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by jdoliner 7y ago
It really depends on if their goal with this was actually a tangible result or just security theater. Snake oil's not a bad purchase if you're planning to resell it.
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It's supposed to remind you that the real nines of availability are the friends you make a long the way.
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The social media strike, as organized on Hacker News, Twitter, Facebook, etc. I honestly don't think people have much interest in striking these days if they can't post it on social media, but maybe this will have legs. It's
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by jdoliner 7y ago
My brain threw an exception when I read this title. Awesome that this is a reality though. Now that we have a Linux kernels running and accessible on both Windows and Chromebooks I feel like we can finally say: 2019 actually is the year of
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by jdoliner 7y ago
> Talk about primes in arithmetic progressions. Tao would later go in to prove that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes in his most famous work to date, The Green-Tao Theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by jdoliner 7y ago
> they also should not have stated an opinion without seeing the patient. Doesn't that mean that the doctors choices basically boil down to 1) see every patient that you get a phone call about or 2) don't take phone calls? Give
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Are there any similar prior cases where similar things have happened? Consults like this seem incredibly common, so it's hard to believe that this is the first one where the consult was wrong and it had consequences, maybe this is the
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by jdoliner 7y ago
This is how I see it too, things like the Covington kids create a backlash against the newsrooms that promulgate them. And NYT gave them too perfect of an opportunity when they published a remake of a Nazi propaganda comic that could easily
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by jdoliner 7y ago
This is the correct answer right here.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Your analogy is much better than mine.
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George W Bush won the popular vote in 2004 though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidentia...
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by jdoliner 7y ago
There have been 4 or 5 (one is a bit ambiguous) elections where the winner lost the popular vote. [0] So no, this isn't more than any other time in US history combined. But more importantly, who cares? They lost the popular vote in an
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by jdoliner 7y ago
I sincerely hope that adding this to your project is referred to as "taking the Black." Too good an opportunity to miss.
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First they came for the works-with-Nest API, and I did not speak out--- Because my app does not use the works-with-Nest API
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Agreed, it's hard to believe that if $5B isn't enough some larger amount will be, unless it's enough to completely wipe out Facebook. This has become a litigation of whether or not Facebook is a good idea, and these Senators
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by jdoliner 7y ago
I was just linking that as a reference for the declining life expectancy. I don't think they even come close to establishing opioid and suicide deaths as the cause, that's just journalistic conjecture. If you look at the number of
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by jdoliner 7y ago
I've been trying for a while to figure out what would be a good metric to judge the ACA by. Most of the time it's success is talked about in terms of number of people insured, but that doesn't really capture how well insured
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by jdoliner 7y ago
In my case the work I did at home eventually turned into my company which now has all of the things you're describing to better leverage it. But it all started with high leverage work that I did all by myself.
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It's also perfectly OK to not write code at all, that's what the vast majority of people do. Which isn't to say if you're not writing code in your free-time you should quit altogether. It's just to say that what&#x2
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by jdoliner 7y ago
This promises to causes a big shakeup of the Scrabble meta, two letter words are the lifeblood of high-level scrabble play and `K` is a juicy, juicy letter (points wise) to have an extra 2 letter word for.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Throwing my own project's hat in the ring, Pachyderm[0] is opensource, written in Go and built on Docker and Kubernetes. It versions controls your data, makes modifications atomic and tracks data lineage. You implement your pipelines i
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I was thinking this too, and wondering what sort of punishments they were going to have for people that sneak onto the island now... because they better be pretty severe if they're supposed to dissuade people who are willing try captur
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by jdoliner 8y ago
Good link, thank you.
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think Jews get much of an affirmative action boost either.
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From a purely strategical perspective I think Facebook probably did the calculus and realized that the negative press of not running her ads would far outweigh the damage it could do to her campaign. There's a good chance that Warren w
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by jdoliner 8y ago
How do you envision OpenAI capturing that value though? Value creation can be enough for a non-profit, not for a company though. If we OpenAI LP succeeds, and provides a return on investment what product will it be selling and who will be b
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I think YC only fairly recently started exercising their pro-rata. IIRC there was a while before YC Continuity was started when they didn't have funds allocated for pro-rata. They've had it for a while now but I think they may hav
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I remember just a few days ago when media outlets were slamming the "alt-right trolls" for spreading the racist conspiracy theory that the attack on Jussie Smollett was fake. Fast forward to today, it's generally accepted as
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I don't think lighting, sound and stunt people have the same influx of young starry eyed people coming into the profession though. That's what makes unions really difficult. Same thing applies to academia, which is arguably worse
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Then it's a humanitarian crisis.

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