cowpig

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   by cowpig 8y ago

   I think you're probably getting downvoted for making the claim that > somebody must be poor for society to function
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   by cowpig 8y ago

   :)
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   by cowpig 8y ago

   I'm going to have to question the premise of your question. I don't believe that the "best" startups resemble cults. I don't think you should feel like you're missing something because you haven't experien
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   by cowpig 8y ago

   It sounds like you've let anxiety and panic take control. Remember that your co-founder cares about the business, and is probably doing what he thinks is best with his time. I'd writing a letter to him (and not sending it), taking
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   by cowpig 9y ago

   Why does it have to be a hominid? I saw some birds crack open bodes for the marrow on Planet Earth
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   by cowpig 9y ago

   I see problems with a lot of the things this guy says. > Access to liquidity for early investors. Would you buy stock in a company if the senior management was dumping that stock? There are lots of cases where an early investor, or early
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   Ask HN: When do you use a library vs. implement something yourself?

   72 points by cowpig 9y ago|69 comments
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   by cowpig 9y ago

   Maybe you "become a better person" when you post under your real name, but Facebook, which has a real name requirement, is a cesspool, and this community, where most people use pseudonyms, is relatively civil. You can have an iden
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   by cowpig 9y ago

   I find that intuitive words like "dream" and "hallucination," as opposed to exclusively using dry jargon, make papers much more accessible. I also don't think it's the author of the paper's job to manage h
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    Does HN have a policy against posting things that autoplay video/sound? If not, I believe it should (or at least require a tag).
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    > Venmo is a free service to transfer dollars, and bitcoin transfers are not free Venmo is not free. There's a cost, it's just hiding. > Blockchain-based trustworthiness falls apart in practice... The particular brand of tru
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    > We need GitHub for science http://www.gitxiv.com/page/about > It needs to be combined with a mechanism for peer-review and publishing... Maybe an "interpretation" mechanism, similar to the Distill[1]
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    GitXiv very much worth taking a look at if you're into this kind of thing: http://www.gitxiv.com/page/about edit: as is Chris Olah's Distill project: https://distill.pub/
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    Bernie Madoff's $68.5 billion ponzi scheme was a MERE 0.09% of the world's $78.3 trillion GDP.
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    I don't think @banach did that. The point of the quote was to point out that laws aren't necessarily right. And this point you keep making about it only being a small % of the total water isn't very convincing. I'm sure
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    I'm just really happy people are starting to care about this
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    Judge rules hospitals must display cancer warnings; longer life linked to increase cancer risk
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    I think Telegram will have its own big scandal in the next few years
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    Feeling concerned about newly discovered correlations isn't going to help you live longer. Maybe this will help you: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    I didn't get that from the article at all. I think this sentence in the last section of the article is the central point: > Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. That Nazism is a product of cruelty, unhappines
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    I think it's more like: person who really wants the job but is kind of underqualified > person who is highly qualified, but doesn't really want the job (unless the money is right) edit: I'll add that, for CEOs who should a
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    I've done a lot of hiring, and have found that salary demands are weakly inversely proportional to performance. That is to say, people whose salary demands are at the lower end of the salary range for that career have outperformed thos
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    They'd probably be better off finding an executive who works for 100k/yr but believes in the company.
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    is this sarcasm? (honestly it's unclear to me)
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    Why Trust Matters(cowpig.github.io)

    2 points by cowpig 9y ago|0 comments
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    Completely dysfunctional... Does your power regularly go out? Is your water poisoning you? If you live in a major city in the US or Europe, your utilities almost certainly "just work," and this narrative is pure ideological bullsh
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    That's called Tether, and its primary problem is that everyone is taking the issuers at their word that the money is going into a savings account, and that they are only issuing it when they receive $1.
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    "Author of this article is a troll" != "Author of this article doesn't have a technical background" I also have a strong background in the field and the MakerDAO project took me a long time to understand. The author
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    That part of the article bugged me as well. I think there's a significant difference between being "authentic" and oversharing. If being "authentic" is revealing the full nature of all your feelings to someone, I th
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    by cowpig 9y ago

    This seems like a false dichotomy. A better question is "what value does Bitcoin provide for the energy it uses compared to similar alternatives (Ethereum, Ripple...)?"