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by aswanson 9y ago
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263709.php
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by aswanson 9y ago
Exactly my point. Why should a so called trained officer of the law have more fear and less ability to preserve life in at a level of risk the average commuter or health care professional has? Nurse aides are confronted with more violent si
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by aswanson 9y ago
Precisely why the "feared for my life" defense of police execution has to be ended. I fear for my life on the freeway when an idiot driver cuts me off. And I didnt make a conscious decision to risk my life by being on the same roa
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by aswanson 9y ago
You prefer a VC that isnt human. All humans inject their politics into every action they take. Accept it.
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by aswanson 9y ago
I love the ambition of this dude to call out the valley to reach for more than what it is. The field needs 10000 more Sam Altmans.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Probably the Apollo moon lander software team, circa 1968.
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by aswanson 9y ago
It's a Roscharch test. You get what you want out of it.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Big fan of his, and your work as well.
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by aswanson 9y ago
That sentiment is why 99.9999 of programmers like us never made facebook. Normal humans don't want to maintain seperate feeds and RSS readers for every possible interest etc along with a seperate message client along with a place to po
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by aswanson 9y ago
The breaks are unpredictable, kinda dope.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Great advice. For someone regretting not taking the particle physics path that sometimes dreams 'what if...' you've offered some solace.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Was your original plan to become a professor? If so, why did you change course?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Maybe they're eating their own lunch. I'd bet if the metric is revenue-per-employee, 37Signals is probably kicking most of the bigger tech companies arses.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Why didnt a similar issue arise with housing during the first SV gold rush (Intel, Fairchild, etc)?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Maybe that's a curse in disguise. Too much choice, directions to branch off in causes dissonance. Paradox of choice.
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by aswanson 9y ago
It is, but a good point of departure for discussion. Can you elaborate on how that alternative can evolve from the present way of doing things?
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by aswanson 9y ago
You're right. It is. Still too high of a bill, though.
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by aswanson 9y ago
The US, for whatever reason, has given up on the concepts of "public good" and long-term thinking. Perhaps this is a product of quarterly profits taking center stage in capitalism, perhaps it is a loss of vision, or a confluence o
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by aswanson 9y ago
So it's like a more speculative bet on the overseas bank being able to make riskier loans with a higher return profile?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Eurodollars are U.S. dollars deposited in commercial banks outside the United States and futures tied to the interest rates paid on them are among the most-traded contracts in the world. Even back then, they had crazy derivatives.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Thats one thing that hasnt been studied enough, I suspect. Huge amounts of capital from 401ks alone may have more effect on the market valuations than actual value creation. There is just so much money chasing a return, increasing constantl
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by aswanson 9y ago
What caused pascal to lose out to C? Seems like it was a good language that had developer uptake.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Complexity analysis.
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by aswanson 9y ago
That quote should be the metric by which code/languages are judged.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Funny as hell. Perl, though.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Test driven development is about the only methodology that has worked for me. Agile, etc has been useless, at least at the gigs I've worked.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Thanks for that, belly laughing. One common thread of these "brilliant" dismissals, mine included, is that they undervalue how much people don't like going through technical hurdles with products and how much they will pay to
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by aswanson 9y ago
"If the sky is so clear and the sun is shining, how could there possibly be a hurricane approaching...?"
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by aswanson 9y ago
That "grand bargain" is over, and never returning. The economy is global, cutthroat and changes on a dime. Every man/woman is in a mercenary situation today, whether they're aware of this fact or not.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Reminds me, Im just as guilty. Check out my insights on Amazon introducing the Kindle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81804

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