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by exergy 9y ago
I'm deriving a perverse kind of pleasure from all this. Maciej Ceglowski has a fantastic talk called Haunted By Data, where he compares data to radioactive waste: we collect a lot of it, and ultimately don't know how to handle it
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by exergy 9y ago
I feel sorry for you. In my experience, there is little you can do to change the mind of such a person, and yet living with them can be constant embarrassment.
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by exergy 9y ago
I work at CERN, so Brian Cox is an obvious choice as far as I'm concerned. Tangentially, Adam Steltzner (the engineer who lead the Entry Descent and Landing of Curiosity) is another one of those "used to be a rockstar" types.
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by exergy 9y ago
Porn is not a banned word.
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by exergy 9y ago
Ah the famous HN "first principles" strikes again, pouncing on hapless and unsuspecting victims at the most inconvenient of moments.
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by exergy 9y ago
There was a geekhack post on this sort of general idea, but it hasn't seen activity for a while now: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=84985.0 Looks stunning to me. The rather underrated Cherry ML switches strike th
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by exergy 9y ago
And Madam Khanh in Hoi An. Boy are those worth the long lines.
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by exergy 9y ago
My apologies. You've a tough job as it is without me adding to your woes.
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by exergy 9y ago
Haha, I predict 2018 will be the year of the "I failed at my startup and didn't write a Medium piece" Medium piece. Similar to the "I quit Facebook/cut the cord but it's no biggie" Medium post.
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by exergy 9y ago
[Removed pointless ranting]
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by exergy 9y ago
Sounds like a great direction to be moving towards. Much more grip on your social media, and you using it rather than the other way around.
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by exergy 9y ago
The ones I frequent include financialindependence, headphones, coffee, mealprepsunday, running, bicycling. They all tend to cater to their audience fairly well.
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by exergy 9y ago
Me either. In my experience, being willing to be the first one to open up goes a long way in making people open up to you and establish some trust that, for example, I won't be judging people etc. But I do try to never, ever, discuss p
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by exergy 9y ago
There's the rub. If the government made a neutral internet a human right, or increased competition by breaking up monopolies, the idiots who think they can get away with offering just Facebook would get royally shafted because consumer
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by exergy 9y ago
You're missing the point. Why should we regress? The system, as it exists, freely allows these fabled old people of yours to access Facebook. But in letting net neutrality evaporate, the rest of us get screwed for no benefit. Jesus, ne
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by exergy 9y ago
That's what OP is saying though. That there is no reason we couldn't have both waterproofness and a headphone jack. Legions of android phones are, of course, examples of this.
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by exergy 9y ago
I did read the article, and the reason you gave was "I didn't want to be too rash". Which kind of serves my point. You wrote a 100,000 word article on quitting Facebook without even quitting it! You're right though, and
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by exergy 9y ago
Plus, it seems like he deactivated it instead of deleting it. Which basically is the equivalent of logging out, from the user's perspective. So all the pomp and circumstance and the quoting of Trump and Snowden seems even more ridiculo
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by exergy 9y ago
> by not using Facebook you're going to miss out on things This is the beginning and the end of all the thought that should be put into this matter. Missing things is not the end of the world, since there is so much to do in life an
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by exergy 9y ago
There are things in life that are "beyond disgusting", but this age-old tradition going back to as long as there have been marriages scarcely makes that cut. Chomping at the bit and flying off the handle is hardly going to get you
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by exergy 9y ago
I'm going to use your comment to go on a bit of a rant. What is the purpose of your comment? Like, really. What are you trying to attain by stating what you did? Your comment is pedantic and completely irrelevant to the topic at hand
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by exergy 9y ago
The "reasonable standard" I agree with, and they should be discussed not in secret courts.
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by exergy 9y ago
> "Not shared by the rest of the world" And that is their loss. ADHD is very much a cause whose impact goes far beyond just procrastrination. It causes people to be terrible spouses who are never there when they are needed. It
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by exergy 9y ago
Quiet good work I cannot speak to, but two that inspire me are the former Guns n Roses rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and Mark Knopfler. Stradlin quit drugs, quit the band even when the band was at its peak, and basically makes music for hi
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by exergy 9y ago
Different strokes I guess. I liked that the authors took great pains to stick to highlighting the nuanced nature of the debate. They agreed with Damore where pertinent, but also disagreed with a lot of the conclusions that he derived.
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by exergy 9y ago
Fair points, and as I said, even I tend to fall in the camp of "work is for work" a lot of the times. On the other hand, to play devil's advocate, I think you're being uncharitable by comparing them to "stick pokers
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by exergy 9y ago
That wired article was excellent. And it proves one thing to my mind. Regardless of everything else, Damore's memo has lead me to vastly expand my knowledge of the debates in this domain, through just being a curious observer watching
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by exergy 9y ago
I sympathise with the woman saying she'd much rather just focus on code rather than social justice debates. But, as flippant as it is for a guy to say it, it's their cross to bear isnt it? Women in tech. Because, if they don'
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by exergy 9y ago
The question isn't one of us creating it, although, unlike those downvoting you, I understand where you come from. The question is, who will (and how to) create a curation of sorts. A Google for the simple web. A one stop shop that enc
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by exergy 9y ago
> It's on my website, which is a blatant copyright violation Tangential, but I long for a world where we can all be as candid with each other.

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