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by moxious 9y ago
NDAs aren't standard at all. They range from simple back of the napkin agreements to "we get your first born child". Blindly signing subjects you to potentially nasty term, and obligated you not to talk about certain things.
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by moxious 9y ago
Why Is there a limit on the number of columns I can have, and if something bad happens from having too many, why isn't the limit much lower than 1600, which hopefully most of us can agree is already way beyond absurd?
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by moxious 9y ago
Even memory is a tradeoff. Assuming excellent memory, even then people won't use 20 character passwords because they're too hard to type precisely. The ability to store/copy/paste passwords makes for stronger passwords
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by moxious 9y ago
Will it still be voluntary and consensual if the day comes where stores post signs: "Payment accepted in bitcoin only"?
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by moxious 9y ago
It's a bad idea most of the time but sometimes it works. The smart investors have a portfolio of many bets, and it's priced in that most won't succeed. For the entrpreneur I think this is a bad idea but for the investors it
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by moxious 9y ago
The same amount? No adjustment for San Francisco vs. nowheresville, Idaho?
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by moxious 9y ago
There are no widely accepted rules in parenting, because the outcomes people are trying to create in their kids are so wildly different. Raising kids is like cooking a dish over a decade or more with no recipe. Imagine one set of parents
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by moxious 9y ago
> I do believe most of Linux userland has to be rewritten though Why? I'm sympathetic to the argument that 2017 computing shouldn't be on the basis of 1970s UNIX limitations and mindset, but changing that would require a lot m
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by moxious 9y ago
Many people (particularly women) wear wedding rings worth more than this all the time.
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by moxious 9y ago
There's a good chance that if you were to rewrite some of today's existing stack in new languages you'd end up with more bugs, not fewer. C may be awful in some respects but for quality it's going to be hard to beat 15 y
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by moxious 9y ago
When the language permitted a nonsense comparison like this, the spec needs to be complex, and within the logic of the spec, yes it makes sense. The original error was allowing a nonsense comparison. Which is greater, 10 or fish? If you p
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by moxious 9y ago
Even if they verbalized their knowledge incorrectly they give you something, which if you chose, you could further test / replicate. In other words even if they're BSing they're still falsifiable, not so "magic models&q
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by moxious 9y ago
This is a very annoying part of non-explanatory models. I think the result defies common sense a bit, and the model can't explain why this is so. So in the circumstance, why should we believe it's generalizable?
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by moxious 9y ago
It was known previously that elements on the board wanted IPO, and this is something you'd have to get ultra clear before you'd be given the job. I hope. So while the timeline can't be precise, I'm guessing this isn&#x2
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by moxious 9y ago
Thanks for this comment -- it was very high quality and led me to spend 2 hours reading about this stuff. It looks pretty cool and I'm going to give it a shot. Reading about the fountains and several other community aspects really do
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by moxious 9y ago
> However, in a later conversation, he warned that they could be used for money laundering and ransomware payments. Maybe I just don't get it but I found this article unintentionally hilarious. First, the idea of running a distribut
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by moxious 9y ago
If FUD = fear, uncertainty, and doubt, then the opposite would be Joy, Certainty, and Credulousness. (JCC doesn't roll off of the tongue though) Sounds about right. The same stuff market bubbles are made of!
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by moxious 9y ago
I'd guess level 5 is general AI, not a few steps short. Or rather it's a specialized set of sub skills that an AI would have. Everybody's jumping in because the prize is ridiculously huge. This justifies jumping in even if
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by moxious 9y ago
It speaks to the trends of the day that an article which says something patently obvious to people in the tech field is considered news. This reality seems like it may pose a problem though, as some people's business models and valuati
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by moxious 9y ago
Many people need a sort of permission to leave their jobs, usually because of the relationships they've developed and an inability to separate the work bits from the relationship bits. But yeah, if you need this checklist to show 7&#x2
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by moxious 9y ago
We're really torturing the metaphor with app updates as coffee refills, buuuuuut.... Many of us are in the software business. So we know how hard the stuff can be. But the customer doesn't, and shouldn't care. I think
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by moxious 9y ago
> Society decides, by paying for it. This works nicely, in theory, in the absence of market distortions and coercive forces. In practice, both of those things do exist, and so markets don't work entirely like theory predicts. Cla
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by moxious 9y ago
Alan Turing established a gold standard for what intelligence is quite some time ago. Modern computers still fail the unrestricted Turing test. No doubt he'd be impressed at the progress, but failing the test is failing the test. Ther
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by moxious 9y ago
Throughout all of that development, computers remained remarkably dumb. We still program them manually and they do what we tell them to even if it's disastrous. Driving on open roads with other humans is going to require elements of r
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by moxious 9y ago
Drones typically don't need sub-second response times; they're not dogfighting
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by moxious 9y ago
To get these things funded, we'll need to append "using deep learning approaches" to all of the business ideas.
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by moxious 9y ago
It's fine to spend money driving a new market but you eventually have to capitalize on it. How will that work? Large price increases, or just betting that driverless tech will eliminate costs and get them to profitability? Also, they
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by moxious 9y ago
This always blew my mind: a smartphone app for a cab company that doesn't even own any cabs raised $16 billion. It simply can't be that they spent even a small fraction of that writing software, smartphone apps just aren't th
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by moxious 9y ago
That very much depends on your perspective. They're losing huge amounts of money and they're in the middle of a pile of lawsuits. They may end up losing their driverless tech, which they may have never owned in the first place.
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by moxious 9y ago
Read "Pioneering Portfolio Management" by David Swenson, the guy who runs the Yale endowment. Fascinating book on investing; one of his "super powers" as an investor is the fact that the Yale Endowment is immortal, and

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