maxander

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by maxander 10y ago
You know, we might really prefer to keep life interesting through art and science and building a giant spaceship to go exploring the galaxy . :D To be fair to Thiel, though, there's not really the implication that he prefers Star War
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by maxander 10y ago
Neither of the phrases you quote appear in the article. What are you talking about? Evidence 4chan had anything to do with it would be interesting, if you can provide it.
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by maxander 10y ago
Experience with the domain doesn't need to have much to do with it- most of what I mean by "problems that might happen" are just pure software maintenance issues. Perhaps your new function gets a value that you know can&#x27
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by maxander 10y ago
I suspect there's an additional factor incidental to the "skills and talent" issue- the ability of employees to care . I would wager that there are few engineers who are really, truly passionate about Oracle or Salesforce,
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by maxander 10y ago
> Having run into many public toilets and restrooms which were unusable because they were covered in feces or urine or had crazy homeless people in them harassing people [...] As a matter of course- because really the issue of pay toilet
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by maxander 10y ago
While reducing one's media consumption is a healthy goal, the author has a very odd conception of "making a meaningful difference." Does donating $50 to Red Cross not make a difference? Sure it does- that's $50 that, m
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by maxander 10y ago
There's really only two dominant choices here; "boring banking stuff," e.g. a well-diversified hedge fund, or cutting-edge financial engineering that you'll have to earn (or hire) a specialized PhD to implement. Anythin
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by maxander 10y ago
Then buy less of things that don't lend themselves well to this sort of contingency. Lettuce does salad, and nothing else; bananas are for being bananas, and desserts; if you don't happen to be in the mood for it, they're us
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by maxander 10y ago
First, note the phrase "could not get it to repeat when we tried to track it down." Secondly, I'm pretty sure that that flag wasn't just labelled SERIOUS_RUNTIME_ISSUE_ACTIVE; there were presumably other good reasons fo
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by maxander 10y ago
The thing that pop-science stories about GUT always seem to fail to explain is- what does it mean for a symmetry to break at a certain point in time? In the present day physical symmetries (isotopy of space, say, or conservation laws) ar
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by maxander 10y ago
It really depends on what work you're doing. Source: I forgot my headphones today, and here I am posting on HN rather than focusing on real work. I found out a long time ago that listening to any music at all impedes my writing abilit
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by maxander 10y ago
Oops, good catch- one letter makes a substantial difference! Should have wondered why a BBC documentary was being presented in plaintext format, anyway...
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by maxander 10y ago
A tragic tale, and a reminder that intelligence and business success are no replacement for mental health. Even in the BBC's account, the tone of the writing seems to present a lot of warning signs and developing problems as just a gen
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by maxander 10y ago
So when you see a project written in Python 2.8, you'll know that it contains lots of legacy code under active development by developers who are gung-ho about fancy language features, but that this team hasn't had the time/re
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by maxander 10y ago
Only a small handful of observations (only one, last I heard, but I may be out of date), but lots and lots of analyses. And for every scientist that has their own model and does their own data processing, there's a chance that the m
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by maxander 10y ago
Then, for reasonable N, it's not getting regular maintenance and should eventually disable the engines (while landed) as a failsafe. :) Although, after the recent Mars lander fiasco, I wonder about the ability of our hardware to even r
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by maxander 10y ago
If they start accepting takedown requests as a general policy, though, they become an attack vector themselves. Their customers would start getting calls saying "give us $LARGE_SUM in untraceable bills or there'll suddenly be tho
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by maxander 10y ago
The "we have the same genes" argument is completely absurd. So alright, some set of DNA sequences in the context of a worm enable the regeneration of worm parts; does it follow that the same set of DNA sequences in the context of
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by maxander 10y ago
Short of a totalitarian technophobic regime taking power [1], there will always be idiots with compilers willing to do any terrible thing. There's no (non-dystopian) hope of regulating things at that point, but we don't really ne
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by maxander 10y ago
Fairly well, actually- thanks for pointing that out. I'd be curious to see if this actually gets rolled out in force! I mentioned iPhones as a random example, of course, since while they probably represent a disproportionate amount of
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by maxander 10y ago
It sounds like the big component missing out of this plan is the sorting component; we don't yet have robots capable of looking at a big pile of arbitrary junk and picking out the useful bits, let alone ones capable of intelligently te
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by maxander 10y ago
Something to keep in mind if you're looking into studying AI seriously is that it's really half a dozen barely-related fields, that have all retained the group name "AI" solely because it sounds cool. Machine learning s
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by maxander 10y ago
The issue then is, again, humans- the rider of an autonomous car will feel slighted and helpless seeing the cars around them take advantage of their nice and polite driver-AI, and this will make owning driverless cars less appealing to a wi
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by maxander 10y ago
Rescued from his captivity by a grateful Putin? If we want to speculate wildly. Which would mean that the KGB had conducted a fairly elaborate operation on British soil, something that would be inconvenient to air. So, Assange as a public
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by maxander 10y ago
It sounds like concrete is a useful counterinsurgency tool in the same way that placing blocks is against mobs in Minecraft.
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by maxander 10y ago
Lets not start discussing the odds in a struggle between an icon of the intelligentsia and a Russia-backed challenger. We've had quite enough of that already.
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by maxander 10y ago
The article revolves around the concept of hidden or visible "sectors," and never seems to explain what kind of thing thee actually are. Does anyone have the expertise to clarify?
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by maxander 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that IR LEDs [1] are the new lemon juice [2]. [1] http://www.instructables.com/id/How-not-to-block-cameras/ [2] http://awesci.com/the-astonishingly-funny-story-of-mr-mcarth...
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by maxander 10y ago
Certainly, it's an issue throughout the West as well, to a degree. For that matter, my guess would be that the culture of honesty is improving in China while it worsens in, say, the U.S..
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by maxander 10y ago
You've only convinced me that you don't really understand what people mean when they say "check your privilege."

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