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by nlitened 4y ago
2 in 24 three-year slots, so 8.3% again
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by nlitened 4y ago
I’ve always wondered, what does “holding a passport” entail? Can’t you just go to your embassy and make a new passport as if you’ve lost the old one? How can some other guy holding your documents make you a slave unable to leave if you want
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by nlitened 4y ago
Its audiobook version on Audible is narrated by author himself, which I enjoyed a lot. All the emphases are placed as author intended.
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by nlitened 4y ago
Read enough twitter threads, and you find people for whom eating morning cereal can be severely debilitating. In my opinion, people are able to learn to deal with uncomfortable things in their lives.
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by nlitened 4y ago
> I think its Paul Graham that made the argument to have a "weird" language as your startup language for this reason. I think you do that by using the “weird” language starting from team size of one, not by convincing 40 people
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by nlitened 4y ago
> In the case of the former, if building in AWS, I’d choose: * Route53 * CloudFront + S3 * API Gateway + Lambda * DynamoDB (or RDS, if necessary) * Terraform + [Terraform Cloud | GitLab | GitHub Actions] * Cognito (if necessary) Sounds l
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> Then they decided to dump their small users and go for large ones If they didn't, they'd stay "shitty youtube" and lose. They decided to differentiate themselves to have a chance at finding their target market.
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by nlitened 4y ago
> We're not resistant to paying, we're resistant to rent-seeking. Yet most employers who can afford to pay developers their high salaries are rent seekers. That’s hypocrisy right there.
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by nlitened 4y ago
I think of it this way: keywords are like symbols, but they survive serialization/deserialization and macroexpansion intact, so you don't need to be extra careful with quoting to prevent automatic evaluation of the symbol to some
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by nlitened 4y ago
> I think JSON's model, in which lists and objects are independent first-class entities, with distinct syntax, has something to say for it. > Oh, and we don't need all those commas. I think, if I was designing a LISP-ish lan
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by nlitened 4y ago
But we _do_ see a uniform glow from every single point in the sky, it’s called Cosmic Microwave Background. We don’t see it with a naked eye because the light’s frequency has been red-shifted, the light is coming from so far away in space a
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by nlitened 4y ago
As far as I understand, if the “empty skies” regions even exist, we physically will _never_ be able to observe them, because due to cosmic expansion they are moving away from us faster than speed of light. So from our point of view, we can
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by nlitened 4y ago
Wow, I didn't know that BUSD is also issued by Paxos, thank you.
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by nlitened 4y ago
> FP is about doing algebra to derive programs I don’t think I can agree. Clojure is a functional programming language, but is far from doing any algebra.
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by nlitened 4y ago
You’re thinking about USDP, if I am not mistaken. BUSD is Binance dollar.
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by nlitened 4y ago
As an aside, sir, I’d like to share my feelings here. For some reason, your username stands out for me, so I get to notice your comments here often in the topics that I am interested in. And I always enjoy your perspective and wisdom, and a
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by nlitened 4y ago
> If I ever make it, I promise you, HN, I will not be talking about what YOU should be doing in order to become successful, and I will never start a podcast about how to live the "correct" life in order to make it. What _will_
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by nlitened 4y ago
Truth and transparency?
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by nlitened 5y ago
I wonder if human-like apes brush or floss? Do they drink naturally-occurring fluorinated water from wells? And I’d love to have some insights on their cavities and pulled teeth statistics.
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by nlitened 5y ago
How can the consensus ever change if we deplatform, defund, and ostracize all scientists (or would-be scientists) researching and publishing any evidence that contradicts consensus?
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by nlitened 5y ago
That had happened to Dicks before though.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I think git has: 1. A chain of blocks referencing its parents by hash, thus verifying their validity and immutability 2. A rules for consensus on choosing what blocks can be appended (both technically and organizationally through each compa
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by nlitened 5y ago
By the way, as far as I understand, git is an example of a private blockchain.
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Probably because his short name is Terry, hence the double “r”
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If you’re really asking, I would love to survive and live in this case.
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by nlitened 5y ago
There’s no such thing as a limited supply of scientists, whose precious time is to be carefully allocated. For all I know, Wolfram might be creating new scientists from people who otherwise might not choose to pursue corrupt academia route.
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by nlitened 5y ago
I see what you mean now. I think most persistent data structures would (for most common operations) return exactly themselves in case when no modification happened. So you can very cheaply compare for equality, and that would either resolve
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by nlitened 5y ago
> you want to modify a list - how do you know if the inner list changed or not You know for sure that inner list did _not_ change, because it is immutable. Someone else might have a reference to an updated hashtable with an updated inner
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by nlitened 5y ago
I think all that is a waste of startup founder’s time. Focus on your product, make sure your customers love it, and more new customers get to know about it. If you do that, competition does not matter; if you don’t do that, you lose regardl
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by nlitened 5y ago
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