konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
Those thoughts aren't welcome on HN any more.
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by konjin 6y ago
>But at their scale, if they chose not to try and assess the accuracy of information, but instead to blindly amplify it based on engagement metrics, that is also a political choice. No that's an apolitical choice. The political choi
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by konjin 6y ago
Sounding more and more like a moral panic. Can people in the big cities not accept people in rural areas reject everything they think is good? It's not a foreign plot, it's a fundamental disagreement about values.
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by konjin 6y ago
It's better. Already serialized. Can be kept under version control. Can be shared between people without needing to signup for anything. And as already stated, code is automatically extractable. Notebooks are only a thing because you d
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by konjin 6y ago
They did. It was called org-babel. It is still superior to notebooks because you can weave the source code and mix a dozen languages.
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by konjin 6y ago
Because Egypt was conquered by the Mamluks and Andalusia by the Spanish at the same time. There was no area under Muslim control that was not ruled by barbarians whose idea of hygiene was washing their posterior every time they crossed a ri
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by konjin 6y ago
A civilization stops scientific activity when you kill its scientists and burn its libraries. Who would have thought? How much science would get done in the US if everyone in the 50 largest cities is killed or enslaved and the cities are ra
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by konjin 6y ago
It's difficult getting employment in China as non-Han so I'm not sure.
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by konjin 6y ago
>That’s fair - if CNN is covering a rando restaurant, things have gotten out of hand. Probably best just to block reviews for that restaurant, no? Because that’s what the feature is. CNN has bullied redditors to make a public apology and
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by konjin 6y ago
Having worked for Exxon and Raytheon the salary premium for the same position was substantial compared to Google and Facebook, to the point I was getting paid one level above what I would have otherwise. F&G make up a lot of the compens
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by konjin 6y ago
The free market stops working when a mob with pitchforks shows up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnTTND0UcM This is what people consider a reasonable way to show you're not racist.
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by konjin 6y ago
What's a reasonable newspaper? The NYT has lost its mind over the 1619 project. If I can trust the NYT to get basic facts of history right who can I trust in media?
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by konjin 6y ago
I figure that the businesses accused of racism would try extra hard to be nice so visiting them exclusively would be a net positive. Much how working for woke companies usually leads to a 20% drop in salary because you're getting paid
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by konjin 6y ago
The only people who could think that are people who do not have to deal with people different to them in their daily life at all. Having three shades of skin tone on software developers that all went to Stanford does not count for your diff
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by konjin 6y ago
A lisp without brackets is no longer a lisp.
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by konjin 6y ago
Did you even read the article? It isn't profitable and it will never be. The only reason why it could go on for as long as it did is because China was subsidizing us with slave labor.
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by konjin 6y ago
There is more than one form of pollution. This is like complaining about aicd from an Uranium mine. True but hardly the biggest issue.
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by konjin 6y ago
>We get disinterested social networks allowing fake news that cause direct harm, created by anonymous users who they don't want to reveal. You should probably look at the historical cases about harm and speech. https://en
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by konjin 6y ago
And done, a small 20k investment. Lets see how it goes, evil usually pays quite well.
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by konjin 6y ago
It really is. Every physicist has a dozen ideas like that they realize are stupid, have no evidence for and can't really be proven or disproven with current data. We call them crazy to keep our selves from going off the deep end and ta
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by konjin 6y ago
>Do you think Senator Kamala Harris will ever agree to be in the same room with Peter Thiel, who recently agreed to be in the same room with white nationalists? Yes, they can bond over how many poor lives they have ruined while the liter
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by konjin 6y ago
All the better to buy on the dip. I needed to do something with my retirement money anyway.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Telcos have largely been able to avoid breakups and scrutiny for years because they invest very heavily in lobbying. Big Bell has been broken up a couple a dozen times. It keeps getting back together because communication is a natural m
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by konjin 6y ago
A small solid state rocket engine that is physically activated by thermal failure of the battery could be a safety feature - "In case of fire point posterior to building exterior".
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by konjin 6y ago
The mind boggles at the possibilities.
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by konjin 6y ago
>And neighbors that actually talk to you. It's things like this that keep me living in the big city. I can have a mental break, run around naked for 8 hours and be back to normal with no one ever realizing anything happened.
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by konjin 6y ago
A formerly poor neighborhood in the process of being gentrified. Hilariously enough my artist friends are moving to the racist white trash neighborhoods because those are the only places where they can afford the rent. Here's hoping an
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by konjin 6y ago
This is a very consumerist world view (get opportunity and experiences) that not everyone believes in. I choose to live frugally so I can drop jobs when I find projects that interest me more than whatever I'm doing at the time. For exa
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by konjin 6y ago
Programming language expressions represent arbitrary trees, which are strictly more powerful than finite dimensional tables.
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by konjin 6y ago
Pretty common for finance in the 00s and 10s to be honest. It's slowly getting better, but until you fire everyone who isn't on board with this and replace them with people who can at least script - at every level of the business

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