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by cirgue 8y ago
> The bugatti can get me to work and back. So can a jet ski depending on where you live, but it's still very much a toy.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Social media exists as a way to facilitate the collection of advertising revenue. All other considerations flow from that.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I guess a better question is “what’s the difference between 20 and 200 uses?”
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by cirgue 8y ago
I'm 29 years old, and I feel like the rest of generation got eaten by the internet. It's good to see some indication that people are starting to realize that social media is generally shit.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I am not an aerospace engineer, but the figure '20 uses' stood out to me as odd: if it's 20 uses, why not just build it to be easily serviceable indefinitely? With no pilot you massively simplify the set of engineering and ma
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by cirgue 8y ago
Yeah, the idea is that at any give price, holding any bond or selling it and using the proceeds to purchase bonds at the current rate are equivalent from a return perspective.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> several dozen poorly-trained AI recommendation engines optimizing for variables and sample instance that the coders might care a lot more about than any specific user? Dang. I ended up in dystopia-land anyway. Sorry about that. This is
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by cirgue 8y ago
Also, hard work puts you in positions to get lucky, and it lets you leverage your opportunities more than others. There is no ladder to climb. You run around until you find the pay-dirt, and the people that run more find it quicker.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> being deflationary predictably is better than unpredictably inflationary. Unpredictable deflation is what bitcoin does, and with a fixed policy it can never do anything else. The amount of wealth generated by an economy grows in an unp
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by cirgue 8y ago
Why? The idea is that if you’re seriously unsure, you’re probably trying to convince yourself that where you are is ok out of risk aversion, not pragmatism. People tend to be massively biased against change because of uncertainty. That’s no
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by cirgue 8y ago
That's not how prices work. The landlord is absorbing a huge liability by owning the home in the first place. You're a renter, your risk exposure is 0. That's why rent will almost always be higher than a mortgage.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Scripts to train the model, Jupiter to do your analysis. This is, AFIK, what most ML shops do if they’re using python.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Those services all have vibrant competition, your ISP definitely doesn't. The whole point of common carrier regulation is to make sure that industries that are essential to the economy, inherently non-competitive, and impossible to imp
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by cirgue 8y ago
I don't want to live in a society where that idea would succeed.
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by cirgue 8y ago
They will only have a disincentive to act when people are willing to leave toxic platforms, and people will only leave toxic platforms when there are viable alternatives.
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by cirgue 8y ago
With a "think piece", one would hope for serious thought as opposed to pure id.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I have literally never seen a consulting engagement where this wasn’t the case. I’m sure they exist, I just personally haven’t witnessed it.
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by cirgue 8y ago
that would be great if our engineering education system placed any real value on humanities or social sciences. They don’t. Most of the engineers I know aren’t even remotely equipped to work out how their products might impact society, and
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by cirgue 8y ago
Is “Q” a Star Trek reference?
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by cirgue 8y ago
'Propaganda campaigns' is a bright-red handle that the same propagandists you're trying to excise from your platform can use to jerk you around in the court of public opinion. I have no trouble understanding why they would no
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by cirgue 8y ago
It feels like we as a society have to relearn this lesson roughly every decade.
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by cirgue 8y ago
If you haven’t already, try doing an all-day physical activity (all-day hike, bike ride, or some other physical recreational activity) one day a week. For me, that made it a lot easier to start working out more.
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by cirgue 8y ago
It's also important to remember that fundamentally, humanities are a part of cultural production and reproduction. Anything that can be rigorously proven migrates to the realm of science. Humanities are by definition supposed to constr
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by cirgue 8y ago
I hope that's where this is going.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Yet they're also the culture, because - for better or worse - commerce is part of our lives too. And I am saying it is enormously productive and beneficial to be skeptical of those things.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Nope, it is plenty productive to call out corporate pseudo-cultural production for what it is: fantasy.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Vote in local elections. If you want your voice heard, you have to take the time to speak.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I don’t want money in exchange for my data. I just want genuine anonymity except where I say otherwise.
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by cirgue 8y ago
It already has jumped the shark for me. I go online for HN, arxiv, stackoverflow/other online documentation, and google groups for my ulti league. I don’t use the internet for recreation anymore at all. It’s a cesspit. I have an rss re
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by cirgue 8y ago
If sublime text were to end all support today, I would have gotten triple-digit returns on that 75$ investment. Same for most software. Don’t get me wrong, unsupported paid software sucks and open sourcing abandoned projects means I would b

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