exelius

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by exelius 9y ago
Yes! Time spent at the office != time spent working. I often have to retrain my employees because I'm gone by 6 and idgaf if you stay later, but if something is due by end of day, that means I need to have it by 5 to review. Not 11 bec
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by exelius 9y ago
Absolutely. In my experience, "bro culture" is simply a sign of an immature corporate culture that hasn't figured out how to address true diversity. It means that the workplace is not likely to be supportive of people who don
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by exelius 9y ago
60% of Americans have less than $500 saved [1]. IMO that qualifies as the vast majority barely getting by. [1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/can-you-guess-how-m...
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by exelius 9y ago
The problem is that if you're 30 and "average" in America, you're probably barely scraping by, don't own a house, and have a mountain of debt. It's not a great life if you have to worry whether you're goin
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by exelius 9y ago
While the conservative media pundits like to rail against the NYT, it's actually a very reputable news source that fact-checks articles and issues retractions when it is wrong. Sure it's a bit left-leaning in the topics they repor
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by exelius 9y ago
There is a difference between news and opinion. Something like Stratechery is pure opinion; but it's opinion that I value because I feel it provides a lot of good insights. It's fine to crowdsource opinion. It's not ok to cro
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by exelius 9y ago
If you change the way that you consume news, this is less of a problem. Stop visiting the aggregators like Google News. Stop believing anything you read on Facebook that is not from a publication that you consider reputable. There will alwa
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by exelius 9y ago
There will always be a market segment that values the unbiased truth.
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by exelius 9y ago
I reluctantly recognize that in order to have an unbiased press, we need news readers to pay the costs of operating a newspaper. I'm happy to pay for my news, because I want news to be truth, not propaganda. Maybe the moral of the stor
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by exelius 9y ago
The ISPs bear none of the expense of "buying more IP transit". The end services (i.e. Netflix) do. That's always how the transit business has worked in the US -- the sender pays (this is how AWS works, and not by coincidence
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by exelius 9y ago
I think for Netflix it was more pragmatic than that. I don't think they were ever really committed to Net Neutrality -- it was just a negotiating tactic to get lower rates for the interconnects that they would inevitably need once they
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by exelius 9y ago
The only thing it seems to add is the opportunity for people to sell you high-margin investment products -- which is exactly what index fund investors are trying to avoid. Any investment product with a marketing budget is taking fees to pay
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by exelius 9y ago
I actually took an entire class in business school about this exact topic -- "Catastrophic Risk Analysis". Great class, the teacher was a former astronaut (among many other things). And you're right, you basically can't
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by exelius 9y ago
I think you're vastly overstating it. The main reason most companies open source stuff is because they had to build something for some reason or another, the thing works, but they don't want to maintain it because it's plumbi
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by exelius 9y ago
I think that this distinction is largely becoming irrelevant in the cloud era. Most software is sold / licensed on a term basis these days, and honestly the industry is healthier as a result. App stores are really the only remaining ve
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by exelius 9y ago
The stand alone complex existed before Trump. He just tapped into it and galvanized their ideas. And it's clear Gouda didn't work alone either -- he pulled the strings behind the scenes through fake media, but others were obviousl
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah; that's what I meant about "dumbing down" the movie. I agree that Ghost in the Shell in all of its iterations is heavy on exposition -- which makes it a difficult show for audiences to get into. I also agree about your p
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by exelius 9y ago
I dunno; I do think Trump fits the structure (with someone like Bannon acting as Gouda in this case). Regardless of how you feel about him, he is clearly a very charismatic person -- SAC mentions MLK and Hitler as pre-cyber examples of peop
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by exelius 9y ago
I don't think you can do GITS as a live action movie. The amount of special effects required to pull it off means the budget needs to be huge, but that also means you have to "dumb down" the plot for mainstream audiences to h
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by exelius 9y ago
Stand Alone Complex is actually an amazing social commentary on emergent resistance movements among a group of marginalized people in the era of "fake news" or "false memories". It was way ahead of its time -- and even m
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by exelius 9y ago
It is if your goal is to control (or at least influence) the Internet zeitgeist without appearing to...
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by exelius 9y ago
IRC requires a persistent connection; cell phones are not good at that since they bounce from network to network. I love IRC but there's a reason Slack is so popular.
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by exelius 9y ago
I googled his username first, so it wasn't pure presumption.
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by exelius 9y ago
Yes. This. My theory is that Silicon Valley (aka "white men" in the most air-quotes way possible) have moved on to solving the problems of the whole world (whether the world wants them to or not) because they don't have acute
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by exelius 9y ago
Not so comfortable when the shoe is on the other foot? Edit: I see I'm getting downvoted for this. I stand by it because this is the exact same type of presumption that is made of women ("Oh, she's 30 -- we shouldn't hir
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by exelius 9y ago
I think that yours is a typical viewpoint on this topic among white men. I don't mean this as an insult in any way; since that's most likely your entire life experience. But when you constantly have your competence questioned when
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by exelius 9y ago
If you're doing a lot of experimentation, it can make more sense to train your models locally (so you're not paying server / data transfer costs every time you test).
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by exelius 9y ago
Depends on the Spanish ;) I saw a barista ask a Colombian couple to speak in English because Catalan was his native language and he couldn't understand their accent. I do get the feeling, at least in Barcelona, that the preference is C
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by exelius 9y ago
It's pretty simple: engineers are professionals. Professionals make mistakes, but are most effective when allowed to own up to them without consequences and learn from them. In a good software team, a single developer's "big
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by exelius 9y ago
Agree; the "charging problem" is a huge obstacle for the electric vehicle industry. We're going from a world where vehicles need to "recharge" (refuel) once every week or so for about a minute and a half to a world

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