arjunnarayan

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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
Does this mean that the human simulating the Chinese is a Chinese p-zombie?
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
I was thinking Al-Khwarizmi.
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
> what's that one talk that changed the way you think and you feel everyone needs to see? Growing a Language by Guy Steele. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
You're correct on both counts. A normalized approach is simpler, and is more difficult to make performant. So you start there, but as you scale, it becomes more and more untenable for your users as your latency goes up the wazoo.
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
Easier still to take the Coasian view. Viewing rights (by default) do not exist. You are free to side contract with other property owners to ensure your viewing rights by paying them.
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
There's an easy solution to this: remove all notion of "viewing rights". You have no right to your view, or your lack of density, or any such NIMBY invented property rights. This works great for Tokyo, and housing prices are
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
The naming scheme is: Alan Shepard (first American into suborbital) -> New Shepard (Blue Origin rocket to do reusable suborbital) John Glenn (first American into orbit) -> New Glenn (Blue Origin rocket to do reusable orbits) Neil Arms
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
Can you train them over water, so the stall is not fatal?
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
There should be, and the best candidate term is "Children of the Magenta", a term describing pilots who are too dependent on the Magenta lines on their instrumentation. 99% Invisible did a good podcast episode on this a year ago:
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
Do note that oppressive land-use regulation and NIMBYism has made this avenue harder and harder over the years. The cities with jobs and functioning societies have closed themselves off, or at least raised the buy-in to very high prices. Th
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
That doesn't surprise me in the least. you might want to read this: http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ Dan Luu's numbers are very conservative - keep in mind that the kind of people who get hired at Valve
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by arjunnarayan 10y ago
If you need some morale boosting, come talk to me about conference paper rejections (I can't speak publicly of this). I can tell you of at least three separate best paper award winning papers at the absolute top conferences where the d
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
Tenure-track professors in computer science at top universities get paid about 100,000 to 250,000. You can look this up publicly because a) California state employee salaries are online [1] b) UC Berkeley is a top school for CS professors a
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
All it takes is a single person having it cloned, who can call them out because the hash values would have changed. This isn't really a realistic threat.
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
The satellites have their own thrusters and will use that to reposition. Changing your position within a single orbit is fairly cheap - even if you just go a few m/s, with enough time you can space out quite far.
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
I'm in Seattle, and I have gigabit (www.gowaveg.com) in my apartment. It's $80/month, and I get ~15ms latency to AWS West (Oregon). It's wonderful. Wave G has an interesting model - they mainly hook up apartment building
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
It's not just the cost of buying baby stuff. It's that people's lives fall into regular patterns. Usually, there are few opportunities to change someone's pattern. Pregnancy is one of the biggest such opportunities. For
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
Because they are a different class of investor, with a more conservative outlook. T-Rowe Price doesn't believe in the 10x. It just wants the guaranteed 2x. This is where the "investors are looking for a fixed-income replacement&qu
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
I don't think this premise holds: > A unicorn that is doing very well would not agree to a 2X liquidation preference at late stage. Debt isn't always worse than equity. It is not a last resort source of funding. For example, i
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
This is an excellent post, and I'm in agreement. I particularly like the counterintuitive point that if NO unicorns go bust in the next 2 years, that's more indicative of the existence of a tech bubble than if one or two do go b
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
It's not clear at all that 1 Twitter MAU = 1 Pinterest MAU. The really hardcore Twitter users spend all day on Twitter (@pmarca comes to mind, it seems Twitter is his full time job). I'm not sure the same is the case for Pinterest
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
This is the entire point of the YC Fellowships, and their plan for that is to scale it to an order of magnitude plus beyond normal YC. They're doing a trial run this year of YCF, and it sounds like that's going well.
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
You're missing the single best part of it: add on top of that mentorship from someone who's a world-class expert. My PhD advisor was probably the single best programmer I knew. He taught me things about the Linux kernel that I&#
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
Spend a month learning to interview with a book like Cracking the Code, and yeah, you'll get a great job.
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
I mean, I didn't go to MIT, but I just finished a PhD in CS from UPenn, and I'll attest that he's not wrong. Perhaps excessively pessimistic on it, but like, what he's expressed is not an uncommon sentiment. Like you&#x2
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
To add to this, when you're trying to minimize information flow among parties, you might have each player only send information to some other players (perhaps only the set that needs to know right now - think unit information from Pl
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
> Treaties are not laws. Well, I don't know what treaties are to the United Kingdom and Sweden, so I can't speak to the relevant matter, but there is a general sense (insofar as "international law" can be thought of
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
You don't need a job offer to do OPT. I'm on an F-1 student visa in the US, and just finished a PhD, and will be starting a company on OPT. You even qualify for the STEM extension (you just have to register your business on e-veri
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
> However, a different question is: How did this process get started? That's the question this article is addressing. I consider this issue pretty much answered by Chapter 2 of the Selfish Gene, "the replicators". Link: h
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by arjunnarayan 11y ago
He still does post interesting things (along with many other smart people like patrick collison, sam altman, etc.). They just post on Twitter instead.

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