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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The negative reaction is probably because while you can argue this position from a perspective of wisdom (re impossibility to quantify cultural differences) many Europeans have plenty of prior experience with arguing this from a perspecti
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
We've had this argument here before and in some sense you're right in that culture is relative and 'more diverse' is essentially a meaningless phrase. What is true though is that Americans tend to underestimate the hom
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Marissa was appointed to achieve the near impossible task of turning around a massive behemoth which seemed dead-set on a course towards oblivion. The only key asset that still gave Yahoo significant leverage was its war chest and rather t
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Did you reach out to keesj or patio11 about this? I don't know if it's me but, even with the acknowledgement, this kind of direct repackaging seems somewhat dubious to me. Especially with the big Startup Clarity signup at the bott
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Ah OK. So the real problem is that my opinion is just plain wrong ! The founder of an accelerator which has a reputation (earned or not) for being fratty and exclusionary and who runs a forum that's widely criticised for quickly silen
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I've been openly gay for many years and I've become intimately acquainted with the varying degrees of discrimination vs, acceptance. When you're in a situation like that your world divides into a) people who really treat you
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The talk "Deconstructing Functional Programming" by Gilad Brach should really be a must-watch if you're thinking about having any meaningful debate about functional programming. tl;dr Almost everything we call 'Functiona
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I wasn't sure if it was a troll or a mentally unstable person (although trolls arguably are too,) but either way this was still an excellent way to deal with this. Ideally Chris would've made the troll improve the correctness of h
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Handled with class by Chris. No drama, no fanfare. Good job.
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Or maybe they had something happen to them or someone they know? Maybe they had someone's head on their shoulder crying their heart out? Maybe they tried standing up for them and were fired? Maybe for whatever reason they really unders
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
This was on an article about one of Silicon Valley's particular problems with diversity being that it thought it was more meritocratic than it actually was. Given that context pg then goes on to use math as a rhetoric device to illustr
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
He's not talking about evidence as much as a lack of acknowledgement of internalized oppression: the fact that there are plenty women who believe their rightful place is indeed in the kitchen, plenty of gay men who think gay love is
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I also still can't reconcile how a month and a half ago pg apparently believed that Silicon Valley is a near perfect meritocracy ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6795606 ) and now he's been working hard(er tha
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I've had three 30" Cinema Display's side by side for a while and it was awesome; except for my neck hurting like hell after a while when looking at the outer half of the outer screens :) That convinced me that, unless you&#x2
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
What if your local football team was trying to recruit more technically minded people and tweeted this: YO GEEKTARDS: y u nerds no apply yet? only 6 days left! Would it be 'manufacturing outrage' if you made a comment abo
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
A quick glance at the urban dictionary should be enough to get you started: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=miss%20thang It's a bit like reminding African American participants to sign up using one of th
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The frontend needs to keep open thousands of persistent connections; 99.9% of which will time out with receiving a single message. Practically speaking the number of frontend servers is related to the number of active listening clients and
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Sorry for the downvote; I though you were off-topic before my brain processed the second sentence. Edit: thanks for the downvotes for apologizing for an errant downvote ... I guess ...
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It seems like another practical application of the latest improvements on neural networks. You can watch this talk to get an idea for what they're about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
When watching talks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs I'd be surprised if Google's search model couldn't be leap-frogged if a competitor were to have live access to Google's dataset. That
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
What's your point here? That you find these guidelines so specific that they don't leave any room for interpretation?
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> Their rules are very clear and succinct. If I think of a lot of things my users would search for and try to create valuable information for them concerning those queries... is that valuable content or are those doorway pages? If I give
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Very much so. Google's decisions are starting to have impacts on other companies' bottom lines which easily run into the millions of dollars. Just as a thought experiment ... how tempting do you think it would be for Google to do
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
We're not necessarily talking about sharing contact information; all we're talking about here is an acknowledgement of existence. Given that context, due to the nature of the problem, rate limiting is by definition the -only- solu
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I think Feynman is explaining here that the only truly meaningful way for him to answer is to teach everything relevant to the question he knows that the other person doesn't; which can easily be a lifetime or several years worth of ma
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Aren't you essentially just offering the users to download as much data as they want to reduce the probability of 'collateral uploads' to levels that are acceptable for them?
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The biggest problem with that is: 1) Client uploads a bloom filter consisting entirely of ones. 2) Server responds by sending its entire contact database.
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Indeed; if I understand it correctly encrypted data goes into a standard bloom filter. If that's indeed the case then, assuming that users can never be removed, a daily update would just contain the indexes of the additional bits set b
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Properly implemented rate limiting would be a better way to achieve that though. That is were the 'blinding signature' part comes in: to give the server the possibility to intelligently rate limit.
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Let's keep in mind that there is a pretty good example of external pressure and/or threat of persecution elevating suicide rates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth If you also consider the

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