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by oskarth 11y ago
This is such a dismissive attitude. What Feynman is talking about is putting something artificial in your body with potentially adverse side effects. This has very little to do with sitting still in a room and watching your breathing. This
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by oskarth 11y ago
It's a publicity stunt. The goal is to raise awareness for the shady nature of this trade deal, and hopefully get someone to step up and release the rest of the documents. So far it's been going well - this article was written the
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by oskarth 11y ago
These types of nitpicky, detail-oriented comments are toxic. Who cares? The only thing that matters right now is that they solve a real problem and do it well. Anything else is peripherals at this point.
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by oskarth 11y ago
Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Clojure/Clojurescript, Python, Scala, Go and more Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=42655380 Website: http://w
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by oskarth 11y ago
I just stumbled upon it looking for MIT OCW problem sets, and it turns out anyone is free to register! If you have been thinking about going through SICP, here's a chance to do a high-quality limited subset of it.
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SICP Public implementation for demonstration and self-study(icampustutor.csail.mit.edu)
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by oskarth 11y ago
I was really into it as a young teenager as well, but when I tried reading it a few years ago or so I couldn't get more than a hundred pages. I had the same experience with Catch 22. I don't know what changed - it's a shame,
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Graydon Hoare: Five lists of six things about Rust(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
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by oskarth 11y ago
This video is a must-see for people interested in UBI - Milton Friedman, in 1968, on a negative income tax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
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by oskarth 11y ago
I agree on 1 and 2, but don't see how 3 follows. If you live as an "illegal immigrant" you are playing life on a higher difficulty level already. UBI wouldn't apply to non-citizens. Of course you might argue that it very
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Please Stop Blocking Everything but Googlebot in Robots.txt(danluu.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
I see you are new to HN. Welcome to the community! In case you haven't seen it already, I would like to draw your attention to the HN guidelines posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Specificall
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What Good Are C, C++, and Java?(danluu.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
In this thread: people who are jealous of patio11's consulting rates and success, so they try to be "skeptical" (i.e. gratuitously negative) and do some kind of reductio ad absurdum about how it "doesn't make any se
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Cory Doctorow: The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computing (2012)(boingboing.net)
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Nand to Tetris 1, with Dan Luu(experiments.oskarth.com)
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Solved by Flexbox(philipwalton.github.io)
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John McCarthy – Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on Speech Acts [pdf](www-formal.stanford.edu)
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by oskarth 11y ago
Could you provide some pointers on where to read more about this? Both objective information as well as why your interpretation is reasonable.
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by oskarth 11y ago
I was just thinking about this the other day. I think it'd be useful if you could specify DH{0,1,2} as reasons for downvoting ( http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html ), as these are essentially useless comments that add no
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by oskarth 11y ago
> “Why do people feel perfectly comfortable forming a startup when they know that 90 percent of them fail? Because they know that corporate laws and bankruptcy laws protect them from personal liability. They know that they won’t lose the
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by oskarth 11y ago
I'd be curious to hear what other people have done in this space. Here's a link to @pmarca_chen: https://twitter.com/pmarca_chen and here's the source: https://github.com/oskarth/pmarca-c
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How to Follow pmarca on Twitter(experiments.oskarth.com)
1 points by oskarth 11y ago|1 comments
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by oskarth 11y ago
Oh dear, here we go again.
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Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab(recurse.com)
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Where will the key ideas shaping the future of scientific publishing come from?(michaelnielsen.org)
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by oskarth 11y ago
Schelling has been on my to read list for a while - it's definitely an interesting subject (his model on segregation is really cool too). My problem with this reasoning is that it seems to assume perfectly rational actors. For most pro
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by oskarth 11y ago
Do you have any reason to believe that to be the case? I agree that self-preservation has probably been a factor in the more than dozen close-calls the world has seen, but I would hardly call it impossible. There are many instances of hum
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by oskarth 11y ago
I'm glad the author says "one starts to wonder if it really is plain dumb luck". Another way to answer the question: > Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet? Because in an alternative universe where ther
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Bruce Schneier – Data and Goliath talk at Google about surveillance [video](youtube.com)
1 points by oskarth 11y ago|0 comments

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