dmvaldman

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by dmvaldman 11y ago
"When you say I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide, that is no different than saying I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say or freedom of the press because I have
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
a friend not worth having!
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
Do you have a source for this "information leaking" concept. I remember hearing about an experiment confirming such an idea, but I can't recall what it was.
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
Until Kepler, astronomers believed planets to move in circular paths, but this did not match up with experimental data. So it was postulated that they moved in epicycles (circles of circles of circles ..., as pictured in this codepen) of va
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
Hmm.. could you be the overly confident person the OP is talking about? Nice to meet you.
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
This is a modern take on the Nuremberg defense. You're right in a way. Values like these come from the top, in the project manager, the CEO etc. Morality is found in the company culture, and shouldn't be found exclusively in the w
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
I think one red flag that people often miss, or make excuses for, is this: management not treating a coworker fairly. When you're not treated fairly, that's clearly a red flag. But many people see coworkers treated poorly while th
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
An interesting point to mention is that the traffic "jam" moves backwards. This is because at the front of the jam, cars are able to accelerate out of it, while at the back o the jam cars are piling up into it. Seen from above the
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
Many cryptocurrencies have your last two points as part of their design. For the first one, I see the value in going to a centralized place that has taken measures to make sure there is no coercing involved. Someone with a gun could indeed
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
Seems like a great application for cryptocurrencies, though maybe better with those using proof of stake rather than proof of work. Distribute one coin to every citizen (this is the hard part). Each citizen votes anonymously by giving the c
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by dmvaldman 11y ago
Um no, these comments don't have hashes associated with them.
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Is Traveling an Escape?(medium.com)
2 points by dmvaldman 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmvaldman 12y ago
If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!
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by dmvaldman 12y ago
https://famo.us San Francisco, CA nerd out on web apps. e-mail me if interested (in profile).
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by dmvaldman 12y ago
https://famo.us
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Wayback Machine for the Brain.js link on HN (2013)(web.archive.org)
1 points by dmvaldman 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmvaldman 12y ago
famo.us - SF - http://famo.us Jobs page: https://jobs.lever.co/famo.us We are reinventing web apps from first principles. Front-end: if physics, UI, 3D modeling is your thing, give us a look. Back-end: if toolin
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by dmvaldman 12y ago
:-) We'll be around for a while. Launches are hard, but well-crafted technology is a long play. I'm glad you've been experimenting and seeing past the good/bad hype. We'll always be striving to make our platform bet
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
what is the github link?
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
Entirely our fault. But if you still feel guilty, the best thing you can do is try recreating lineTime in famo.us. I think you'll find it a pleasure :-)
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
Hey there. Employee at Famo.us here. This URL wasn't meant for public distribution, but that's beside the point. We're officially launching on the 9th, and I can only hope we change your opinion of "Famo.us as vaporware&
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
That seems....excessive
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
what the author means to allude to, through some nonsensical rambling, are the incomputable numbers [1] the cardinality of all real numbers that can be described by a terminating computer program to some accuracy is a countable set (since t
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
multiplying by two, and adding I presume. makes sense. to give some related knowledge, all matrices can be decomposed into direct sums of shifts and scales. this is the base of the jordan normal form [1]. infinite matrices can certainly enc
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
awesome :-)
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
Famo.us - SF Fulltime ( http://www.famo.us ) We make 3D interfaces and cross-platform apps on top of WebKit browsers. We're a big javascript house, and don't use any 3rd party libraries for our main platform, though experience with MVC libr
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
It's not so surprising. This could also be summarized as "God created the integers." But really the process is reversed: given arithmetic, what is the smallest axiom set to give us the power to prove our theorems. It's like, given all code,
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
Also, Golbach's conjecture has been verified up from 5 to 4000000000000000000 computationally. But in general, it's common for mathematicians to assume a conjecture is true and go on from there, because if they arrive at a contradiction, th
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
The reason why this problem is difficult is because primes have everything to do with multiplication (every number is the product of primes), and summing numbers have everything to do with...well, addition. To give additive properties of
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by dmvaldman 13y ago
That may be his point. My point is that he stitches together falsehoods to evoke emotional responses in his readers.

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