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by bgroat 4y ago
Does it change your stance if I reveal that I "must" was a typo and I meant "most" And that hard engineering is what we keep?
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by bgroat 4y ago
I kind of agree with you, with a different conclusion. I actually think must academic research shouldn't really be pubically funded. Instead academia should be much smaller, the state issues a UBI, and people who want to study Spider
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by bgroat 4y ago
In my early teens my Dad said something to the effect of, "If you're so smart... how come nobody likes you?" Now, this sounds mean, but my Dad was a psychological genius. This was exactly what I, personally, needed to hear in
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by bgroat 4y ago
It gives me the sensation of hurtling/spinning through a tunnel surrounded by teeth
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by bgroat 4y ago
I want to avoid spoilers... but my favourite element was the inevitability of certain individuals being made aware of each other. At a certain scale I believe one exerts a "gravitational" influence, and this book explored that nea
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by bgroat 4y ago
That's wild because it's my exact opposite take. I found it to be one of the most thoughtful explorations of super-intelligence and how it becomes qualitatively different than conventional intelligence. I came away from it thinkin
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by bgroat 4y ago
These are also the elements that make a good hypnosis subject. I can't put a dumb person under. I need someone with an active imagination who wants to work with me (for best results)
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by bgroat 4y ago
I'm a magician and a developer by training. Now primarily employed in a marketing capacity. Over my career I've worked with: - Doctors - Lawyers - Engineers - Fund managers - Academics (hard and soft sciences) - Mentalists&#
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by bgroat 4y ago
Years ago my Dad wanted to try online dating and I strongly discouraged it. "Dad, you're old (in his 60s), and short (5'5")" You're going to be filtered out of everyone's automated search. But my Dad is fu
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by bgroat 4y ago
$500/mth is $6,000/yr At a 4% safe withdrawal rate what you've built is the equivilent of saving $150,000. You should be EXTREMELY proud of yourself, and never underestimate the power and value of the asset you've built
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by bgroat 4y ago
I choose to believe I'm in that one. But if not, no biggie
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by bgroat 4y ago
It's very different. The first movie takes place in a single room as the character confides in a group of professors about who/what he is. The sequels is much more conventional (multiple scenes, multiple sets), and features a grou
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by bgroat 4y ago
I wanted to avoid spoiling that
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by bgroat 4y ago
He was a Magdalenian (so a homo sapien), no reason was ever given for his agelessness. And his tribe (who presumably were all related to him) lived natural lives
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by bgroat 4y ago
My favourite movie is called "The Man From Earth", about a man who was born 14,000 years ago and hasn't died. He doesn't know why, but he just keeps living. What I think about every time I think of this movie is, "O
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by bgroat 4y ago
Your initial comment really annoyed me (and it shouldn't have), that's why I was hostile. But your followup shows you to be a gracious person who was just curious. I'm glad we got to swap ideas
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by bgroat 4y ago
> Do people really put stuff like "half finished tutorials" and little exploratory non-projects up on the Internet? What for? If I want to track version control across multiple machines without rolling my own git server or both
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by bgroat 4y ago
This. Whenever an employer wants to look at my GitHub I tell them, "Look, this is all going to be half finished tutorials... as soon as I'm halfway decent with a technology I go out and build something proprietary"
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by bgroat 4y ago
I agree with you. It's so easy! I'll just capture 1% of global GDP and make $847B/yr I think my thesis is directionally correct (I do hold XMR broadly for the reasons stated) But the spirit of the post was to be ridiculous
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by bgroat 4y ago
I hold Monero since it's popular on darknet marketplaces. With the global drug trade estimated at ~$8 trillion, if XMR captures 1% of that it's ~$80B. XMR is currently valued at ~$4.3B so I'd be looking at 18.6x ROI But I don
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by bgroat 4y ago
The book was published in 2010, and featured interviews from before then. So let's say a partner at a top 100 firm in 2008, latest?
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by bgroat 4y ago
I tried to make my comment as aggressiveness as possible, but it still sounded harsher than I wanted. I wanted to communicate to the other poster: - You (swores), are probably correct about everything - You (swores), and I, probably are
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by bgroat 4y ago
I'm not saying the above poster is wrong, but never ever take pricing advice from devs. Especially not devs on Hacker News. If you want to sell this (and you may not), sell into QA or product leaders. "Are you tired of deployments
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by bgroat 4y ago
One of my favourite books is called, "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much" (2010) which is the true story of a high-end book thief. There's a scene in the book where the author is interviewing the thief in prison during one of h
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by bgroat 4y ago
That's how I understood it. A great story about a mega-savant who can function is "Understand" by Ted Chiang, if you're interested
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by bgroat 4y ago
In the incredible story "Funes the Memorious" the eponymous Funes has an absolutely perfect memory, but is functionally mentally handicapped. He can't even abstract to the existence of "trees" because he can recall
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by bgroat 5y ago
My brother is an academic and has roughly zero understanding of real world operations. Which isn't too surprising. He's exclusively been in classrooms since he was 4 years old.
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by bgroat 5y ago
This is my understanding and what I'm trying to optimize for in my food forest
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by bgroat 5y ago
Is there a historical precedent for having a technology that can largely offset these risks (fission and fusion) but not using them? I don't want to say "this time is different" (because I don't know that). But we do f
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by bgroat 5y ago
I remember reading an experiment where they gave first-year undergrads a critical thinking test based on a text. Then gave the same text/test to graduating undergrads. The thesis being that they just spent 4 years being trained in how

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