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by jwhite 17y ago
I don't think that's strictly true. A shareholder, somewhere, lost value. VC's are just shareholders that make riskier bets.
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by jwhite 17y ago
Thanks for your long post, it was very informative and you've convinced me about "could care less". I think HN's apparently strange mix of anti-authoritarianism with prescriptive attitudes to language becomes easier to understand if you con
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by jwhite 17y ago
If you're a fan of Strunk & White, you can usually do without "pretty much" as well. What does it add?
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by jwhite 17y ago
I agree with you. The reason such errors worry me, even if clarity isn't an issue, is that the next generation reads these incorrect texts and assumes that everything they read was written correctly. As a consequence these kids misunderst
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by jwhite 17y ago
> The article is mixed I tend to agree. The title put me off as well. The attitude that existence depends on the event being recorded is too relativist for my personal preference. The central point, that civilizations tend to underrat
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by jwhite 17y ago
> There are probably more action figures of Godzilla in existence today than there ever were copies of Plato's works. And plastic doesn't break down at nearly the same rate as parchment or papyrus. You make good points.
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by jwhite 17y ago
That may open up a new revenue stream for AT&T, but I don't think it solves the cost issue in their long-haul business that they were trying to address by not carrying calls terminating at expensive LEC's. I don't know the details of it
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by jwhite 17y ago
Among other things, he saw segfaults in the GC and found the debugger randomly detaching from the target process. I'd say that's a terrible execution environment, and orthogonal to speed. Sometimes you don't see how bad a tool is until you
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by jwhite 17y ago
> Decentralized doesn't mean client-side. I think that's a good point. Is there any reason why Twitter couldn't be decentralized in a way that's transparent to the users? The article seems to go off on a bit of a daydream about open,
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by jwhite 17y ago
> I'm sorry but smart people don't make wild generalizations because they understand it's impossible to easily categorize almost 7 billion unique people. I think you're confusing categorizing people with pronouncing value judgments on t
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by jwhite 17y ago
But if the technique in question was promoted as a scientific means of doing just that, then you have to question it, and its proponents. LTCM is the example that springs to mind.
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by jwhite 17y ago
> "3 am returning from a night on the town" :-) that's true, and I am partial to the odd drunken cheeseburger myself, but I'm not a 6 year old nagging my Mum to take me to MacDonalds because I just _have_ to have the latest piece of che
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by jwhite 17y ago
I don't mean to be impolite, but your response to the article seems a little defensive to me. The illustrative story he uses is contrived, but if you read his other writings at that URL, it seems to be that his general style leans towards