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by mhartl 14y ago
RFS = Request for Startups, which is an allusion to RFC = Request for Comments ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments )
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I appreciate the insight in the OP, but I'm frustrated by the imprecise use of language. Valve is hierarchical. The hierarchy is simply informal and spontaneous based on the attributes of individual team members. (The OP hints at the dist
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I'm a huge fan, but there is one big thing Musk might be wrong about: there's a substantial risk that his party-line views on CO2 will eventually look naive instead of visionary. I sincerely believe he's one of the good guys, though, so I h
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Bravo! Keep up the great work.
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This looks like a win for everyone involved.
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I predict that the overwhelming majority of people who correctly solve this problem under interview conditions have seen it before.
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Even better
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by mhartl 14y ago
XKCD said it all: http://xkcd.com/202/
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Babies need their mothers more than they need their fathers.
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It's refreshing to finally see Rolling Stone taking an interest in climate science.
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by mhartl 14y ago
You are not an idiot for feeling this way. The patent system is horribly broken.
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Some screamed about the lottery, but capping secondary sales at face value is a deeply entrenched (and, in my view, terribly misguided) part of Burner culture.
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by mhartl 14y ago
"Up to four" covers two. There was an early lottery that allowed four. (I got four myself.)
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by mhartl 14y ago
You're operating on the flawed assumption that the sole endeavor hear is to extract as much money from consumers as possible. No, that's why you have an initial lottery. With a lottery, poorer fans still have a chance to get a ticket.
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The scalpers are the market-makers. If there were an official market, the scalpers would be out of business overnight.
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It's not the scalpers who are to blame. It's bmorg (and the broader Burner community) that's at fault for ignoring basic economics and human behavior. Everyone with a rudimentary understanding of game theory saw the whole mess coming a mile
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Last year Burning Man sold out for the first time. In an attempt to alleviate the shortages, this year they had a lottery where people could request up to four tickets per person. The obvious strategy was to request more than you needed, in
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For his shows, C.K. saw scalping rates as high as 25%, driving up the price of his shows for people who wanted to attend, by those who didn’t. The only people driving up the price of the shows are people who want to attend. How could it b
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He's sad that having the company in the UK didn't work out.
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I'd still be interested to know the motivation for their process. If someone made a firm offer of $450K, it doesn't make any sense to shut down the service just because they didn't meet the $480K requirement. That would flush $450K down the
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by mhartl 14y ago
It's amazing how many more people complain about this: Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science... than this: ...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
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by mhartl 14y ago
I think they meant to say "Programmer Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth".
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You don't see physicists going around saying h is wrong and h-bar is what they need to use. Sure they do—or at least, they did. Physicists realized that h is "wrong", i.e., confusing and unnatural, because it's off by a factor of, um, 2 p
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I know you weren't trolling, but I'm a strong believer in giving credit where credit is due. Thanks again for your comments!
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Some people say we should use e for the base of natural logarithms, but that's crazy. The letter e is already used for the charge on an electron, for the eccentricity of an ellipse, and for orthonormal basis vectors. Oh, and it's the id
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Tau is clearer in some domains and pi is better in others. This argument is addressed explicitly in the section "What is really going on here?": http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec:what_is_really_going_on
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by mhartl 14y ago
You have a very warped view if you think basic human rights is partisan. That's not what I wrote. I asked who gets to decide what constitutes a "basic human right". Notions about "basic human rights" differ; many are near-universal, such
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The reason I didn't link to the exact section is because the math needs some time to render. If you go right to the section, on many browsers you won't end up where you wanted to be. If instead people hit the top of the page, the math rende
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360° in a full circle That's one of the things tau can help solve. I suspect the main reason that people still use degrees so much is because using pi undermines the beauty and intuitiveness of radians.
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When I said I'd already thought of it, I was referring to the general observation that n -sphere volumes support tau, not pi. You can find my original comments, dating from July 2010, at http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=61

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