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by oskarth 10y ago
7. Fucking (Reductio ad absurdum?)
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by oskarth 10y ago
You completely missed my point and somehow turned yourself into a hero for supposedly caring about all these little harms that no one else cares about (while still having to earn a living, of course). Thanks for putting words into my mouth
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by oskarth 10y ago
You can choose to build whatever ethical framework you want for yourself. I personally prefer simple, robust principles or an "ethical framework" that doesn't require me to know or worry about every minute detail about everyo
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by oskarth 10y ago
Money is usually earmarked for specific purposes. If you buy a movie cause you think one of the actors in it is good you are supporting that movie. The person playing the part may become rich and do things you "disagree" with, but
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by oskarth 10y ago
Should've added that, thanks. It means more than just "as", it also means "in the capacity of", for which there's in my opinion no good english substitute. It comes from Aristotle ( https://plato.stan
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by oskarth 10y ago
You don't seem to realize the immense amount of knowledge Jessica Livingston has about startups that no one else knows about. That information is obviously hugely valuable for other people, and she'd probably like to share it if
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by oskarth 10y ago
> How do we solve this problem? I don't know, but I hope there is a solution. Two solutions I can think of: (a) private, close-knit communities, i.e. not HN. (b) new norms developing to judge people's action in a specific domai
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The Sound of Silence(foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
344 points by oskarth 10y ago|158 comments
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by oskarth 10y ago
Thank you for reading and commenting with good faith and a, as far as I can tell, correct historical frame in mind. As opposed to with some literalist naive and/or hostile, contemporary-navel-gazing nonsense that is completely missing
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by oskarth 10y ago
I prefer simple and portable shell scripts too. While I use here documents a bunch too this is the first time I've seen this idiom: #!/bin/sh tail -n +3 <current-filename> | ssh -p 1234 root@myserver_ip ; e
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by oskarth 10y ago
I haven't read it in detail, but here's the gist from Mises Institute articles that touch on air pollution [1]: > In sum, no one has a right to clean air, but one does have a right to not have his air invaded by pollutants gene
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by oskarth 10y ago
As another Swede, 100% agree. For another example, look into how Sweden treated Raoul Wallenberg who courageously saved 100 000 Jews in Budapest during WW2. I can highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Wallenberg
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Nassim Taleb – An Expert Called Lindy(medium.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
Sounds like something George Constanza would say.
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by oskarth 10y ago
I did some experiments here: http://experiments.oskarth.com/srspractice/ A key thing is to differentiate between learning from scratch and retaining knowledge/a skill.
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by oskarth 10y ago
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054786 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:wodenokoto%20tree&sort=byPo...
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Introdution to Truefactor(github.com)
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Errors are values (2015)(blog.golang.org)
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Over-engineering (the root of all evil)(c0de517e.blogspot.com)
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OPA, a live memory debugger for C programs, by Eskil Steenberg [video](youtube.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
I often find my self searching through old HN comments for all kinds of things. Just off the top of my head I've searched for comments on: Redis, ZFS, Raft, SQS, ZMQ, message queue, RDS, connection pools, ECS in the last few days. I&#x
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by oskarth 10y ago
Ed Thorp is a very interesting guy indeed. His Memoirs are coming out in the beginning of next year but there's a foreword written by Nassim Taleb that gives a good taste of Thorp: https://medium.com/@nntaleb/fore
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by oskarth 10y ago
Wow, nice. Do you know how straightforward it is to get it with ZFS?
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What I would do if I was 18 now(levels.io)
2 points by oskarth 10y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 10y ago
> However, a 2013 study has found that 77% of users only ask one question, 65% only answer one question, and only 8% of users answer more than 5 questions. With this article, I’m exploring the likely reasons for that very, very low perce
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by oskarth 10y ago
I think he just went back and changed the text file a few days later. I don't know how this works with the finger protocol (never used it), so it might just've been for himself.
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by oskarth 10y ago
If I recall correctly, * means it was done that day and + that it was done at a later date.
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“Agility and Robustness: Clojure Spec” by Stuart Halloway (Strange Loop) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by oskarth 10y ago|0 comments
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Reasoning about Performance, by Dan Luu (Strange Loop) [video](youtube.com)
6 points by oskarth 10y ago|0 comments
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I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password(blog.filippo.io)
498 points by oskarth 10y ago|96 comments

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