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by eric-hu 15y ago
There are some people who believe that--look up polyphasic sleep if you're curious. I've tried doing it for about a month, but I've found that there are more pain-free ways of getting more out of a day.
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I think this is exactly what he means. People make excuses to continue playing a video game. I believe the type of "trick" he's referring to is exemplified by this statement: "just think of working out as a game and try to beat your old s
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by eric-hu 15y ago
"In terms of the younger companies, what do you have to unwind exactly? What sorts of assets do they have to sell off? Things have definitely changed. I remember in 1999, 2000, I would sell a used server for $35,000 and I had a line of peop
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Do they do this so they can show ads on multiple pages? I couldn't tell since I'm always browsing with an adblocker on
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by eric-hu 15y ago
This is my opinion, too. I see a lot of Bitcoin users go off on the Federal Reserve, printing money, and how people shouldn't use the dollar for that reason.
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I was with them until the snitch list. These aren't exactly people abusing power (AFAIK). If there was one particular person among the snitch list that was interesting, they should've just cited that one. Releasing the entire list can se
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Ask HN: Will the US's credit rating downgrade increase Bitcoin usage?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
"Right now, there isn't a single world power that's looking to be "inevitably powerful" in the next 50 years, it's really "anybody's game"." The Vatican?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
After the five reviews, Aaron asked for my phone number and said he’d call me the next day with a meeting place. It has now been three days and I have yet to hear from him. He’s also stopped responding to my emails, including
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by eric-hu 15y ago
The lawyers that come up with these sums don't need a sense of money grounded in the real world. See also: RIAA wants 75 trillion from limewire: http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Interesting point. In addition to population growth, you could say that this comes with progress in technology and policy, too. Countries like China and India a good place to export our jobs, at a minimum, because they're stable enough. E
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by eric-hu 15y ago
My vote is for "advance fee scam" as mentioned in the comments of the article. It plays out something like this: He shows up at a coffee shop after a few days worth of work with a check for $1000. The actual "work" done was worth $700, so
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by eric-hu 15y ago
could you expand on that? What would an excessive meta-programmer be thinking or doing differently?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
So how do you get around your excuses to do nothing? What have you found to be most effective and least effective? I have some pretty terrible procrastination
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I've read that some schools are asking their students to do this. IMO, do it. It costs nothing if you open source your code. If you never link to your account anywhere, it's almost a private account. That is, unless you've made something
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Why pink ties? And why the math department (unless it's the same as CS)?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I would say it depends on what you get done. That seems to be the theme of these responses. Hope that motivates you to take advantage of your situation, since you're already in a working relationship with a talented person.
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I would add onto 3--however the reimbursement is done, make sure she doesn't publish the actual numbers. One of the AirBnB guys blogged about this and included the maximum on his insurance policy for his east coast cabin. The first commen
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Social engineering was my initial suspicion as well. However, that really doesn't fit with the auditor's obstinate response. At this point an intelligent auditor should be coming clean so that this doesn't go public (and so that his compa
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by eric-hu 15y ago
On the other hand, Facebook has forced some fairly annoying changes with their chat interface, news feed and friend/group management. Maybe people won't be scared away that easily (put off is another story).
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Very interesting observation. In the 2 player case, not allowing for parity means that equilibrium would never be reached. The simulation as you programmed it would approach equilibrium as time goes to infinity, though, so I guess your mod
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Interesting simulation. The braided behavior sounds like the 'equilibrium behavior' I mentioned earlier. Does this simulation also allow for taking another player's exact location, forcing a split of their market share on both sides? I
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Interesting notation :) I agree that the starting move I proposed was sub-optimal. That was an arbitrary move I chose to get the idea in motion. That algorithm is optimal in a greedy sense--going for the most immediate gains with no memory
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Assuming the 3 hot dog stands start out with spacing to allow for equal coverage, their positions are -2/3, 0, 2/3. Everyone gets 2/3, 1/3rd on each side. The two on the outside have an incentive to move towards 0 because they can take mor
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by eric-hu 15y ago
For those too lazy to click the link: all search results show "no such user"
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Interesting, I thought that was exactly what you were talking about :) I learned about it in numerical analysis. It illustrates the downside of trying to be too precise--you can make a polynomial that will go through an arbitrary number of
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I'm generally for (soft) drug decriminalization, too, but I don't have much experience with meth heads :) Would someone upped on meth be able to conduct himself well via email, sending polite thank-you's?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
It is absurd, but I think it's also common sense. I think it's a good assumption that airport security is not going to be that technically knowledgeable. I wouldn't touch the topic of Bitcoin with a 10 foot pole around strangers, let alone
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Is no one else struck by the peculiar behavior of the tenants? Scattering bleach powder across the apartment and taking the time to hang up strange photos seems a bit too erratic to me. I wonder if the renter has serious mental issues or
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Your post got me excited because it sounds like you're describing Runge's Phenomenon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%27s_phenomenon ). The wikipedia article doesn't have the best illustration, but I think the inherent idea is really

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