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by hamburga 5y ago
Dystopian, horrific, bound to fail. I actually went and listened to the "billionaire visionary" on a podcast about this: https://ideas.beondeck.com/mission-driven-cities-with-marc-l... You can get a very quick sen
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by hamburga 5y ago
org-mode with org-fc for spaced repetition
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by hamburga 5y ago
Is this practice -- putting founder shares in a Roth IRA when they are worthless -- sort of standard practice? Is everybody doing it and Thiel just did it most successfully?
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by hamburga 5y ago
I'll take all the laughs I can get! No smarm intended.
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by hamburga 5y ago
Nope, it's from his book of aphorisms.
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by hamburga 5y ago
Nerds are already high-status. Look who just hosted Saturday Night Live. The contrarian position is to be anti-nerd and pro-charm. Taleb on this: https://www.azquotes.com/author/18869-Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb/... &gt
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by hamburga 5y ago
Meta-question: shouldn't there be a website dedicated specifically to reliable, crowd-sourced answers to questions like these? Does it really not exist? I'm thinking like StackShare, but you start from "What's the proble
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Live: Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs Testify on Capitol Hill(youtube.com)
4 points by hamburga 6y ago|0 comments
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by hamburga 6y ago
In case you're eager to upgrade (I never am, that's the point with Emacs![1]) here's the description of the changes: "Emacs 27.2 is a bug-fix release, with no new features with respect toEmacs 27.1." [1] Excellent S
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Rural Gentrification: A Minifesto(muldoon.cloud)
1 points by hamburga 6y ago|0 comments
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Introducing SciTech(muldoon.cloud)
1 points by hamburga 6y ago|0 comments
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by hamburga 6y ago
> almost everything he says is "wrong" if we push the details Author here. Part of the point was to expose my ignorance and get people to rip it to shreds. So have at it if you want. I've actually learned a good amount so
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by hamburga 6y ago
OP here: yeah, that is wrong. I meant to say serverless, like AWS lambda. Fairly embarrassing. I just updated the blog.
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by hamburga 6y ago
OP here. I know that these rules of thumb gloss over some of the details, and it's this kind of ruthless criticism that I wanted to invite with posting this :) I'm coming from the perspective of a tech giant, where there are thous
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by hamburga 6y ago
OP here. You're spot on. Both in calling out that this is a solvable problem (not a fact of nature) and that writing is probably a pretty good way to get started. That was definitely the idea with putting up the blog. I came up with th
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by hamburga 6y ago
OP here: take another look at the first sentence of that post-mortem doc. I don't think it's misleading to say that this was primarily driven by InfoSec. Though I don't disagree that the purported benefits of XWiki technology
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Rules of Thumb for a 1x Developer(muldoon.cloud)
4 points by hamburga 6y ago|0 comments
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Amazon fires 2 tech workers after they publicly criticized warehouse conditions(theverge.com)
176 points by hamburga 7y ago|6 comments
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by hamburga 7y ago
The general Western game plan right now seems to be: (1) shut down the whole nonessential part of the economy, (2) buy time to not overwhelm medical systems, (3) gradually turn the economy back on where safe. For part (3) the general idea o
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by hamburga 7y ago
Couldn't you say that any plant that orients itself towards the sun (e.g. sunflower) can detect light without eyes?
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by hamburga 8y ago
Gavin Newsom, the governor of CA, spoke about this in his State of the State yesterday: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler... This book offers one set of proposals for "Data as Labor
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by hamburga 8y ago
There was still lots of local pressure from Chambers of Commerce type folks to get cities involved. And if they didn't apply, civic leaders would be accused of being anti-jobs. So a lot of pressure to get involved even if not straight
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by hamburga 8y ago
But they have a disproportionate impact on mindshare -- on defining what the limited supply of professional scientists and engineers perceive as the most interesting and important problems to solve. This is a zero-sum game: every minute a b
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by hamburga 8y ago
Just curious, what's the state of the art of global ecology modeling? How well, if at all, could we model, for example, what'd happen if the Laternfly landed in Italy? Or what'd happen, for example, if we CRISPR gene-drived t
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by hamburga 8y ago
Has anybody heard from YC's New Cities project, by the way? Should we assume it's disbanded? https://cities.ycr.org/
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by hamburga 8y ago
Didn't realize this! Interesting take here about how this actually just a run-of-the-mill sprawling Phoenix development that Gates invested in just for profit: https://slate.com/business/2017/11/bill-gate
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by hamburga 8y ago
This one? https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer
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by hamburga 8y ago
This is very interesting and exactly what I was looking to find. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US?
37 points by hamburga 8y ago|27 comments
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by hamburga 8y ago
https://stallman.org/facebook.html

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