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by frongpik 6y ago
Iirc, they've got 200 millions in VC funding, enough to buy 500 dev-years of really experienced devs.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's wrong, though. Occultism didn't have the evil meaning until very recently. That's similar to how nazis have changed the public image of swastika: before them it was an Egyptian symbol of light or something of that sort
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by frongpik 6y ago
Aka every human has the innate ability to distinguish good from evil. This idea is older than dinosaurs.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Here's an opinion from a deeply cynical person who's also 15 years deep into this mysticism rabbit hole. My takeaway is that there's something in this meditation thing. At the very least, concentrating on a static imaginary s
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by frongpik 6y ago
I believe AI will start as a basic principle or idea that can be applied to any sufficiently big state machine that controls e.g. an RC airplane or traffic lights. That idea will be obvious in a hindsight. I'd even make a guess that it
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by frongpik 6y ago
In short: startups lure you with an opportunity to make a FANG-level pay if and only if the startup goes big.
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by frongpik 6y ago
When you climb the social ladder, there's a brief moment when yours and women's expectatitions aling, but that moment quickly passes and you enter the territory when the sides flip: women chase you, but you stay clear of any legal
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by frongpik 6y ago
"Fuck y’all’s insensitivity" - amazing summary, really. I've seen this attitude a lot, but these 4 words is the best summary I've seen. You basically said that unless we tip toe around your sensitivity and morning mood,
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by frongpik 6y ago
I like comparing this type of unification with margin trading, in this case with 18000:1 leverage: if stocks go up, you get many multiples of the usual profits, but it takes only a tiny dip in the price to wipe out the account balance.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The caveat is that computing this formula with enough precision to get the correct result needs as many steps as the recursive algorithm.
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by frongpik 6y ago
A wild guess: the big chip makers have been compromised (e.g. adversaries have figured how to use the Intel's ME module to exfiltrate data or even send commands), and the software corps have no choice but to manufacture their own.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Bad guys are powerful because they are organized. Like you said: an organized 1% can wipe floor with the rest 99%. You can set up a nonprofit org funded by membership fees and call it say "a software engineering guild". That'
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by frongpik 6y ago
The corporate's plan is simple: whitewash their ML business and score some diversity points (they're a federal contractor which imposes certain obligations). They tried to do both things at the same time. Whether the spoiled kids
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by frongpik 6y ago
I disagree that these activists constitute a tribe. They are really just spoiled kids who used to have power over their parents. Now they enter the big world and keep doing what they've been always doing: throwing tantrums and yelling
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by frongpik 6y ago
Perhaps the new group won't confuse ethics with activism.
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by frongpik 6y ago
A big reorg is coming to that ethics group.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The good old bloatification. At some point Maps was nearly perfect. However the hundreds of people behind it would be let go if they called Maps "complete" so they turned the growth inwards and started creating the bloat.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Well educated kids is obviously an asset to our society, but it puzzles me how the same society not only doesn't reward men for raising kids, it makes kids their biggest liability. It's like planting a tree because our society cri
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by frongpik 6y ago
I can see how he says on some TV interview: "well, as an african myself, I ..."
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's the "entropy only goes up" or "all available space will be filled with complexity" rule of software orgs. Employees are paid to add new features, regardless of how useless they are. The only situation when th
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by frongpik 6y ago
I switched to a custom domain only when gmail torpedoed one of my secondary gmail accounts.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Firefox should sign a deal with EU and get funding from them. Their selling point could be "Unlike other browsers, Firefox won't send data to the US and will enforce GDPR even on sites that arent compliant". Otherwise Firefox
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by frongpik 6y ago
Same for hiring. FB's money making machine needs very few engineers, but it still needs to keep hiring to deprive potential competitors from competent programmers.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Zuck is just an empty shell, really. He could be replaced with a tree and the company wouldn't notice. However the moment FB reaches a plateau, everybody will dump their stocks and buy treasury notes instead.
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by frongpik 6y ago
No offence, but in most startups, even the CEO is just a line manager who wouldn't make more than 200k in a second tier company. Unless you own 10% of the preferred shares in that startup, you're giving them a huge discount. If I
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by frongpik 6y ago
They don't have a choice. Wall St expects them to grow by 25% year to year, and as the opportunities to increase the user base are drying up, FB will have to use more and more predatory business models.
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by frongpik 6y ago
This is why I'm ok to stop updating browsers and risk getting pwned just to keep uBO. It's a lot more likely that I'll get pwned by a fishy script distributed by an ads network than by a buffer overflow bug in a font renderer
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by frongpik 6y ago
Switch jobs. You can't escape this hole by doing more work. In fact, doing more work will solidify your managers opinion that the new role is better for you. Do exactly what's told in the gervais principle book: slack off to the b
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by frongpik 6y ago
It's the good observation that there are owners, labour and managers between the two, because owners don't want to manage the labour. The book just explains how exactly this manifests in the corporate world. And it's a really

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