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by comstock 9y ago
It doesn’t of course, but it seems reasonable to hope that people (particularly “smart” people) would try and support arguments/suggestions with data.
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by comstock 9y ago
Confirm results through orthogonal means where possible. If it comes to it write two solutions (possibly one optimized, one not) that solve the same problem in different ways, and confirm the results against each other. Don’t count on just
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by comstock 9y ago
I love discrete math, it seems so much cleaner in general. I wish there were more reformulations of calculus, other numerical methods into discrete maths. I think Knuth’s concrete mathematics might have been an attempt at this, but I’ve nev
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by comstock 9y ago
But you generally can’t get a degree in it (I don’t believe I’ve seen one). But wow, a discrete mathematics undergrad degree sounds like a lot of fun.
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by comstock 9y ago
In my experience the 12inch Macbook is not an Air replacement. The CPU is super-slow, and the keyboard is very poor (maybe I just got a bad one I don’t know... but I find it almost useless).
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by comstock 9y ago
I think this is a neat idea. I also think I would not want to touch this code base. Then again, I rarely want to touch the relatively simple messy bash scripts I write either.
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by comstock 9y ago
I agree, I personally can justify moving to a new shell. Bash is horrific to script in, compared to most everything else. It’s sole advantage for me is that it’s almost literally the default everywhere.
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by comstock 9y ago
I think globally, most societies are follow this trend. My hope would be that we find a way through it. In part, the solution might be more even distribution of the benefits of automation. Less concentration of wealth, lowered cost of livin
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by comstock 9y ago
Having two kids, the answer feels really obvious to me, but I’d love to see data supporting any viewpoint. Raising multiple children in western society is really hard. In many (most?) cases you need to move away from family (parents) so the
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by comstock 9y ago
True, but their competence isn’t is science based startups. In all honesty I think that makes them in general gravitate to Bio tech plays which involve a lot of traditional Tech. The thesis is easier, but much less likely to result in high
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by comstock 9y ago
Nope, that’s not what they do in my experience. When a VC says they “invest in the team” what they generally mean is has the team already had a successful venture. Either that or, we’re they referred by a friend, or did they went to a unive
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by comstock 9y ago
And here’s my take on how this will play out... Tech investors are almost totally unequiped to do the necessary DD. They either therefore go for plays that are easy to understand, largely computational exercises or in the rare cases they do
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by comstock 9y ago
Interesting, do you have any search terms I could use to google for the semiconductor devices (I’ll try myself, but if you have a jumping off point that would be helpful).
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by comstock 9y ago
Don’t you need SPDC to get entangled photons anyway?
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by comstock 9y ago
If you have a link to a good study, I would be interested in reading. Regarding beard, curiously enough I’ve just started using a bread maker. Takes 5mins to setup in the evening and can be timed to have the bread ready when you wake up, re
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by comstock 9y ago
Does education work, in terms of improving health? Does it work better than regulation? I guess there should be data on this (in relation to tobacco/ alcohol). My personal biases tell me that people don’t have great self control. Shift
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by comstock 9y ago
It doesn’t really try to mimic the way humans learn and evolve...
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by comstock 9y ago
The article is well written and interesting. The kit looks fun, but I don’t think it as (easily) be used to replicate this work, it’s just too different. The issues mentioned in the article also apply.
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by comstock 9y ago
They’ve cured color blindness with gene therapies already. It’s likely possible that you could add receptors for more wavelengths. It just doesn’t seem to be commercially viable (colorblind-ness therapy was never persued because risk/r
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by comstock 9y ago
Personally I somehow doubt this (in this case). The disease effects a small number of people (1 in 4000), and doesn’t cause complete blindness in all those effected. It’s delivered in a viral vector, kind of not so easy to do yourselves I’d
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by comstock 9y ago
The story is about the pricing, but the drug itself was more interesting to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voretigene_neparvovec It’s a gene therapy delivered in a viral vector. They inject it (into your eye which
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by comstock 9y ago
Interesting, you view the list as an amusing take on things to avoid. I view it as sport to keep me going at the corrupt, horrifically depressing companies I’ve had to work at, and have been unable to escape.
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by comstock 9y ago
Obviously fine when there’s a reason. Drives me crazy when there isn’t. For example, I’ve been asked to join a meeting (online), I join, organizer is 10mins late, spends another 5mins trying to get the conferencing system working. At this p
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by comstock 9y ago
Right, but you can certainly grab a couple of people and go for coffee. Or chat on Slack, or email. It’s just having to explicitly set up a meeting means something has gone wrong in my opinion.
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by comstock 9y ago
Personally, I think if you’ve reached a point where consensus hasn’t formed naturally in some other venue then it is kind of a failure. Trying to hash thing out in a meeting is ok as a last resort, but it seems less than ideal. Particularly
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by comstock 9y ago
The first thing I want to say when I go into a group meeting is “how did we fail”. If people are communicating well, slack, grabbing coffee, email then group meeting seem unimportant. When you need to setup a meeting, in particular to discu
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by comstock 9y ago
Ultimately I feel like the payday comes when you’ve bought something you actually want. Prices of all things can go up and down. If you goal was to buy a house and house prices suddenly increase, even after you cashed out your bitcoin, you
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by comstock 9y ago
You can open a transferwise account without going to Estonia. Opening a UK company is easy, taxation seems not so easy. How do you handle taxation, what advise were you given? Accountant of my UK company basically suggested I close down my
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by comstock 9y ago
You appear to be correct as far as I can tell. From what I’ve heard the tax situation is a pain, I believe the company becomes non-tax resident. At least that’s what the accountant I talked to told me. Having zero corporation tax on non-dis
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by comstock 9y ago
Estonian e-residency lets you create an Estonian company. It’s useful to some people to be able to create a company not tied to a particular location. For example, UK citizens generally can’t operate a UK company if they are not resident in

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