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by neilk 10y ago
Please don't do this. Nothing can be gained from this.
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> Not sure why the url path includes 'rise and fall' in it, These days publications are continually A/B testing headlines.
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by neilk 10y ago
Sam Altman said that Thiel's estate in NZ is his escape plan, in the event of biowarfare or some other disaster. So it seems likely that Thiel has the place prepared in some way for long-term survival. We don't know what disaste
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by neilk 10y ago
I think they were trying to make a joke, but Peter Thiel does love the Lord of the Rings. Just a few of the entities he has founded: - Palantir - Valar Ventures - Mithril Capital Management - Lembas LLC - Rivendell O
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by neilk 10y ago
The podcast "Reasonably Sound" recently released an episode on the Braaam (originally performed live in September, so I wonder if this is somehow related). https://soundcloud.com/reasonably-sound/the-braaam H
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by neilk 10y ago
This article discards the boring, plausible thesis in the first paragraph. The rest of the article is given over to speculation. CBT requires a lot more work from both the patient and the therapist. I can easily believe that as it's be
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by neilk 10y ago
That was for all of Yahoo. This is for the search & advertising part. These are measurably inferior than their competitors (although, by less than you might think) but more importantly, have failed to win at the network-effects game.
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by neilk 10y ago
My team builds something similar at Sauce Labs. With the added fun of making it a SaaS. (HaaS?) Our design is totally different though. Really looking forward to seeing the specs Facebook is promising, although I suspect it will be hard to
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by neilk 10y ago
Before people ask why this is relevant to Hacker News: he's a great example of how academics, scientists, and even technologists can have effects outside their field of inquiry. For a mix of reasons, hackers are both securely employabl
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by neilk 10y ago
> Amazon is a logistics company We hear this said of Amazon, and that's also Uber's ambition. But isn't Walmart also a logistics company? Isn't every big company that makes or moves around physical items?
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by neilk 10y ago
https://github.com/saucelabs/isign posted about 5 months ago. It's a reimplementation of Apple's app signing, that works on non-Apple platforms. For a while it felt like nobody cared, but the minute I went on
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by neilk 10y ago
What government agency required a LinkedIn account?
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I'm surprised that people seem to believe you're trolling. Or perhaps that confirms your point! tsunamifury is absolutely right that the relatively static, document-centric model of the web is an extension of Western academic cult
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by neilk 10y ago
Exactly. The "gang-stalking victim" group is just more obviously detached from reality. But all of us, including me, are in one or more of these now. We just don't know which ones. I think this is built into the relatively li
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by neilk 10y ago
I'm assuming you don't mean the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Perhaps you mean the alleged Ada Initiative sexual honeypot, which came from noted "personality who no longer matters" and general wingnut Eric S. Ra
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by neilk 10y ago
Yep. "Why is this surprising?" There are reasons to discuss it other than surprise. Better evidence may allow for official reactions, inquiries, or prosecutions. "Is anyone so naive that..." Yes, we weep for our lost inn
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Sorry, I'm relying on my memory of a show I saw like 20 years ago. I know nothing special about aviation. But I just found a contemporary thread about it here from other homebuilt aviation enthusiasts. https://groups.google.
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Erm, I don't know if I trust Cringely when it comes to this sort of thing. He sold a reality show to PBS, "Plane Crazy (1998)"[1] with the promise he could design and build a small plane in 30 days that was unlike any other t
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by neilk 10y ago
I agree with you that phrases like "magnetic personality" are almost meaningless. The thing is, people struggle to describe charisma, because they don't see the elements of it. Most of us can tell that a basketball player jum
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by neilk 10y ago
What happened to the one promising to turn spreadsheets into apps? I remember it having a lot of upvotes. Given the right abstractions it is definitely possible, and the market is large.
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by neilk 10y ago
Okay, let's assume that a smart contract with a particular blockchain is going to remain viable and secure for an entire decade. The issue here is taxation before gains are realized. Are you assuming the government isn't going to
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by neilk 10y ago
Last night I read the entire article, out loud, to my SO. At first, she said wasn't sympathetic because for her, it was "first world problems", and a millenial's predictable disappointment in the workplace. She's no
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by neilk 10y ago
At one startup I was in, I said to a coworker, "It's like we're all the kids, and daddy drinks" and she had a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
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by neilk 10y ago
There are some ways to test it though. For the past 15 minutes I've been taking "photographs" of people in this coffeeshop in my mind, closing my eyes, and trying to read details from that photograph. I take in a lot of detai
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by neilk 10y ago
Yes, some, probably most people, "see" sheep. After reading Blake Ross' discussion of this I've been wondering how to explain it to the aphantasic. It's a little bit like having a second monitor except it doesn&#x27
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by neilk 11y ago
Yeah, I did some calculating and surprisingly, 1 tonne of gold is somewhat smaller than a 2' cube. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+tonne+of+gold+in+cub...
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Why conversational commerce may be our best chance to re-imagine the web(medium.com)
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The racism angle always comes up when we try to talk about this. I agree with you that the article is holding these people up as figures of hate, whether by their wealth or by their foreignness. On the other hand, Vancouver already had a tr
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by neilk 11y ago
You're right, Comic Sans hatred is partially motivated by a designer's desire to advertise their refined taste. And Comic Sans, reeking of diapers and toddler saliva, is also offensive to a freshly urban-outfitted adult. But the m
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by neilk 11y ago
Solotshi appears to be a very uncommon Congolese name. Le Roux's story starts in Africa, and the author alleges he was an arms dealer - maybe there's some connection there. http://forebears.io/surnames/solotsh

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