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by lukev 8y ago
I'm quite certain that (correctly or incorrectly) the perception was that he was engaging in bad-faith rhetoric: "just asking questions" or similar. Like it or not, you can't just transparently "ask a question&quo
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by lukev 8y ago
This is a good point. It is true in life and particularly true on twitter that you don't get to ask questions without people imputing a motive. Frankly, it does sound here like he is (at best) uninformed about the emotional experienc
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by lukev 8y ago
I'm really disappointed in the quality of the replies to this. I would hope that HN would be just a little more fact based, instead of having people willing to argue over trivially falsifiable claims. The fact is, booby traps which cau
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by lukev 8y ago
Burglar traps are definitely not legal. Where are you getting your information?
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by lukev 8y ago
Smart investors that consider fundamentals would read the flowchart in OP and "consider database" instead of blockchain.
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by lukev 8y ago
If you think people who are working to improve the social climate in which we find ourselves are in it for the money, I can only conclude you don't know any of them.
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by lukev 8y ago
> There will always be people offended by something Including, apparently, the fact that some people are making an effort to care about other people.
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by lukev 8y ago
Here are some better names for S3 that aren't misleading: - Binary Storage - Blob Storge - File Storage - Reliable Storage FTP is a specific protocol. Hard drives (as a sibling comment mentions) are a specific technology. Our disciplin
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by lukev 8y ago
Sure, a lot of AWS services could have been named better. But a lot of these are terrible, downright misleading names. Some examples: S3 as "Amazon Unlimited FTP Server": S3 has nothing to do with the FTP protocol. VPC as "Am
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by lukev 8y ago
Arguably this is already happening. Governments and transnational corporations are "AIs" in the sense that their macro-level behavior is largely determined by systematic structure and incentives, not individual decision-making. No
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by lukev 8y ago
And only a few short decades ago I could fire someone for being gay, or forbid my wife from opening a bank account. And it was a mere century ago that women literally couldn't vote. I don't see why the fact that social mores cha
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by lukev 8y ago
It is (sadly) not clear at all that programming language popularity (or rather, "online buzz" around a language which is all you can measure) correlates strongly with productivity.
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by lukev 8y ago
Also, since this thread/reply has gotten popular and the topic is a passion of mine, I'm going to unashamedly hijack it to link to a few of my favorite, more accessible bands in case anyone reading is curious and wants to explore
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by lukev 8y ago
There are two kinds of concerts for sure. Sometimes it just depends on the crowd. Interestingly, with respect to the original subject, the smaller shows for more extreme bands are usually full of really friendly folk who will instantly stop
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by lukev 8y ago
There is no metric on which metal is objectively "terrible" or "sugary." While some is more primal, the majority (including several bands mentioned in the article) is quite musically intricate, with substantive rhythmic
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by lukev 8y ago
As an avid death metal fan, I think that overall this article isn't wrong, but there's much more to be learned from the subjective experience of violent music. Which is to say: just ask a fan, and they'll tell you. Using &quo
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by lukev 8y ago
All three of those points are somewhat obvious, though. a) We like violent music because our brains like it. Ok, how else would that work? b) We distance ourselves from the lyrical content. Well, duh. Otherwise we'd all be serial kil
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by lukev 8y ago
This flows nicely, but I feel obligated to pick a few nits: Unless you sourced the original Greek, that's technically not a translation -- it's an interpretation of a translation. Every time you rewrite something like this (especi
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by lukev 8y ago
So frustrating to me that otherwise smart people keep buying into this narrative, including software developers and tech people who should know better. Here's the actual status quo: after a decade of research into autonomous cars spe
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by lukev 8y ago
As a guy in his 30s who still jumps into the pit a couple times a year, I feel like this article is over-selling it. They're fun and intense and do occasionally result in minor injury. But (usually) they're extremely good natured,
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by lukev 8y ago
If your criteria for publication is what is epistemologically true you are going to find it difficult to publish in any domain except possibly pure mathematics or physics.
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by lukev 8y ago
Representative quote: > "I am so utterly unimpressed," wrote Jacob T. Levy, a political theorist at McGill University, "by the fact that an enterprise that relies on a widespread presumption of not-fraud can be fooled some
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An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax(chronicle.com)
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by lukev 8y ago
If you find yourself in strong agreement with this article, it'd probably be worthwhile doing some introspection what's actually bothering you -- the fact that some publications (apparently) lack academic rigor, or that you oppose
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by lukev 8y ago
Fair enough, partisanship in itself is fairly obviously a negative psychological and mental force. But I do worry about claims of anti-partisanship used as a smokescreen. Some issues are merely partisan differences of opinion. Others are ma
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by lukev 8y ago
Look, you can believe whatever you want about why he was fired, but "no-platforming" is an actual deliberate thing and this was by definition not it. I read over his tweets for the past couple weeks and while he comes off as your
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by lukev 8y ago
De-platforming is an explicit choice to disassociate from a particular, repugnant point of view. It's a highly visible, inherently political (and therefore public) move. Firing your star columnist by email citing budget concerns doesn&
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by lukev 8y ago
Yeah, not really how that works.
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by lukev 8y ago
It’s because most tech people have the default position that racism is not really a big deal, an edge case in modern society. That certainly is the message the political center and right is pushing. Stuff like this puts the lie to that, tho
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by lukev 8y ago
This is certainly true when solving hard problems. A counterpoint would be that most software used to run businesses is complicated, but not hard (or the hard parts are very localized.) And for these problems it's best to factor your c

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