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by jonas21 5y ago
Luck can simultaneously play a huge role and be relatively unimportant. On any given product, you can do most things wrong and maybe 1% of the time you'll get lucky and succeed -- or you can do most things right and succeed maybe 30% o
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by jonas21 5y ago
Or is it simply that we're more aware of the failures because anything a big company does gets press coverage? If you're small, you can fail quietly (and they do all the time).
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I don't understand. Either you record the result of the coin flip, in which case you can easily determine each participant's actual answer -- or you don't, in which case the data collected is useless. An easy way to see this
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by jonas21 5y ago
Because the rule of law?
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by jonas21 5y ago
All blogs attract low-quality comments. Whether you see them is a function of how much effort is put into moderation. I'm just speculating, but Terry Tao probably has better things to do with his time.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Not if you're writing Math.abs(). The motivation for the article is this change in OpenJDK, where they got a 10% performance improvement by switching from the single-branch implementation to the branchless one: https://githu
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by jonas21 5y ago
If the will of the people changes, they can pass another ballot initiative that repeals or amends the first one, using exactly the same process, with a simple majority vote. The reason California ends up stuck with some decisions for decade
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by jonas21 5y ago
> It still seems like California's process is the least democratic. Did you mean the most democratic? California's process means the legislature can't override the will of the people -- only the people can do that, thr
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by jonas21 5y ago
> The use of crypto in real estate purchases has a history dating back seven years, with BitPay helping facilitate the sale of a Lake Tahoe property that sold for $1.6 million in BTC in 2014. In case anyone's wondering, it was 2,7
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by jonas21 5y ago
First, I'm sure they thought the probability of being caught, and thus the risk to themselves, was low. And who knows? They may have even been right about this -- without knowing how many people get away with insider trading, it's
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by jonas21 5y ago
Luckily, we don't have to guess based on what is conceivable. The US government keeps statistics on this. Even since 1985, the rate of both workplace injuries [1] and fatalities [2] have fallen significantly. (the fatality graph doesn&
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by jonas21 5y ago
Yes, but you'd need up to 64 obstacles.
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by jonas21 5y ago
> I couldn't imagine trying to build an iOS app on an iPad, even an iPad Pro with a keyboard. Why not? The only officially-supported way to build iOS apps right now is using Xcode on a Mac. What would be the difference between usi
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> When was the last time they did anything good? Oh I dunno... how about that time they solved protein folding? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
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by jonas21 5y ago
Top 10 by what metric? By market cap the top 10 companies are [1]: 1. Apple 2. Microsoft 3. Amazon 4. Alphabet 5. Facebook 6. Tencent 7. Tesla 8. Berkshire Hathaway 9. TSMC 10. Alibaba With the exception of Berkshire Hathaway, these are al
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Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules(freddixx.medium.com)
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One thing that stood out to me is that you've applied 3 or 4 times as a solo founder, while acknowledging that YC prefers teams to solo founders. The reason they give for this preference is that "one-person startups are tough and
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Also, keeping a service running exposes you to liability in the event of a data breach or GDPR violation. As I understand it, even if a tiny service that nobody cares about is found to violate the GDPR, the company can be fined up to 4% of
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If you look at the history of the Public Broadcasting Act [1] that established the CPB and eventually PBS, it seems clear that it was passed in response to poorly-funded educational programming not being able to compete with high-budget com
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by jonas21 5y ago
Yes, as long as the plastic ends up in a proper landfill, it won't cause harm to the environment. In places with good waste management practices, like the U.S., nearly all plastic trash ends up in a landfill. As a result, the U.S. is
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I think their argument is a little more subtle than that -- the issue isn't really that there are no negative results, but rather that the shape of the distribution of results is funny. They're saying you'd expect the results
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Where "contact" is a euphemism for "send death threats to"?
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by jonas21 5y ago
1. So it looks like they lost $14M on revenue of $71M in 2019, and $16M on revenue of $162M in 2020. Revenue more than doubled YoY, which is impressive. Costs also grew (by a smaller percentage), but they're presumably spending a lot t
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FWIW, the strongest programmer on the team was the guy with the physics degree.
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> "- little or no required education": maybe, but only for the rare prodigy. "Software engineers" without an understanding of math and some amount of formal computer science are necessary evils rather than assets. Or
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With a few small tweaks, this comment could have been about Internet Explorer and Microsoft a couple decades ago.
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This comment is right on the line where I can't tell if it's sarcasm or not.
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Also, traditional engineers design things to withstand conditions that they would reasonably face in ordinary use, with some additional safety factor. They don't design them to withstand deliberate attacks by nation-level actors like w
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> DeepMind claimed that they used “128 TPUv3 cores or roughly equivalent to ~100-200 GPUs”. Although this amount of compute seems beyond the wildest dreams of most academic researchers... So, we're talking like what? Maybe $100K t
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by jonas21 5y ago
It used to be that you could give employees gift cards up to a certain amount as awards and it would not be considered taxable income (but I believe that's no longer the case).

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