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by neosat 4y ago
Thanks for some internal insights. I think the original post wasn't making the point that such a use case is not possible to build but rather that the architecture and design choices of Stripe Billing are not optimized for these use
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by neosat 4y ago
Agree. Macromedia products were amazing for their time. Dreamweaver, Flash (Creating flash apps including ActionScript), Fireworks with vector + bitmap, were all very cool until Adobe acquired them
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by neosat 4y ago
Rather than generalizing ability to "Math" as a whole, I think it might be more meaningful to state that individuals may differ in the type of problem solving their brain is better at (or at least they enjoy more and thus with eff
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by neosat 4y ago
Thank you for the informative and thoughtful response. My comment and question was certainly not intended to be combative. I was genuinely curious for a perspective quite like the one you provided above, because it seemed odd that a claim s
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by neosat 4y ago
would you care to point out at least one "glaringly ignorant statement" backed by a fact that shows it is glaringly ignorant?
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by neosat 4y ago
Yup, no one still seems to have an answer to a simple, straightforward question, and the lack of any convincing counterargument makes it even more convincing.
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by neosat 4y ago
Can someone with the appropriate background please confirm or refute? "But a simple test suggests that dark matter does not in fact exist. If it did, we would expect lighter galaxies orbiting heavier ones to be slowed down by dark matt
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by neosat 4y ago
Having experienced this during an exchange program, without any car there, I never once felt constrained that I couldn't travel where I wanted. A great example that I wish every country aspired to emulate
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by neosat 4y ago
One core issue that the author struggles with (like almost all of these theories) is a crisp definition of consciousness, that allows you to create a falsifiable hypothesis of what is "*not* consciousness". Till you cannot crisply
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by neosat 4y ago
>> It leads with the collapse of NFTs, which has little if anything to do with Coinbase or its execs; it complains about infra/tech debt but says nothing about why that's bad, much less the execs' fault; It has everythi
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by neosat 4y ago
Just the kind of things that keep me coming back to hacker news. Thanks for building and sharing.
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by neosat 4y ago
I was really looking forward to diving deeper into this, having enjoyed, and learnt, a lot from Peter Norvig's blog and writings in the past. I especially enjoyed the succinctness and density of knowledge in his writing. Disappointingl
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by neosat 5y ago
>> Product managers are incentivized to deliver features faster. This is a misconception. Product managers are/should be (depending on your organization) incentivized to maximize value. Sometimes it may mean being faster to marke
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by neosat 5y ago
>> Higher salaries mean less profit. It’s just how the game works. This is a false premise. As a counter argument it would be easy for a rational CEO to pay higher salary if the net incremental ROI on that salary is positive. Then the
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by neosat 5y ago
It doesn't. In fact, to the contrary, these forms of communication don't lend themselves to certain types of topics and deeper thinking critical for education (read Neil Postman's Amusing ourselves to death for a great exposi
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by neosat 5y ago
The whole point is, that's not an obviously valid replacement in the context of consciousness. What's your definition of "passive"?
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by neosat 5y ago
exactly ^. The first central question is "how is it possible that we have any experience at all?" That leads naturally to the other important question "who is the observer that's aware" i.e. who is the "we&qu
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by neosat 5y ago
so useful - thanks!
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by neosat 5y ago
While interview success "can" depend on these, along with 100s of other factors, these are most likely not the principal contributing factors to interview success on average. So, sure, if you've got the principal factors fi
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by neosat 5y ago
Addictive. Thanks for sharing :)
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by neosat 6y ago
Impressive work! Their approach makes a ton of sense: "by not directly optimizing for the benchmark, we show that it becomes much more representative" and is evident in the generalization and robustness: ~74% higher on the adversa
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by neosat 6y ago
Not really a failure. It's important to realize that people are not necessarily always paying for the 'actual value of a company' (subjective itself) but for what other agents will be willing to pay for the stock. If that val
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by neosat 6y ago
I believe John Maynard Keynes
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by neosat 6y ago
Because it assumes a rational market. And the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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by neosat 6y ago
That's true for distributed computing in general so it has nothing specifically to do with the blockchain protocol itself.
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by neosat 6y ago
> other than when the drivers choose to work. That's not true. What about who else they can work for? That's not enforced either. Which other businesses commonly allow people to work when they want, work for whatever competiti
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by neosat 6y ago
>> nowhere did he model the benefits received, either to himself or others Fair point about others, however with regards to themselves, I believe you missed the point of PGs article. Without the extra wealth tax they would have almost
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by neosat 6y ago
This is really big deal IMO, but perhaps for a reason not directly mentioned in the article and for which you have to realize something about India. Progress in India is usually quite slow (and far slower if you compare to places like US or
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by neosat 6y ago
Thanks! Can you please provide any further links (or keywords to search for) regarding the 'preliminary steps' that are allowed?
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by neosat 6y ago
"In 2008, a recession triggered mass job loss. Today, mass job loss resulting from the virus lockdowns has triggered a recession" While what triggered this is different, because one has a direct impact on the other the OP is still

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