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by comstock 9y ago
There are finite human/physical resources. The money/time/physical resource spent on supporting Palantir and its employees could have been deployed on more benefital problems. Is I would guess the argument.
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by comstock 9y ago
It's not really possibly to provide solid advice, nobody here knows the full details of the situation. But here's what I (might) do: 1. Ask them to put everything in writing, if it isn't already in writing. 2. If you're
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by comstock 9y ago
Well the Wikipedia article on the subject is very instructive: "The 9-9-9 format was chosen based on the 'button A' and 'button B' design of pre-payment coin-operated public payphones in wide use (first introduced i
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by comstock 9y ago
Probably. I thought the BBC Radio plays did a reasonable job: https://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy Whatever they create, it's something a little bit different than the source material, but
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by comstock 9y ago
Ok, here's some advice from an Internet random person. 1. Yes, if you can take some time. 2. Do some crying. You probably feel depressed, burnt out, stressed out. Crying is a great release. 3. You don't need to do anything right n
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by comstock 9y ago
I'd assume most investors are not really interested in you reaching profitability. In fact it's probably a negative for them. What they want of for you to reach a high valuation which allows them to get a +10x return on their inve
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by comstock 9y ago
It's interesting to me that programming is becoming a fundamental part of many (maybe most) things humans do. And yet we treat it as if there was one single correct way of programming and all other ways are wrong. I feel like it's
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by comstock 9y ago
Yes, next question. More seriously, it's hard to see what value publishers possibly be adding to the publishing process. Beyond tier one journals, full time editors don't really seem to do very much. But I'd love to see some
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by comstock 9y ago
Right, I mean it's Turing complete, and you can do anything you want. But at least when I use it, I quickly reach for another language after using it for basic reformatting/simple calculations because using awk to do so would be t
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by comstock 9y ago
My feeling is that apart from really essential meetings (and those are very few) your schedule should be pretty open and sleep/break/nap when you want (ideally at home). Then use metrics other than bums on seats to measure perform
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by comstock 9y ago
The nice thing about awk is that it's really only suitable for simple record processing. You therefore stop using fairly quickly when the problem reaches sufficient complexity to use a better suited language. It's like a very neat
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by comstock 9y ago
This article is pretty long, a lot of it is interesting, but quite a lot is redundant. All I would really want to see is a summary of a study showing that chiropractors don't reduce pain. But if even a like to such a study is there, I
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by comstock 9y ago
Thanks for the link, it looks like interesting reading. But, how are evolutionary models a version of enumerating all possible forms. The forms accessible to evolution, are not all possible forms but only evolutionary peaks that can be clim
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by comstock 9y ago
Interesting. It does make me wonder what future analogs of the simulation hypothesis and multiverse theories might look like.
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by comstock 9y ago
It's an interesting review but I think you need more than a few agent-based simulations to be able to broadly claim than ethnocentrism works in real evolutionary systems.
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by comstock 9y ago
That sounds like a tough situation. Even with family, I don't think I could engage with a game like that. I guess in your situation I'd try and be friendly and kind to them but also try and find friendship/support outside you
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by comstock 9y ago
That sound like a not very fun game, and I'd try and find other people to hang out with. Honestly, this is one of the things I didn't realize when I was younger. There are lots of people in the world, the majority of them I probab
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by comstock 9y ago
I'm kind of curious about doing this more often, but it's the lack of clean collections that puts me off. What do you do regarding collections? (Dynamic arrays, hashmaps)?
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by comstock 9y ago
Really dense hard sci-fi. Peter Watts' book come with massive appendixes detailing the scientific motivation and references for his work. Great stuff!
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by comstock 9y ago
Interesting! I'd be interested in better understanding the motivation behind Orthodox C++. In particular, you seem to dump most of the C++ standard library: "Don't use anything from STL that allocates memory, unless you don&#
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by comstock 9y ago
Yes, it's documented. Doesn't look to bad. They appear to do some custom delta compression but nothing too bad.
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by comstock 9y ago
I found this really interesting. I was curious about the Japanese realtime sea-floor sensors they mentioned so I went hunting. The data appears to be available here: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/scdc/top_e.html After regis
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by comstock 9y ago
Thanks, that was interesting. But is there any data to back up the theory that enabling communication has the negative consequences you suggest?
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by comstock 9y ago
You need to make grand claims, state grand objectives to get funding. The easiest route to publication is then incremental advances. Ideally with a story around them that makes them sound like part of a grand plan.
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by comstock 9y ago
This bill is not just about surveillance. It makes the act of planning/"thinking about" a crime a crime. "Left" and "right" are context dependent terms. But in this context I mean left as favoring individu
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by comstock 9y ago
The increased young voter turnout is great. But the conservatives won, and are moving further and further to the right. Corybns own party have been trying to force him out. And to be honest, the Labour Party supposed some pretty right bill
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by comstock 9y ago
In the Japan Times article on this it says they suggest that pirated CD sales could be used to fund terrorism... yep..
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by comstock 9y ago
World politics seems to be shifting to the right in almost all the major economies. It's quite depressing (to me). Are any of the major economies moving to the left? Does anybody have a good understanding of why this is happening? In t
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by comstock 9y ago
Right... I don't know if he's even the worst though (personally I think Craig Ventor is way worse the Chruch). I don't think he's all that bad overall. I think he helps direct effort to interesting problems. Much academi
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by comstock 9y ago
"That said, privacy is our focus, and we have whole teams that scrutinize any requests from governments to make sure they’re legitimate." For a company with Condoleezza Rice on the board. A person who helped pioneer warentless sur

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