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by nightsd01 5y ago
Trying to coerce and manipulate expats by threatening family is a time honored tradition of the Chinese communist party unfortunately.
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by nightsd01 5y ago
I have found that I have my best (and worst) ideas by changing mental states. For example I’m usually sober so when I’m intoxicated I usually have garbage ideas, but every now and then I think of something truly incredible/useful that
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by nightsd01 5y ago
I am a self taught engineer without a CS degree, and I went through Triplebyte at the end of 2017. It was an absolutely incredible experience, and really helped me break into the industry, and I’ll always be grateful to them. I found an awe
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by nightsd01 6y ago
Already exists, I heard about it on NPR the other day (perhaps the idea got implanted into your subconscious) https://mushroomai.ml/#mushroomai
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by nightsd01 6y ago
@wittyreference can this ATF4 stress-inducing pathway also lead to problems, perhaps even brain damage over the long term? Some people take suboxone daily (buprenorphine) and I cannot find anything anywhere talking about whether or not it a
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by nightsd01 6y ago
Rolling your own crypto: most definitely a bad idea. Using existing best security practices AND adding in a few low risk plot twists: genius.
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by nightsd01 6y ago
If you are naive enough to believe that the Chinese government sensors foreign internet companies so that they can protect their citizens from “terrorism”, I have a bridge to sell you..... Let’s be real, the Chinese government only wants to
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by nightsd01 6y ago
The state of California is actually in a pretty decent financial position. In fact, the blue states are net contributors to the federal budget while red states are net negative (they take more resources than they provide back in federal tax
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by nightsd01 7y ago
The real problem is when you get to scale. At a company like Facebook or Google, it seems like you end up spending half your time simply looking for similar code that other developers wrote to solve a similar problem so that you can avoid d
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by nightsd01 7y ago
I wonder if you could apply the same homomorphic encryption to ML model training as well, so that you can fully train an algorithm without ever being able to actually “see” the training data.
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by nightsd01 7y ago
$4M isn’t that much, even just in one quarter. Look at the oil/gas or health insurance industry if you want to see what a real lobbying bill looks like.
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by nightsd01 7y ago
Monopolies are typically considered “bad” because they hurt consumers by jacking up prices when they acquire a dominant market position. How is this happening with Facebook? How is Facebook hurting consumers in a way that could be alleviate
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by nightsd01 7y ago
Why do you think the right has spent years whining about Google and Facebook’s supposed “left wing bias” with literally no evidence...? If anything the liberals are doing it to counter BS from the right.
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by nightsd01 7y ago
Tethics!
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by nightsd01 7y ago
I would highly, highly recommend tests. The problem with not writing tests is that you think it will save you time, but instead, it will end up slowing your velocity greatly as your codebase grows and it becomes harder to discover what sp
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by nightsd01 7y ago
China’s best tech is mostly just stolen American tech so I can understand why they’d want to focus on US startups.
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by nightsd01 7y ago
Cars kill thousands of people a year....in a country of 330 MILLION people? Sorry but the sheer convenience of automobiles greatly outweighs the cost. This trend to “ban cars” is one of the silliest and dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen. Just be
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by nightsd01 7y ago
beefield: a self driving car doesn’t NEED to take up space in a crowded city. It can drive you to work, then you get out, then it can go drive itself to a less crowded area. Then when you’re ready to leave the office it can be there when yo
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by nightsd01 7y ago
And I’m sure that everyone who currently uses e-cigarettes in those countries will simply shake their heads and give up the habit. Which history clearly shows is what happens when we ban a substance. Right? Yeah.... Not only is there vanish
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by nightsd01 7y ago
What if this very article in the NYTimes was enough to get our universe suspended (because of course even The Architects read the NYTimes). This is hilarious, the NYTimes is the last place I’d expect to read such a metaphysical philosophica
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by nightsd01 8y ago
This cat-and-mouse ad blocker game is quite interesting to watch, but it’s also a bit ridiculous. I can understand blocking terrible ads on some news sites that make them practically unreadable (looking at you extremetech). But Facebook’s a
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by nightsd01 8y ago
I hate to say it, but Jesus, this is one of the worst apps I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen bootcamp coders create better apps after just a month in bootcamp. I can’t believe you spent $25K on this, did you use one of those Indian app shops...? It
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by nightsd01 8y ago
Isn’t this....kind of what the entire tech community has been PUSHING Facebook to do? Paying you for your data instead of acquiring it through shady means...? I’m sorry but...it’s not as if they’re using this data to do evil things. They’re
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by nightsd01 8y ago
The problem with this argument is that programmers don’t work alone in a vacuum. How do you account for the support staff? The recruiter that hired you? The cleaning lady? The DevOps people? And so on. It’s avtually fairly non-trivial to be
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by nightsd01 8y ago
From what I understand, Google isn’t actually giving away people’s data to “hundreds of companies” for advertising purposes. When an advertiser wants to target a specific group of people, Google doesn’t say “here’s everyone’s private data,
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by nightsd01 8y ago
The fact that only one percent of people go on to download a competing browser isn’t Google’s fault. I’m sorry, but this idea that Google is some evil monopoly because it actually bundles USEFUL software with its OS just isn’t this huge pro
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by nightsd01 8y ago
That’s a bit extreme. Most of this data gets used for targeted advertising. While that sounds (and sometimes is) shady, it also enables a lot of niche companies that had a much harder time existing before. For example, what’s the point in s
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by nightsd01 8y ago
Am I the only person who is getting annoyed at these increasingly hysterical articles shrieking about Facebook’s supposedly deceptive practices? Because for christs’ sake, Facebook is one of the most OPEN and transparent tech companies arou
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by nightsd01 9y ago
I got my current job with Triplebyte. I’m incredibly happy with how it all worked out and couldn’t recommend it enough. I got to interview with some pretty exciting/interesting companies. The only problem with Triplebyte, in my opinion
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by nightsd01 9y ago
In university, I was studying biology. In my free time however, one day I had the strange desire to build a simple app that would simulate the solar system. After spending months learning how to build software, I realized just how deeply sa

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