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by endymi0n 6y ago
I think this gets closer to the original core of the story. Time is the only and ultimate non-renewable resource, no matter how poor or rich you are. Yes, if you're poor, this forces many more external decisions on you than if you had
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Nice try, I like the gesture. Count me extremely skeptical though. You can get decent to really good tabular learning right off the shelf and it‘s so good and ubiquitous by now that interestingly enough, a few things start to happen that im
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Have my upvote as well. I was still frustrated by a similar observation I recently posted that went negative, much to my surprise, and made me imply a pretty libertarian bias. Apologies for the bile, I‘ll engage in a more civil discussion t
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Level one sounds suspiciously close to actually paying taxes and let the social net built on it work its magic. Now come on, downvote me to hell.
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by endymi0n 6y ago
It‘s never anything else. It rarely fails to amaze me how many people think of market capitalization or valuation as something „official“ or inherent in the company when that is really nothing more than what the market (or for private compa
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by endymi0n 6y ago
The oddest thing about this Cambrian explosion of possibility at dirt cheap prices is what it did to my creativity: It actually hurt it. I started just a tad later and fully digital than the gear in this article, so the floppy discs I got S
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Your job isn‘t just to coordinate people, but help them reach consensus. If there‘s a tie, that decision is yours to make. So: 1. You have to keep writing code to remain an effective tiebreaker 2. You still need to be a badass engineer in o
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by endymi0n 6y ago
I don't doubt the main conclusion of the article for certain tasks at least — what I do think is questionable though is using productivity as the only valid metric without controlling for others, including happiness, loneliness, effect
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by endymi0n 6y ago
This. If you allow capitalism to absorb the government itself, what you get is for-profit persecution. If crime generates income, be it through asset forfeiture, private prisons or a law system where you can win by just making the case big
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by endymi0n 6y ago
If I'm not assuming people wake up in order to do a bad job, the more likely explanation to me is that a) these instances are (seen as a percentage of dry land coverage) rather rare and b) The test of being in water is simplified to `i
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Companies are way faster, focussed and efficient than any form of non-profit or governmental organization in building infrastructure that supports their cause. I'm eternally grateful to Google for HTTP/2, Chrome, Web Vitals, Angul
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by endymi0n 6y ago
I can clearly see both sides by now. I've built a high sleeper in my old apartment from scratch (which is kind of an understatement as it was effectively half a floor on top of a whole room including real stairs as a concession to my t
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You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement (2015)(zachholman.com)
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by endymi0n 6y ago
In practice, it‘s not that hard to do and should work pretty much the same as the big wall the Mexicans paid.
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by endymi0n 6y ago
It‘s so sad to watch, but compared to any other developed and affluent nation (and with equal time to prepare), the US is a complete shitshow at this point. The complete lack of leadership and resulting power vacuum resulted in valuable tim
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Pretty much this — there's a large mindshare bias towards the more dramatic and relatable incidents. My favorite party question is what the most deadly power plant accident in history was. And the predictable answer "Chernobyl&quo
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by endymi0n 6y ago
I've heard it phrased by a doctor as "Almost every man dies WITH prostate cancer. Almost no man dies FROM prostate cancer."
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Since realizing this about 5 years ago, I‘ve actually started optimizing for it. Whenever I hit cmd+s, I make sure to enter a search mindset and make the file name as keyword heavy and stemming friendly as possible. For smaller notes, I jus
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by endymi0n 6y ago
You know what‘s even worse than gut feelings and hunches? Greenlighting processes that are number and „AI“ driven. While there‘s a limited subset of AI like GANs that I‘d actually call creative, the usual tabular models are none of these. S
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by endymi0n 6y ago
I would be even siding with you slightly if this amounted to actually moving people, facilities and capital to that country. However, in the modern world, corporations don't just use low taxes to simply route massive amounts of capital
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by endymi0n 6y ago
I‘m more and more of the opinion that oligolipolies (multi-monopolies) should be treated the same as monopolies. Just because there is more than a single provider still does not mean there is a free market and consumers have actual choice.
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Parent seems to refer to taste _being in the way_ of learning (not the lack of it) and I definitely get the sentiment. Sometimes I catch myself thinking about the stuff I could have learned when I was young: I had a C64 and I could have lea
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by endymi0n 6y ago
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’
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by endymi0n 6y ago
> Let the truth fight for itself. I used to have a very similar opinion to yours until I found out the truth rarely fights for itself if there's an alternative, much more convenient lie — preferably one that plays into peoples'
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by endymi0n 6y ago
So what you‘re proposing is that a fairer way to paying back tuition is making it essentially free when taking it and then, IF you end up making a lot of money, paying it back with a share of your income? I can‘t resist the feeling this sou
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by endymi0n 7y ago
...except that NULL is still conflating the two concepts of "not known to exist" and "known to not exist" (I know some people who would argue for empty strings to be bad style). Especially for (composite) unique indexes
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by endymi0n 7y ago
Note though that the study, its methods and especially its politically charged presentation by repeat social media offenders are still disputed [1] [1] https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/offene-fragen-heinsberg-stud...
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by endymi0n 7y ago
Having worked with dozens of different databases over lots of years, I can certainly say that Postgres is my go-to _default_ database over all the other relational ones. In the same way that Golang claims it's the 90% language ( https
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by endymi0n 7y ago
This was sufficiently close in timing that I wasn't sure for a moment whether this was just an early caught April Fools. Then again, the more I think about it, the more this makes sense. Satellite business is hard and capital intensive
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by endymi0n 7y ago
He means low throughput and low latency, both of which are related to a concept of speed, but not the same. > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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