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by olfactory 9y ago
> This is one reason why type theory is superior to set theory. In type theory we can actually capture the abstract concept of real number and work with it, instead of always working with an encoding. Could you give a small example of ho
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by olfactory 9y ago
I think it may already be too established in the midwest for anything like this to threaten the spread of the legal pot industry. I suspect this is a tactic to justify Federally taxing marijuana, and would be consistent with Trump's br
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by olfactory 9y ago
> I'm suggesting writing a considered article that discusses the issue clearly, and then submitting that link. I might try this, although it seems sort of a waste when I could just make a text post on HN like I did. I am not in the
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by olfactory 9y ago
Based on the feedback I'm aware of from moderators, posting comments specifically about the political issue of press freedom would be very much frowned upon.
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by olfactory 9y ago
I think the moderators prefer not to have issues like this discussed. The goal of my post was to discuss more broadly if issues like this are something that should be discussed on HN.
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by olfactory 9y ago
No, but the underlying hardware that perviously hosted two m5.xlarge instances may instead host one M5.xlarge and one M5.medium, so that performance is not degraded.
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by olfactory 9y ago
> all such calls would be free of human interpretation This is a straw man argument. Simply revealing on what basis the decision was made and letting the community voice approval or disapproval would go a very long way. Consider a titl
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by olfactory 9y ago
Based on what I know about moderation, the penalty on the story may have been overruled by upvotes or reversed by moderators. This does happen occasionally. And by authoritarianism I do not mean politically authoritarian views, simply auth
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by olfactory 9y ago
> all companies paying for computing resources will have to pay roughly 30% more overnight on cloud expenses Well, if I rent a VPS with x performance, I still expect x performance after this flaw is patched. The company providing the vir
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Should HN discuss this?
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by olfactory 9y ago
This is a bit tangential but I wonder how the following classic psychological experiment would play out if participants were on MDMA, drunk, or aware of social status: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285214736_
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by olfactory 9y ago
> how to maximize the complex-system-interestingness of a public, anonymous internet forum dedicated to intellectual curiosity. Without knowing what metrics you are using it's pretty much impossible to suggest improvements. I learn
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by olfactory 9y ago
It's a mix of ideologies. But the moderation ideology is largely authoritarian, which is enjoyed by both the left and right.
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by olfactory 9y ago
Do you have any quantitative evidence that shows that the moderation efforts meant to minimize systemic effects actually have the desired outcome? What are the quality metrics?
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by olfactory 9y ago
This story was live for < 1 hour before it was killed.
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by olfactory 9y ago
This article is generally why I'm optimistic about Bitcoin and blockchain in general. A reasonably well-informed person can have all the facts and yet still not get it.
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by olfactory 9y ago
> Founders are already winning if they only get funded, but investors need an entirely different kind of success. Aren't the board members supposed to make sure that the incentives are aligned so that all parties involved share the
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by olfactory 9y ago
Early YC: Small, gets disproportionate number of wins. Develops top tier reputation. Later YC: Expands significantly due to the added prestige, and now performs much closer to the mean. Today: Sam says that "too many YC companies are g
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by olfactory 9y ago
I recently overheard a "startup mentor" telling a CEO that developers are very smart and sometimes persuasive, but that they don't have a clue what is going on and need to be told exactly what to do. She then went on to tell
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by olfactory 9y ago
I disable all notifications in all programs, browsers and also those generated by the OS. The whole idea of notifications is that I want to be interrupted from whatever I'm doing to learn the information in a timely manner. This is pr