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by cirgue 8y ago
The problem with these questions is that those who talk don’t know and those who know don’t talk. No one who has a working strategy wants to say anything interesting about it in public.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I live like a dirtbag and most of the money I spend goes to whitewater kayaking and plane tickets. I save/invest most of my income.
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by cirgue 8y ago
The best mindset change for me has been realizing on a fundamental and emotional level just how garbage most of the internet actually is, and how much happier I am to get an extra hour of sleep, reading a book instead of Reddit, or lettin
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by cirgue 8y ago
ML is best suited for situations where there is no practical solution using typical statistics techniques and where marginal improvements in accuracy lead to significant boosts in revenue or some other useful metric. It turns out there aren
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by cirgue 9y ago
My 10th grade high school music class was taught entirely using Acid. Looking back I am 90% certain our teacher pirated it.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Why would this patent or the associated technology (which in my view is barely patenable) have any bearing on a governments ability to do this? Governments have been doing this very successfully for thousands of years without the need of a
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by cirgue 9y ago
> The internet removes serendipity It also removes the social context around the production of taste. Taste, in addition to being a set of personal preferences, is also a conscious and unconscious way of both signaling social status and
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by cirgue 9y ago
Or perhaps a reference to the cult television series of the same name starring Scott Bakula.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> It's not a platform issue, it's a monetization issue. This is kind of what I was getting at. I agree, the business model of the platform is the defining variable in how it will develop and how it treats users. Unfortunately
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by cirgue 9y ago
Facebook is designed to incentivize vitriol and dramatic interactions and actively prevents uniting around common interests. Facebook is a massive obstacle to robust political organization.
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by cirgue 9y ago
The way to fix Facebook is to build a better platform and allow Facebook to go the way of myspace.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Do you have any company names to go with that?
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by cirgue 9y ago
Watson is a sham marketing term. There is no "Watson", it's a constellation of consulting services and fragments of rotting software that no one wants to use.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> If I were not of the opinion that social media is more damaging than beneficial to humanity, I'd like to see a social network that limits the number of people you can interact with to ~100. Want to add a new person? Then get rid o
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by cirgue 9y ago
Not especially well. It's kind of helpful to understand conceptually what's going on, but ultimately the physical sense on land is completely different, and the student will still think almost entirely in visual terms unless they&
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by cirgue 9y ago
I teach whitewater kayaking, and part of what I teach is the kayaking roll, which involves being underwater with your eyes closed and executing a series of body and paddle movements. No matter how many times someone has seen a video demonst
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Experiences may differ, but having grown up in the wild west of the internet this is normal to me and therefore I just don't get how it could stress someone out all that much or why people would voluntarily expose themselves like
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Sounds like life in general. I think People restrain themselves more than we realize. Especially when there are consequences for actioning out. Remove those and things go south quick. Hobbes would have gotten a kick out of the internet
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by cirgue 9y ago
GitHub has high-quality moderation in the form of repo owners who have a vested interest in punishing bad actors.
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by cirgue 9y ago
The iron law of the internet is that, in the absence of constant high-quality moderation, all discourse eventually becomes toxic. This has been true since the days of usenet.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I think IRA is common knowledge in the US, at least it's well-known by anyone over ~40.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Most people on HN, myself included, do not hate blockchain, but are extremely skeptical of the discourse and community that has grown up around it for a few reasons: - Blockchain is essentially a distributed database. It's an interes
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by cirgue 9y ago
There's a problem with all ML-based content recommendation, whether it's advertising, movies, whatever: the people who make the content have strong opinions about what should get shown to whom and when. If those people have negoti
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by cirgue 9y ago
Maybe I should rephrase that: to imply that there is no clear-cut demarcation between transactional and reciprocal relationships is offensive. That demarcation might not be visible to an internet platform, but it is obvious and unambiguous
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by cirgue 9y ago
> The fact that there is no clear cut demarcation point between non commercial sex and commercial sex is why Craigslist pulled all its personal sections in reaction to this. There is no demarcation that is easily observable by Craigslist
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by cirgue 9y ago
> it will survive atleast as long as the main user base is still alive... So did Yahoo.
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by cirgue 9y ago
More important than deleting Facebook: working on and supporting open platforms and helping society to reimagine socialization on the internet.
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by cirgue 9y ago
When you're successful on a large scale at doing something that is not in people's best interests, then yes I would consider that evil.
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Ask HN: What do you want to be the Next Big Thing in front end development?
2 points by cirgue 9y ago|2 comments
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by cirgue 9y ago
To talk about one is to talk about the other. Bad policy is the reason we are having this conversation.

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