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by iaw 10y ago
You're completely right. Gene Roddenberry created a quasi-utopian future, I don't think he created Star Trek with the aim of answering the questions about how we maintain our society through the coming technological advances. I
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by iaw 10y ago
I suspect the people building it do, the people selling it probably do not.
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by iaw 10y ago
Every time I've talked to their recruiters over the last couple years it was "just around the corner."
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by iaw 10y ago
Finally someone is saying it loudly. I've tried to make this point in the past to no avail. If Lyft can hold out they may survive over the long-term, but the strategies that allow Uber to be dominant will also prevent it from being
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by iaw 10y ago
I too found that enjoyable in Japan. The elimination of the Swastika from Western cultures as a response to the atrocities of the Nazi regime makes sense to me, eliminating it from Eastern cultures just seems to be giving the Nazi's a
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by iaw 10y ago
It didn't sound like any of the parcels had occupants nor were the ownership rights concentrated in a single individual. I'm not sure how I feel about this but it isn't a cut and dry issue.
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by iaw 10y ago
Not from what I've seen.
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by iaw 10y ago
For one, I don't appreciate your reductio ad absurdum[1] approach to discussion. Snowden would also have to be "secretly really old" to coordinate the 9/11 attacks and even then the claim is patently absurd. Snowden had
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by iaw 10y ago
Ballmer was a political leader for Microsoft (looking back on his statements, they were all designed around keeping the stock price up not prognosticating the future of tech/Microsoft). I give Cook a lot more credit than Ballmer, he ma
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by iaw 10y ago
There's a balance, too little silo'ing and you get thrash/overlap. Too much silo'ing and you get tunnel-vision products/unhealthy competition. I don't know how you can strike the right balance.
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by iaw 10y ago
Could you explain why this is practical advice and how it addresses any of the points on the article about long-term equity dilution and liquidation deferral?
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by iaw 10y ago
I haven't seen many start-ups that didn't break the law in some way or another. Sometimes out of sheer ignorance and other times out of expedience. Hell, Airbnb and Uber are built on breaking the law.
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by iaw 10y ago
I helped an ex of mine work through the negotiations of an executive pay package. Everyone that's been around upper-management is fully aware of this and works clauses into their contracts to prevent it. It's such crap.
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by iaw 10y ago
Do you think it would survive a legal challenge?
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by iaw 10y ago
Honest question: what percentage of unicorn start-ups are outside of the US? Being modestly familiar with legal restrictions around closing offices in France I'd be surprised if the scene there was massive.
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by iaw 10y ago
Snowden should be pardoned for his work revealing domestic wiretapping program, the other programs he leaked he should do his time for.
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by iaw 10y ago
I disagree. Manning's intent and actions are far short of those of Snowden. Snowden leaked information on valid espionage programs and possibly gave Russia the keys to the castle when he fled the country. I used to think Snowden dese
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by iaw 10y ago
How would you describe Russia? How would you describe Snowden's flight from prosecution in the US? Russia was an adversary before the Crimean annexation, shadow wars involving Iran and Syria make that clear.
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by iaw 10y ago
I agree with the Manning pardon, I don't think Snowden deserves a pardon. Manning's motives and understanding of what she was doing is worlds different than Snowden's. Snowden sought a position to access more information for
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by iaw 10y ago
> Speaker Paul D. Ryan called it “outrageous.” “President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won’t be held accountable for their crimes,” he said in a statement. Didn't GW
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by iaw 10y ago
Beautiful. I see so many software engineers that make design mistakes because they are over-confident in their understanding of ML, Statistics, and Economics. This is a welcome inclusion.
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by iaw 10y ago
My guess (I haven't had a chance to fully digest the paper) would be that they are saying spam is designed to emulate high quality signals so discounting it in the quality ranking could mute actual organic quality signals. Instead the
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by iaw 10y ago
Stephen Wolfram seems absurdly intelligent to me, I can't even fathom the depth of his comprehensions.
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm not sure if it would matter if they were really inaccurate if the ship used the same sandglass and rope. I've read about the shipping log -> world map work [1] where it details that the speeds/distances for a given gr
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by iaw 10y ago
Thanks for the support, it's strange that more people don't openly acknowledge that the medical system isn't a free market.
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by iaw 10y ago
The ACA in it's current form is probably comparable to a fire department in your analogy. As others have pointed out the true problems in our system revolve around medical providers price-gouging, someone who is ill and seeking medical
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by iaw 10y ago
This works wonderfully at lower population densities but starts breaking down when you get past a threshold.
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by iaw 10y ago
I had looked at dry storage of heat using NaOH a while ago, I can't recall the energy density but it's on wikipedia. The bigger problem that I found was that the efficiency was horrible . I wonder if having it in solution resolv
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by iaw 10y ago
That was the same conclusion that I reached, it's easy to prescribe justice and solutions from a vacuum protected by law enforcement, but in that actual situation I don't think I could've taken different actions from him.
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by iaw 10y ago
Sorry, let me elaborate what I mean by "potential." I don't mean candidates that have potential to do the job extremely well, but candidates that apply for positions with adequate signals but without the capabilities to do t

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