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by powera 9y ago
I'd rather see Paul Graham run for governor, and SamA stay at YCombinator.
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by powera 9y ago
Have you heard about Mill Computing?
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by powera 9y ago
Well, there were two of these. One of them was clearly after his tweet. The other one should appear in the blockchain before his tweet, if this is genuinely him. Otherwise, it's just somebody having fun and annoying reporters.
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by powera 9y ago
I agree. He's one of those obnoxious philosophers who thinks his new way to show something as not being well-defined proves he's always right.
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by powera 9y ago
"In 2013 and 2014 they melted 55 of the 90 tons they retrieved in these two years, destroying all evidence if anything should have been wrong, like some of that gold being inferior "coin-gold", for example." - and I&#x27
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by powera 9y ago
#globalization El Salvador is a small country with no pretenses of being self-sufficient. It doesn't matter how silly the local laws are.
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by powera 9y ago
Hacker News clearly isn't the audience for this piece.
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by powera 9y ago
An audiophile might buy a $700 cable. A juiceophile might buy a $700 "juicing machine". The scam is in whatever "business mumbo-jumbo" they used to raise $120 million to develop this.
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by powera 9y ago
For those of you not familiar with what a "2.7" means on the Google hiring scale, the rough scale is: 1 - I will resign if Google hires this person. 2 - I don't think this person should be hired, but I could be convince
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by powera 9y ago
News editor discovers that putting blatantly misleading statements in headlines a great way to get additional attention. It may technically not be a luxury trip according to their definition, but the entirety of the market for $100k+ vacati
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by powera 9y ago
This guy is incredibly sanctimonious, but he misses the biggest problem with his notation. Not all the operators he uses are associative. const secret = msg => () => msg; This technically parses uniquely, but it's not at
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by powera 9y ago
Paul Graham or Benjamin Graham?
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by powera 10y ago
This suffers from both the fundamental attribution error and the labor-theory-of-value error. They seem to be implying: 1) We got funded. 2) We worked hard on our pitch deck. 3) The effort on our pitch deck is why we got funded. I don'
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by powera 10y ago
Another article that basically says "quantum and consciousness are both poorly understood; maybe they're related" in thousands and thousands of words.
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by powera 10y ago
"Donald Trump is/was a real estate developer. His grasp of issues such as affordable housing must be non-trivial." - that's not how things work at all.
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by powera 10y ago
Certain models are inherently useless. If you use a Taylor series to model a sine curve, you can get arbitrarily good results over an arbitrarily large range, yet the model will always fail catastrophically when the modeler wants to figure
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by powera 10y ago
Hadoop isn't really that hard. It's map-reduce (which is no more than 4 lines of Python code to explain) plus a distributed task scheduling system. I'm not sure I want to use a replacement written by a person that didn'
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by powera 10y ago
Does anybody use this? I certainly hope not. Most of the research papers have been related to refactoring TCL code, rather than on any correspondence between the models and reality. You don't need a computer model to tell you that peo
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by powera 10y ago
Earth is a ‘dwarf planet’ because taxonomists are better at making useless headlines than doing actual work.
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by powera 10y ago
Wasn't Microsoft founded in Albuquerque?
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by powera 10y ago
Compare that to Berkshire Hathaway rather than to GOOG/FB and it's not quite as impressive.
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by powera 10y ago
"This new funding will enable SoundCloud to strategically grow our technology and personnel resources to fuel our expected 2.5 times year-over-year growth in 2017" - they can't really expect to grow that quickly at this point
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by powera 10y ago
I'm yet to hear a simulation theory with more explanatory power than the much simpler theory of "God did it". Most of the claims are variants of "but computers, so science", which is not an argument at all.
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by powera 10y ago
Kurzweil should be treated equivalently to a new-age mystic. He doesn't claim there is any evidence supporting his claims, and we shouldn't believe there is any either.
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by powera 10y ago
The $750M is the amount of convertible debt; there's a separate $250M of new common stock being issued.
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by powera 10y ago
Google has SOX controls for this type of thing, that should allow them to prove that the requests came from a specific user at a specific time. Also, if he actually did the queries, the defense team is incredibly unlikely to claim that Goog
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by powera 10y ago
What do you want then? Only use software you've written yourself, on a non-networked computer?
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by powera 10y ago
I haven't the slightest idea what "n" and "m" are supposed to be, so I can't make any sense of your definition. Beyond that, you say: "all real numbers that you're likely to hear of" - this is a
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by powera 10y ago
Step 1 fails because there is no such number that is an infinite number of 1s. Only infinity has infinitely many digits. Step 2 fails because you can't create a 1-1 correspondence between the real numbers between zero and one, and the
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by powera 10y ago
Nope.

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