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by api 11y ago
Child = startup with a lot of overnight support calls.
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by api 11y ago
Total isolation is also interesting for some high-security applications. I Tweeted to them and suggested that they offer -- at a possibly much higher price point -- a physically isolated server that must be manually provisioned by a human
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by api 11y ago
"Dying" is a pet peeve of mine. Usually it's not true. The desktop form factor is declining significantly in popularity in the mainstream market in favor of laptops and mobile devices. The reason is obvious: laptops and mobil
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by api 11y ago
"It’s not hard to generate massive revenue’s with a really bad business model. One case study is Groupon and how, at one point, they were spending almost 80% of revenues on marketing." I've found the amount of marketing spend
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by api 11y ago
My first thought was electricity -- spinning magnets generating fields that power things. My second was the Haber process, a simple reaction that produces fixed nitrogen. With that a simple agricultural society could escape subsistence.
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by api 11y ago
I've worked for a government data center where they ran instances of Ultrix in a commercial VM to run old data processing software that ingested and barfed out CSVs that contained UUencoded blobs of image data. All this was written in
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by api 11y ago
More like Not Invented Here syndrome to the level of fatal pathology.
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by api 11y ago
She's right and I sympathize a lot, but I don't see much in the way of addressing the reasons for these trends, just a lot of bellyaching about them and calls to "do something." You can't do that without understandi
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by api 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't those countries have a massive amount of micromanaging regulations around things like employment practices? If that's the case, that certainly will stifle entrepreneurship even if everything
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by api 11y ago
Wow. So let's make absolutely sure that people who have made mistakes in the past can't get their lives in order or do anything legitimate.
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by api 11y ago
Elon should announce their intent to hold Burning Man on Mars.
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by api 11y ago
It's probably because it's a "security related" product, which caused some moronic knuckle dragger to classify it as a "hacking tool." This happens a lot for things related to networking, security, virtualizati
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by api 11y ago
I recently read Zero to One, the Blake Masters / Peter Thiel manifesto (of sorts). One of the interesting points he makes there is to come down on the side of monopoly. I interpreted it as a one-sided position, but I think they were pu
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by api 11y ago
Free will is typically defined to mean you[n+1] != classical_function(you[n]), at least sometimes or with some probability. That does not necessarily imply anything supernatural, though if the supernatural (or any kind of dualism) exists th
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by api 11y ago
Sure. I'd advise you to take as little as you can get away with. The amount will depend on where you live, life phase, savings, etc.
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by api 11y ago
Bet it's Turing complete. Many CAs are, and this one smells of it. :)
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by api 11y ago
I'm not sure about that. As far as I know European social democracies micromanage too much. One thing none of these countries seem to get is that complex regulations and micromanagement are more expensive than taxation. These things ha
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by api 11y ago
My own view is this: The ideal would be to have a strong social safety net and a fair system of redistribution that operates with minimal micromanagement or intrusion into individual affairs. Basically you have a government that taxes every
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by api 11y ago
Why? React brings sanity to the web UI world. It brings reusable components! It brings composition. It brings modularity. ... and it's written by adults who know CS. Your UI is a pure function of your state. Who knew? Why would I use
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by api 11y ago
I wasn't suggesting there are no grassroots actions, but I was questioning whether there are (many) coherent grassroots "movements." At the very least they seem quite rare.
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by api 11y ago
I wouldn't be absolutely shocked to learn that there are industry advocacy groups that push movements like that. I'm also suspicious about the whole organic movement and companies like Whole Foods. See also: the concept of 'f
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by api 11y ago
In recent years I've started entertaining a bit of a heresy. I wouldn't say I believe this, but it's at least a question worth asking: Is there actually any such thing as a "grassroots" movement? Over the years I&#x
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by api 11y ago
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/fb.aspx
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by api 11y ago
That's why I'm in favor of some level of standards on disclosure and some standard warning for these kinds of investments. Another possibility would be a waiting period. People are impulsive, so maybe you have to wait 72 hours fro
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by api 11y ago
The "worse" value judgement is debatable. LPs are high risk and have deep pockets, so I'm not worried about them. As far as retail investors go, I am a bit concerned there but on the other hand anyone can blow money on lotto
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by api 11y ago
I started reading and after the second sentence was waiting for a reference to AEI. I was not disappointed. There's something very ironically Soviet about certain sectors of the American right. I'm sure at the height of Communism
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by api 11y ago
That's a future just crazy enough to happen: forget about AI singularities. Just augment the other intelligent beings that inhabit the Earth. The aliens were here all along. Of course they might be a bit peeved when they find recipes f
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by api 11y ago
(1) sudo netstat -tanp | grep LISTEN (2) For anything not listening to 127.0.0.1: what is it and do you need it? (3) If answer to #2 is "dunno" or "no," turn it off. :)
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by api 11y ago
I don't think we are in a bubble overall. I lived through 1999 and this is not that. But it's possible that there is a bubble in certain "unicorn" valuations. The question is to what extent these unicorns are leveraged a
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by api 11y ago
Makes me wonder if this could be the cause of the 'higher intelligence'?

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