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by peterlk 6y ago
8k on a normal sized monitor is a gimmick, but 8k gaming on a 98"+ tv is not. These TVs are mega expensive right now, but they might not be in 2 years. Nvidia is ahead of the curve.
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by peterlk 6y ago
> 10x is often cited as the magic number beyond which technology is good enough to overcome network effects. I'm personally convinced that functional programming is 10x better than any other paradigm I've tried Better for who?
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by peterlk 6y ago
I really hope that your comment gets upvoted and seen by many HN readers. I'll elaborate based on my own experiences. To me, this article is explaining an extremely common phenomenon where people who have "played the game" or
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by peterlk 6y ago
> I hated the idea of wasting all that time I spent reading Personally, I've come to the conclusion that I read in order to draw broad patterns, not necessarily to remember all the things in every book - my brain has limited space.
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by peterlk 6y ago
> the T-cell samples extracted through that process will be sent to a lab, where they will be genetically altered in a process developed by AGT. He said AGT believes the genetically altered T-cells will make them resistant to HIV infecti
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by peterlk 6y ago
Thank you very much for this comment I would like you to know that I would gladly pay a monthly fee to have at least 1 proof (per month) explained to me like this. Not sure how that could scale to varying knowledge levels, but I would love
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by peterlk 6y ago
This has huge, far reaching privacy concerns. How many folks here would like to give their DNA information to private equity?
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Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B(reuters.com)
200 points by peterlk 6y ago|151 comments
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by peterlk 6y ago
A lot more than I would have expected. Turns out that biology degrees are not as lucrative as computer science degrees (at least amongst my anecdata), so people with biology degrees often fall into the CS career track. But they know how to
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by peterlk 6y ago
It looks like that's just the name of a group - like anonymous, lulzsec, equation, shadow brokers, etc. It's likely a nod to Mr. Robot, where the company that the hackers are infiltrating is called Evil Corp.
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by peterlk 6y ago
I have flirted with the music industry for longer than I've been an engineer, and the reason I kept getting pulled back into programming is that it is much easier to make much more money. But I think your question makes a false dichoto
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by peterlk 6y ago
I had a conversation with nomeone who worked on ITER who was of the name opinion, and my follow-up question to him was: "how much money would I need to raise to get us over the line". His answer was calm and sincere: "I think
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I Manage My Notes(peterklipfel.com)
6 points by peterlk 6y ago|0 comments
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Ha! I actually wrote a blog post on this today: http://peterklipfel.com/blog/taking_notes/ I have gone through a lot of note-taking iteration, and I have finally found something that really works for me. If anyone
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by peterlk 6y ago
I mean, if we want to argue about definitions, personally, I like Steve Blank's: "A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The goal of your early business model can be revenue, or
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by peterlk 6y ago
This thread is a bit confusing to me. Have we moved past layered security for some reason? The purpose of a VPN was never supposed to be the authentication layer to internal services. It's just a layer of security that makes it more di
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by peterlk 6y ago
Can someone explain to me the "dummy" and "sanity" exceptions? I have never even considered that these words might be offensive. Perhaps not emotionally neutral, but then why not "poor" (performance) or "s
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by peterlk 6y ago
"Thought loops" often produce the music that I'm most proud of making. They let me focus in on making it sound exactly like it does in my head without getting tired of hearing the same loop on repeat. I think thought loops ar
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by peterlk 6y ago
This is one of the most exciting things I've seen come out of AI research for my own interests. The way that they distributed the mathematical equations is called an abstract syntax tree (maybe they mentioned this, but I was excited-sk
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by peterlk 6y ago
This implies to me that if they "gave away" the extra animals to family farms, there would not be enough takers. Is that true?
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by peterlk 6y ago
I think you could argue that we already are. Imagine you're an alien who discovers Earth. You see all these humans everywhere and wonder how they might be related. So you go show yourself to a big group like Beijing or Delhi. You immed
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by peterlk 6y ago
> Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century? > > Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and writte
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by peterlk 6y ago
A friend has described these to me as "dark matter companies". They are everywhere, and they permeate industries, but you never see them. They work in small, unmarked offices outside of the standard tech hubs. Some of these compan
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by peterlk 6y ago
This was such a huge missed opportunity by the music industry. A massive network of volunteers dedicated to curating and meticulously tagging music. I might have payed a lot of money for access to such a network. The largest collection of m
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by peterlk 6y ago
Your comment is vely insightful. I first played runescape in 2001 I think (and then I came back later), and I had never thought about it the way you describe it. I too learned a lot of life skills: scamming, bartering, arbitrage, and quite
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by peterlk 6y ago
Remember when scientists in Italy were sent to prison for not predicting an earthquake correctly [0]? I know this isn't really what the article is about, but scientists are allowed to be wrong unless and until politics is involved. [0]
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by peterlk 6y ago
Find something you care about. It's hard to push through tough problems to achieve a goal that you don't care about achieving. The pressure you grew up in now needs to come from yourself, or more reasonably, the situations you put
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by peterlk 6y ago
I did this many years ago, and am now terribly slow at typing on a phone with a qwerty keyboard, and still cannot use a Dvorak keyboard on my computer...
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by peterlk 6y ago
I'm a bit surprised and saddened by how literally this comment is being taken by replies. I think it's an apt comment, so I'll explain how I see it. My takeaway of the point is that we now live in an age of excessive abstract
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by peterlk 6y ago
> 52% of people under the age of 45 have been laid off, put on leave, or had hours reduced Do you have a source for this? I'm not finding it with a quick google search

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