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by freyir 10y ago
I love elites. But by definition, they're small group of people that have disproportionate influence over an entire population. There's nothing inherently unlikeable about that in principal. In practice, the drive to amass enormou
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by freyir 10y ago
None of what you wrote backs up the statement that "Mexico is sending us their rapists." Trump's statement indicates a proactive effort by the Mexican government to send rapists to the U.S. It might be true that a disproporti
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by freyir 10y ago
> "They're not sending their best... They're sending people that have lots of problems... they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, their rapists." Is "Mexico is sending us their rapists" t
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by freyir 10y ago
> he was as popular with elites as Bernie Sanders So... not popular with elites.
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by freyir 10y ago
They should tie in a plot line about how our consumption culture has obliterated our attention spans and made us dependent on constant stimuli.
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by freyir 10y ago
> It went so quickly from a semi-plausible portrayal to a fetishization of [black hat] hackers. It's understandable that a lot of people on HN went in expecting a realistic show about hacking, and wound up with a much more abstrac
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by freyir 10y ago
Thanks, I wasn't familiar with many of these projects. I'm still not sure whether all this output justifies the staff, or whether they're over-engineering the hell out of a microblogging service.
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by freyir 10y ago
By this logic, you can say "We'll do X for rich people. Since there are so many millionaires, it's a $60B business" for just about any hare-brained scheme. If Lyft is burning $50M/month driving me across town for $1
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by freyir 10y ago
I know that Instacart/Postmates/etc. exist, are convenient, and are used by some people. I'm just skeptical that this is Uber's plan for "superior returns." I'm skeptical that driving bouquets and salads a
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by freyir 10y ago
> But the real play here is to use taxi service as a pretext/generator for building up an on-demand courier service [1] with superior returns So people will drive their sedans around the city delivering flowers and cakes and laund
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by freyir 10y ago
Autonomous vehicles will require engineering that's more like NASA and less like weekend hackathon. Given Musk's association with SpaceX, I was hopeful we'd get the former, but it's starting to look like an autopilot sol
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by freyir 10y ago
> Blogger, Blogspot, Livejournal, Tumblr, Medium, they're all in this same space So why does Twitter need 3,800 employees? Why does it need 1,500 technical employees? Sure, it gets more traffic than any of those other sites, but g
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by freyir 10y ago
You don't mention (a) your reason for pursuing a PhD / what you plan to do after grad school, (b) what you've achieved so far in the past 3 years, or (c) your field of study. Without at least that information, it would be ver
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by freyir 10y ago
Mediocre might have been too harsh, but it's not significantly better than other cities I've lived in. My biggest issue with the nightlife? The people. I'm tired of being surrounded by loud, drunk techies talking about apps,
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by freyir 10y ago
> Art, Museums, Sports, Music, Food etc. all contribute to what what we call culture. I love museums, but I go once or twice a year. Same with live sports. It doesn't really justify living in a place. Live music is great, although
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by freyir 10y ago
The nightlife scene in SF is mediocre at best. SF is by far the dirtiest city I've been to in the US; parts of it are downright disgusting. SV (excluding SF) is a terrible place to be a single man. It's fine for outdoor activities
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by freyir 10y ago
Yeah, like his wives. Stupid wives.
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by freyir 10y ago
> "Apple uses control over the iPhone platform to advantage Apple Music over other subscription music services." Is this true? I don't feel like my iPhone compels me to use Apple Music over Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, etc.
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by freyir 10y ago
Of the population that attends law school, passes the bar exam, and practices law, very few end up as corporate lawyers. And fewer still make multiple millions per year . You're comparing a very broad class (SV engineers) to an extrem
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by freyir 10y ago
> Or make a wider ladder? What do you do next with your glut of senior managers? Or on the compensation side, there may not be resources to pay everyone as much as they'd like.
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by freyir 10y ago
> can't penetrate sheetrock effectively Unfortunately, it can't penetrate human bodies or furniture effectively either. It's effectively requires a line of sight to have a good connection. If the line of sight is blocked
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by freyir 10y ago
> I can't control when or where they transmit. You can't actually control which frequencies your neighbors transmit on either. The best you can do is observe which frequencies are the most crowded, and avoid them. But essenti
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by freyir 10y ago
Using the spatial dimension means directing a WiFi signal in a particular direction, or nulling interference in a particular direction. This can be done adaptively using multiple antennas on a single device. There are mainly two techniques.
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by freyir 10y ago
> If a product brags about its Bluetooth support, I immediately start losing trust in it Unfortunately, there aren't viable wireless connectivity alternatives for commercial products other than Wi-Fi for long range and Bluetooth f
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by freyir 10y ago
As evidence against: > Simulations Are Things In The World ... they do not step out of Musk’s base reality. They are still base reality. They are made of the same stuff everything else is made of. I stopped reading here.
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by freyir 10y ago
Recent research (along with past research) has cast doubt on the plausibility of extreme speed reading [1]. I don't mean to contradict Alan; no doubt he's a fast reader. But if you're actually reading an entire book every day
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by freyir 10y ago
And the internal codename for a Microsoft-developed music-making program similar to Apple's GarageBand. Apparently never released. [1] http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/04/11/microsoft-readies-mo...
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by freyir 10y ago
Perhaps a lawyer's working hours tend to be more "efficient" or more stressful. My interaction has been primarily limited to in-house patent attorneys, and they don't seem to work appreciably harder or be more stressed
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by freyir 10y ago
No, but they found a way to kill off competition and defend their monopoly to the tune of $75B in revenue/year.
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by freyir 10y ago
They're talking about 2000 billable hours and 2500-3000 actual hours (50 to 60 hours a week). Of course, many engineers work similar hours, for far less than a NYC law associate.

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