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by avinium 7y ago
Eminem also had a track called "Criminal", highlighting the absurdity of labels that people throw around for things they don't like.
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by avinium 7y ago
Which just proves that BigCo policies are written by bozos. All this means is that people take all the customer data before you submit your notice. Different story if someone's fired for cause, of course.
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by avinium 7y ago
A PhD is a piece of paper, not something that elevates the holder to the position of a deity. I don't think it should even be mentioned as something that might temper your criticism. (General comment only, I haven't actually read
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by avinium 7y ago
> You don't understand the business. You think WeWork is for individuals like you. It's not. It's for enterprises. What's your definition of "enterprise" leasing? 200+ sqm leases for 3 years? Either way, I
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by avinium 7y ago
How can you say they're disrupting anyting? WeWork didn't invent coworking, they don't have a unique offering and I don't believe they have any competitive advantage beyond capital reserves. I swapped coworking spaces pu
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by avinium 7y ago
There's a couple of startups in Australia doing exactly that (I can't recall their names, though, so I can't say whether they're successful or not).
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Telling Palmer Luckey’s Story Is Complicated(wired.com)
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by avinium 7y ago
Sorry, should have been clearer. Filecoin (from the same company) sits atop IPFS, acting as a cryptocurrency for distributed file storage. IIRC, their ICO was massively oversubscribed a year or two ago, so they're sitting on a great bi
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by avinium 7y ago
This looks awesome! I don't have any pressing need to develop on the desktop right now, but if and when we do, I've bookmarked Hover.
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by avinium 7y ago
As someone in the process of picking up Flutter/Dart, the upside of Flutter significantly outweighs the downside of learning Dart. Flutter is the best-designed framework I've encountered (whether mobile, front-end, back-end or mac
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by avinium 7y ago
I feel the same about 99% of crypto participants - but you can't deny there are a handful of legitimate areas. IPFS and Golem come to mind.
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by avinium 7y ago
You should be careful about making blanket statements like "established science" and "science denial". It makes you come off as an extremist, and in fact, the page you linked makes no such claims and is far more modera
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by avinium 7y ago
Hah! Interesting video, never seen it before. Maybe I'm being suggestible because you raised it, but they all seem to have that shell-shocked, thousand yard stare that only comes after months of crunch time and no rest.
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by avinium 7y ago
How long are your fasts? I experimented at the start of the year and didn't experience any drop in performance - office or gym - with water fasts less than 24 hours. Fasting between 24-72 hours, though, really affected my sleep and mad
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by avinium 7y ago
Didn’t someone ask Bill Gates this exact question, and he confirmed that he would pick it up?
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by avinium 7y ago
Startup directories like ProductHunt, BetaList, AngelList are all great examples. Now that I think about it, that actually describes a lot of blogs/vlogs/podcasts too (create an audience with great content, monetize via advertisin
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by avinium 7y ago
I've also noticed that a lot of successful solo projects seem to be network/directory platforms - i.e. building an audience through free content that you then monetize through commercial partnerships. As you said, these require a
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by avinium 7y ago
For what it's worth, you're almost exactly the type of person I would look to hire. From my (albeit small) sample size, pure Physics majors have incredible intellectual chops, but aren't necessarily interested in hacking or b
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by avinium 7y ago
> What the Internet has lost in terms of mystique and pioneering freedom, it has gained in terms of utility and convenience, IMHO. Maybe I've got a bad case of the "back in my day", but I feel more and more that "myst
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by avinium 7y ago
Thanks - will dive in and start checking things out.
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by avinium 7y ago
I was more so referring to spacy, where (IIRC) a lot of the lower-level tokenization & parsing is written in Cython, so (I assume) the simple fact that Bling is written in C++ wouldn't explain the huge performance gains.
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by avinium 7y ago
Anyone familiar enough with this library to explain how they've achieved such impressive performance? Otherwise, may dig into it for a blog post when I have time.
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by avinium 7y ago
> That would feel like going back to the year 1999 That would be absolutely glorious .
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by avinium 7y ago
Here's a link that's a couple of years old now, but gives a pretty reasonable overview of where it sits in the stack: https://gpuopen.com/ported-caffe-hip-heres-happened/ As to why you should care, it depends
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by avinium 7y ago
I get the feeling that OpenCL is going to become a second-class citizen in favour of ROCm ( https://rocm.github.io/ ), which looks very promising for HPC/deep learning on AMD GPUs. I haven't got stuck into it yet, b
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by avinium 7y ago
Not exactly what you meant, but I’ve been working on the F#/Giraffe server generator for the OpenAPI generator project. Write your OpenAPI Schema and run it through generators for the server/DB/client It won’t give you a fron
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by avinium 7y ago
The etymology seems to be the same, but I've also heard people classify Deftones as "shoegaze", which makes zero sense to me.
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by avinium 7y ago
> Yeah he's IDM not EDM, IDM is a older term from the 90s they called it "intelligent dance music" AKA "beard stroking music" in the D&B world. It's music that doesn't energize people and get them o
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by avinium 7y ago
I often wonder whether we'd be better off if we "tolerated" a small amount of corruption. What's the point in spending $1 million on red tape and auditors to prevent $10,000 in fraud? Just like the war on drugs, you&#x27
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by avinium 8y ago
Really interesting question, and one that won't be settled until it's explicitly legislated (or taken to court). I have a background as a lawyer (albeit not in IP) and currently working with ML, and I can see a case being made eit

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