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by api 12y ago
Reminds me of junk food. Seems like eventually in most consumer fields marketers figure out baskets of hacks to push people's buy buttons without having to resort to quality. Movies have done that, at least for certain reliable audienc
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by api 12y ago
There's a whole raft of home automation devices, printers, etc. that will become bricks if certain cloud servers are turned off. Personally I think this fad will crash and burn, but it will take many rounds of consumer disappointment a
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by api 12y ago
The "death of the file" is a really mixed bag. The replacement is walled gardens with no privacy, control and perhaps even ownership of your data, questionable security, and the potential that your data could vanish if one is acqu
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by api 12y ago
There is serious money in labor arbitrage for the top financial and executive class. We've had decades of heavy lobbying for these kinds of asymmetries to break the back of domestic labor and smaller competitors.
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not by any means the first. Note that I do not mean science. Fundamentalist positivism is really a religious fundamentalist movement built around scientific nomenclature and academic orthodoxy. I consider it a form of cargo c
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by api 12y ago
I've been wondering if fundamentalist positivism might not be the "Vatican dogma" of the next dark age. I'm skeptical of this claim, but I don't fault them for trying. I also don't fault them for having strange
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by api 12y ago
Straining to describe something for which there isn't a good word. We have socialism, capitalism, etc. but no good term for this.
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by api 12y ago
I personally find it only superficially dated. A few specifics, like the pay phones, maybe, but... We've got viruses to attack physical infrastructure, a Beijing that looks not unlike Gibson's Tokyo, billionaires beginning to crea
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by api 12y ago
Good API design is, like "installability," a critical and often neglected aspect of software engineering. I find that bad APIs are the norm in every area, not just crypto. Audio and video stuff is just hideous. I used the NaCl cry
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by api 12y ago
True. Guess we passed the first pop quiz.
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by api 12y ago
Pessimistic because we now live in an "I've got mine, screw you" society where the means justifies the end.
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by api 12y ago
If it does turn out to be different this time, it will be because Turing complete automation is qualitatively different from single purpose machine automation.
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by api 12y ago
Bullshit jobs arise in two ways. One is through the crazy inefficiencies of huge companies and governments. This is likely not you. Second is as an emergent property of red queens races in the economy, escalating complexity or overhead that
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by api 12y ago
Statistically, if you always dismiss novel claims you will be right almost all the time. Yet this requires no intelligence at all. It's akin to a wall following msze solver. Wall following maze solvers do work, but only for the subset
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by api 12y ago
Posted this out of curiosity -- does anyone know what "patient zero" is for this meme? It's a meme that I find possibly harmful, since it amounts to the idea that herd effects and other forms of social confirmation bias are a
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The phrase “social proof” seems to have originated online in 2007(google.com)
3 points by api 12y ago|3 comments
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by api 12y ago
Have tachyons actually been shown to exist? I was under the impression that they are theoretical, a prediction of some theories but not verified.
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by api 12y ago
"It was merely pointed out that the commenter finds papers with a sole author to be questionable." That's an argument from authority and/or consensus. At the end of the day, only reproducibility matters in science. The p
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by api 12y ago
It would be very interesting to pair this with a very well designed minimalistic web framework, drivers for things like Redis, etc., for some VERY high-performance web backends.
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by api 12y ago
In other news, we could have powered the entire USA from one AA battery by instantiating Maxwell's Demon.
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by api 12y ago
There aren't any unbiased sources on this issue except maybe raw satellite feeds. Truth is that complex industrial societies use a lot of energy and resources and ecological footprint is a function of that more than their flavor of soc
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by api 12y ago
Laws are for little people.
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by api 12y ago
Yup. Last week cloud+web was the future. Now it's mobile. Next it'll be Internet of Things and nobody will ever fund another mobile startup. SV is ridiculously trendy and short term. It's not wholly irrational, but a function
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ZeroTier One (OSS network virtualization) now supports FreeBSD(zerotier.com)
4 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'm working on a home page redesign right now, so yeah I'll have that done fairly shortly... probably a few weeks. The new version is a bit more "pro" or "enterprisey" looking and tries to clarify things a bit
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Younity: your personal cloud(getyounity.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
What would the ulterior motive be for taking on the cost of a war against NK? They have little to no oil or other super-valuable commodities as far as I know, so there's little financial motive. They're a risk to their neighbors b
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by api 12y ago
Got to early revenue and some pretty encouraging sustained compounding growth in my side-project-turned-startup: https://www.zerotier.com/ This is a three year old project. 2014 saw the first auto-updating binary releases o
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Ask HN: Active incubators in Southern California?
2 points by api 12y ago|3 comments
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by api 12y ago
Most of the time "pop Skepticism" devolves into a lot of "I'm smarter than you." At its worst it sometimes dabbles in the same logical fallacies that are routinely present in the "woo" it attempts to debun

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