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by leoh 6y ago
Yep, I think it's the first step to a world without it.
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by leoh 6y ago
Better than ads and tracking
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by leoh 6y ago
This is totally missing the point of the post. This post is maybe the most humane, grounded, kind thing I've seen in a while -- and I go to the comments section and I see a bull whip. We all need to take a break and chill. There is an
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by leoh 6y ago
Please don't fret. I can't be specific, but I have worked with a wildly successful engineer that wrote "bad code" and knew it, but came up with some useful paradigm-shifting ideas in their space. I would be glad to chat
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by leoh 6y ago
There appears to be little "high-end engineering." Just a high tide and a bunch of tug boats.
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Toni Morrison: White People Have a Serious Problem(youtube.com)
3 points by leoh 6y ago|2 comments
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by leoh 6y ago
I've often been paranoid that Scihub papers might contain zero day PDF vulnerabilities.
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John Cochrane: “Climate change poses no measurable risk to the financial system”(johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
3 points by leoh 6y ago|2 comments
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by leoh 6y ago
Cathedral versus bazaar metaphor potentially interesting here.
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Ask HN: Great Laser Printer
2 points by leoh 6y ago|1 comments
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by leoh 6y ago
Maybe this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Aquila
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by leoh 6y ago
What was this line about? >Facebook got jammed up because they had to re-write a lot of software under DO189B/C.
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by leoh 6y ago
Agreed. We should focus on passing legislation around the behavior that we don't like as opposed to trying to break up these companies. There's a good chance that in the process of passing such legislation — for example, the kind
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by leoh 6y ago
That's not really true. The grid has worked just fine for decades. We also do have "good" means of storing electrical energy, they're not as economical as just running at sufficient capacity and managing the grid properl
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by leoh 6y ago
This would be a delicious form of ice cream
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by leoh 6y ago
What was Tabb's contribution to JS?
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by leoh 6y ago
Avery Oswald died without winning the Nobel, in spite of proving that DNA is the hereditary material (it was thought that amino acids were at the time). Many held him back including his own supervisors. Science is sometimes shit.
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by leoh 6y ago
The problem with Apple is that although they care about privacy, they don't deeply care about the addictiveness of their products. 30-50 years from now: * in society, concerns about privacy will become fringe * concern about addiction
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by leoh 6y ago
Not mentioned, but "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is on my reading list. "The main theme is... romantic ambition to defy worship of ... money-god and status" — Wikipedia
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by leoh 6y ago
It's a legitimate concern. Although the fuels in RTGs (PU 238) will not engage in a chain reaction, like a traditional nuclear reactor, they could be used to fashion dirty bombs. No such uses are known, but the material has caused seri
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‘I’m Haunted by What I Did’ as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department(nytimes.com)
16 points by leoh 6y ago|0 comments
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by leoh 6y ago
dang / @dang — this post was flagged; yet it is from a reputable source, and is arguably a tenable position; i.e. the very skepticism and anger (as opposed to mere curiosity) that people hold towards her could be collectively be viewed
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by leoh 6y ago
Supposing you were terminated, in your view, without just cause; that you had issued what you viewed as an entirely reasonable ultimatum — the grounds of which, in this case, you can read about. Certainly there is a good chance you would be
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by leoh 6y ago
An ideal HR department would not yield to ultimatums unless they felt that not yielding is a sound, ethical orientation. Thus, a trained ethicist's position ought to be at least tentatively considered without rushing to a decision.
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by leoh 6y ago
Mere curiosity from those who are reading and commenting about this situation, as opposed to outright skepticism or anger would, and I mean this sincerely, be a good start.
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by leoh 6y ago
Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples—for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud. (VI.1151–1154) [Virgil's Aeneid] --- We need more compassion i
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by leoh 6y ago
It is arguably disappointing. Yet she is deeply upset and doubtlessly experiencing a severe degree of stress at the moment. Thus, I would cut her some slack here. Although an explicit, concrete, pedagogical discussion would be helpful, I do
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by leoh 6y ago
I empathize deeply with Gebru and I have no doubts that she has experienced institutional racism at Google and in tech generally. I do think that, despite me being white, however, there is a good chance that I would be fired, were I to make
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by leoh 6y ago
Note that this is a very theoretical paper — Nature is not a medical journal. But very exciting nonetheless.
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by leoh 6y ago
>Yeah, now I can see that you have indeed never really tried. This is totally untrue! I am open to the possibility, however, that I have been working with a challenging front-end codebase and that, on that basis, I may not have seen the

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