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by moxious 9y ago
VCs are a perfect implementation of "the market will decide" but I think you misunderstand in this case what the market is. It's not some idealized invisible hand, the market is the people who show up and participate, exactl
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by moxious 9y ago
New families of DB technologies generally traded certain things off (like ACID guarantees and transactions) in exchange for other things like scalability or flexibility. When someone comes back, and in user space reimplements the things th
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by moxious 9y ago
Best. Job application letter. EVER. When I'm hiring I'd love to see this kind of passion and attention to detail. I hope he gets a call from Abelton
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by moxious 9y ago
The sheer number of changes required, and their impact relative to the problem suggests to me the inevitability of serious consequences. I think I may be more interested in investing in technologies that help people cope with the coming ch
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by moxious 9y ago
That's excessively cynical. They have a lot of problems but keep in mind the reason this article exists is that they're doing an internal investigation and there's a potential for a big shakeup to address some of these probl
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by moxious 9y ago
The stock market outperforms, but most people don't invest in the whole market, and they underperform it.
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by moxious 9y ago
Poster isn't biting on this request. Somewhat ironically the quote is sourced from an article about a disfavored language arguing why cobol should be a disfavored language. Engineering is subject still to styles and fads, I guess the
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by moxious 9y ago
The VCs of course need to maintain return but they are under some pressure to push money out the door and invest, as their fee is a percentage of funds invested. There are many funds structured in a way where it's better for the fund (
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by moxious 9y ago
When I hear "Most carmakers have plans to start testing the market with Level 3 or possibly Level 4 autonomous vehicles around 2021"... It makes me think of what a stupendous amount of time that is in engineering terms. And then
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by moxious 9y ago
It's not really clear to me why, but lisps keep trying and keep dying. Best guess is that in the end, syntax really does matter and lisp just doesn't have enough of it. Whether it's scheme or clojure or arc, every once in a
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by moxious 9y ago
There's such a thing as real alpha and also just luck. In a market with so many players, you would also expect that random chance would predict many people winning consistently year after year. This is not to say that all such funds c
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by moxious 9y ago
It's about whether the computer does the analysis or not, but that's just a stand-in. The real difference is whether and idea or investment strategy can be systematized to the point where it's automated. That implies that t
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by moxious 9y ago
Not at all the same. They're way past demo and have proven effectiveness repeatedly. Comparing pre-alpha with fielded is no comparison. Nuclear weapons haven't been going on and on about how great they'll eventually be.
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by moxious 9y ago
Yes and no. I mean the demo is great, but can I actually have one? No? Well then I can only be so impressed. I know, they're coming soon, but I've been waiting for years and at some point the enthusiasm wanes when it's been
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by moxious 9y ago
Stallman as the Walter Sobchak of the Internet?
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by moxious 9y ago
That's exactly what I'd argue. You can't show money tied up even in skyscraper investments since they generate rents. So where is all of this money that's just sitting there doing nothing? So long as interest rates are
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by moxious 9y ago
It's not black and white. What looks to you like the free choice of people choosing to work for $4.4 may look to others like a forced situation. What I think you're missing is that your assumption that everyone can freely choose
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by moxious 9y ago
In theory, labor forces higher wages, they are not given by the business. What you're missing is that the power dynamic isn't one way with the company determining everything. Labor has to agree to accept low wages or the whole a
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by moxious 9y ago
Where is this money that is captured and not moving? Most invested dollars are still moving in one form or another. Invest in a company's bond, and they're using that money to build a factory.
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by moxious 9y ago
In what way is the land collectively owned? The business would show a deed and prove they already own the land. Also, if I already own a house privately, I would pay the commons rent on what I already own? This seems to pervert the notion
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by moxious 9y ago
This is very oddly framed. If the time is psychologically useful, then it isn't wasted. Some people need more, and some people need less relaxation time. I think the author's real issue is with the psychology of trapping yourse
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by moxious 9y ago
I think he just didn't define complexity at all, just gave ways of measuring whatever he means. But of course it's a tough topic. If measuring bit length of the explanation is a valid way of measuring something's complexity,
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by moxious 10y ago
He says in his message it's been a slog for some time, looks like a good time to be done with it. Open source is great, we all like it, but demanding unpaid jobs can get old, too.
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by moxious 10y ago
Shroedinger's astronaut
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by moxious 10y ago
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton
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by moxious 10y ago
It's a bit disorienting to see this, and on the same day threads elsewhere in HN, with the HN collective wisdom that automation and AI is soon to bring an end to most kinds of human work
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by moxious 10y ago
If we accepted your premise that 60% of humans did behave or act like horses (at least economically) well then still there'd be a massive difference. You're saying that it's not a given that the economic situation will recove
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by moxious 10y ago
That isn't a counter-argument, that's an analogy. It sounds quite nice, but it's also a bit a straw-man. The people who don't think technology is going to destroy work (I'm in that group) would never claim that th
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by moxious 10y ago
This is flipping the burden of proof. That millions will be made redundant is already a projection about the future, and those are notoriously terrible. In the past when automation happened and jobs kept rolling it was due to the invention
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by moxious 10y ago
:) Well I'm tempted to chide you for running arbitrary code from the Internet from an untrusted source, but then I remember that's the entire web via JavaScript and I realize I'm living in a glass house. Who came up with thi

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