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by firebones 9y ago
Reminds me of the Winston Churchill story: “Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
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by firebones 9y ago
Read the Solidity documentation on visibility [1]. Public, private, internal, external, that really seem to mix overlapping concerns. In the visibility documentation, it explains that the default is public. Then, in another section of the d
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by firebones 9y ago
Of all the stupidity and hype around blockchain tech, the idea of committing the hypothesis of your research to an immutable record beforehand so as to avoid p-hacking seems to be one of the best ideas I've heard, provided you could
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by firebones 9y ago
I can't find anything other than that he awkwardly asked her out (after dating a number of Microsoft employees). Most of the recent stories read like sanitized rewrites of history. But I did find this somewhat interesting 1995 history
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by firebones 9y ago
The Jiffies root cause leads to an interesting idea: an Glossary of Magic Constants where all kinds of important constants, limits, and overflows are tracked to aid in debugging. You could imagine a search engine where "tcp connection
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A dartboard that guarantees bullseyes, even if you're drunk(popularmechanics.com)
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by firebones 9y ago
The point is that his surviving wife wouldn't have to scrape by on social security, and that he wouldn't have had to have burned through his entire nest egg even if he was buying a house, cars, and spending $100K/yr + 12 year
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by firebones 9y ago
(Edit: never mind. I think there's some mistake in your chronology that renders my numbers invalid. Died at 84 in 2017 == born in 1933. Retired in 1988 at age 55, probably not after 60 years at XOM, more like 30; or retired after 60
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by firebones 9y ago
HackerNews: Where the subtlety of a comment's humor is inversely proportional to the size of the cognitive DDOS it initiates.
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by firebones 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification and explanation.
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The responses attacking your point here seem to be operating under the assumption that the manager, and the OP's peers, don't recognize when someone is obfuscating their effort and/or results. People notice. "Bullshittin
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by firebones 9y ago
>>>For that matter, I wish drop box was versioned. Same reason. It's always blown my mind that nobody has done a file system that was versioned so you could merge stuff. Maybe that's because BitKeeper merges so much bette
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by firebones 9y ago
How about two-provider authentication? (2PA?) Send codes/links to two confirmed but independent accounts (email + Twitter, or Facebook + SMS) and require those to be entered. Probably not anymore secure--and a nightmare to manage. But
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by firebones 9y ago
Bravo. Masterclass username for this comment. I'm dying. (For those who may have missed it in this HN crowd, let me momentarily invoke a veil of joke-explainer and offer this http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
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by firebones 9y ago
The timing of conceding this bet is auspicious. --Signed, another $BRK meeting attendee
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by firebones 9y ago
If you look at where the money is moving, this is exactly right and it has already happened. Passive management is crushing the inflow numbers. Perhaps this creates opportunities, but maybe not opportunities at scale.
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by firebones 9y ago
From what I've seen, buybacks are often more about preventing dilution due to share-based compensation; they're effectively a tax-advantaged dividend. However, they can also be a sign of a company that has no better idea for spend
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by firebones 9y ago
I'm interested: with Jim Simons, is it some acumen you believe in, some method he employs, or some connections/stature that leads good deals to his door? For instance, with Buffett, it seemed his stature, historical perspective, a
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by firebones 9y ago
Any infrastructure project will require more people while it is being built out, and the rate of job growth will scale with the rate of build out. That isn't a negative or a worry. If the market becomes saturated, the growth will sto
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by firebones 9y ago
> While this is a possibility, the wrench in the works is the Firefox browser. How is Google going to get them to play along and prevent 3rd-party blockers like UBlock Origin from working? I don't see it happening. As power and mone
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by firebones 9y ago
As the one who challenged you in that original thread, what drew me to your initial comment was the great point that you made: that much of the time and difficulty in doing something novel is making many of the tough decisions, and that onc
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by firebones 9y ago
Bravo!
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by firebones 9y ago
Four of those are bets on autonomous navigation and driving/flying. One (welding) has nothing to do with deep learning (that I'm aware of) and everything to do with the base rate of automation. In terms of level 5 autonomous drivi
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by firebones 9y ago
I wish I had enough spare cash to take you up on a bet that you could implement this in less than a weekend. Maybe HN can crowdfund paying you for two days at $1000/day to replicate, versus your time and a $3000 rebate if you can'
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by firebones 9y ago
What you state is factual. In the context of "as revolutionary as transistor", then I'd say yes as well. But when it comes to jobs, deep learning's impact is overstated. When I hear claims on how many jobs will be replac
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by firebones 9y ago
Yeah, tell that to all the hedonistic 5-year-olds who develop Type 1 juvenile diabetes. Give me a break.
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by firebones 9y ago
Two minutes is a helluva long time, (But if it's true that the cyanide crunch is 4 minutes, then, point given.)
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Bob Ross on AI Acid: Deeply Artificial Trees(vimeo.com)
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ProPublica Live-Crowdsourcing White House Financial Disclosure Dump(twitter.com)
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by firebones 10y ago
Thanks for the awesome writeup. Since you opened up questions: From the start of your cutover (when you started seeing the 500s) to resolution of the various issues along the way--how much time elapsed? (e.g., deciding to swap client libra

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