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by kevinskii 5y ago
Many of the "initial" comments here are at least as deliberate and thoughtful as the ensuing "objection" comments, including the one you replied to. I agree that such a contrarian dynamic likely exists on HN, but you&#x2
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by kevinskii 5y ago
Heh. Not far off, in my opinion.
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by kevinskii 5y ago
I can't speak to Mighty's potential, but this essay is quite good. As one anecdote in support of its argument, I have an acquaintance who co-founded a startup about 10 years ago. Much like Dropbox's early skeptics, I didn&#x2
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by kevinskii 5y ago
You're right, I should have left off the last sentence. But words mean things. Let's save the description "abusive and predatory" for things that are, well, abusive and predatory. A voluntary invitation to collaborate do
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by kevinskii 5y ago
One time someone asked me for a favor. I thought it was unreasonable so I declined. I didn't realize this sort of thing was "abusive and predatory." I feel so victimized now.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Well, I live in the Los Angeles area. My kids' school is a 300ft walk down a shady greenbelt, and there's a huge park next to it. Before the pandemic we regularly walked to nearby shops and dining. There are miles of hiking trails
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I can certainly understand your perspective, and there are still a lot of appealing things about the Bay Area. Yet all the perks you mentioned about living in SF are the norm in many places. Crime and homelessness and feces aren't some
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by kevinskii 6y ago
SEC rules aren't the only concern, and "market moving" was perhaps too specific a phrase. There are lots of legitimate legal and financial reasons that a company may choose to be circumspect in its communication. As one total
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by kevinskii 6y ago
We make medical devices. They are surprisingly complicated things, and many peoples' lives depend on them. There's also a lot of ways in which they might potentially fail, and these failures can manifest years after the product ha
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I completely agree. I work for a big company. I've been here for 18 years. It is a fantastic place to work. The people, the pay, the flexibility, the meaningful work, all are great. No place is perfect, but I haven't yet found any
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Neuralink is neuroscience theater (2020)(technologyreview.com)
2 points by kevinskii 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I read it as more of an attempt to frame Hao Huang’s accomplishment in a way that a lay audience could better appreciate it. I didn’t get any sense that it was disrespectful.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
It's definitely a reminder of what the "good old days" were often really like. The worst Reddit thread I've come across has less vitriol and sanctimony than this HN thread from 2007.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Sure. I’m not discounting the value of the network entirely. I’m suggesting that it doesn’t appear to be worth what you have to give up in return. Apart from the 7% and other preferential investor treatment, YC requires that you commit your
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I’ve seen enough YC companies fail and enough non-YC tech companies succeed to question the value of this supposedly exclusive human network.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Given the comically poor quality of Stephen Lewandosky's best-known research on the topic [1], I doubt that this "handbook" deserves any serious consideration. [1] Lewandosky et al. "NASA faked the moon landing, Therefor
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal (2013)(acko.net)
3 points by kevinskii 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Excellent writeup. Of particular note were the x64dbg Windows program debugging tool, and the Ghidra reverse engineering tool developed by the NSA. I wasn't familiar with either one before. x64bg: https://x64dbg.com/#st
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by kevinskii 6y ago
> Gebru says she received the feedback through a "privileged and confidential document to HR" I agree that Google isn't looking good at the moment. But if I had a colleague who seemed intent on finding ways to place the c
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by kevinskii 6y ago
That pretty much sums up every employee/employer relationship, and it isn't a bad thing.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
You're right, I should have pointed that out. I edited my original post to clarify. Thank you.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Mohammed AlQuraishi elaborated on this in his 2018 "What Just Happened?" blog post that was discussed on HN when the news was announced. [1] It's a fairly long read, but he goes into a lot more detail as to why the problem i
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by kevinskii 6y ago
The OP suggested that risk shouldn't be communicated in absolute terms because people can't be trusted to make sound decisions. Presumably it's therefore better to only share relative risk numbers, which are almost always mor
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by kevinskii 6y ago
The goal shouldn't be to get people to do what you want. It should be to give them sufficient information so they can make an informed decision on their own, even if you might disagree with it. I'm not suggesting that personal l
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I think I’ve done about three of them. All were good, but this one is my favorite. It covers both ray tracing and rasterization, and it doesn’t require any sort of development setup to jump in. Most important, the explanations are the best
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Same here. And yet I spent...21 years programming before I finally got around to learning it.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
I went through this set of lessons a couple of years ago. It is well worth doing. Interested folks may also want to take a look at Gabriel Gambetta's "Computer Graphics from Scratch" [1]. Both tutorials are excellent, but Gab
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Evidence that coronavirus superspreading is fat-tailed(pnas.org)
2 points by kevinskii 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevinskii 6y ago
Like a lot of things, vitamin D may have a slight effect on COVID mortality rates, but won't accomplish much by itself. Edit: The study linked below is pretty compelling. My comment appears to be incorrect.
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by kevinskii 6y ago
It's an interesting project. Thank you for sharing. But I'm also confused as how the problem quoted below might be solved by an issue tracker: "They have built powerful and private systems...amplifying our basest impulses an

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