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by ci5er 10y ago
That may be part of it, but in Texas (where they do the same thing), they use the mail-back as a way to (partially) verify your physical address.
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by ci5er 10y ago
HC11 in 93? May I ask if you worked at Moto, or were you with a client?
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by ci5er 10y ago
What's the difference? And why does it matter?
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by ci5er 10y ago
> look at most product startup they all have started Now, maybe, I don't know what you mean by "product startup", or even the word "most", but having burned a fair amount of shoe leather in my time, and having be
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by ci5er 10y ago
Well, then, post-edit, good on you, mate. Still sounds like you might be getting a bit mystical with both the old and the new. You might want to play around with extreme spiritual skepticism to get your grounding before launching off with a
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by ci5er 10y ago
In-class?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Either I have mis-read stoicism, or you have, or I misunderstand you, or a combination of the above.
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm old. I was raised to try to treat people politely as we pass each other on the roads of life. I'm not from the south (of the US), but I call people (even young people) "Sir", and "Ma'am". I've bee
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by ci5er 10y ago
> Uniting collectively behind a vision seems to be one of those things humans just can't do very well. They can unite behind a person with a vision, but not the vision by itself. That's insightful. Can you speak more about this
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by ci5er 10y ago
Why the device-centric view? (Not that there is anything wrong with that, but, you know, it's just an incremental innovation curve). Why not: - Cybernetics (incl. Szilard, Von Neumann) - Information theory (incl. Shannon, Turing)
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by ci5er 10y ago
> when I had to create a Twitter account as [an] employee of a company I worked at. How does that work? Were you in social marketing? If not, a term-of-the-employment-agreement required this? If the latter, that's the most horrendou
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by ci5er 10y ago
Sweet! It's good to hear. He was always so super-helpful both on Usenet and directly when I was at Moto Semi way-back about 20-or-25-or-so years ago. Of course, Moto is gone, and I've moved on, but it's good to hear a knowled
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by ci5er 10y ago
I first came across it when I was hitting certain boundary conditions w/ GA/GP in the early 90s. It's pretty great. Of course, as stochastic methods go, you never know when they are going to get there. I am gratified to find
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by ci5er 10y ago
For the system, it's like the particle swarm algorithm (PSO). Well, fine, the system will do fine. But it's really hard on ants. EDIT: Almost all multi-agent exploratory algorithms have these characteristics: evolution, free-marke
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by ci5er 10y ago
I get your point, but getting it regulatorily compliant seemed (to me, at the time) easier than just dodging the question. A pain in the yatkova, to be sure, but it made sales easier to just hand them my basic-docs book (or fill out the que
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by ci5er 10y ago
Say, for example, that my "side-project" was a HIPAA-compliant SAAS-software tool for doctors that they relied on every day (24x7). It needed to be deployed across multiple availability zones, and the team needed to be "on-ca
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by ci5er 10y ago
"Startup-founder" has become a fashion accessory. A bucket-list item. A cool factor. As much as I don't wish for another down-turn, I will admit that it washes out the gold-diggers, the frauds and the wantapreneurs.
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by ci5er 10y ago
JCooley @ Synopsys was great help on Usenet in the early 90s. I don't know what's up about that now. EDIT: But still ... the tooling is pretty stable. I don't know that I would turn to an HN-like community to help me put a (f
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by ci5er 10y ago
> People who actually engineer things and drive innovation are not looked up to. In the US? Compared to whom? Doctors? Bankers? Lawyers? Politicians? Who do you think that you are better than?
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by ci5er 10y ago
Counter-factual hypotheticals are tough. I think it intriguing to consider that the US staying out would have prevented the rise of the Nazis and Soviets, but I'm not in a position to run the experiment.
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by ci5er 10y ago
For AR, cash management facilities and even backing a bond for a long-term commercial lease, they are pretty startup friendly -- at the beginning. I had a company in the 90s that got caught in a couple of unexpected ripples (unrelated to ou
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by ci5er 10y ago
The idea is that if the US had not entered the war, then the UK and the continental powers would have worn themselves out (they were already pretty worn out by the time we joined) and have sued for peace (armistice) and hammered out an agre
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by ci5er 10y ago
Could?
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by ci5er 10y ago
How do you work if you have no Internet? Coffee shops? (Or, heaven forfend, you go to an office for 16 hours/day?)
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by ci5er 10y ago
Why would it consent to you leeching onto its productivity?
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by ci5er 10y ago
I wouldn't look to a workaholic to invent new ways to eliminate work. You might have to figure that one out on your own.
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by ci5er 10y ago
? How so? I thought "event planners", planned shows and conferences, not product launches.
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by ci5er 10y ago
To user piker's point, most corporate attorneys are licensed to practice where they are and in Delaware, which has become sort of a default, because of the clarity of their regs and case-law. The deal seems to be: "Let's do b
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by ci5er 10y ago
Really? I've never met a libertarian that thought that local licensure (data/voice/video transport, taxis, hair-dressers, coffin-makers, whatever) was anything but a corruptocrat's protection racket.
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by ci5er 10y ago
> and make completely new genes that can make artificial drugs like LSD? How do you mean? Lysergic acid is a naturally occurring biogenic substance.

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