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by feoren 2y ago
> * As part of funding, the non-profit would grant exclusive, irrevocable rights of it's IP to that for-profit venture. This is the part that should land people literally in jail. A non-profit should not be able to donate its assets
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by feoren 2y ago
Sam: "I'm not in it for the money. I have principles." World: "But what if it was like, a lot of money?" Sam: "Oh alright you convinced me. Fuck my principles."
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by feoren 2y ago
> no-one wants to release The Satanic License You hang out with a different crowd than I do then. Perhaps the Satanic Temple should release an open source license to claim the #666 spot.
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by feoren 2y ago
First of all, thank you for the long and thoughtful response. My comment was mainly focused on the tie between memory and consciousness, which I think is generally over-stated. People who get "blackout drunk" at a party are still
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by feoren 2y ago
But when people quit STEM degrees, they don't say "it made me feel ignorant" or "I didn't have enough knowledge". They say "I was too stupid". The author is expressly trying to address those people, a
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by feoren 2y ago
> [They] were a very "engineering focused" (or similar term) organization. Their code was rock solid. I'll bet it wasn't. You're hearing this from the person who ran the company. Most companies have terrible code
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by feoren 2y ago
If you have time to compute geometry multiple times in one frame, don't you have room to just increase fps?
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by feoren 2y ago
I feel like it's a common fallacy that if you can't remember something later, then you didn't consciously experience it. It's a very narrow view of consciousness, and leads to silly statements like "There are long g
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by feoren 2y ago
Holy strawmans, Batman! This article sets up a false dichotomy (virtually nobody argues for designing for "future needs", it's more like varying degrees and definitions of "cleanliness"), then gives examples of terr
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by feoren 2y ago
Your insults would land better if they were anywhere close to accurate. You need to get your crystal ball polished, because your psychic reading of who I am is way off. Maybe you can't actually know the intimate details of someone&#x27
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by feoren 2y ago
Sure you can: keep sending one message per second until you receive a response from the recipient saying "OKAY I HEARD YOU NOW SHUT UP!"
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by feoren 2y ago
> hold their own moral/ethical code above the law ... I might agree with you that the law is bullshit This is the entire reason that we have trial by jury and not trial by judge . I'm not sure how this got lost over the c
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by feoren 2y ago
I once got called into jury duty and sat through jury selection. On that day, protesters were outside the courthouse calling awareness to jury nullification, so the judge brought it up. He said something like: "jury nullification is a
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by feoren 2y ago
Oh, everyone knows that one single person can make things a lot worse . That's all that's happening here. That doesn't say anything about how much one single person can make things better . In the former case, your powers a
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by feoren 2y ago
> This is like saying you could charge for air. Is the value of air $0 to you?
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by feoren 2y ago
"We estimate the supply-side value of Shakespeare's works by estimating the cost of paying an author to write the approximately 884,000 words in his collective works. We therefore calculate the value of Shakespeare to society at $
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by feoren 2y ago
> You have a fantastical view of what starting and running business entails Have you started a successful business? Can you honestly say you spent less than 90 hours per week on it? Can you honestly say the vast majority of your time wa
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by feoren 2y ago
[Dead] means they've been downvoted to oblivion. Moderators had nothing to do with it -- those were other users on HN. I always browse with "showdead" on and the vast majority of [Dead] posts are awful. They don't need t
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by feoren 2y ago
> Become an expert at bullshitting maybe? I'd literally rather kill myself. > When I get more productive I turn that into less time spent at my desk or thinking about my job. So your advice is: check out of your job. Quiet quit.
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by feoren 2y ago
> Other people get pleasure from accomplishing things Accomplishing what !? More fucking clicks for their shitty boss's worthless website? More rent for the rent-seekers? More dark patterns? More Facebooks for Dogs? More trying to
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm surprised that your takeaway from my venting was that I want to be rich . There are much easier ways to get rich than becoming an expert at something. Out of the four options, I've chosen the one that makes the least money
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by feoren 2y ago
>> 4. Start my own business ... > This is just fantasy. Are you saying starting your own business is an unrealistic fantasy? (On HN?) Or which part of it is fantasy? If starting a company is fantasy, it strengthens my point. > h
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by feoren 2y ago
So what? Why bother? Why would anyone bother becoming an expert? Nobody is going to pay attention to you. You're not going to get any more pay or respect or authority than people who are just good at bullshitting. You're not going
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by feoren 2y ago
> As someone who’s grown more conservative over the years, this is where I draw the line At the thing that personally affects you. Just like all conservatives: all problems are fake problems until they're real for you. Disgusting.
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by feoren 2y ago
Someone who has killed themselves is no longer paying you a monthly premium.
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by feoren 2y ago
Because those are long-term effects, and most companies have literally zero decision makers with any incentive to care about the long term. They all know the game. They're there to parasitize as much value as possible from the company
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by feoren 2y ago
You've misread that. It is not saying that 43.7% of the state budget goes to elementary and secondary education. It is saying that 43.7% of the funding for education comes from the state. Those are completely different.
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by feoren 2y ago
In the particular case of Alzheimer's, some of the foundational studies supporting the amyloid plaque hypothesis were literally fraudulent. Railroading is a problem in general, but won't combat just straight-up fraud. Better fraud
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by feoren 2y ago
> The 4GL dream hinges on figuring out how to transition from #2 -> #1 seamlessly I guarantee you there is no algorithmic way to do this. Going from "big flat file" to "nicely organized 3+NF schema" adds a lot of u
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by feoren 2y ago
Right, "the map is not the territory" is just half of the quote, and the worse half at that. It's like saying "well, you never know" to everything. Okay, thanks for your help. > The full Korzybski quote is perhap

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