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by montrose 9y ago
That is a very interesting point that I hadn't considered before: that authoritarianism could leak from country A from country B via lobbying by companies in B controlled by entities in A.
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by montrose 9y ago
It's interesting to think that an article so reasonable, and so grounded in knowledge, would also get you called names if you posted it on Twitter. Empirically, this field would appear to be the one most likely to yield Galileos in our
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by montrose 9y ago
I wonder if the author even realizes that this article is an example of the phenomenon he's complaining about — that he's preaching a caricature of SV to the Guardian's choir, who are eager to believe it.
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Peer review: the end of an error?(the-tls.co.uk)
164 points by montrose 9y ago|78 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
This is an interesting point: "To do these short and surprising proofs, you need a lot of confidence. And one way to get the confidence is if you know the thing is true. If you know that something is true because so-and-so proved it, t
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by montrose 9y ago
My yoga teacher always says this is the most important part of yoga. She says it's why she rarely gets sick. She was delighted to hear it was one of the top stories on HN.
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by montrose 9y ago
I was trying to guess what this article might be about (since the server seems to be melting and I can't see it), and Wodehouse was my first guess. I think he would like that.
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by montrose 9y ago
The Economist has a novel approach: look at what's actually happening. "The would-be world-changers are applying innovative and evidence-based approaches in clinics and classrooms, where elected politicians are often too timid to
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by montrose 9y ago
I just ordered a copy of this book. Thank you!
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by montrose 9y ago
Anticompetitive behavior is only illegal when practiced by a company with a monopoly.
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by montrose 9y ago
It's too bad your comment is buried so far down in the conversation, because this is probably the most insightful point I've seen on the internet today. And not only do we do this, we have to.
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by montrose 9y ago
If you have to be able to review any decision manually that people complain about, that is significantly limiting. It means you can only write software to do things humans can do. I don't think it's alarmist to worry about the GDP
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by montrose 9y ago
"Although it might seem a sane and reasonable business, the world’s great engineers, she believes, were "very eccentric characters, all very tenacious, the sort who were cheeky at school and didn’t do what their parents wanted the
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by montrose 9y ago
This seems a very important point, if it's correct. It affects so many of the big stories we see in the news, from SV's housing shortage to the widening gap between Republicans and Democrats. It would also mean that Y Combinator m
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by montrose 9y ago
"Management at Lockheed’s Skunk Works soon learned of the DARPA competition. Lockheed had not been invited to participate because they had not produced a fighter in nearly 20 years and DARPA was unaware of their work on the A-12/S
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by montrose 9y ago
Having fewer people. The task may only be 1/100 as hard for a startup as for Google, but there are 1/10,000 as many people to perform it. If so, the burden on the startup is 100x greater than on Google.
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by montrose 9y ago
Or you are an early-stage startup with just a couple founders trying to do everything.
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by montrose 9y ago
It seems to me that this letter is similar to a denial of service attack in the way that, although a valid request, it places an impossible burden on the recipient. If so, the GDPR is similar to a broken protocol. Maybe the people who desig
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Steve, a Famous Northern Light, Stays Mysterious and Keeps His Name(nytimes.com)
55 points by montrose 9y ago|4 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
This is novel, as far as I know: "And some of the genetic variants that are linked with an increase in intelligence are also linked with an increase in life expectancy."
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by montrose 9y ago
Even though we've all been thinking about self-driving cars for a long time, seeing videos of that steering wheel turning in the empty front seat is surprising. I upvoted this article just for those few seconds of video. There's a
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The Cloud Act Is a Dangerous Piece of Legislation(aclu.org)
51 points by montrose 9y ago|7 comments
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The Nerve Agent Too Deadly to Use. Until Someone Did(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|2 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
I don't know why people flagged that link, but I'll tell you why I'm flagging this one: because you have to have flagging or crap takes over the site, and if you also allow protest posts from people upset about things that go
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by montrose 9y ago
This article demonstrates an important point: it has always been possible to portray Silicon Valley as a self-parody. Or at least that is has for 20 years. It's always possible to portray a domain where people have very ambitious plans
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by montrose 9y ago
Learning new things. Making things. Making the world better in some way. Doing something I wasn't able to before. Exercise. Seeing things I've always wanted to see.
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by montrose 9y ago
I felt bad about upvoting this, because the writer is so nasty about it. His style of writing feels like long-form Twitter trolling. But I upvoted it because the information in it is important. It shows how addictive Twitter is. It also sho
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by montrose 9y ago
Or maybe the reason he writes so much is that to write briefly is to leave yourself open to misinterpretation, and anyone who says heterodox things about this topic will be eagerly misinterpreted, if they've left any room to be.
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by montrose 9y ago
I know a fair number of people who've done important new things, and this seems right on the mark: "There is also an introversion in the innovator that keeps him from team sports and social events. He dislikes authority, or at lea
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Suicides, Drug Addiction and High School Football(nytimes.com)
26 points by montrose 9y ago|26 comments

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