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by edanm 2y ago
What are you even talking about? Israel is a country with a population of 9 million people. Do you think if the conflicts stop, this population would just disappear or something? Whatever the "Jewish identity" was in 1948, Israel
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by edanm 2y ago
But if you look at it in terms of civilian casualties, they've gone down massively since the start of the war. Israel "has" backed off in many senses of the word. The problem is that Israel hasn't left Gaza, because desp
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by edanm 2y ago
Did you read the parent tweet? (I missed it at first.) I think there's an empirical claim being made - YC has produced less successful startups in the last ten years, so something must be wrong, and this is a guess as to what the probl
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by edanm 2y ago
My car is also pretty terrible at making me breakfast in the morning. So what? Parent's point is that in the context where they do work, they save lives. You're arguing about something else entirely - whether they work in all si
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by edanm 2y ago
What about childbirth? Do you think that we weren't designed to have children? I think you're mixing up a few things here. The reason things hurt is because you are doing physically demanding things with your body. Evolution can
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by edanm 2y ago
This happened to me too! I'm not sure if it's the left-to-right thing though, that sounds a bit unlikely to me. Specifically that it's tied to the language we use. (For the record I probably default to reading left-to-right,
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by edanm 2y ago
My favorite version is 3Blue1Brown's math parody version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCsdhzo6Jg :) Seriously though, I'm actually a huge Buckley fan and prefer his version to Leonard Cohen's, though I&#
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by edanm 2y ago
If you're referring to Python, I wouldn't call it simplified, and considering that it is one of the most used languages in real-world production code, then I definitely don't think there's any problem with teaching it. I
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by edanm 2y ago
> Python was originally a teaching programming language. You know, for kids and first-year students, as a replacement for BASIC. Ummm, what? I don't think that's true.
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by edanm 2y ago
> In Israel, the People decided democratically (through their elected representatives) against some kinds of so-called "free speech" (for example: Palestine existence) This is both completely untrue, and has nothing to do with
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That doesn't make it more complicated, it just makes it hurt more to give it up.
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> Seeing you call it a "new power" is not relatable, so it may reinforce ideas that it is a bubble. Whereas what it could be reinforcing instead is that some people are better at "using AI" than others. When I was you
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by edanm 2y ago
> That’s a sign of a problem imho. Shoehorning? Definitely bad. "There's a new technology out there that makes new things possible, let's explore whether it makes sense to integrate it into what we're doing?" - n
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by edanm 2y ago
I wasn't aware a script existed! I've been waiting for years to see the movie, being a huge Primer fan, though I understand it probably won't get made.
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Maybe they're extrapolating from people who did find a way to turn this new technology into a useful tool for themselves. That's the hacker way, after all.
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> Serious question: what king did Google kill? They really didn't take down a big player in an existing industry, they started by being very good at search and displaced other search companies at a time when internet search wasn&#x2
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by edanm 2y ago
> This means you are sure we are close to automated driving [...] We already have "automated driving" in some sense. Some cities have fully autonomous taxi services that have operated for a year or more, iirc.
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Very, very good book IMO. One of the few business books I've read that's absolutely worth reading.
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I think it's definitely a character-driven story. The specific teenage-slice-of-life thing is present throughout a good chunk of it, because the POV character is a teenager, but that does change somewhat, if only because she gets older
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by edanm 2y ago
> AI is the same thing. It's a means to an end. You need to be talking about what you deliver with it. Not about how you deliver it. This is true, but AI is new enough tech that it is reasonable to say "this thing wasn't p
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by edanm 2y ago
> If you build a building that can't stand up to the rain or the wind, you're not an innocent victim of the weather, you failed to design a building for the conditions you knew would be there. This is why I liken it to protecti
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by edanm 2y ago
Thank you! I had no idea and really love Lena (and much of qntm's other writing).
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by edanm 2y ago
> In the physical world, an "attack" is always possible with enough physical force -- no matter how good of a lock you design, someone can still kick down the door, or cut through it, or blow it up. But with computer systems, a
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by edanm 2y ago
True, but the reason CrowdStrike has code running in a manner that is capable of bringing down the system, and the reason they push out updates all the time, is because they are in general combating attackers. If there were no attacks, you
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by edanm 2y ago
> The feel of counterfeit bills, the color someone choose to wear, the sound that doesn't quite fit. You think there are no counterfeit bills that feel exactly the same as the real thing? Pretty sure you're wrong.
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by edanm 2y ago
In what way is YouTube an illegal monopoly?
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by edanm 2y ago
Those numbers are very inaccurate. But in general, yes - VCs give something and it costs something, like almost everything else in life and certainly in business. It's your job as an entrepreneur to decide if that money is "worth
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You think this is literally never the case? Raising VC money has never helped a company significantly?
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by edanm 2y ago
This looks really cool and impressive. As someone who is very interested in using this, may I make two suggestions: 1. Have a list of integrations somewhere on the homepage. It might be there, but if so I missed it. I immediately wanted to
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by edanm 2y ago
A constant theme in AI is that as soon as something is achieved, it becomes "no longer AI", just tech. That's kind of my point. Nobody cares what you call it or how it works, they care about the actual value they get out of t

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