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   Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley: Why the Tech Elite Want their Own State(newgeography.com)

   1 points by api 13y ago|1 comments
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   by api 13y ago

   Necessary but not sufficient condition. If you don't love something there is no way you will succeed at it.
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   by api 13y ago

   "better criticism of poor science reporting in the media," This makes me think of another pet peeve of mine: where are the skeptics? The Skeptic movement almost exclusively goes after marginal outsiders: fringe archaeologists, anc
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   by api 13y ago

   A lot of people don't understand this. Science produces reams of output in the form of publications and data sets, and quite a bit of that will turn out to be insignificant or even wrong. It's like anything else... the stuff that
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   by api 13y ago

   You're both right IMHO. I actually think the GMO people would have more credibility if they admitted that there were possible risks and explained the risks vs. the benefits. Pretending there are no risks makes you sound like a shill, a
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   by api 13y ago

   "How to explain the rise of Neil deGrasse Tyson? It’s hard to deny that we live in an era in which science — as both a worldview and as a practice — is under near-constant assault. On the left, there are those who rail against the dang
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   by api 13y ago

   Thanks for the reference... this is precisely what I mean by elite naiveté... a bias toward thinking that the mechanisms of the world are more just and fair than they actually are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-worl
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   by api 13y ago

   I've done this too, and I don't think it's unethical if you're doing it in public forums. I try not to do it too much or be spammy about it... I just find public forums where people are looking for ways to do a certain t
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   by api 13y ago

   "to cut through trendy BS to build solid performant stuff." This is really the gem for those who don't want to take the MGMT route. But the tough thing is advancing in your pay-scale, etc., and really showing that your skills
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    by api 13y ago

    Are all currencies ponzi games? Seems to me that the deciding factor is: what percentage of Bitcoin's transactions are actual transactions for actual goods and services vs. what percentage are transactions related to speculation on Bit
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    by api 13y ago

    HN seems to harbor an elite naiveté crowd who thinks there is no such thing as official misconduct in the world. (Elite naivete is a term I coined from hanging around in the orbit of elite schools and noting that people from prep school &#x
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    by api 13y ago

    It's an ideology. Ideologies are sort of intellectual trinkets that people keep for various reasons such as aesthetics or social acceptance, but they often bear no connection whatsoever to actual behavior.
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    by api 13y ago

    Is it actually likely that someone would brute force a password? I always install fail2ban, but it's more just to stop bots from filling up my logs with junk and eating my bandwidth/CPU. Unless you use dumb passwords, the odds are
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    by api 13y ago

    Posting here because everything he says about Hollywood, business, etc. and all the Machiavellian stuff that goes on is very relevant to startupland as well. Early in the interview he makes the point that Hollywood veils its brutality under
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    Robert Green on the 48 Laws of Power - Joe Rogan Podcast(podcasts.joerogan.net)

    5 points by api 13y ago|1 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    This has existed for a while, and I'm using it on my site. Didn't know it was "beta." Works great. (Still in test mode though, have not yet exited beta so I'm not taking anyone's money yet.)
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    by api 13y ago

    China to dole out money to a defense contractor for a wildly infeasible scheme under the guise of fighting smog. Money will never be seen again.
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    by api 13y ago

    The problem is really very simple. First you teach the basics of the language. Then you teach how to express concepts in that language and what those concepts mean . Finally, you teach how to manipulate those concepts to build new higher-o
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    by api 13y ago

    I completely agree about the power of math, and why programmers should learn it. There are two problems with math: (1) Math is IMHO the worst taught of all academic subjects. It's taught as if it were not a language. Math profs and boo
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    by api 13y ago

    I turned down an opportunity to do a really interesting Ph.D in machine learning / biologically-inspired computation because I wasn't either willing or able to take the vow of poverty required. Since then I've consistently ma
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    by api 13y ago

    The sanest solution to the problem is for OSes to fix their permission models and realize that app isolation is as important as -- or more important than -- user isolation. Easier said than done, of course.
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    by api 13y ago

    I hate the "feudalization" direction that OSes are moving in -- requiring certificates, app stores, etc. At the same time, I get why it's happening. It really mirrors the historical reasons for feudalism in the real world. Wh
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    by api 13y ago

    Threads in JavaScript? Nope.
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    by api 13y ago

    Later leaks including Snowden have further corroborated this foil hat nonsense.
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    by api 13y ago

    If you exclude investigative reporting from "news," then that means that the veracity of news is predicated on perfect trust in institutions. You must assume that all the pronouncements and press releases of governments, corporati
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    by api 13y ago

    https://www.robinhood.com Anyone else think this web design style is getting very cliche? <snazzy background> LOOK THERE IS ONE SENTENCE HERE ... scroll scroll scroll ... WOW ANOTHER SENTENCE ... scroll scroll scroll ... W
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    by api 13y ago

    Omni is so much more interesting, open minded, and intellectual than most of today's geekdom... it's sad.
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    by api 13y ago

    Wizards? It's an e-commerce web site. This is baby stuff, even at scale.
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    by api 13y ago

    I'll take this with a side of Soylent. That would be awesome.
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    by api 13y ago

    L O freaking L