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by davidreiss 9y ago
> despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).[3] He didn't lose $70B. His net worth dropped $70B because of short term stock fluctuations during the dotc
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by davidreiss 9y ago
He was a plunderer but he also started something that changed the world.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
If I ever win the lottery, I'd love to learn to play the guitar, learn a few foreign languages, contribute to open source software, make a bonsai tree, read all the books I have in my apartment that are collecting dust, [a long list of
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> That type of self evaluation is rare in other cultures. It is rare everywhere. Even in the west. We celebrate george washington and have statues, schools, etc named after racist slavers and genocidal murderers. > It was also amazing
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Contrast the Mongolians celebration of their imperial glory with western guilt about imperialism. The mongols didn't exterminate the people they conquered and settle the land with mongols. > Why is one OK and the other not? For
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Dan Carlin is an entertainer rather than a historian. So please take anything he says with a grain of salt. > It's sobering to think how utterly helpless Europe was against the Mongols. It really was dumb luck that prevented the Kha
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Even within the tech world. Most of the tech world exists outside the tech bubble. The tech bubble is concentrated around a few select cites.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Why not create a setting that allows user to see YouTube as sanitized by their AI or all content? Because it's about controlling narrative, controlling propaganda and giving the "media/news" space back to traditiona
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Imho the problem comes from the fact that corporations try to hard to be "democratic" about things and "please the majority". Corporations aren't trying to please the majority. They don't care about the ma
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Thank you WSJ, NYTimes and the traditional media for pressuring youtube, facebook, reddit and social media to censor. People aren't aware that for the past few years, traditional media and social media has been battling behind the scen
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> The only sympathy I have for Google is that trying to separate the good vs. "evil" (as in "Don't be evil.") content is a monumental task that machine learning will probably never be capable of performing That&#
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> He is not stating that the 10,000 rule will make you a jack of all trades. But that's not what he described. > S/he might not be an expert in these transferable skills, but s/he might be an expert in his business whic
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by davidreiss 9y ago
But 10000 hour rule isn't about being competent. It's about being an expert. > Formerly a software developer, I was able to install, configure, and hack together a workable WooCommerce/WordPress PHP/MySQL CMS that gen
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Isn't it funny that in a genre that so many equate with neckbeards is turning out to be the opposite of this perception. It's by design. Award shows are highly politicized and so is the publishing industry. They always have b
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by davidreiss 9y ago
There is a difference between massacres and extermination campaigns. The mongols sacking baghdad isn't the same as the Nazis exterminating jews or the british exterminating aborigines or native americans. The mongols didn't have a
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There's no way I would pick that over Visual Studio's debugging tools. Throw in the Sysinternals suite and hopefully powershell continues to improve and you have a very n
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> I did something akin to this for four years in my marriage (only substitute weekly screaming fights for staring). Ah, the honeymoon phase. So wonderful.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
As my ex-journalist friend so eloquently put it, journalists have to pump out stories no matter what because they have to sell you stories or their editor will fire them. So most of the stories are clickbait busybody rubbish. It's no d
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> When I think of what I'd want my daughter to do, I can't help but think she'd have an easier time maximizing her potential in the latter field, where she doesn't have to deal with the awkwardness of being the only w
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by davidreiss 9y ago
>The population of China dropped drastically in only 50 years of Mongol rule, down to 50% by some accounts. Actually, the population of china rose during mongol rule. The population of some parts of northern china declined since many chi
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Just an FYI: Dan Carlin isn't a historian and most of his podcasts are closer to exciting/interesting fiction/myth than actual history. So please keep that in mind when listening to his stuff. Though I do enjoy his podcasts,
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by davidreiss 9y ago
The numbers attributed to genghis khan and the mongols are pretty much scientifically impossible. It's propaganda/folk lore than real. > It's estimated that 15M died in the Mongols' five-year invasion of central Asia.
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Is anyone else shocked at the low level of adoption of IPv6? I remember how in the late 90s people were saying we were going to run out of addresses and everyone need to migrate to IPv6 ASAP. Now, it seems that IPv4 is going to be around fo
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by davidreiss 9y ago
It also applies to media and websites like medium.com that use clickbait to make money for itself. Anything in excess is terrible. It's why so much of news industry and people who watch too much too get depressed. People who religiousl
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Something that keeps bugging me - and this is in no way limited to tech - how being a victim has become an identity to many Victimhood is a strategy that has been used since forever to gain power, influence and control. Victimhood is b
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> It was on the rise until Hitler physically liquidated the intelligentsia. That's not true. Hitler didn't liquidate the intelligentsia. The first programmable computer ( by konrad zuse ) was created during that time. The firs
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by davidreiss 9y ago
Kids are used by scams/charities to lure in people for all kinds of things. The latest one is the cars for kids scam which used kids to get donations and who knows what they did with it. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/invest
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot? Sadly, this is the case for a lot of media/recommendations/etc now. Maybe it has always been this way, but it's much more noticable now. The fa
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by davidreiss 9y ago
> You just don't really see that in Western cities so much. You should visit the projects in the NY area or chicago. There are rows and rows of same red apartment complexes. But those seem to be falling out of favor now as they are
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by davidreiss 9y ago
That's one of my pet peeves too. Another pet peeve is that I only touch regex once every few months. When you have a regex set to parse a domain of data you move on to other things. After a while you forget the regex syntax and when yo

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