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by dude01 9y ago
Alright, a reference to Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy!
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by dude01 9y ago
tldr: Great long form story of piracy and possibly insurance fraud off the coast of Yemen. Not tech related, but well written.
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by dude01 9y ago
My heart was broken when I was shown that RT supported Bernie. You can find out what Russian Active Measures are pushing by what RT is pushing. RT can be independent, but you have to know when they're pushing something, and when they&#
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by dude01 9y ago
You probably caught him at a bad time. He's also argued that third parties are the only way forward in America (which I think is not true). At this point, his Common Sense podcast is somewhat repetitive of his previous stuff, but he&#x
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by dude01 9y ago
Yeah Permethrin works, I use it for my kids when they go camping. I assume it's like everything - once too many use it, it will lose its effectiveness. But not yet!
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by dude01 9y ago
Not always true about paying taxes - inherited assets are "bullet-vested" to the time of inheritance, with taxes only on increase in value after death.
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by dude01 9y ago
I agree. As an example, over a decade ago I was on a team deploying an app to Switzerland. They took privacy really seriously, because they told me that employees get fined/imprisoned for privacy breaches, not just corporate fines.
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by dude01 9y ago
Changes in quantity can be changes in quality. That is, yes, facebook is the same as forwarding emails, but it's orders of magnitude easier to share and view content.
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by dude01 9y ago
Putting on my marketing hat -- protecting privacy sure has lousy marketing. Privacy is so abstract and sounds passive. Why don't people talk about how upcoming politicians can be blackmailed by having this surveillance info lying arou
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by dude01 9y ago
What if Tim Cook is a strategy genius? The health care market is gigantic , and if in the long-run, Apple can get a piece of that market, they'd be set for a long time...
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by dude01 9y ago
tldr: Really long article about history of stupid theories people have had linking superficial traits like your face to criminal behavior and intelligence. I'm not sure why those old theories needed such debunking.
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by dude01 9y ago
I hope we find some ETs. Otherwise I'm worried we're either: - in a simulation, and they didn't bother to simulate other parts of the universe in high fidelity. - in a zoo, and somehow we're blocked from seeing other civ
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by dude01 9y ago
Yeah, they're using the argument: we're too big to fail.
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by dude01 10y ago
Sorry for late reply, but I totally did not mean the word "extreme" like you are talking about. I meant extreme as in, my expectations for a newspaper opinion section with the heft of the WSJ should contain wisdom and NOT be mostl
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by dude01 10y ago
Because then it's more likely to have overlap between their startup and the NDA content. And the more overlap, the easier it would be for them to threaten about NDA breach in the future. The most likely scenario: if their startup does
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by dude01 10y ago
I dunno, the fact that your startup is in the blockchain space is a little too close to banking/fintech for my tastes. PLUS, larger companies don't have a problem abusing NDAs if they can get something out of it.
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by dude01 10y ago
Like cryptography research -- almost every public advance in that area is the second time, the first time while "classified" by the NSA.
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by dude01 10y ago
Changes in quantity can be changes in quality. You're right, all FB did is virtualize social interaction. But now you can interact orders of magnitude faster and with more people with it, thus changing the nature of interacting.
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by dude01 10y ago
That's true, but their opinion/editorial pages are extreme right-leaning, they're different teams.
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by dude01 10y ago
I think it's like a prisoner's dilemma -- if FB doesn't try to kill off SC, then SC will kill off FB. But it's like a one-off prisoner's dilemma, because this is two corporations that assume that both won't be
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by dude01 10y ago
tldr: Unsatisfyingly short article about someone no longer having type 1 diabetes -- without any even possible explanation as to why. They only mention long-distance running as a remote possibility.
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by dude01 10y ago
tldr: Investor lawsuit with private company Palantir. Title is misleading. Not very interesting article.
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by dude01 10y ago
I agree, but... I wonder if we're at peak-Facebook yet? All good things must come to an end. Maybe it will be Snapchat, or more likely a slow decline. I remember when Microsoft was at its peak, and seemed invincible. Facebook seems tha
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by dude01 10y ago
I've never seen good solid numbers that I liked. However, I'd say more than $100B/yr by US government, to protect our global supply chain of oil distribution. For instance, I'd say the entire cost of being in Iraq was an
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by dude01 10y ago
Oh wow, thanks for the link. Looks like you discovered typescript way before I did. It looks like Mypy is pretty popular these days. Cheers!
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by dude01 10y ago
Speaking of tangents... I use pycharm too. Do you ever use type annotations in Python? I'm really digging it in Typescript for Javascript.
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by dude01 10y ago
I hate the forbes.com website, but a great story. Guy's phone number got hijacked, then they reset his other accounts by sending codes to his phone number on file. Maybe we need 3FA?
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by dude01 10y ago
Woah! From the article: "added roughly 4,062,847 lines of code to the code base, and deleted roughly 3,753,677".
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by dude01 10y ago
The article says it uses computer vision to detect parasitical cells like Malaria or Trypanosoma. No black magic, they explain their techniques in detail. I think the difference between them and Theranos is that Athelas is detecting things
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by dude01 10y ago
I'm a vim-guy. I've been using vimoutliner ( https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner ) for my todo lists, since I put my notes inside my todo lists. With vimoutliner, you can make any line have a checkbox [_

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