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by derrida 8y ago
What is tomography? How does a GPU and the existing techniques related to programing one relate to it?
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by derrida 8y ago
What tech did I invest the most time in 2018 that I will continue to in 2019? "Not knowing is most intimate."
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by derrida 8y ago
"If you don't have any ideas and can't succeed, write a book about it" would be an awesome blurb for a book... As for your TL:DR; i thought it was a bit unfair to the author... they write really well and I think there is
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How to Get Rich Quick in Silicon Valley(theguardian.com)
100 points by derrida 8y ago|58 comments
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by derrida 9y ago
Funny... all the hackers reading this trying to figure out how they can "game" this system.
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by derrida 9y ago
> You mention not having a technical co-founder as a big turn-off. But we all know that unless you’re doing a ‘hard tech’ startup, customer acquisition can often be harder than building a product. Is it not possible to succeed by hiring
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by derrida 9y ago
Meta comments about comments are best left to reddit.
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by derrida 9y ago
I think Uber has intangible assets and a fortress (it's competitive). It's more like a Coke. It's not a technology company, really. It's a highly competitive logistics company with intangible brand. But I can see how fro
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by derrida 9y ago
If you're considering building an Uber-for-x, why not incorporate as a co-operative - a business model where there is either 1 worker 1 vote or 1 consumer 1 vote (as opposed to 30% of shares being a result as 30% of capital investment)
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by derrida 9y ago
Once about half a month into a retreat, I was staring at blank space in a hut in the middle of the forrest, constantly distracted by fantasies of "a better blank space" - perhaps a nice cave with a walk in, or how I could make a l
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by derrida 10y ago
But if you look at Clojure libraries, some of them were last updated in 2012. That's because clojure solves problems (& it's not that the maintainers have disappeared) :)
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by derrida 10y ago
Bonus: it's also really really sexy once the logic of why there are parens become apparent... (post understanding a bit about functions that return functions, the meaning of REPL and a bit about the implementation of macros).
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by derrida 10y ago
Wow, Flash is worth that much to them. I wonder what the functionality is that's worth that much and what it would cost to change what ever existing workplace culture, upskilling & what have you. It might be a great investment
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by derrida 10y ago
...who had an awful lot of good stuff to say. :-)
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by derrida 10y ago
Essentially agreeing with what you're saying, but it's important to note that there are ethics boards and regulations on medical research to prevent situations such as the data obtained by scientists during the holocaust. A key wo
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by derrida 10y ago
Can you see any dramatic irony here? People use words in a variety of ways - communication: a search for a language that is also yours!
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by derrida 11y ago
Success.
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by derrida 11y ago
Everything changes => inevitability of death. If you 'survive' (say every cell is replaced) then what is "you"? I'd say it's more likely to be a set of linguistic & cultural norms than it is to be anythi
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by derrida 11y ago
> I think you've used an unconventional definition of "death" here, I mean the thing that everybody else means: ie "pushing up daisies", "feeding earthworms", "to dust", etc If I understand th
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by derrida 11y ago
> Do you think of cancer as inevitable? No. > Do you think of degenerative mental disorders as inevitable? No. Change, and thus, death, is inevitable. Also, if you want to prolong you then you are the result of countless deaths.
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by derrida 11y ago
> it should most certainly not be treated as inevitable. What life never dies? What non-living thing does not change?
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by derrida 11y ago
> Humans need more lifespan, badly. Do we? Or do we need more realistic perspective about death? Why quantity over quality? Seems there's a lot of quality improvements that could be made [1]. For instance, I read recently (can&#x2
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by derrida 11y ago
I don't believe consumer choice is the only agency we have. Can you imagine any others?
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by derrida 11y ago
Meanwhile, greatest environmental disaster of this century is underway in Indonesia. 3 weeks more C02 has been released than annually in Germany & is currently releasing more C02 than the US economy. The flip side to this forecast in Ca
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by derrida 11y ago
Meanwhile, greatest environmental disaster of this century is underway in Indonesia. Heard of it? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indones...
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by derrida 11y ago
> The condition is found in around 50% of people with autism Oh please, journalism . Wordless about emotions? Maybe. Not knowing the words for emotions? Maybe. Emotionless? Ha. Spend time with any group of people with autistic spectrum d
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by derrida 11y ago
"What did your face look like before your parents were born?" There's a quality in these one-liners from the Zen tradition that I haven't experienced since I was obsessed with physics in high-school.
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by derrida 11y ago
"smarter than you" this requires an idea of the ego / self & ones smartness - this itself could then be something you take virtue in - like "I am cultivating egolessness by spending time with smarter people" lol
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by derrida 11y ago
In buddhism, it's been about simply finding ones own mind, free of cultural conditioning & habits. To do this, one practices "let it go". This is the similarity in all traditions - in Zen it might be the "Mu" ko
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by derrida 11y ago
Yes, this book! I don't recall reading a book with such frequency. I think once I read it cover to cover 3 days in a row - it's full of... I don't know! Also, I made this mistake too for awhile, the author of "Zen Mind,

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