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by oskarth 12y ago
There are no quotation marks about it; it still counts.
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I Hate the News (2006)(aaronsw.com)
222 points by oskarth 12y ago|187 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
Are YC biased? Of course they are. That doesn't mean they aren't right. Paul Graham used to think working for a big company for a few years was a good thing [for someone who at some point wants to start a company], but he has si
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by oskarth 12y ago
...Which Taleb in turn responded to in the (updated) version of the rebuttal: Pinker’s Rebuttal of This Note: Pinker has written a rebuttal (ad hominem blather, if he had a point he would have written something 1/3 of this, not 3 x th
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Code is not literature (2014)(gigamonkeys.com)
1 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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Lessons in the Fundamentals(swannodette.github.io)
1 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
> One thing I did not liked was Matt Stancliff talk. He tried to uncover different problems in the Redis development process, and finally proposed the community to replace me as the project leader, with him. What a complete douchebag. Ev
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by oskarth 12y ago
While this [the ASCII art story] is an amusing anecdote, it seems highly unlikely that the reason qmail and djbdns don't have any bugs is because "nobody has been brave or bored enough" to look. Could there perhaps be some ot
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One (Very) Wealthy Person Could Reform Campaign Finance Today(zacharyernst.blogspot.com)
1 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
I like security as much as the next HNer, but that's how the world works. It's basic economics. This is reality: Target paid $1.2 BILLION in dividends on $21.8 BILLION sales for 2014, its data breach only cost it $162 Million. C
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by oskarth 12y ago
I don't understand the majority of the comments in this thread. Airbnb is the definition of a fast-growing, take-over-the-world kind of startup that has been amazingly successful. How can you even begin to compare it to a hotel chain w
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A Brief Ode to Blank Paper(tjzager.wordpress.com)
2 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
This is a good point I completely missed. Reminds me of Karl Popper qua philosopher (of science) : science.
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Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat (2014)(rethinkrobotics.com)
3 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
Since you seem to be well-versed in this world, do you know what reputation Nick Bostrom has in these circles?
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What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?(paulgraham.com)
331 points by oskarth 12y ago|171 comments
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Machine intelligence, part 1(blog.samaltman.com)
180 points by oskarth 12y ago|172 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
In case you didn't know, Moxie is already doing that https://whispersystems.org/ In any case, your point still stands, generally speaking.
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by oskarth 12y ago
Since they went to the US for the Oscars, the USG making a fuss would get them a lot of attention from the media establishment and the general public, i.e. not really desirable.
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by oskarth 12y ago
Not everyone agrees that the HGP was a success. Here's Freeman Dyson's take on it: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/56599887195723366...
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by oskarth 12y ago
Off-topic but I'm curious: what phone/tablet/input mechanism are you using that doesn't work well with punctuation after a word?
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Catastrophic Prototyping and Other Stories (2011)(levitylab.com)
8 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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Admitting Defeat on K&R in LCTHW(zedshaw.com)
1 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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Let's Talk About Your Backups(jacquesmattheij.com)
5 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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The Left’s Intensifying War on Liberalism(dish.andrewsullivan.com)
14 points by oskarth 12y ago|1 comments
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Coding is not the new literacy(chris-granger.com)
323 points by oskarth 12y ago|146 comments
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Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics [pdf] (2006)(unicode.org)
3 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 12y ago
> What you want is field studies: "This year we used Haskell and 75% of all students gave up on programming stating that it was to hard. Last year we used Visual Basic and only 20% did. Ergo Visual Basic is probably a better first l
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by oskarth 12y ago
I've done IF as well for extended periods of time (I quit mostly because I wanted to gain weight). The most common schedule is to skip breakfast and eat a late "lunch". I.e. if you wakeup at 8am, have your eating window be be
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Eve Dev Journal – December: more zzjoin, communcation, process spawning(incidentalcomplexity.com)
1 points by oskarth 12y ago|0 comments

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