cultus

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by cultus 6y ago
They are trying to kick you out a month before you vest! These guys are not acting in good faith. Do not trust them. Wait a month and vest. Then quit. You were the technical lead. More than anyone, you built it. Don't let these suits s
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by cultus 6y ago
This is a bait and switch. Talk to a lawyer. Wow, just absolutely scummy.
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by cultus 6y ago
I avoid buying anything "smart." Very few things need to be connected to the internet or have an OS. There's no reason I've seen for a TV or fridge to be smart except for nefarious purposes.
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by cultus 6y ago
Seems like very typical behavior for university and hospital administrators.
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by cultus 6y ago
I usually think of it as being a reflection of entropy. There are innumerable configurations of the plastic and steel that makes up my car, but only a vanishingly small proportion result in drivable vehicles.
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by cultus 6y ago
A flat farm, everything else being equal, will take less humans. There's nothing about being indoors and vertical that is a magical advantage for mechanization. There's also a lot more mechanization necessary in dealing with verti
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by cultus 6y ago
I'm kind of surprised that an apparently large segment of HN thinks McCarthyism was a good thing.
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by cultus 6y ago
Great comment. There's a pervasive lack of self-awareness among the right, manifesting as a pathological inability to empathize with individuals in other groups. Introspection can be painful at times, but it's necessary to be a mo
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by cultus 6y ago
There's not much of an equivalence between some professor saying something illiberal and the apparatus of state power doing something illiberal.
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by cultus 6y ago
So therefore it follows that blatant disregard for civil liberties is justified? I thought you guys were against "cancel culture."
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by cultus 6y ago
Yeah, it seems most tech standards are design-by-committee disasters.
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by cultus 6y ago
One particular issue is that nobody actually implements the ACPI power management protocol correctly.
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by cultus 6y ago
Most people only need therapy for a few months. Very few need long-term therapy.
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by cultus 6y ago
This kind of sounds like depression or anxiety, which most everyone has to some extent now. Loss of interest in normal activities is a key symptom. I've heard that mental health professionals are still trying to figure out how much to
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by cultus 6y ago
There's been enough progress in approximate Bayesian methods that many things can be done thousands of times faster than back then, as well. The reputation of Bayesian methods as being slow is undeserved nowadays.
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by cultus 6y ago
Synthetic clothes shed microplastic particles in the wash. It's actually a significant source of plastic pollution. Cotton is kind of crap fabric and takes enormous amounts of water to grow, but wool and linen are both much more durabl
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by cultus 6y ago
They tried to cease-and-desist Rockstar, actually. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-11-take-two-r...
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by cultus 6y ago
From what I understand, it is usually the minimum size rather than any kind of average.
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by cultus 6y ago
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." - Keynes I think
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by cultus 6y ago
Theranos at least fell apart once the WSJ put out extremely strong evidence that it was fradulent. The innovative tech that Nikola claimed to have was shown to be fradulent months ago, but they're still worth billions of dollars.
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by cultus 6y ago
It's an incredible testament to the distortions of the capital markets that Nikola's current market cap is still $7.84 billion, and not zero. There's nothing that justifies that other than the hope that one will be able to le
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by cultus 6y ago
What are the benefits of abandoning net neutrality if you are not an ISP?
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by cultus 6y ago
He'd be better suited to ALEC or any industry group. Companies like to farm their bribing (ahem, lobbying ) out to groups who don't have to worry about their reputations.
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by cultus 6y ago
With huge capital costs, and patent entanglements. It's not something that some Randian hero can just do. The "free market" never precisely exists. Adam Smith himself was very cognizant of this.
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by cultus 6y ago
You are completely glossing over the fact that animals need to be fed. Sustainable grazing (most grazing isn't) is a perfectly good use of marginal land, but that cannot produce anywhere near the meat we consume. Most animal production
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by cultus 6y ago
I'm sure they've got more/better data in production. There seems to be some arbitrage that can be shaved off the edges for players with innovative enough strategies and good and timely enough data.
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by cultus 6y ago
There definitely would have been pressure to change. I highly doubt he would ever have been cancelled, though. Nothing he did ever rose to anywhere near that kind of level, except for possibly aspects of his family life. Jobs was brilliant
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by cultus 6y ago
There's definitely a segment of HN trying to push these kind of dog whistles. Quilette is an outlet of the alt-right. No reputable publication does race science.
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by cultus 6y ago
If it's a problem domain that needs more exploration, there's nothing wrong with forging ahead. If nobody ever did that we'd still be using COBOL.
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by cultus 6y ago
Bayesian stats actually let you integrate stochasticity into deterministic models fairly easily, in a way you can't really do with frequentist stats. Bayesian methods are common for geophysical inverse modelling, for example. Probabili

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