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by ljw1001 6y ago
I thought it was a dark art before I worked my way through a few chapters of the Little Lisper. Then the spell was broken
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by ljw1001 6y ago
All human relations are increasingly subject to the criteria of «is it good for the corporation?». Or, is it good for me financially. Which, considering how work is increasingly central to our lives is unfortunate. We’re Charlie Chaplin in
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by ljw1001 6y ago
The hardest code I ever had to read was Python that repeatedly called out to c++ whenever something had to run fast.
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by ljw1001 6y ago
Give that everything is personal for trump, it’s hard to imagine this isn’t a little bit of a thank you to twitter and Facebook and a bit of a payback for the tictok users encouraging fake registrations for trump rallies.
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by ljw1001 6y ago
This is Apple exploiting it near monopoly powers, plain and simple.
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by ljw1001 6y ago
I would second the recommendation for Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure. It's an unusual and engaging introduction to waves, Fourier coefficients, and transforms. The slope is gentle but not dumbed down. https://ww
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by ljw1001 6y ago
If it were boring, you wouldn't feel obligated to respond.
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by ljw1001 6y ago
CEOs of publicly traded companies aren't allowed to express "personal" opinions in public. If they do, they're not personal; they're guidance.
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by ljw1001 6y ago
He's corporate America's Donald Trump.
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Ask HN: JavaScript framework to mke a “windows-like” UI?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Pretty sure this is the least likely concept to improve anyone's cognitive toolkit on the entire list. Its presence almost seems like an inside joke.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
So far the places that have held up well (Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea) have a culture that favors masks. In Hubei, you would be arrested if you were out without one (this may have lapsed now). There may be other cultural/demog
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by ljw1001 7y ago
germany has a much more accurate infection count than italy. they haven't been overwhelmed yet.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
>EDIT: Lastly and this is a factor that none of us even suggested, is luck. Luck is important and impossible to control. Luck doesn't work with this kind of scenario. You'd have to be lucky hundreds of millions of times (every
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by ljw1001 7y ago
There seems to be evidence (a lot) of asymptomatic people infecting others. If you only wear a mask when you feel ill, that doesn't seem like it could be the driver. Japanese people have the oldest population in part because they live
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> Presumably all these kids are still living in dorms together and eating together in dining halls... That's a lot better than scattering them to the wind.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> People need assurance that this is a nasty flu, not the plague. The deadliest epidemic in history was a nasty flu (the 1918 Spanish flu). That killed around 50 million people. This virus appears to be at least 100X deadlier than the en
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> The virus has been in the wild in a number of countries outside China (Singapore, Japan, Thailand, etc), yet to date local transmission has petered out and there's no sign of massive outbreaks happening. This argues for a much low
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by ljw1001 7y ago
al jazeera is a perfectly good source of real middle east news. The economist isn't bad. Facebook is entirely unreliable as a news source because for every real post that shows you how things really are, you get two lies. As just one m
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by ljw1001 7y ago
People who pay attention are not ok with it being their phones either. Most people don't entirely get that they're under, or will soon be under constant surveillance.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
That doesn't mean that every police station in the land should have it. And they could sell this to absolutely anyone if their policy revenues aren't sufficient. There was a story about Palantir selling its tech to a NY bank (Morg
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by ljw1001 7y ago
> The cancer death rate has not budged that much in 40 years. Survivability has extended, absolutely, and that is worth something, but not more than a few years. Compared to AIDS, a disease also without a real cure but that has extended
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by ljw1001 7y ago
You can't remove a professional scrum-master who does nothing else in the retrospective as the scrum-master is running the retrospective.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
This reminds me of the classic Tolstoy short story: How much land does a man need?
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by ljw1001 7y ago
I'm not sure that's the argument people are making. For Iran, it was US overthrew our fledgling democracy and replaced him with a tyrant , whose oppression led to a(n Islamic) revolution, which just gave us a different kind of ty
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by ljw1001 7y ago
- The retail apocalypse continues, with half the current retail workforce displaced and most storefronts in the country vacant. No one in SV notices. - Climate change continues to accelerate. No meaningful consensus is reached on a policy r
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by ljw1001 7y ago
How does your list not include climate change as a thing of current importance? It wasn't mentioned much in the original either - though i saw one comment calling it "FUD" - but they were making forecasts ;)
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Google was a great place - for most people - when it was riding the crazy growth rocket that was its Search/Adwords/Adsense/Analytics engine. (former Googler here) As those growth rates slowed it started flailing around tryin
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by ljw1001 7y ago
This is terrible. With this kind of weak copyright protection killing his financial incentives, I guess we kiss goodbye the chance that Gershwin will create anymore musical works for us.
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by ljw1001 7y ago
Companies that collect what could be very sensitive information about people should be subject to criminal negligence charges if someone comes to harm because of their carelessness. This is especially true where they promote highly politici

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