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by auganov 10y ago
I'm expecting a resurgence in colonialist-like approaches. Especially in the context of the Middle East. It's exactly failures like Afghanistan and Iraq that make some consider solutions involving total governance for much more th
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by auganov 10y ago
Well the right question is why would one pick a different incubator over YC. There's a multitude of great reasons for not going with an incubator at all. Or going with an angel that you really love. I'm sure some might pick NYU ov
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by auganov 10y ago
The word is they're affiliated with the "Gülen movement". Apparently an Islamic movement. Is that true? Anybody can provide a tldr on their likely views wrt major policies?
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by auganov 10y ago
I was running a BaaS startup for a bit. While researching our competition-to-be I remember finding out that Parse's Kevin Lacker is a 2x Putnam winner. Couldn't help but have instant respect for him and the whole company. Personal
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by auganov 10y ago
Is this season going to have a lot of "weird" stuff going on as well? I watched the first one. I enjoyed the first few episodes, seemed like it was going to be a drama about people working in InfoSec. Definitely appreciated the re
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by auganov 10y ago
I don't remember having a concrete number in my mind. I guess I'd assume .1% for today. Had a picture of it as "something that's very tragic and basically doesn't happen anymore". While .5% puts it into the &qu
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by auganov 10y ago
Thanks, didn't at all realize how bad it used to be :O Even today it seems to be much worse than I'd naively assume.
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by auganov 10y ago
Such a rate of childhood death would be high even for sibling parents. So perhaps there was something else going on.
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by auganov 10y ago
Wow. This game must be the fastest thing to skyrocket into worldwide popularity. Yesterday I noticed someone on social media talking about it. "Some random game pokemon fans like" - I figured. Today it seems like everyone around t
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by auganov 10y ago
So the subtitles on HK videos, tv etc are usually sanitized to be standard?
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by auganov 10y ago
Well that example is rather radical. As long as you know (or can guess) traditional characters you can read a HK newspaper just fine with a stutter here and there.
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by auganov 10y ago
Would any of you make your children monolingual [0] speakers of your national language? Wouldn't you feel like you're doing them a disservice? [0] monolingual in the sense that the national language would strictly be their native
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by auganov 10y ago
I learned Mandarin. I don't regret it but not sure if I'd do it again. I've been tempted by the notion that it being the world's most spoken language makes it somehow useful. There's little interesting Chinese conte
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by auganov 10y ago
Sort of off-topic but: What companies (or researchers?) [if any] are working on animal-related technologies? I.e. animal eeg, [non-decorative] animal wear, apps for animals etc. It deeply fascinates me but seems like it's somewhat unex
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by auganov 10y ago
Could some countries realistically just phase out (outlaw) most classes of meat production and consumption? IMO that's much more interesting than any taxation/disincentivization scheme.
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by auganov 10y ago
Could you redo the classic study where you just replay the same performance to every interviewer but change up the name to be strongly associated with either gender? It's been widely replicated but still cool to see redone in a modern
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by auganov 10y ago
I don't think most people mind killing that much. It's only murder that makes [most of] us uncomfortable. And given that no society can afford great compensation for every soldier, extreme reverence is all we've got. And in r
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by auganov 10y ago
Europe never had a proper startup capital, or more accurately never did well at startups in general. It's not unlikely that there will just be less investment, nobody has to win. Given the very small numbers, every European country [1]
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by auganov 10y ago
It's decent advice for larger organizations. At startup-sized orgs you're bound to have people with disproportionate amounts of power (and often it's a good thing). I hate to be pessimistic but I think instilling a deep sense
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by auganov 10y ago
I just Ctrl-click when I want it in a new tab. Always expect a single click to open in the current tab, otherwise it's an annoying surprise.
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by auganov 10y ago
Are you actually taking Nicotinamide Riboside long term? 500$ for a yearly supply is a bit steep and that's assuming 300mg/day which is not ideal.
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by auganov 10y ago
I am actually genuinely concerned about terrorists developing killer robots. There's already designs out there for robotic turrets that can utilize commodity firearms. I even feel uncomfortable thinking of all the nasty stuff you coul
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by auganov 10y ago
Made me think of Lisp at JPL, one of my favourite software-dev history stories. http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
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by auganov 10y ago
I'll agree that if there is such a thing as moral aptitude we perhaps indeed aren't much better than previous generations. But I don't see that precluding us having a much better body of moral rules. And as far as pedophilia
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by auganov 10y ago
No. My point was/is: 1. Stronger vs Weaker is a common pattern in such conflicts. 2. Tibet vs China :: Palestine/Arab states vs Israel differ in almost every other feature. 3. There's places in the world that better m
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by auganov 10y ago
Isn't that the nature of almost every conflict with an ethnic context? If there's no clear weaker and stronger you usually end up with two independent states. The way Tibet was Incorporated into China, the nature of the Tibetan re
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by auganov 10y ago
Since I started playing all YouTube videos at 2x speed[0] I enjoy watching/listening to videos much more. Watching videos at 1x is just unbearable to me now. I wish FB added 2x playback too. [0] using https://chrome.google.c
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by auganov 10y ago
Absolutely. I don't like movies or TV 99% of the time. Especially comedy shows with vulgarity and goofy humor, not my thing at all. But the accuracy and relatability of Silicon Valley make it very enjoyable and funny for me. Every epis
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by auganov 10y ago
That. As much as I think it's great that people are expecting more of Israel, IDF does not get enough praise. It's tough enough to come up with a workable solution (might not even be possible!), even tougher when you have to defen
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by auganov 10y ago
Not broken. Exit nodes. One has to assume all unencrypted TCP traffic will be recorded and potentially modified (MTIMed). Consider we have that system wide tor proxy instead of the torbrowser bundle. Now exit node operators get all your TCP

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