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by jqgatsby 8y ago
That's an astute observation. Can you add a link?
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
I think a lot of the people here raving about how great duckduckgo is do not understand that it's just a layer on top of Bing results. You could run Bing (or Google for that matter) in an incognito window and get the same effect. What
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by jqgatsby 8y ago
The term that popped into my head was "tribalism", which seems related to but distinct from partisanship.
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by jqgatsby 9y ago
Is that official HN policy? I understand the desire to not make people feel unwelcome, and it is fairly rare that a conversation about technology needs to bring in religion. However, one could argue that challenging beliefs is a part of HN
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by jqgatsby 9y ago
No, jurors have to swear to tell the truth when answering questions during jury selection. However, in practice if you express any reservations about police testimony you will very likely be struck from the jury by the DA. My own limited ex
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by jqgatsby 9y ago
If you are looking for a smooth transition, get on a large team that is under-managed (say, >14 people and only one manager/tech-lead), and in addition to doing your regular tasks, start getting heavily involved in sprint planning a
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by jqgatsby 10y ago
I've been hoping to find a rebuttal to Skilling's paper from someone who understands information geometry. Anyone here able to provide one? Or are his critiques viewed as legitimate?
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by jqgatsby 10y ago
Jason, I've been a big fan of your work ever since Mahalo days. Love what you and Lon are doing with Inside.com. Ping me if you ever want to discuss tech strategy, I think your format is uniquely well-suited to a machine learning appro
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by jqgatsby 10y ago
This site is unusable on mobile for me (I'm on chrome/android) because the birthdate selector requires me to wind the calendar selector to 30+ years month-by-month (so 360+ swipes to register my birthdate). Anyone else run into th
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by jqgatsby 10y ago
@pg recently tweeted: "Prediction: Micropayments will happen, but the main beneficiaries will be new publications created to take advantage of them." I'd love to hear from him and any others who think the time has come (or no
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by jqgatsby 10y ago
Terry Brooks!
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by jqgatsby 10y ago
"once, you're lucky. twice, you're good" could be a reasonable metric for execs who take on high risk projects.
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
Why is this a requirement?
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
It is definitely worth $100K. Just because it was a rational decision from my perspective is separate from saying that the system which decided to charge me that amount is a good system.
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
My line there was intentionally facetious. That being said, there are people who can legitimately afford to pay $100K in tuition. I was not one of them. I am doubtful that universities are able to distinguish between the two, but currently
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
I willingly took the best deal I could get, and I would make the same deal with the information I have today. At the same time, a system that arbitrarily indebts some students and gives others a free ride is unfair and needs to change. Also
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
I am not my parents. I did not have a say in their financial decisions. The argument you're making is equivalent to arguing that the debts of parents should be passed on to their children, a practice that was outlawed long ago.
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
I fully concede that taking $100K in debt was my best option. Saying that I did it freely and even well-informedly is not the same thing as saying it was a fair situation.
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
I'm not saying we should saddle people from poor backgrounds with the same crushing debts as the middle class folks. I don't know of another country that expects any students to take on the kind of debt burden that we take on here
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
http://web.mit.edu/facts/financial.html In 2015, tuition accounted for only 10% of MIT's yearly revenue (~$331M), so you have to cut the rest of the budget by 10% to give everyone free tuition. One natural area to
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
Comparison to Gear VR seems inappropriate, given the huge amount of effort Oculus the company has put into the partnership with Samsung.
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
Sorry, what you call a 'crack in the best system available' is the life I've had to live. I've had to take less societally-beneficial jobs because they paid more, while my loan-free friends were off joining the Peace C
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
I walked out of MIT with $100K in student loans, because I had the combination of 'parents who make too much money' and 'parents who had five kids and did not adequately save for their children's education'. I'
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
It is related, and is called the inspection paradox. Identified for me by Allen Downey, with some explanation below: http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/11/recidivism-and-singl...
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
Can anyone give specific company examples of business model #4: "Trying to use someone else’s network and only pay the marginal cost of doing so" Examples outside fintech are also very welcome.
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
OpenMail | Los Angeles(Venice), CA | Full-time, ONSITE, VISA welcome OpenMail is a thriving adtech startup with a team of 30, evenly split between engineering and business development. We’re addicted to data and optimization, striving every
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" aliens are using a prototype language like Javascript, instead of a class based language like Java. I think we need a programming language that takes this to its natural conclusion, where everything i
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by jqgatsby 11y ago
My hat is off to Frondo and notahacker. I've occasionally (regrettably, foolishly) tried to argue it out with the "taxation is theft" folks, and this is the first time I've seen one of them actually give up from exhausti
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
I was at Google from 2006-2012 and like most Googlers, used Borg extensively. Since leaving, I've been generally impressed by the AWS ecosystem, but have been sorely missing Borg-like functionality. It's felt like the rest of the
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by jqgatsby 12y ago
First, we weren't intentionally breaking any law. Second, arguing for or against firearms is beside the point. I'm arguing against people blindly obeying any law, if it comes at the expense of exercising sound personal judgment.

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