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by ebcode 9y ago
I had an analogical vision while reading your comment. It looks like this: 1. Hard Science -- poking a rock with a stick. 2. Soft Science -- poking a random stranger on the bus with a stick. HTH
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by ebcode 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the "programmer ladder" you refer to looks like this: manager | | programmer Smaller companies don't really have the budget for a team of programmers, so if you continually work for only th
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by ebcode 9y ago
Some of us are screaming outside as well.
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by ebcode 9y ago
I don't think it's the number of people that matter, but rather the behavior of those people. It appears that humanity lived in balance (Lotka-Volterra style) with the rest of the inhabitants of the planet until the invention of a
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by ebcode 9y ago
I don't see how this will ever work. The needs of the defense sector are just fundamentally at odds with the needs of the commercial sector. On the hardware side you get things like Intel and AMD trying to hide "chips within chips
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by ebcode 9y ago
I think what you're missing is that the blockchains depend on network effects to function. They scale naturally with adoption, being decentralized. Facebook does not scale naturally with adoption, because it depends on its own private
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by ebcode 9y ago
I would suggest you take a step back and think about PayPal. Do you think PayPal changed the world? What PayPal did was reduce the "friction" of online transactions. Suddenly you no longer needed a merchant account at a bank to ac
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Urban Legends in Computer Vision(lyndonhill.com)
2 points by ebcode 9y ago|1 comments
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by ebcode 9y ago
In defense of your average rural dweller, things really do move a lot more slowly in rural areas in comparison to metropolises. There's less diversity as well. So, you know, please take it easy on us dumb hicks out in the sticks. We&#x
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by ebcode 9y ago
Think the parent might have meant "good cause." I'm not sure if Aaron really took his own life or not, and I don't want to say anything insensitive, but I'll share a thought I remember having around the time of his
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by ebcode 9y ago
>>“When developing laws, regulations, policies, and programs, policymakers should worry about whether people feel excluded by their enactment,” Coman said. “Otherwise, we may create societies that are prone to spreading inaccurate and
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by ebcode 9y ago
I believe you're right about that looking back. One of the safest developments in car culture has been the round-a-bout. Of course that works so well because it physically prevents the collisions that would otherwise happen in the cent
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by ebcode 9y ago
>Is there another communication system that is decentralized (...), and is also widely used? XMPP, maybe?
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by ebcode 9y ago
Come now, it wasn't the "populum" that wanted Galileo to shut up, it was the "Pope-ulum".
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by ebcode 9y ago
Compelling article, but marred by the click-baity title. It would be more respectful of the bereaved to reserve "Epic Fail" for things less tragic than the loss of a child. "Tragic Failure" might be more appropriate.
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by ebcode 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. When it comes time to sum up this administration with one word, "sad" will be it.
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by ebcode 9y ago
Better headline: "Rumors on Reddit lead tech journalist to assume that AMD has done something right"
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by ebcode 9y ago
>>It's not normal for someone known by everyone around them to be a harasser to be able to continue their acts. I recommend reading "The missing stair"[0] for an account of how normal this actually is. [0] http:/&
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by ebcode 9y ago
I guess the second step is acknowledging that the other half are also irrational? And anyone campaigning for reform is also clearly irrational... It reminds me of the quote at the end of WarGames: "The only winning move is not to play.
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Solidarity Forever(logicmag.io)
3 points by ebcode 9y ago|0 comments
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by ebcode 9y ago
I remember being a kid (8 or 9) and sitting down with my friend at his house with his parents and going through all our candy together to check for danger signs. Sure enough, there was a single-wrapped Reese's peanut-butter cup with a
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by ebcode 9y ago
Room 237 has some compelling evidence pointing to what might have become of Stanley. Anyway, connecting with great souls through their works is one treasure this baleful world of ours can still offer. Thanks for posting this.
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by ebcode 9y ago
I didn't downvote you, but my best guess to why you're being downvoted is that HN skews capitalist, and confusing the market with politics is, in the capitalist p.o.v., how the game is in fact played. Myself, I don't think th
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by ebcode 9y ago
> There is an unfortunate viewpoint that decentralisation is just always a "good thing". Well, to put cryptocurrency in its historical context, the design-decision to make the architecture of the internet(/darpanet) decent
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by ebcode 9y ago
But you can't actually take someone's humanity with a word. That's hyperbole. Knife-point robbery is not. "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that will not more willingly part withal – except my life, except my lif
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by ebcode 9y ago
Yes! sign me up. :)
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by ebcode 9y ago
It is a neat trick! Somehow those pieces of metal are storing a magnetic field like a permanent magnet, but release their "charge" when the field is broken. There's another interesting effect where an electric charge can be
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by ebcode 9y ago
>> because our current theories already account for ALL of the phenomena that are easily accessible here on earth. I'm not so sure of this. Have you heard of Edward Leedskalnin, or his "Perpetual Motion Holder"? The tex
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by ebcode 9y ago
ha ha. you said "customers".
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by ebcode 9y ago
Food for thought: it could be that the already-picked "low-lying fruit" is responsible for new discoveries being harder to make. Once you get into a certain mode of thinking, or come to view the world a certain way, it becomes har

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