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by pnathan 8y ago
This is a great case study in niche sales. You see this pop up in small online businesses. The one risk right now that is pointedly raised here is that the niche is, unfortunately, young execs in the 80s - they are aging now! Very cool bu
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by pnathan 8y ago
Not to my knowledge. The University Workshop as a reified formal system, yes. But the review and drafting system where you rewrite it yourself and show your friends the work, then rewrite; it has been present for a quite long time. My dim r
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by pnathan 8y ago
I was unclear - I meant as a reader . As a reader, self-published work is, to some episilon (where the writers that fall under that epsilon usually wind up well known exceptions), it's all lousy.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Has anyone just farted around self published books or fanfic a bit? Let me tell you: there's a lot of writing that is nearly unreadable. Sure, you can do it. It's probably best written down and then gently carried over to the
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by pnathan 8y ago
> I'm not entirely sure how that can benefit the Russian government though. Decreases the will of the US to effectively achieve its aims, which run counter in many ways to the Putin regime. If congress is spending its days shouting
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by pnathan 8y ago
yes, I often read the 1-2 star reviews on Amazon. It's particularly useful for books - a positive signal for a book is "1 star - author used too many big words and complex ideas!". :-)
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Are you a current student then?
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This is used in assessing stories from history as well - a story with aspects that reflect poorly on the hero is considered to be more likely to be truthful than one that lauds the hero in all things.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Fascinating. It would be interesting to learn whether there was prior exposure to, e.g., music theory that allowed the unfolding in the mind later on in life.
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by pnathan 8y ago
In a tourist trap place I used to live, all the crime was committed by hispanics. Non-hispanic names barely made it onto the newspaper's crime blotter. This started getting really weird after a while, once you realized most of the lo
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yes, I expect pretty much every funded "cyber" agency has explored our systems, from the UK to Somalia. I expect any neutral to semi-hostile country (e.g., North Korea) has dormant C&C systems in our infrastructure. The conver
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by pnathan 8y ago
Ah, come on, that's a bit rich. Seems reasonable (& healthy even...) to be chatting with mom about an exam coming up, then give her a ring when it's over. Sure, if mom is still supervising, then that's a bit awkward...
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by pnathan 8y ago
Advice from someone who is a year and a half in: find a volunteer opportunity with the under 3 set, at least weekly, with your partner. The opportunity should include diaper changes and serious interaction with the parents, watching them
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by pnathan 8y ago
Really? It'd be surprising if they hadn't. I'd expect utilities to be one of the softest targets out there, based on prior interaction with the industry... edit: About 8-10 years ago I used to collect news articles, reports t
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by pnathan 8y ago
I think music and its production is much more deeply intertwined with regular life than figurative arts. Band is a thing from elementary school to college. So it's facially idiotic to the man on the street to call a single trumpet pl
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by pnathan 8y ago
I would agree, very strongly (I do a fair bit of fine art painting besides my software engineering day job). If so and so has the idea and so and so executes it, the there is a director and an artist working under the director. It seems ext
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by pnathan 8y ago
Reminds me of IRC channels, except located around a nexus of a specific micro-celebrity.
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by pnathan 8y ago
I believe you, but I would much prefer not to have another credit cards. I have a very straightforward system right now, and adding a citi card would not help that.
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by pnathan 8y ago
I genuinely don't have this issue unless I'm looking at gadgetry or oddly specific niches of highly commoditized commodities, e.g., toasters. I may just intuit what to do and what to buy. That can happen. :)
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by pnathan 8y ago
Huh, never heard of them before. Interesting concept, but the in-browser replacements worry me. Know of any service that does disposable CCs without the in-browser hackery?
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by pnathan 8y ago
Time and again I can't find what I'm looking for in brick and mortar, but it's on Amazon. Original companies don't always have a direct sales arm. I avoid buying gadgets from Amazon, but other than that... ::shrug:: They
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by pnathan 8y ago
Good for him! I hope he has a long vacation and enjoyment without the responsibility. As he says, the bus is around the corner, and the reaper comes for us all - so governance is a key component of an institution.
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by pnathan 8y ago
I'd be curious to know how far you can go with marrying GOFAI systems for high level planning work and RL systems for pattern recognition and tactical actions.
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by pnathan 8y ago
These sorts of broad cohort studies wind up being enormously useful. The Scandinavian study keeps returning good results even today. I would, mildly speculatively, hazard that enormous cost overruns are permissible and acceptable to the t
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Interface: Contexualizing the work place of software design in Seattle(digital.lib.washington.edu)
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by pnathan 8y ago
Stable not the best word, apologies. Life stability was in my mind. - stable health insurance and medical coverage. - economy big & stable enough that when one job is lost, another can be found without substantial financial injury. - ge
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by pnathan 8y ago
I see what you mean. I'll be frank, I think that Knuth's analyses have surprisingly fresh and useful approaches, particularly compared with the other algorithms texts I've read. The usual texts are better at compressed result
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by pnathan 8y ago
> China has its money where the action is. This has been absurdly obvious for about 3-5 years now. The knowledge of actual hardware creation & manufacturing has largely migrated to China (hello outsourcing). Costs of living in reason
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by pnathan 8y ago
> plenty of very good arguments can be made you're better off not-reading at least one of them. I'm extremely confused as to why this would be the case for TAOCP. While I wouldn't recommend TAOCP for "just reading&qu
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by pnathan 8y ago
"code monkey". I don't hear that phrase much lately. Which makes me quite happy. ook

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