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by edanm 3y ago
I admire pg. But I kind of doubt anything he writes will make any difference for the Reddit IPO.
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by edanm 3y ago
EDIT: My comment was wrong, please see helpful corrections below! I think there are technical limitations when you have different apps vs. one app. Simples being you need to log in to multiple different apps, but things like data moving bet
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by edanm 3y ago
OK, fair enough. pg's point still stands I think - I believe that most users have zero idea what that popup is and don't bother doing anything but clicking on it immediately even if they do have some idea.
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by edanm 3y ago
Because the companies are getting what they want (data on users), but the regulation is not getting what it wants (no tracking or informed tracking). I don't know if this mini-competition between regulators and companies is truly z
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by edanm 3y ago
Years for me too :) You're right that she compares it to that, but my reading of it is that that is the whole disconnect/point - she does it view that way, but also doesn't change it in a way that is incomprehensible to the
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by edanm 3y ago
Well this is kind of a philosophical question, I think from her point of view there's no choice involved - if you throw a ball, it doesn't have a choice but to fall to the ground, and she likewise "acts out the scripts"
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by edanm 3y ago
They don't religiously defend their existence, they're defending the second form of exist in which Unicorns are said to exist.
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by edanm 3y ago
In the book, the death happens to do an accident, not cancer, as the sibling comment says. So just to spell it out more than the sibling comment - the story doesn't ask "do I decide to have a child, even knowing that they die&quot
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by edanm 3y ago
> Yes it saves you a small amount of time but the people doing it aren't somehow more efficient at it and their labor can't then be allocated to anything that does provide an efficiency. For the record, them being more efficien
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by edanm 3y ago
Well I was being a bit cheeky in my answer. Since you didn't specify under what system we need to prove that 0=1 doesn't exist, I vaguely remembered or figured there was a simpler version of arithmetic under which that concept mak
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by edanm 3y ago
Agree with everything. > Besides, both of them are transitioning to the rear view mirror anyways. I wonder why you say this? What do you think is replacing Airflow and dbt?
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by edanm 3y ago
Coming to this late, but... What made you choose this tech stack? I'm especially wondering about Rust, was that something you had familiarity with before so just went with that? Did you evaluate a few different options and decided that
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by edanm 3y ago
> C and C++ are still very much current. So it's interesting you say that. I worked extensively with C++ back then, and I did have occasion to do a few small C++ projects about 10 years ago, and C++ seems to have changed quite a bi
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by edanm 3y ago
> I'm kind of happy I'm not in webdev but embedded. There's not so much fads in this area. How true is that about embedded though? I started out in that field for the first six years of my professional life, but it's
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by edanm 3y ago
> Thing is if you’ve been around the block and have a decent understanding of fundamentals…it just doesn’t matter what the fad of the week is. It’s just noise. Old principles repackaged with different conventions. This is just not true.
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by edanm 3y ago
I still don't see how you can be confident that the Turing Machine that solves your problem isn't an exponential amount "down" in the list of Turing machines. What if its size is 2^n for problem size n? Also, more import
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by edanm 3y ago
> that in order for free will to exist the quanta making up matter had to have multiple possible results under the same governing physical laws and conditions That seems like a strange and out-of-place statement, unless I'm misunde
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm fairly sure it has actually, under some axiom schemas.
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by edanm 3y ago
> If P = NP, that enumeration process can happen in P time. Keep in mind that all problems in NP have polynomial time verifiers. So you can always check a solution (i.e., checking if the monkey actually wrote Hamlet) in polynomial time.
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand. How would a list of all Turing machines possibly help when trying to solve a specific problem in P time? Are they built in a way that is relevant to the problem you're trying to solve (if so, how?).
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by edanm 3y ago
What? That doesn't seem correct to me. (Since I'm not actually that fluent in CS complexity theory, I assume the problem is my understanding.) Can you explain more about what universal search is, and/or where I can read about
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by edanm 3y ago
> I think the concept of a best essay is somewhat illogical, but exploring the idea like this makes an interesting post. pg does specifically address this objection btw: > I love questions that seem naughty in some way — for example,
863.
by edanm 3y ago
Well pg has written a lot about what essays are and what they're for before this one.
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by edanm 3y ago
Agreed. But, to be fair, there is some validity to the idea that it's an ethnostate, in that there is automatic "right of return" only to ethnic Jews. Not to mention there is some legal discrimination against non-Jews (like
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by edanm 3y ago
This might be a crazy idea, but maybe... it's not completely useless? Maybe if many countries deem it necessary, and many people who (I assume) have more expertise than most casual observers like us on HN also deem it necessary, mayb
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm going to go ahead and say that the direct family, who was entrusted with the rights to the book, are in a better position to decide if this is ok or not than random person on the internet who only heard about this issue today . As
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by edanm 3y ago
> One thought experiment is to imagine someone developing software with a promise to open source the benign parts, then withholding most of it for business reasons while citing aliens as a concern. I mean, I'm totally with them on
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by edanm 3y ago
Oh I'm talking about the ideal, not what they're actually doing.
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by edanm 3y ago
When the tools are (believed to be) more dangerous than nuclear weapons, and the "thee" is potentially irresponsible and/or antagonists, then... yes? This is a valid (and moral) position.
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by edanm 3y ago
> Stop making excuses for people who are literally awash in resources. This is a pretty weird outlook to have - looking at any group awash with resources, whether it be governments or other companies, and you can clearly see that even

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