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by blip54321 4y ago
I think you're missing the big picture. MIT's best research was 1960-2000. At the end of that period, the endowment was around 1/10th of what it is now. That's a very healthy level of funding. $2M per professor is enough
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by blip54321 4y ago
MIT has an endowment of $20M per professor. We spend plenty on research, just inequitably, and with bizarre pyramid schemes.
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by blip54321 4y ago
Culture is not the same as government.
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by blip54321 4y ago
This looks awesome. I'd pay $50 to have this workflow fully integrated and working with my editor (emacs; I'd also take VSCode or something else that's not vim). apt-get install a few things, and it works. That's conveyi
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by blip54321 4y ago
The Internet Archive is in a different class than EFF or ACLU. I would (and did) donate to the ACLU and EFF of decades ago. I wouldn't to the organizations of today. There's a natural process by which organizations revert to the m
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by blip54321 4y ago
My 5-minute version: - Get the overall system structure in Python. Get the architectural design right, and the big-O stuff right. - If there are bottlenecks, re-code those directly in C, cython, or similar. Or better yet, find libraries. Py
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by blip54321 4y ago
> Is there anything you do differently, relative to in person? Online, everything needs to be done differently from in-person: - Lecture is a waste of time. Pre-made stuff will be higher-quality than anything you can deliver, and save a
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by blip54321 4y ago
AoPS Alcumus. Beyond that, OCW is pretty good. Find homework assignments from good courses. As a footnote, the linked-to article is mostly nonsense. If you want to learn math: - Work on good problems - Once you've struggled for a bit,
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by blip54321 4y ago
It's a little bit different. Most of the ultra-wealthy live on debt. Here's the basic scheme: - Let's say I own $10B in startup.com stock, but haven't sold it. My income tax burden is $0. - If I sell the stock, and taxes
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by blip54321 4y ago
(1) Societal impacts sometimes are (2) People not actually wanting to do them sometimes is a good reason too (e.g. free market forces, addiction, peer pressure) China after the opium wars is a good example of how this can play out.
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by blip54321 4y ago
Is it the role of society to stop people from taking risks they willingly accept? And at what point? If I want to skydive? Kayak across the Atlantic? Run a fight club? Build a custom homestead? Smoke? Drink? Do drugs? Play Russian Roulette?
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by blip54321 5y ago
It's better. I hate Office 365 usability with a passion, and I hate the bugs, but it's much better than periodically having a fire as Google burns your business to the ground. Microsoft deals with businesses, and it works.
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by blip54321 5y ago
It's very hard for my explain, within my company, that "failure" isn't the opposite if "success." ... if you're not failing some of the time, you're not trying things ambitious enough ...
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by blip54321 5y ago
I do read carefully. The truth is in the middle. Vaccines don't prevent spread, as out establishment kept insisting to get everyone vaccinated. They do decrease spread. Managed rationally, this means: 1) Vaccines aren't a reason t
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by blip54321 5y ago
Most studies show brain damage. If I wanted to be the central kingdom, with everyone sending me tribute, making everyone else dumber would probably accomplish that. And it'd be good payback for opium too. I don't think this was a
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by blip54321 5y ago
We're optimizing to short-term economic damage. I suspect if COVID rolls through a dozen times, and gives just a few percent of the population brain fog on each pass, the long-term economic damage will be astronomical.
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by blip54321 5y ago
Yeah, that argument makes no sense. The FSF is way smarter than that.
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by blip54321 5y ago
The nuance is a little bit more complex. Let's say I run an AGPL+CC project: - I become a licensee of code under AGPL if I bring in AGPL code from an external project. Downstream can remove my clause. - I don't become a licensee i
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by blip54321 5y ago
No, I think you're misreading the case. I think the intent of the clause, which the court reaffirmed, is: - You develop didibusDB - I enhance it. I add a clause. (note: as an enhancer, I'm the licensor) - Alice grabs it from me. S
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by blip54321 5y ago
It's complex. There are two sides to every equation. Buyer and seller. Sellers aren't necessarily sophisticated either. If I sell my home, and the roof is leaking and I don't know about it, I don't want to be liable down
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by blip54321 5y ago
.... and for most of those, the exact same arguments apply. Stanley Motta is an electronics store. Both men and women work there and buy electronics. AIFM is an energy company. Ditto. Spanx is the only one on your short list where a superma
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by blip54321 5y ago
No, they don't accomplish the same thing. One accomplishes something better than the other. To your points, all-female organizations would not be criminalized: 1) First of all, these should be civil laws, not criminal laws. Having this
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by blip54321 5y ago
This is what happens what idiots write laws. Good law: Boards cannot be uni-gender. Bad law: Each board must have at least one woman. They both accomplish the same thing, but one discriminates on sex, and the other doesn't. Another exa
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by blip54321 5y ago
Yeah. Big part of this is cultural. US is "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Many other parts of the world value honor and honesty more. I'm from one of those parts. In this case, it's
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by blip54321 5y ago
I don't think that's a good conclusion. Most of Google's business is search and ad sense. HN consensus is that Google is doing fine. The HN consensus -- which I think is correct -- is not to rely on Google for any critical fu
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by blip54321 5y ago
... high-level contacts into Google's upper tier sometimes can't even help.
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by blip54321 5y ago
The two problems are closely connected. If one were to audit the elite where I went, one would find many scandals like this, albeit more cleverly disguised and perhaps legal. Good questions to ask: - How many state school faculty come from
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by blip54321 5y ago
A lot. It'd be worth addressing. We see growing evidence of this. Many are new too. Viral dynamics... changed with the rise of cities a few thousand years back.
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by blip54321 5y ago
My experience is that there are a lot of synergies to be leveraged. It's almost ridiculously easy to start a successful startup in a place like Nigeria or Ghana which either: - Providing things Nigeria excels at to Western markets (e.g
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by blip54321 5y ago
My question was a little bit deeper. I understand why we have elite schools. Harvard's an easy one. Rich and powerful people look smart by association with smart people. Smart people gain access to powerful social networks. My question

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