can be cut very easily.
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by api 11y ago
There are many use cases for having lots of connections open that aren't doing much: chat apps, IoT, pub/sub busses, etc.
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by api 11y ago
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