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by jdoliner 10y ago
Possibly, I think the anti-vaxxer movement has more to do with a distrust of authority, particularly scientific authority, than it has to do with an actual fear of autism. If / when a measles outbreak happens there's still a quest
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I can understand the anger, it's quite horrifying that diseases we thought were eradicated are making a comeback. On the other hand I'm also horrified by the idea of shipping people off to Alaska for refusing to submit to a medica
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It's a bit confusing in this context, I interpreted "blue team" as Democrat team.
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All digital properties go to a clean slate when the Presidency changes hands. There's nothing odd about this. It's similar to the physical aspects of the government, such as cabinet posts, that are directly under the Presidents pu
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What does a sponsored front for intelligence even mean? Sponsored by whom? For whose intelligence is it a front for?
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Were those people who made incredible amounts of money without technical abilities beyond mediocre PHP skills making their money as salaried software engineers? OP specifically asked about making a $1MM/year while still working as a pr
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by jdoliner 10y ago
OP isn't quite asking that imo. If you want to add enough value to justify that salary there's an obvious answer: get better at your job. I.e. don't be in the top 25% of programmers, be in the top 1% or .1%. If OP was asking
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Brimming with arrogance and a complete lack of self awareness. There are a lot of programmers in the top 25% that are willing to work for a lot less than 1 million a year. Why would anyone hire this guy who has no social skills, is arrogant
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This is the unfortunate reality that no one wants to face. Trump ran on an anti-immigration platform and won. Contrary to what Sam says I don't think that most people voted for Trump for different reasons. Some did, but for many the an
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by jdoliner 10y ago
It seems remarkable that time crystals were theorized in 2012 and confirmed in 2017. It took several decades for experimental methods to catch up to the Higgs Boson for example.
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A number of notable opensource projects in the big data space were started at LinkedIn. Kafka is probably the most prominent example but there are others too. So I'd say they're fairly known for their engineering. You definitely d
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True, but I think that'll have an asymmetric effect. Generally when people adopt a product it's because they have some sort of burning desire, it's faster, it let's me do stuff I couldn't before, it allows me to avo
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Do you think there's something different that Cockroach could do? Or do you think that the database market as it exists today leaves them without a path to building a lasting business? Personally I believe that latter. I don't see
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Ringling Bros. circus to close after 146 years(daytondailynews.com)
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Agreed, this is a fantastic description of one of the true legends of CS. I had the great fortune of having Laci as my algorithms professor. Many great researchers are lousy lecturers, Laci is anything but. He's a captivating lecturer.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
It even says explicitly: > Do you want to know our conclusions without any regard to how we reached those conclusions? ... If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then you, like me, have natural human cognitive dysfunctions.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Judging from the article it might be pretty expensive, one of the things they talked about was the space requirements which makes sense, cheetahs need to run. I think that's part of why this is such a tricky problem to solve.
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> I am a bigger fan of the keep it simple approach, which is my way of saying I prefer to write web applications in the web technologies directly intended for the given task. Web applications is the task that Go was directly intended for
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I haven't heard anyone wishing it were more like Java although Google does have a Java to Javascript compiler that they use for some of their web applications. I'd guess those people in some way wish Javascript was more like Java
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Glad to see Leo doing this, his fund was an investor in my company so I've gotten to experience a few rounds of Leo office hours, although we didn't call them that at the time. He was very helpful and smart in my experience. On an
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by jdoliner 10y ago
IEEE standard floating point semantics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point
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No matter how many times you say that this situation is "literally the definition of debt" you're still not going to the legal definition of debt so that it applies here. Equity is not debt, they do both until eventually owin
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People do run Kubernetes on bare metal... but there's no denying it takes effort. That effort should be coming down over time, but unfortunately there's still a ways to go.
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AdRoll has done some very cool stuff using containers for data processing. Afaik they were some of the first people to use this approach, and I think it's worked out quite well for them and given them quite an edge over their competito
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Fortunately, the U.S. legal system does not afford corporations the right to a business model.
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I have a feeling that if they ever tried to prosecute the accounts part of warning they would lose miserable. Imagine them trying to argue that a person describing a game they'd seen to a friend required their consent. Maybe it would f
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I'm not sure I'd agree, the moves of a Chess game aren't really analogous to a broadcast. They're a lot more like a box score a play by play summary of a sport which I think are both legal to share. A broadcast of a ches
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It's quite possible that AIs will reveal completely new and different types of strategies. It's very unlikely that a concept as broad as deceit is going to be disproven though. I mean just thinking about what that would look like
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No the same thing very much could not be said about Go. Go is a perfect information game so by definition it can't involve deception. It's a completely different problem for AIs.

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